Topic: Crime and Punishment
Ever read a book called Presumed Innocent or see the book on film starring Harrison Ford?
The book “Presumed Innocent”,
earned author Scott Turow superstar author status, a $200,000 advance from
Farrar Straus & Giroux (the most the publisher had ever advanced for a first
novel (time 6/11/90)), $500,000 in sales to foreign countries, $3 million for
paperback rights, and $1 million for the movie rights.
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This woman pleads GUILTY to a lesser charge instead of going up against the testimony of a pathologist who was later found to have erred in almost half of his autopsies. Even though at one time he had been called: "the continent's leading pediatric forensic pathologist," a review found in 43 of his child' autopsies (thirteen of which resulted in criminal convictions, with one person still behind bars) that he had erred in 20.
