Presumed Innocent (1987) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Rusty Sabich: Protagonist. A prosecuting attorney.
• Barbara Sabich: Rusty's wife.
• Raymond Horgan: Chief prosecuting attorney, Rusty’s boss.
• Carolyn Polhemus: Murder victim. A prosecuting attorney. Was having an affair with Rusty and then with Raymond Horgan.
• Larren Lyttle: Presiding judge.
• Sandy Stern: Rusty’s defense attorney.
• Jamie Kemp: Add a description of this character.
• Nico Della Guardia
• Lipranzer
• Dr. Kumagai
• Tommy Moho
• Leon
• Lionel Kenneally
• Mr Molto
• Wendell
• Dr Robinson
• Mrs Krapotnik
• Noel
• Mr Delay Guardia
• Mo Ito
• Greer
• Dickerman
• Marty
• Nathaniel
• Glendenning
• Berman

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• “Herd of station wagons”

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• Is it the sad reciprocity of love that you always want what you think you are giving?

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• A wild love. Desperate and obsessive and willfully blind. Love, as love at its truest is, with no sense of the future, love beguiled by the present and unable to derive the meaning of signs.

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• Only the poets can truly write of liberty, that sweet, exhilarant thing. In my life, I have not known an ecstasy as dulcet or complete as the occasional instants of shivering delight when I again realize this peril is behind me.

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• Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

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• TV and the movies have spoiled the most intimate moments of our lives. They have given us conventions which dominate our expectations in instants whose intensity would ordinarily make them spontaneous and unique. We have conventions of grief, which we learned from the Kennedys, and ordained gestures for victory by which we imitate the athletes we see on the tube, who in turn have learned the same things from other jocks they saw on TV. Seduction, too, has got its standards now, its sloe-eyed moments, its breathless repartee.

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• If we cannot find the truth, what is our hope of justice?”

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• I long at times, in transported recollection I pine, I perish with a groping sensation—I am like some misbegotten thing left at the end of science-fiction adventures which reels about with stumps outstretched, beckoning toward the creatures of which it was once one: Let me in again! Unwork time.

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• but not all human misbehavior is the result of gross defects of character. Circumstances matter, too. Temptation, if you will allow an old-fashioned word.

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• During these periods, her disappointments with virtually everyone are often worn so openly that at instants I believe the taste would be bitter if I were to grasp her hand and lick her skin.

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• A capable attorney, but he is burdened by a zealot’s poverty of judgment.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Bolcarro
• Guerash
• Kindle County
• North Branch
• Stew
• Skageon
• United States

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Innocent.

Preceded by Windmills of the Gods, and followed by Fine Things.

Preceded by The Lady in the Lake, and followed by A Demon in My View.

Preceded by Red Dragon, and followed by The Maltese Falcon.

Preceded by The Daughter of Time, and followed by The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Scott Turow (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3570.U754 P7 1987
• Dewey: 818'.54

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( T ) › Turow, Scott
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Legal
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Presumed Innocent (1990) (IMDb): Staring Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, and Bonnie Bedelia