People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
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Brian Dugan's crimes -- and the murder of Jeanine was not the only one -- are horrific. But I hope that whoever ultimately decides Brian Dugan's fate bears in mind that he also had the moral courage to accept responsibility for a crime he alone committed, even though he knew that the blame had fallen elsewhere. In so doing he set in motion the chain of events that ultimately allowed two innocent men who had been sentenced to death to be restored to freedom. Dugan's evil deeds are extraordinary and repugnant, but his courage also was extraordinary.Scott Turow
I did not realize how bad, how desperately bad the plight of the black urban poor had become.
Scott Turow
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
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I then became a defense lawyer and saw the system go wrong, saw innocent people convicted and sentenced to death, and people who were certainly guilty, but who had not committed crimes as grave as the punishment.
Scott Turow
It's the inability of the laws and institutions to accommodate these fine differences in people that has always provided a theme for me.
Scott Turow
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Scott Turow
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