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A time to kill
The book I read for summer reading was A Time to Kill by John Grisham. In my thesis I will prove there is prejudice in the American judicial system. Without a fair trial, a ground stone for American democracy there is no justice.
The story starts in a small southern town of Clanton, Mississippi in the 1960s; a black man Carl Lee Hailey awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter Tonya. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. There's one serious problem h...
The book I read for summer reading was A Time to Kill by John Grisham. In my thesis I will prove there is prejudice in the American judicial system. Without a fair trial, a ground stone for American democracy there is no justice.
The story starts in a small southern town of Clanton, Mississippi in the 1960s; a black man Carl Lee Hailey awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter Tonya. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. There's one serious problem h...
Posted by: Alexander Bartfield
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