Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by John Grisham (Author), Jim McCloskey (Author)
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"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 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 show more 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"-- show lessTags
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This is why I love author John Grisham. He is such a talented, extraordinary writer, fiction or nonfiction, that I was barely into the first chapter of Framed and was already incensed, outraged and sick at heart. This book is so compelling, but I hardly know where to begin to review it because it is astonishing and beyond belief that these miscarriages of justice happened over and over and over. Framed reads like bad fiction, where the chain of events, unreliable witnesses, corrupt officials, illogical happenings feel like something you couldn’t even make up. It’s chilling when you realize these things really did happen, but even more chilling when you also realize that while the fact that the seventy people serving life or death show more sentences for the crimes of others Centurion has freed to date is amazing and commendable, it is likely nothing more than a drop in the bucket. How many more people are suffering in prison for crimes they did not commit.
Each of the ten cases presented is unique, but they all also have far too much in common. Their convictions were not accidents but a result of deliberate actions taken by people who work in law enforcement and the medical and judicial systems and for some unfathomable reason decide they are judge and jury and want to be the executioner as well. They lie in suspect interviews, threaten, withhold evidence from the defense because they deem it irrelevant, use scare tactics with children, make deals with jailhouse snitches, conduct procedures and testify when they are not qualified or licensed, fail to follow leads even when the actual guilty party is known; it just goes on and on.
Are these supposed-to-be-trustworthy officials all evil? It’s hard to not believe that, when so many of them work tirelessly to get someone sentenced to death when they know there is no reliable evidence, when few of them suffer consequences for their behavior and in fact get promoted to judges or other high positions. They operate not from a presumption of innocence but of guilt – or is it pride or laziness or power or what that makes them refuse to look elsewhere once they have settled on a suspect, no matter how unlikely their guilt seems. An example: for one judge, as a way to demonstrate his appreciation for his District Court Clerk’s twenty years of devoted service to courthouse administration, he picked her birthday as the date for the subject to die. What??
Framed is a hard book to read, but it should be required reading. It is horrible, heartbreaking, impossible to put yourself in their shoes. It’s eye-opening: when we read or see on television that new evidence has been found, enough to justify a new trial we feel relief, like, wow, it’s finally over for that person. But this is seldom the case. The “system” fights back to keep them incarcerated; it’s decades before most of them are released, if ever.
Framed is masterful and will stay with you a long, long time. When there is finally a release, it’s uplifting and you are glad because so many are working on their behalf, but it’s really more relief than joy, because these poor people have had their lives ruined, taken away, and for many, many years. No, life is not fair, but this is well beyond unfair. Is there any way to avoid this? It’s like a dark domino chain: this points to this, that points to that, then to who, on and on, all based on a false premise, and how on earth can you make someone not be corrupt anymore?
Thanks to NetGalley and authors John Grisham and Jim McCloskey for providing an advance copy of Framed. I voluntarily leave this review; all opinions are my own. show less
Each of the ten cases presented is unique, but they all also have far too much in common. Their convictions were not accidents but a result of deliberate actions taken by people who work in law enforcement and the medical and judicial systems and for some unfathomable reason decide they are judge and jury and want to be the executioner as well. They lie in suspect interviews, threaten, withhold evidence from the defense because they deem it irrelevant, use scare tactics with children, make deals with jailhouse snitches, conduct procedures and testify when they are not qualified or licensed, fail to follow leads even when the actual guilty party is known; it just goes on and on.
Are these supposed-to-be-trustworthy officials all evil? It’s hard to not believe that, when so many of them work tirelessly to get someone sentenced to death when they know there is no reliable evidence, when few of them suffer consequences for their behavior and in fact get promoted to judges or other high positions. They operate not from a presumption of innocence but of guilt – or is it pride or laziness or power or what that makes them refuse to look elsewhere once they have settled on a suspect, no matter how unlikely their guilt seems. An example: for one judge, as a way to demonstrate his appreciation for his District Court Clerk’s twenty years of devoted service to courthouse administration, he picked her birthday as the date for the subject to die. What??
Framed is a hard book to read, but it should be required reading. It is horrible, heartbreaking, impossible to put yourself in their shoes. It’s eye-opening: when we read or see on television that new evidence has been found, enough to justify a new trial we feel relief, like, wow, it’s finally over for that person. But this is seldom the case. The “system” fights back to keep them incarcerated; it’s decades before most of them are released, if ever.
