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ashley_wohner's review against another edition
2.0
Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt
corriejn's review against another edition
3.25
At times I found it a tad hard to keep straight who all was who (as it's mainly about one accused murderer, but also features a second main story of another person accused of a crime-- or... two other people? I legitimately never got it all fully sorted) plus just a lot of additional people (relatives, friends, lawyers, witnesses, others incarcerated with them, etc.) to keep track of. I got the sense that folks with the Innocence Project were actually fairly influential in these cases, but they were mentioned fairly in passing.
In short, it's not the greatest writing/storytelling; if you're interested in reading about miscarriages of justice or work to exonerate wrongly-convicted folks, I'm confident there exists more compelling coverage of those topics.
I was also not a fan of the amount of really ableist language the author used in regards to mental illness.
Graphic: Mental illness, Confinement, Murder, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Blood, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Cancer and Excrement
bashirley24's review
1.25
Moderate: Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Death, Grief, Rape, Torture, Alcoholism, Violence, Drug use, Murder, and Self harm
lorraine19's review
4.25
Graphic: Murder, Alcohol, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Classism, and Grief
Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Police brutality, Bullying, Death of parent, and Physical abuse
Minor: Excrement
Injustice, false conviction, manipulationcraigger's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Confinement and Alcoholism
Minor: Suicide attempt, Rape, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts
karlybug's review against another edition
1.75
i've never read Grisham in my life and now i don't think i ever will. this was so incredibly dry for my taste. maybe it's the unfortunate product of listening to so many of them, but i just kept thinking about how many podcasts could do this story in an absolute fraction of the time. there was so much information i didn't need OR want, but i guess that was because i was hoping for less of a story of this man's life, and more a story of the crime and subsequent arrests & whether or not they actually solved it. (i know it was about this awful thing that happened to this man, but i felt like there was TOO little focus on the actual brutal murder for my taste.)
i didn't check the publishing date until after i finished it, and it makes sense. i kept thinking it was so weird how heavy a focus there was on how much the system was designed to keep innocent men in jail, as if this were groundbreaking information. obviously, having been written literally 17 years ago, it probably was much more unknown then. but there was something about reading all of this about a white man who had quite a few issues of his own (i kept thinking, he's innocent of this crime, but he's certainly not an innocent man) that felt hollow with the understanding of how often this happens to non-white men who've done less and with less to go on. either way, though, anything calling attention to this kind of injustice is important.
Graphic: Blood, Forced institutionalization, and Murder
Moderate: Rape, Death, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse
nerdglasses08's review
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Addiction, and Alcoholism
chacepaulson's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault