Grisham on writing his first non-fiction book "The Innocent Man" -
"With every visit and every conversation, the story took a different twist. I could’ve written five thousand pages. The journey also exposed me to the world of wrongful convictions, something that I, even as a former lawyer, had never spent much time thinking about. This is not a problem peculiar to Oklahoma, far from it.
Wrongful convictions occur every month in every state in this country, and the reasons are all varied and all the same—bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness identifications, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors.
With no physical evidence, the prosecution’s case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you."