Synopses & Reviews
In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1
bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim
McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.
Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the injustice faced by the victims of the United States criminal justice system.
A fundamental principle of our 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.
About the Author
JOHN GRISHAM is the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include
The Boys from Biloxi, The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel,
A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for
Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative
Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors
of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national
organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully
convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our
criminal justice system.
Grisham lives on a farm in central Virginia.
JIM McCLOSKEY is the founder of Centurion Ministries. He served
in the U.S. Navy, patrolling rivers in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, and
spent twelve years in international consulting. He has a Masters of
Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. Today McCloskey is retired
from active oversight of Centurion, though he continues to pursue
cases.