Framed is masterful and will stay with you a long, long time. When there is finally a release, it’s uplifting and you are glad because so many are working on their behalf, but it’s really more relief than joy, because these poor people have had their lives ruined, taken away, and for many, many years. No, life is not fair, but this is well beyond unfair. Is there any way to avoid this? It’s like a dark domino chain: this points to this, that points to that, then to who, on and on, all based on a false premise, and how on earth can you make someone not be corrupt anymore?
Thanks to NetGalley and authors John Grisham and Jim McCloskey for providing an advance copy of Framed. I voluntarily leave this review; all opinions are my own. show less
John Grisham, best selling author and Jim McCloskey, founder of Centurian Ministries, recount 10 heartbreaking and frightening stories of people wrongfully convicted of crimes and the battles for their exonerations.
Well written and engrossing, this non fiction book is absolutely chilling with the stories of innocent people who have been condemned, have their lives ruined, and, in some cases, put to death because police, prosecutors, so called medical or mental health professionals get it in their minds that a persn or persons are guilty and have tunnel vision trying to prove it. They depend on lies, deceit, bribing criminals to lie, developing convoluted and impossible theories just to prove they are right. But, they are so very wrong. show more
One case involved a woman who was doing her laundry ran out briefly to a convenience store where someone had been murdered. When she tries to do her civic duty and calls to be helpful and share what she knows, she ends up being incarcerated and her life ruined. A warning to all. If you are ever called in as a witness or for any other reason involving a crime, ask for an attorney. Don’t worry that it may make you seem guilty. If the authorities have it in their minds that you are, you don’t have a chance. Tell them you have read Framed and don’t want to proceed until your rights are protected.
Thank you, John Grisham and Jim McClosky for sharing these horrifying and eye opening accounts.
Thanks to #NetGalley and @DoubledayBooks for the DRC. show less
Well written and engrossing, this non fiction book is absolutely chilling with the stories of innocent people who have been condemned, have their lives ruined, and, in some cases, put to death because police, prosecutors, so called medical or mental health professionals get it in their minds that a persn or persons are guilty and have tunnel vision trying to prove it. They depend on lies, deceit, bribing criminals to lie, developing convoluted and impossible theories just to prove they are right. But, they are so very wrong. show more
One case involved a woman who was doing her laundry ran out briefly to a convenience store where someone had been murdered. When she tries to do her civic duty and calls to be helpful and share what she knows, she ends up being incarcerated and her life ruined. A warning to all. If you are ever called in as a witness or for any other reason involving a crime, ask for an attorney. Don’t worry that it may make you seem guilty. If the authorities have it in their minds that you are, you don’t have a chance. Tell them you have read Framed and don’t want to proceed until your rights are protected.
Thank you, John Grisham and Jim McClosky for sharing these horrifying and eye opening accounts.
Thanks to #NetGalley and @DoubledayBooks for the DRC. show less
5/5
Enraging but still hopeful. If I could give more, I would.
My first book on wrongful convictions was [a:Kent Roach|159373|Kent Roach|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]'s [b:Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice|62241136|Wrongfully Convicted Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice|Kent Roach|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1679504306l/62241136._SX50_.jpg|98054048]. This book is just as good. This book is enraging. I was astonished and dumbfounded at the disgusting systemic issues that plagued these cases. I had to put the book down multiple times show more because I was so frustrated and angry. I'm glad there was hopeful endings to each and it wasn't made even worse, but there are plenty of people who are still in prison, who have still been murdered by the State, and many who will never have a clean record. So although this book offers hope in some ways with these stories, it's only 10 stories out of hundreds of thousands.
The chapters alternated between John Grisham and Jim McCloskey. I didn't notice a huge difference in their tone or writing, but this is the first time I've ever read anything by John Grisham so I can't speak much to that. It flowed well and I only realised who was writing a specific chapter when McCloskey would say something like "and I met him in..." or "and I joined the team when..." since his stories are all personal.
I liked that they both spoke about their sources. I found it interesting since John Grisham's weren't from personal experience, so I enjoyed learning a little bit about that.
