Product Description
A fundamental principle of the American legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt.
Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse.
Told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of overcoming adversity when the battle already seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you.
Clarence Brandley in the death row visitation cage, circa 1987 (Courtesy of Centurion).
Mark Jones embracing his mother for the first time in twenty-six years at the moment of his freedom at 3:32 p.m. on December 20, 2017 (Courtesy of Centurion).
Forty-one-year-old Kerry with Jim McCloskey and Paul Nugent on November 13, 1997, exiting jail after twenty years on Texas’s death row.
Todd Willingham on death row in Texas., 1994.
