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November 28, 2003
The real story of a runaway jury
By ANDREW BERGH
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
Where does John Grisham come up with this stuff?
In Runaway Jury, the latest movie based on a Grisham bestseller, a mysterious man gets himself on the jury in a landmark case against a gun manufacturer, and then tries to influence his fellow jurors into voting a certain way. His girlfriend, meanwhile, tries to swindle the attorneys into paying millions of dollars for a verdict favorable to their clients.
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