This book hit so much harder than Wrongfully Convicted, but the cases were more in depth as there were less of them and Wrongfully Convicted had really interesting sections. This is my new favourite type of Non-Fiction, even though it makes my blood boil. I hope everyone reads this.
Check your local library. Hold lists are sometimes long, but I would happily buy this. Either way, read it! show less
Enraging but still hopeful. If I could give more, I would.
My first book on wrongful convictions was [a:Kent Roach|159373|Kent Roach|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]'s [b:Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice|62241136|Wrongfully Convicted Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice|Kent Roach|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1679504306l/62241136._SX50_.jpg|98054048]. This book is just as good. This book is enraging. I was astonished and dumbfounded at the disgusting systemic issues that plagued these cases. I had to put the book down multiple times show more because I was so frustrated and angry. I'm glad there was hopeful endings to each and it wasn't made even worse, but there are plenty of people who are still in prison, who have still been murdered by the State, and many who will never have a clean record. So although this book offers hope in some ways with these stories, it's only 10 stories out of hundreds of thousands.
The chapters alternated between John Grisham and Jim McCloskey. I didn't notice a huge difference in their tone or writing, but this is the first time I've ever read anything by John Grisham so I can't speak much to that. It flowed well and I only realised who was writing a specific chapter when McCloskey would say something like "and I met him in..." or "and I joined the team when..." since his stories are all personal.
I liked that they both spoke about their sources. I found it interesting since John Grisham's weren't from personal experience, so I enjoyed learning a little bit about that.
This book hit so much harder than Wrongfully Convicted, but the cases were more in depth as there were less of them and Wrongfully Convicted had really interesting sections. This is my new favourite type of Non-Fiction, even though it makes my blood boil. I hope everyone reads this.
Check your local library. Hold lists are sometimes long, but I would happily buy this. Either way, read it! show less
What does it feel like to look at injustice? What does it say that so much goes unremarked and unnoticed by a society when so many live behind bars and who have been stripped of everything that they value and love to the point that they feel separated from any compassion and humanity? In this book John Gresham and Jim McClosely hold that uncomfortable mirror up to the reader and the world we live and pose these, and many more uncomfortable and disquieting questions, to the reader. I found myself shocked by so many of the stories here and not just by the crimes these individuals were so wrongfully accused of, but the the many different stages of the legal system that failed to do justice by them.
If stories of true crime capture your show more interest, these are stories that must be read because they show that justice is something we must all strive to find, hold and protect. We must always seek out not just the price of guilt by the Truth behind actions and deeds. We need to always questions and seek understanding and never presume guilt until proven innocent, but remain impartial and look towards how evidence is sought out and collected and fight to preserve the power of a just and legal system foe all. show less
If stories of true crime capture your show more interest, these are stories that must be read because they show that justice is something we must all strive to find, hold and protect. We must always seek out not just the price of guilt by the Truth behind actions and deeds. We need to always questions and seek understanding and never presume guilt until proven innocent, but remain impartial and look towards how evidence is sought out and collected and fight to preserve the power of a just and legal system foe all. show less
I vacillate on the idea of capital punishment. I find the details of "astonishing true stories of wrongful conviction" like those explored in this book to be strong motivators for me to want to join the developed countries that have abolished capital punishment. It is especially repellant to read of how police investigators seems to easily to double down on charging innocent people, even promoting increasing outlandish theories once they become invested in the wrong suspect. So often, the basest racism and prejudice appears to motivate these miscarriages of justice.
I rather expected to be challenged on whatever hope I had for an acceptable paucity of justice system Type I Errors. But, I did not expect to have my faith in bloodstain show more analysis challenged. From reading this, it appears the impression I get from documentary featured national experts does not gibe with the reality of part time practitioners coming out of a 40-hour training program.
It was easier to be convinced of the unreliability of forensic odontology
Co-author Jim McCloskey is the founder of Centurion Ministries, the first organization in the world devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. To date, Centurion has freed seventy people serving life or death sentences for the crimes of others. Several of those affecting stories are told in this book.
[I was gratefully provided with a copy of this engaging book in exchange for an honest review.]] show less
I rather expected to be challenged on whatever hope I had for an acceptable paucity of justice system Type I Errors. But, I did not expect to have my faith in bloodstain show more analysis challenged. From reading this, it appears the impression I get from documentary featured national experts does not gibe with the reality of part time practitioners coming out of a 40-hour training program.
