Witness to a Trial Overview
In the short story “Witness to a Trial” by John Grisham, what looked like an open and shut case of cold-blooded murder turned out to be a cover-up to build a casino on an Indian reservation. Junior Mace, the alleged killer, as well as Son Razko, one of the murder victims, had campaigned against the casino a campaign that angered the career criminals hoping to make money off the casino. Themes in the novel include the Tappocola code of life, the dangers of assumptions, and Junior’s trial as an aberration of justice.
Study Pack
The Witness to a Trial Study Pack contains:
Witness to a Trial Study Guide
John Grisham Biographies (2)
2,747 words, approx. 10 pages
Popular novelist John Grisham (born 1955) is the author of several thrillers that have been made into blockbuster films. His works, which center around the legal profession, include A Time to Kill,The...
Read more
4,815 words, approx. 17 pages
The author of fourteen back-to-back bestsellers, many of which have been turned into blockbuster movies, John Grisham can count his revenues and copies sold of his legal thrillers in the hundreds of m...
Read more
John Grisham
John Grisham