The Runawy Jury
Journal of John Grisham's "The Runaway Jury" This book was about a court case PYNEX vs. Wood. Pynex was a member of the "Big Four" Tobacco companies and Ms. Wood is widow of Jacob Wood a long time smoker and victim of lung cancer and emphysema. The Tobacco industry has been in many other court cases just like this and has won all of them. The Tobacco industry must insure a victory by any means possible because if not there would be a million other civil cases where people would sue and win consequently costing the industry billions of dollars. But this (court) case was different from the start. Initially the plaintiff had enough money to pay for a top tier lawyer, which was a first, but this they knew. What they didn't know would turn out to be the decisive factor in the trial; they were unaware that they were dealing with the mysterious and ingenious duo of Nicholas Easter and his female companion Marlee.This book began with the jury selection in this case. Now like in every other case the Tobacco Company does their dirty work to study all of the jurors. A man named Rankin Fitch heads this research and all of the other impure tactics performed by the Tobacco Companies to try to win the case. What the researchers do is
This part of the book was extremely well written as one after the other Fitch found out that Marlee's parents both succumbed lung cancer due to smoking, also he found out that Marlee was had donated and supported many anti smoking organizations, he also found out the verdict of four hundred and two million dollars being awarded to the plaintiff. arrest on one of the jurors husbands and fashioning a story to make him believe the only way to be exempt from imprisonment was to get his wife to vote for the defendant. Rankin Fitch was also no beginner at these trials, but he didn't know he was messing with people who knew just as much as he did about them, he has been a part of most of them he is also very smart and manipulative he pulled many dirty deeds such as staging an F. After the deal was settled Fitch instinctively assumed victory and rightfully so, he paid for a verdict, Marlee was eager to make the deal, so he should get the verdict he desired, but as I stated in the beginning this was no ordinary (court) case. They learned so much they could predetermine every move that would be made by Rankin Fitch. He revealed to them the ins and outs of the trial process revealing his tenure at law school. If they are not sure if the juror will be pro or anti Tobacco they send an operative, in this circumstance the operative is a beautiful young blond woman who is in a computer store making conversation with her target, here is where we meet the mysterious and clever Nicholas Easter, midway threw the conversation she slyly lights a cigarette and studies his reaction to it, he cunningly recognizes the situation, though you do not know this first reading the book, and simply says there is a no smoking policy in the store and she must comply and put the cigarette out. This operation was brought to a cease by an investigation by Marlee and a friend of hers who was an FBI agent. You just get the feeling from the beginning of the book that this man, Nicholas Easter, Is going to be a major part of this novel. The thing that was most fascinating was when you were reading about Nicholas in the beginning you could never imagine the ingenious plan he and Marlee were unfolding on the Tobacco Company. This caught one hundred percent of Fitch's attention, and precisely what Marlee desired she obtained, and that was getting Fitch to think that she and Nicholas were in full control of the jury thus the first thing that came to Fitch's mind was this could be the easiest case yet all he had to do was take money from "The Fund", money put aside by all of the Tobacco Companies for desperate measures such as court trials, and purchase the jury or buy a verdict. The reason this jumps out at you, the reader, is because the author did not take as much time if anytime to describe the other jurors but slowly and surely throughout the book as he developed their character he revealed more about their pasts. At first the deal was easy but expensive, ten million dollars and Fitch would be home free with a defendant's verdict.
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