Regarding bloodstain analysis, the report issued a number of critical warnings and ended with: “The uncertainties associated with bloodstain-pattern analysis are enormous.”
It was easier to be convinced of the unreliability of forensic odontology
In a 2001 study, twenty -five well-known bite mark experts were given four identical sets of bite marks and asked to compare them with seven sets of dental molds. The error rate was an astonishing 63.5 percent. Only one-third accurately “matched” the marks with the teeth. Almost all of them continued consulting and testifying in bite mark cases as if the study meant nothing.
...
But, science be damned. Bite mark analysis is still allowed in most jurisdictions; sought by prosecutors , presented by experts, approved by judges, believed by jurors, and rubber-stamped by appellate courts.
Co-author Jim McCloskey is the founder of Centurion Ministries, the first organization in the world devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. To date, Centurion has freed seventy people serving life or death sentences for the crimes of others. Several of those affecting stories are told in this book.
[I was gratefully provided with a copy of this engaging book in exchange for an honest review.]] show less
PROVING THE INNOCENCE
Imagine you are arrested for a heinous crime that you did not commit. However, because of crooked law enforcement officers who were lazy, neglectful, racist, or any combination of those things or in league with crooked District Attorneys or other such agencies, you were questioned relentlessly for hours on end without any legal representation present. Then you find yourself convicted and sentenced to many years in a horrible prison system, even though there was not one piece of DNA tying you to the crime you allegedly committed. Your family does not have the money to hire anyone to file an appeal, but someone may come along and take your case because they believe you. It does not matter because, despite all appeals, show more you are locked up and waiting for execution. After all, a life sentence was insufficient for those who railroaded your case. After ten, twenty, or more years of your life passing by, someone steps in, takes up your case again, and finally proves your innocence! You can never reclaim the years you have missed, the damage that has been done to you mentally, physically, or otherwise, or the price that your family and other loved ones have paid.
This scenario made John Grisham known worldwide for his legal thrillers and a lifelong passion for real justice. This passion made him want to team up with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together, they have chosen ten cases out of the myriad they have found: the Americans who were innocent and wrongfully convicted while the guilty parties remained free. These true stories will astound readers with the horrific way that so many individuals' lives were treated with such callousness. It makes one wonder if the criminal judicial system needs an overhaul from top to bottom! It is a compelling piece of journalism, and the story will stay with the reader long after the last sentence is read.
Doubleday and NetGalley provided me with a complimentary copy of this book. However, my opinions are entirely my own and uninfluenced. show less
Imagine you are arrested for a heinous crime that you did not commit. However, because of crooked law enforcement officers who were lazy, neglectful, racist, or any combination of those things or in league with crooked District Attorneys or other such agencies, you were questioned relentlessly for hours on end without any legal representation present. Then you find yourself convicted and sentenced to many years in a horrible prison system, even though there was not one piece of DNA tying you to the crime you allegedly committed. Your family does not have the money to hire anyone to file an appeal, but someone may come along and take your case because they believe you. It does not matter because, despite all appeals, show more you are locked up and waiting for execution. After all, a life sentence was insufficient for those who railroaded your case. After ten, twenty, or more years of your life passing by, someone steps in, takes up your case again, and finally proves your innocence! You can never reclaim the years you have missed, the damage that has been done to you mentally, physically, or otherwise, or the price that your family and other loved ones have paid.
This scenario made John Grisham known worldwide for his legal thrillers and a lifelong passion for real justice. This passion made him want to team up with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together, they have chosen ten cases out of the myriad they have found: the Americans who were innocent and wrongfully convicted while the guilty parties remained free. These true stories will astound readers with the horrific way that so many individuals' lives were treated with such callousness. It makes one wonder if the criminal judicial system needs an overhaul from top to bottom! It is a compelling piece of journalism, and the story will stay with the reader long after the last sentence is read.
Doubleday and NetGalley provided me with a complimentary copy of this book. However, my opinions are entirely my own and uninfluenced. show less
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey is a non-fiction book about egregious miscarriages of justice and State-sponsored perjuries. Mr. Gishham is a best-selling author, this is his first non-fiction book. Mr. McCloskey is a former naval officer, corporate consultant, and the founder of Centurion Ministries which fights to overturn wrongs and free the innocent.
