The Runaway Jury
An anonymous woman tips officials that the jury for a multimillion dollar trial surrounding the tobacco industry may be tampered with.
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- In the US, the tobacco industry was litigated against both by states and by private individuals until the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement [1] of 1998.
Interestingly, a widow of a smoker suing the tobacco companies is the plot of the 1996 John Grisham novel 'The Runaway Jury'. When it was made into a movie in 2003, the script was adapted to a widow suing gunmakers after a workplace shooting.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
- The remarkable Nicholas Easter, with Marley, did the same vast premeditated infiltration of a similar monolithic evil in John Grisham's 'The Runaway Jury'. Anybody who can get the entire courtroom to spontaneously stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance, should receive the heartfelt support of all Americans.
