A house painter. The 6th Juror is convinced that the boy is guilty from the start and remains convinced for much of the deliberation. He is focused primarily on the motive for the murder. He’s also very protective of the 9th Juror and stands up for him when others disrespect him. Now the proud new owner with all the ambition and energy that only the young can engender he sets forth to make the paper a success.

Willie investigates Hank and finds out that he was placed in a mental hospital after the trial. Hank was obsessed with Rhoda’s murder because he was in love with her. Willie eventually discovers that, though Danny did murder Rhoda, Hank was responsible for all of the later murders. He wrote his first book, A Time to Kill, following inspiration from an actual court case. His second novel, The Firm, got him into the spotlight and made him consider a career as an author. The realistic portrayal of court proceedings alongside the riveting cases contributed to his success. His movements were faster, he was mumbling louder. "Quiet, baby," he hissed again and again. "I’ll use the knife." The wrought-iron bed was squeaking; didn’t get used enough, he told himself. Too much noise, but he didn’t care.

Publication Order of Rogue Lawyer Books

Not really a courtroom drama or legal thriller; instead this novel focuses on the media in a small town in Mississippi.

The novel is divided into three parts. The first covers the trial of Danny Padgitt, the second focuses on Willie adjusting to life in Clanton, and the third includes the main events, the murder of the jurors. Danny Padgitt - a member of the notorious Padgitt family. He rapes and murders Rhoda Kassellaw but is given parole after only nine years in prison. Shortly after the death of her husband, Rhoda planned to return to her family in Missouri. She was not from Ford County, nor was her husband. A job took them there. But the house was paid for, the kids were happy, the neighbors were nice, and her family was much too concerned about how much life insurance she’d collected. So she stayed, always thinking of leaving but never doing so. Daring to report the true horrors of the crime, Willie makes as many friends as enemies in Clanton, and over the next decade he sometimes wonders how he got there in the first place. But he can never escape the crime that shattered his innocence or the criminal whose evil left an indelible stain. Because as the ghosts of the South’s past gather around Willie, as tension swirls around Clanton, men and women who served on a jury nine years ago are starting to die one by one—as a killer exacts the ultimate revenge.The law provides a layer to the story -- as to criminal sentencing, parole, business transactions, elections, divorce, probate -- but I was surprised it was not the key framework. urn:oclc:613760434 Scandate 20100624052140 Scanner scribe3.sanfrancisco.archive.org Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Source Similar to the last Grisham book I read, I kept waiting for the drama or excitement but it didn't really happen and I felt let down by the ending. That said, I still had to read to the end which is Grisham's specialty; drawing a reader in so they have to know what happens. We follow Traynor as he makes friends and learns to live in Clanton. He is slowly accepted, and his newspaper flourishes. Less than a decade later, Padgitt is paroled. And the jurors begin to die… Over the course of the story, Grisham introduces many of Clanton, Mississippi's residents and local characters, people like politicians, war veterans, and decaying aristocracy who make the town colorful and unique.