Framed

Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

De: John Grisham, Jim McCloskey

Narrado por: Jim McCloskey, Michael Beck, John Grisham

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.

“Each of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage. But these are more than just gripping true stories—they are a clarion call for reforming the tragic flaws in our criminal justice system.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our 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. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, 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 corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.

Impeccably researched and told with binge-worthy suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.

* This audiobook edition is accompanied by a downloadable PDF which includes A Note on Sources and Acknowledgments from the book.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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“The flaws and lethal errors that condemn innocent people in the American legal system have caused too many for too long to needlessly suffer. Jim McCloskey and John Grisham are towering figures in law and literature shining an urgent, compelling, and critically important light on the heartbreaking wrongful convictions that compromise our legal system and remain a national tragedy.”—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy

“Framed should come with a warning label: Be prepared never to look at the justice system the same way again. In this collection of ten shocking wrongful-conviction cases, each stranger than fiction, you’ll come away outraged by how easily so many prosecutions can and do run off the rails: investigative tunnel vision, coached witnesses, compromised jailhouse snitches, junk science, cultural bias, crooked prosecutors, and even biased judges. How grateful we all should be to John Grisham and Jim McCloskey—for raising the alarm and crusading for true justice.”—Robert Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road

“In this essential collaboration, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey vividly demonstrate the need to run just as fast, if not faster, to exonerate the innocent as to punish the guilty. In ten shocking true stories, they not only convey the devastating impact of wrongful convictions on each affected person but also sound the alarm for all of us—there but for the grace of God, go I. These are remarkable stories of injustice that need to be told. And retold.”—Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney and New York Times bestselling author of Doing Justice

Outrageous

Just far, we need to go in order to see Justice for all And further divides economics versus justice

Very credible and entertaining critique of the criminal justice system.

The description of one of the crimes was extremely disturbing. I chose to skip the rest of the chapter.

This should be required listening for new cops

If you've never read something that made you EXTREMELY angry, buckle the eff up.

From the word go (after the intro), an anger inducing set of circumstances quickly mounts in the first story and, just when you think you can't possibly hear words of incompetence that could compare, you are introduced to the next story.... and the next.... and so on.

Unbelievable. Truly. I have never been more disappointed with our criminal justice system.

The Story

I always love John Grishams books!!!! Always a joy!!!! Never knew he would make a book with another author, I’m glad he did!!!

Framed

I love true stories. This was narrated by one of my favorite narrators & John Grisham is a favorite author

Incredible read

Remarkable and sad. Bringing these truths about how criminal it is to trust in the legal system and the people we were taught to trust in the most.

Great book

I loved the stories and narrator the voice made the stories feel immediate and palpable. look forward to more

Awful

Liked the expose of criminals parading as prosecutors and judges and the need to abolish the death sentence. I didn’t like the sing song narrative which sent me to sleep a lot of times and had me rewinding often. The stories were stranger than fiction and sad.

How broken our legal system can be.

These stories showed the murky side of human behavior and corruption to accuse and ruin an innocent person’s life.

The incredible injustice of our legal system.

Until I listened to this audiobook I had no idea how perverse our legal system was. The selfishness of the prosecutors and judges is both shocking and sickening. The horrible amount of time in these innocent people’s lives that was wasted in prison because of the corrupt decisions made by the very people that were supposed to protect our society is beyond belief! Thank you for educating me! I for one will never take lightly my duty as a voter to approve the appointment of judges and prosecutors and anyone involved in our legal system again!