![]() ![]() It’s the latest in a long series of attacks that leave Drew, his sister and mother fearful for their lives, but Kofer holds a trump card even in death: he was a deputy sheriff - and killing an officer of the law, even off duty, is a capital offence. This time, Jake is defending 16-year-old Drew, who shoots his mum’s boyfriend, Stuart Kofer, after Kofer knocks her out. And Clanton is as racist and conservative as it was in A Time To Kill, when Brigance defended Carl Lee Hailey, a black man who killed the white supremacists who raped his daughter. Jake relies on a landline, gets his news from the weekly paper, and waits nervously by the fax machine. But while the author and his readers have had more than 30 years to reflect on Brigance’s legal brilliance, in fictional Ford County, it is still 1990. It was almost 25 years before Grisham had Brigance enter the courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi for a second time in Sycamore Row, and now the gifted attorney is back for a third, seemingly impossible case. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪke Brigance, a lawyer with a gift for convincing juries but not for making any money, was the star of Grisham’s 1989 novel A Time To Kill. ![]()
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