False Convictions
By Tim Green
Grand Central Publishing
$25.99, hard cover, 373 pages, 978-0-446-40152-4 (2010)
The author of this book, Tim Green, is a practicing attorney and former NFL defensive end living in
The novel begins with a deceptively simple plot. Twenty years ago, a black man was convicted of murdering a pretty white college student and now a well-known attorney is attempting to prove him innocent. Casey Jordan is an ambitious lawyer who runs a legal clinic for underprivileged women. She is contacted by billionaire philanthropist
The case Graham wants
“The dead girl?” Hubbard asked, raising an eyebrow. “I knew who she was. Everyone did. The queen bee of the East Sider’s. Country club kids. Not that her family belonged — the dad flipped burgers at Mickey D’s. You wanted to wipe that smile off her face and watch her freckles turned purple? All you had to do was sing the big Mac song: ‘Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.’ Rich boys didn’t care about that, though. She was VIP. Tall and blonde and built for speed. Dude had to have a fat roll of cash and a sweet ride before he even thought about running with her.”
Hubbard claims that in addition to him being innocent, he was also attacked by some white man during the time of the crime and stabbed one of them with a knife. Later analysis of the DNA on Hubbard’s knife was found to match the victim’s blood type. However, the blood was never fully tested against the DNA of the victim, and when Casey Jordan gets involved in the case and goes to the warehouse where evidence is kept, Hubbard’s file is mysteriously missing.
Once
What I liked about this book was that there were plenty of plot twists. What started out as a straightforward attempt to free a wrongly convicted prisoner quickly turns into a labyrinth of lies and deceit. Although I never quite connected with the lead characters in the book, the plot surprises make this a quick and entertaining read.
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