A time to kill

A Time to Kill – John Grisham
A Time to kill is based in Ford County, Mississippi. The town is Clanton. A little girl named Tonya was raped and almost killed by two “rednecks”. The two men were caught driving around in a stolen, yellow truck. They were sent to jail and went to their bail hearing. After they were being escorted back to the jail, through a door at the top of a set of stairs. There was a janitor’s closet just before the steps; the little girl’s father was waiting in the closet with an automatic gun. He shot and killed the two men and accidently wounded an officer.
The little girl’s father is Carl Lee Hailey; he was taken to the jail after the shooting. Carl Lee hired a lawyer named Jake Brigance. He got Carl Lee’s brother off a few years earlier for shooting a black man. But in the south blacks who shoot blacks generally get off. So he thought he could get him off. After a while the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) started burning crosses in the lawyer’s yard and tried to blow up his house. Jake made his wife and daughter go to his wife’s parent’s house so they wouldn’t be in danger. The KKK beat Jake’s secretary’s husband and killed him. After all of that a third year law student showed up and asked him she could be Jake’s “gofer” (make the coffee so research all of that) so he hired her.
The trial has just started and blacks from all different counties came in by the bus loads to see the trial and to protest and hold vigils. The KKK started a huge fight and wounded many people and the only person that was seriously injured was the leader of the KKK. And that’s as far as I’ve gotten.