Conviction (novel)

Conviction
Author(s)	Richard North Patterson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Thriller novel
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	January 25, 2005
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	463 pp
ISBN	0345450191
OCLC Number	56194905
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Classification	PS3566.A8242 C66 2005
Preceded by	Balance of Power
Followed by	Exile

Conviction is a novel published in 2004 by Richard North Patterson. The novel centers on the debate surrounding capital punishment.^[1][2]

Plot summary

As described by Sherryl Connelly of the New York Daily News,^[3]

When activist lawyer Teresa Paget takes on Rennell Price's case, his execution date is only 59 days off. Price and his older brother, both crack dealers, were found guilty of murdering 9-year-old Thuy Sey. She choked to death on semen before her body was dumped in the San Francisco Bay. The horrific crime is 15 years in the past, and the tony law firm that laggardly pursued Rennell's appeals pro bono has dropped the case as hopeless. Teresa quickly determines his original lawyer, a cocaine addict, was criminally ineffectual (he has since been disbarred). She even extracts a deathbed confession from his brother, Payton, who admits his brother was asleep when another man murdered the child in their living room. She also puts together a convincing argument that Rennell is, in fact, retarded.

—Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News

Critical reception

Sherryl Connelly of the New York Daily News said that "Patterson too fully explores the political climate that predisposes judges against defendants in death penalty appeals" and that he "wallows in the legal complexities".^[3]

References

1. ^ "'Conviction,' by Richard North Patterson". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. February 6, 2005. http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/05037/453047-148.stm. Retrieved October 21, 2010. 
2. ^ "Rebel with a cause". The Sun-Herald. March 20, 2005. http://www.smh.com.au/news/Books/Rebel-with-a-cause/2005/03/20/1111253864404.html. Retrieved October 21, 2010. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Connelly, Sherryl (January 30, 2005). "Patterson climbs back on the soapbox with his new legal thriller". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2005/01/30/2005-01-30_guilty_of_preaching__patters.html. Retrieved October 23, 2010. 

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