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During the previous 2 decades, more than 2,000 American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and the clearest picture yet of the countrywide scourge of wrongful conviction and of the chance for important reform. When the ultimate gavel clapped in a rural Southern courtroom in the summertime of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit without record of assault, was surprised and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced alive imprisonment. This is actually the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long voyage to freedom, told in amazing and sympathetic detail, from the botched research and think testimony that led to his incarceration to the tireless attempts to confirm his innocence and the identification of the true perpetrator. These were spearheaded by his relentless champ, Christine Mumma, a cofounder of North Carolina's Innocence Inquiry Fee. That percentage - unprecedented at its inception in 2006 - remains a model firm unlike other in the united states and one now responsible for a growing number of exonerations. With careful, prismatic research and pulse-quickening prose, Benjamin Rachlin presents one man's tragedy and triumph. The jarring and unsettling simple truth is that the storyline of Willie J. Grimes, for all its outrage, dignity, and grace, is not a unique travesty. But through the harrowing and suspenseful bill of 1 life, told from the inside, we experience the full horror of wrongful conviction on the national level. Ghost of the Innocent Man is both unusual and essential, a masterwork of empathy. The book offers a deep reckoning not only with the shortcomings in our criminal justice system but also with its prospects for redemption.
