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...almost a shame that Scott Turow's novel Presumed Innocent was such a smash two years ago, because several million readers of that best-seller will unfortunately already have had the original and compelling plot revealed to them...
...simply the thoughtful and careful script based on Turow's novel that make this movie a success. Much of the credit belongs to the editors for their effective juxtaposition of flashbacks and present action, and placement of each successive scene...
...according to Scott Turow is pretty much as we imagine it in our worst-case scenarios, which are, of course, essentially indistinguishable from our paranoid nightmares. The itchy authenticity with which he showed how even an expert in the legal system can be caught up in one of its patented narratives of false accusation made his novel Presumed Innocent a best seller...
...BURDEN OF PROOF by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). The summer's hottest read by the Chicago attorney and best-selling author brings back Presumed Innocent defense lawyer Alejandro Stern, now faced with the mystery of his wife's suicide, a commodities-market scandal and the realization that justice is never blind when it gets too close to home...
...lawyer who writes novels or a novelist who is a lawyer? In practice, as he demonstrated in his best-selling Presumed Innocent, Turow is both; his fiction bridges the divide between the popular and the serious, and the subject that keeps his readers turning pages is deeper than satisfactory verdicts. The pertinent evidence involves the redemption of souls...