Word: grigson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adams had been in jail for eight years when Errol Morris, an avant-garde film-maker from New York City, came to Texas to make a documentary about Dr. James Grigson, known as Dr. Death to defense lawyers for his consistent findings that convicted murderers were so unrepentant that they deserved execution. In its zeal to help Morris, the Dallas district attorney's office turned over the dusty records from Adams' trial. What Morris found in the boxes was more intriguing than Dr. Death: evidence of a prosecution willing to bend, if not break, the guarantees of a fair trial...
Madeleine Severn, a beautiful 37-year-old schoolteacher who has been saving her virginity for the perfect moment of bliss. Bernard Hopkins, a shy but compelling middle-aged man whose wife is incurably ill. Paul Grigson, a nervous teenage boy infatuated with the teacher. From this triangle, Simon Brett has shaped a chilling psychological mystery. His cunning tale opens on the discovery of a gruesome murder, with details of the victim and perpetrator withheld. It soon develops that both must be part of the triangle, but Brett defines his characters so that any combination of killer and prey seems possible...
...best lemon tart, cognoscenti should head for Jane Grigson 's Fruit Book (Atheneum; $19.95). Here are disquisitions on 46 different fruits, with recipes for virtually every single one, from apples, the world's first fruit, to watermelon, one of the last to arrive in the author's native England...
Dallas Defense Attorney Richard Anderson suggests that Grigson fills a psychological need of jurors. "When they are making a life-or-death decision, they want to believe that an individual who would do these horrible things is a different species from them," says Anderson. "He tells them this person doesn't deserve to live. He makes a decision easier...
Anderson caused the only exception in Grigson's record. During testimony by the psychiatrist, Anderson asked him to evaluate not his own client but, hypothetically, a deprived black who had a record of several arrests before going to prison at 19 for a violent offense. "What would be your prognosis?" Anderson asked. Grigson said he saw only more of the same ahead. The lawyer then revealed that the case history belonged to Ron LeFlore, now a star for the Chicago White Sox. Even so, Anderson just barely succeeded. Eleven of the twelve jurors wanted to mete out the death...