Jury: The People vs. Juan Corona

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. First Paperback . Soft cover. VG-/G+. Years of personal interviews with jurors, prosecutors, defense attorneys, & family members are drawn on to take the reader on an intimate journey inside the jury's deliberations in the 1973 case involving the state of California vs Juan Corona, the Mexican immigrant labor contractor charged with the serial murder of 25 of his workers in cold blood, , whose bodies were discovered in an orchard in Yuba City, CA, in 1971. All the tension & intrigue of the classic jury drama, "Twelve Angry Men,'' but this one is True! Orig. published in hardcover in 1977, this is the first mass market paperback edition (Bantam#11245-7) from March 1978, SIGNED by the AUTHOR, with a personalized inscription in both Spanish & English, inside front cover. Condition is Good+: very clean, binding tight & square, pages tanned, heavier around edges, but unmarked. Moderate rubbing to extremities, heaviest along front cover-spine interface, with creasing to outer-upper corner of same cover. Nicely protected in new mylar collector bag free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (PST) ship same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.