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The Case of John Grisham
📻 Episode #86
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 11, 2019
About This Episode
In this special edition of Wrongful Conviction, Jason Flom is joined by author John Grisham to discuss his work with the Innocence Project, his commitment to criminal justice reform, and his Netflix series, The Innocent Man, the documentary adaptation of his only nonfiction book about two murders in Ada, OK. For ten years, John Grisham…
The Case
In this special edition of Wrongful Conviction, Jason Flom is joined by author John Grisham to discuss his work with the Innocence Project, his commitment to criminal justice reform, and his Netflix series, The Innocent Man, the documentary adaptation of his only nonfiction book about two murders in Ada, OK. For ten years, John Grisham practiced law in a small town in Mississippi. He also served two terms in the State House of Representatives. In 1990, he gave up both the law and politics to write full-time, and since then has published at least one book a year. He has written one collection of short stories, one work of nonfiction, three books about sports, one comic novel, seven editions of his Theodore Boone series for children, a childhood memoir, and, at last count, more than twenty legal thrillers. Nine of his books have been adapted to film. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project in New York, and the Focused Ultrasound Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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00:25:45“Speaker 2: twenty five years ago, I said this, even if you Speaker 2: support the death penalty, you cannot support this death penalty Speaker 2: and the way it's used against minorities, the way it's used. Speaker 2: Different different states use it differently for the same crimes. Speaker 2: It's just it's a mess, okay. And so I'm very”
00:43:33“Speaker 2: We're assuming it's a serious crime that they are being Speaker 2: questioned about. I would, well, I'm a lawyer, okay, So Speaker 2: I would say, you know, I'll be there with my lawyer. Speaker 2: I'll be there with put it. You can put them off, okay,”
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