Framed

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Framed
Ten wrongful conviction cases. Twenty-one innocent people. Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction. John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim McCloskey, who has dedicated his life to exonerating innocent people, to uncover stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice. All the cases in this book are simply extraordinary. And all are true. Joe Bryan suffered the unbearable tragedy of his wife's murder, only to be tried and found guilty of the crime himself - despite being 120 miles away at the time it was committed. Clarence Brandley spent nine years on Death Row, coming to within six days of execution, before new evidence cleared him of all charges. And in the case of the Norfolk Four , police and prosecutors continued to arrest innocent people until not one but four men were behind bars. Impeccably researched and told with page-turning conviction, in Framed, these cases are finally laid bare. Most importantly, they show how truth can prevail and how freedom can be won when all seems lost. 'Each of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage. But these are more than just gripping true stories - they are a clarion call for reforming the tragic flaws in our criminal justice system' David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon [...]

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TOP PREIS!

Framed
Ten wrongful conviction cases. Twenty-one innocent people. Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction. John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim McCloskey, who has dedicated his life to exonerating innocent people, to uncover stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice. All the cases in this book are simply extraordinary. And all are true. Joe Bryan suffered the unbearable tragedy of his wife's murder, only to be tried and found guilty of the crime himself - despite being 120 miles away at the time it was committed. Clarence Brandley spent nine years on Death Row, coming to within six days of execution, before new evidence cleared him of all charges. And in the case of the Norfolk Four , police and prosecutors continued to arrest innocent people until not one but four men were behind bars. Impeccably researched and told with page-turning conviction, in Framed, these cases are finally laid bare. Most importantly, they show how truth can prevail and how freedom can be won when all seems lost. 'Each of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage. But these are more than just gripping true stories - they are a clarion call for reforming the tragic flaws in our criminal justice system' David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon [...]

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Grisham, John: Framed
The truth is more shocking than fiction when it comes from John Grisham. In Framed John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim McCloskey, the founder of Centurion Ministries, the first US organisation dedicated to exonerating innocent people, to share ten gripping and shocking true stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice. These stories, all taken from Centurion's files, shook America's belief in the criminal justice system - and for good reason. In the aftermath of terrible crimes, the public demand immediate justice. Overaggressive and often racist police and prosecutors rush for a quick conviction. The result: innocent people are put behind bars for years, sometimes on Death Row. These include Joe Bryan, who suffered the unbearable tragedy of his wife's murder only to be tried and found guilty of the crime - though he had been 120 miles away at the time it was committed. He remained in prison for 34 years. And Clarence Brandley, the only black caretaker at a high school, convicted of rape and murder solely on the basis of his race, who spent nine years on Death Row. He came within six days of execution before new evidence cleared him of all charges. And the case of The Norfolk Four: where police and prosecutors were so wedded to the impossible case they had concocted that they kept arresting innocent people to make sense of it until not one, but four men were behind bars. All the cases in this book are simply extraordinary. Innocent people were forced to sacrifice friends, families and decades of their lives. In many instances, the real guilty parties went free - some, shockingly, to repeat their crimes. Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of how truth can prevail and how freedom can be won when all seems lost and the deck is stacked against you. [...]

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