The Innocent Man by John Grisham

This is Grisham’s first non-fiction book. If I hadn’t seen that on the cover, I wouldn’t have believed it. This is story of a man, Ron Williamson, and his alleged accomplice, Dennis Fritz, both wrongly accused of rape and murder in a small Oklahoma town. The local police and judges, as well as the state and federal systems, all rushed to justice to convict someone and failed to look past their noses to find the real killer. The ineptness of everyone at every level is disgusting and unbelievable…the stuff of fiction. After years on death row, Williamson was a physical and mental mess, but he finally got help from the Indigent Defense System, a group of legal eagles who help indigent, wrongly accused inmates.

It’s any eye-opening story; you aren’t necessarily innocent until proven guilty in this country.