Teraz mam mieszane uczucia, bo oczywiście już w 1996...

"EXCEPT the victims were actually White:
Julie Scott, 16 years old, and Marcie Scott, were both raped, brutally beaten, and nearly murdered by Willie Harris, a 21-year-old black man."

"Inspiration
Grisham has described the book as "very autobiographical" in that the novel's "young attorney is basically me" and the drama is based on a case he witnessed. In 1984 Grisham witnessed the harrowing testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim at the DeSoto County courthouse in Hernando, Mississippi. Two sisters, Julie Scott, 16 years old, and Marcie Scott, her twelve-year-old sister, had both been raped, brutally beaten, and nearly murdered by Willie James Harris. Unlike Grisham's depiction, however, the Scotts were white and their assailant was black."