Word: ponchatoula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grisham had a personal reason for concocting this novel legal theory. In March 1995, William Savage, an acquaintance of Grisham's, was gunned down at the cotton gin where he worked, out-side Hernando, Mississippi; the next day, convenience-store clerk Patsy Byers was shot and paralyzed in nearby Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Benjamin Darras, 18, and Sarah Edmondson, 19, have been accused of both crimes. Edmondson told authorities that before the shootings, she and Darras took LSD and watched Natural Born Killers, which they had seen countless times...
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