This book is frightening, it shows how easily corrupt police officers, attorneys, and judges can tilt the scales of justice their way. Once that’s done, the full power of the state can come down on an innocent person, usually for political reasons.
In Framed by show more John Grisham and Jim McCloskey, each author writes five stories of injustice. Mr. Grisham’s are page-turning narratives of cases that local and national media have previously covered. Mr. McCloskey’s stories center around the ones that Centurion Ministries fought, while they lack Mr. Grisham’s style, they more than make up with insider’s perspectives and nuance.
I didn’t find the book as astonishing as the title suggests, but more enraging, alarming, and terrifying. Many of the stories take place in Texas and systematic racial bias is one factor that seems to repeat itself. these events didn’t happen during reconstruction, but during my lifetime – it isn’t easy to believe. These convictions however apply to everybody, half the convictions in the book are average white people.
All of the stories show the lengths authorities will go to avoid admitting that they made a mistake, avoid embarrassment, or not pay settlements, and that includes executing innocent people. Relying on The shady “experts”, jailhouse snitches, ignoring evidence and common sense are dramatized over and over again.
These are great stories, and after some of the latest books I read by Grisham (The Exchange for example) which, frankly, disappointed me, it’s good to see him back in top form. This book makes a good case against the death penalty, especially with DNA evidence and abuses which are being uncovered. show less
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey is a non-fiction book about egregious miscarriages of justice and State-sponsored perjuries. Mr. Gishham is a best-selling author, this is his first non-fiction book. Mr. McCloskey is a former naval officer, corporate consultant, and the founder of Centurion Ministries which fights to overturn wrongs and free the innocent.
This book is frightening, it shows how easily corrupt police officers, attorneys, and judges can tilt the scales of justice their way. Once that’s done, the full power of the state can come down on an innocent person, usually for political reasons.
In Framed by show more John Grisham and Jim McCloskey, each author writes five stories of injustice. Mr. Grisham’s are page-turning narratives of cases that local and national media have previously covered. Mr. McCloskey’s stories center around the ones that Centurion Ministries fought, while they lack Mr. Grisham’s style, they more than make up with insider’s perspectives and nuance.
I didn’t find the book as astonishing as the title suggests, but more enraging, alarming, and terrifying. Many of the stories take place in Texas and systematic racial bias is one factor that seems to repeat itself. these events didn’t happen during reconstruction, but during my lifetime – it isn’t easy to believe. These convictions however apply to everybody, half the convictions in the book are average white people.
All of the stories show the lengths authorities will go to avoid admitting that they made a mistake, avoid embarrassment, or not pay settlements, and that includes executing innocent people. Relying on The shady “experts”, jailhouse snitches, ignoring evidence and common sense are dramatized over and over again.
These are great stories, and after some of the latest books I read by Grisham (The Exchange for example) which, frankly, disappointed me, it’s good to see him back in top form. This book makes a good case against the death penalty, especially with DNA evidence and abuses which are being uncovered. show less
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John Grisham was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. He received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Mississippi State University. He was admitted to the bar in Mississippi in 1981 after receiving a law degree from the University of Mississippi, specializing in criminal law. While a lawyer in private practice in Southaven, show more Mississippi, Grisham served as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 until 1990. He left the law and politics to become a full-time author. His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in 1989. His other novels include The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, The Summons, The King of Torts, Bleachers, The Last Juror, The Broker, Playing for Pizza, The Appeal, Calico Joe, The Racketeer, Gray Mountain, Rogue Lawyer, The Confession, The Litigators, The Whistler, Camino Island, The Rooster Bar, and the Theodore Boone series. Several of his novels were adapted into films including The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Chamber, A Painted House, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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To Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, cofounders of the Innocence Project; and to the warriors who labor there.
John Grisham - First words
- Omar Ballard's mother was a black prostitute and drug addict who worked the mean streets of Newark, New Jersey.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He said,"Now I'm stuck in this Willingham thing for the rest of my life.
- Original language
- English US
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- Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 345.0122 — Social sciences Law Criminal Law Criminal courts General considerations, administration and personnel, legal aid General considerations of criminal courts
- LCC
- HV7419.3 .G75 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration
- BISAC
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