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Title: The Runaway Jury by John Grisham ISBN: 0-440-22147-1 Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 27 January, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (385 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: sell-out
Comment: Great book. Unfortunately, Grisham sold out with the movie and allowed the producers to take a swipe at the firearm industry. When will people learn, "Guns don't kill people- People kill people."
Rating: 4
Summary: The Importance of Jury Selection
Comment: This very interesting story is about a widow who sues a tobacco company for the death of her smoking husband. The legal team defending the cigarette manufacturer hasn't lost any previous suits. They use a company that investigates jurors in depth, watches them closely, and advises the lawyers. Both sides do this, but not to the same extent. There was talk about illegal means, but nobody was ever caught. This book gives a lot of background information on the Judicial System that you won't see in newspapers or television.
A young woman sends inside information to the man in charge of jury investigation for the tobacco company. [One tip-off to an undercover agent like Easter is his prior experience and attempts to gain leadership.] The testimony tells of the carcinogens and other compounds in tobacco smoke. Nicotine is a poison that raises blood pressure, increases the pulse rate, and is addictive. [Comparable to other human activity?] Chapters Nine and Twelve tell how a juror can be influenced by corporate powers. Easter tells the jury he was followed, and suggests the others were (to create fear and hatred?).
Chapter 15 explains the Big Money paid into political lobbying to restrict insurance company awards in damage suits. [Is this happening in your state?] Page 140 tells how insurance companies control physicians. A retired company executive testified about the need for nicotine because of its addictive qualities (p.155). Cigarettes are promoted in advertising (to create "peer pressure"), but when a smoker dies from lung cancer the tobacco company blames the victim!
Chapter 18 tells how new developments are carefully considered by county supervisors. This story about the real estate salesman sounds like it came from the "Mission Impossible" television series. Chapter 29 tells how one juror is bounced for reading newspapers and magazines (did they check for fingerprints?) [Another tip-off to an agent is his skill in provoking trouble for others.]
This clever story had an ending that surprised me. The plaintiff wins, and is awarded $400 Million! The jury doesn't worry about giving away somebody else's money in punitive damages; there are no rational decisions here, just emotion and whimsy. Is this a loophole in the system? Why should one get so much and the other Four Hundred Thousand get nothing?
This book shows a den of thieves. People are honest until they are tempted. This reminds me of "The Sting", whose moral was that swindles are OK if the sucker is worse than you. [Is this Real Life?] This book delivers an anti-smoking message without preaching. But how many will quit after reading it? The use of nicotine gum or patch should allow many to quit, if they so choose. Smoking, like other conditioned reflexes, is hard to break. The characters of Nicholas and Marlee are not credible to me. [I expected to find them as part of a Government sting operation to catch the "jury consultants".]
Rating: 2
Summary: Is Grisham still writing his own books?
Comment: You can count on Grisham to be entertaining and a quick read, which this was for the most part. Beyond that, he must consider his readers as moronic as the people on "The Runaway Jury" to find any credibility in this story. It was better than sappy Bleachers or Skipping Christmas but my respect for Grisham's writing has taken a dive. He's always going to the edge of what can be believed and his characters tend to be stereotypes, but Grisham has lost respect for his readers to put out something like this. I've read everything he's written and this is my last.
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Title: The Partner by John Grisham ISBN: 0440224764 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 07 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Street Lawyer by John Grisham ISBN: 0440225701 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 05 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Rainmaker by John Grisham ISBN: 044022165X Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Chamber by John Grisham ISBN: 0440220602 Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Testament by John Grisham ISBN: 0440234743 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 28 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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