The chamber / John Grisham.
In 1967 in Greenville, Mississippi, known Klan member Sam Cayhall is accused of bombing the law offices of Jewish civil rights activist Marvin Kramer, killing Kramer's two sons. Cayhall's first trial, with an all-white jury and a Klan rally outside the courthouse, ends in a hung jury; the retrial six months later has the same outcome. Twelve years later an ambitious district attorney in Greenville reopens the case. Much has changed since 1967, and this time, with a jury of eight whites and four blacks, Cayhill is convicted. He is transfered to the state penitentiary atParchman to await execution on death row. In 1990, in the huge Chicago law firm of Kravitz and Bane, a young lawyer named Adam Hall asks to work on the Cayhall case, which the firm has handled on a pro bono basis for years. But the case is all but lost and time is running out: within weeks Sam Cayhall will finally go to the gas chamber. Why in the world would Adam want to get involved?
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- ISBN: 9780385424721 :
- ISBN: 9780385474405 (limited edition)
- ISBN: 0385424728 :
- ISBN: 0385474407 (limited edition)
- Physical Description: 486 p. ; 24 cm. : ill.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 1994.
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Subject: | Klu Klux Klan > Fiction Legal cases > Fiction Death Row > Fiction Anti-semitism > Fiction Bombing > Fiction |
Genre: | Legal thrillers. |
Topic Heading: | KU KLUX KLAN - FICTION |
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Stonewall Library | FIC GRISHAM (Text) | 3678692203 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |