Jurying "Runaway Jury"
I first read The Runaway Jury when I was in high school then decided to
reread two weeks ago. For those who haven’t read it, or seen
the rather errr.. film version, the plot is about a widow
whose husband died of lung cancer. On this jury are all manner of average citizens, except
that one juror, Nicholas, a law school dropout, has managed to penetrate county records,
get a fictitious name added to the jury roll, and then have that non-person be selected to
hear the case.
The plot is a little preposterous. Maybe I am naive enough to believe that it is impossible for so much jury tampering to go on. And I hated Nicholas and Marlee for the $402M verdict. Hell, the Widow Wood don't deserve that much money!
Despite the plot's preposterousness, the book is a real page-turner. It made me look at the judicial system in a different way.
It's one of my favorite Grisham novels alongside The Client, A Time to Kill and The Rainmaker.
The plot is a little preposterous. Maybe I am naive enough to believe that it is impossible for so much jury tampering to go on. And I hated Nicholas and Marlee for the $402M verdict. Hell, the Widow Wood don't deserve that much money!
Despite the plot's preposterousness, the book is a real page-turner. It made me look at the judicial system in a different way.
It's one of my favorite Grisham novels alongside The Client, A Time to Kill and The Rainmaker.
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