 While William N. "Bill" Peterson may be retiring from his job at the end of the year, John Grisham (pictured) knows that Peterson isn’t retiring from his lawsuit alleging that the author intentionally cast him in a bad light in the nonfiction book, The Innocent Man. |
William N. "Bill" Peterson, the man who added a twist to Charlottesville-area writer John Grisham’s first foray into nonfiction, The Innocent Man, will retire at the end of the year after 28 years as a district attorney in Oklahoma. Peterson is suing Grisham and Doubleday Dell Publishing Group for $75,000 in relief, as well as a jury trial, alleging that the author used his skills with fiction to portray him in a bad light in the book, which is about the overturned conviction of Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz in the murder of Debbie Sue Carter in Ada, Oklahoma. The Ada Evening News quotes Peterson as saying, "I have always sought to seek the truth in charging of crimes. …After 28 years as a prosecutor it is time to pass this responsibility to someone else." But let’s move on to the real story: Who will play Peterson in the movie, the rights for which have been bought by George Clooney?
