Many thanks to NetGalley and Doubleday for gifting me a digital ARC of this nonfiction book by the collaboration of John Grisham and Jim McCloskey. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 5 stars!
John Grisham teamed up with the founder of Centurion Ministries, Jim McCloskey, to take an in-depth look at ten stories of innocent people wrongly convicted. Each chose five stories and wrote them independently from the other. Grisham's stories were pulled from the headlines and investigation, whereas McCloskey's were from his company's personal experience trying to get these wrongful convictions overturned.
Each of these stories are horrible - what could be worse than an innocent person going to jail for decades or put to death for something they had no part in? When you read these stories, you will be hard pressed not to think - there, but for the grace of God, go I. Because so many of these people were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. What's so very disturbing is the callous attitude of all those that we entrust to do the right thing - the witnesses, the police, the prosecutors, the judges. While you certainly can't read these stories and whitewash everyone with the same brush, it's so sad that politics and saving face take priority over someone's life. This is a must read and should be mandatory reading for police academies and law students.
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