The runaway jury /
Grisham, John.
The runaway jury / - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 1996. - 401 p. ; 25 cm.
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important, why?
0385472943 9780385472944 0385480164 (ltd. ed.) 9780385480161 (ltd. ed.)
96013872
Trials (Products liability)--Fiction.
Jury--Fiction.
Legal stories.
PS3557.R5355 / R8 1996
813/.54
The runaway jury / - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 1996. - 401 p. ; 25 cm.
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important, why?
0385472943 9780385472944 0385480164 (ltd. ed.) 9780385480161 (ltd. ed.)
96013872
Trials (Products liability)--Fiction.
Jury--Fiction.
Legal stories.
PS3557.R5355 / R8 1996
813/.54