The Appeal By John Grisham pages 120~145 5 hrs

this week, i didn't get very far. but what did happen is a huge meeting involving the groups of people involved in campaigning. they are all trying to get Ms. McCarthy off of the stand, and only two groups have a candidates able to run. other than Ron Fisk's group, the other organization called COLT for short, has an unnamed candidate. COLT and the other groups ask again and again why Ron Fisk is a man of interest..........and of possibility. after an extremely heated conversation the others invite COLT to go and try on their own..........because of this invite, the head representative of COLT sits down......we then find out that it is because COLT does not have the funding necessary to heavily push a campaign alone. After all this happens the group as a whole decide that if they are going to do this that Ron Fisk is the best option for them at the moment.

The Verdict By John Grisham (pgs 80~120) 5 hrs

This week, we continued the story to find out that Mr. Trudeau agrees to the deal struck up by the senator and meets the company that can fix these problems. When Mr. Trudeau arrives to meet Barry Rineheart of Troy-Hogan, who's company is not well known but specializes in elections. The we soon find out that the elections in the appeals court are soon, and that Troy Hogan is going to fix the problem by running against Sheila McCarthy, a judge on the bar known well for being on the side of the plaintiff. The candidate that they find is a small city lawyer that is oblivious to the political world and has a dead end job. His name is Ron Fisk. That is where I got to this week.

The Appeal By John Grisham (pages 1~80)

So far in The Appeal, we started in a Mississippi courtroom, waiting for a verdict to be decided. they describe both sides, one being a small hometown firm with a crying widow on one side, and a large "Armani suit" type firm on the other with a wealthy business man holding a straight face. Leading the small firm are the owners Mr. and Mrs. Payton, who own Payton & Payton law. The other side is led by a single man who has a reputation of winning 99% of the time. The Plaintiff is a mother who has lost both a son and her husband to the chemical dumping of the defence aka Krane Chemical; Her name is Jeannette Baker. On Krane Chemical's side is the CEO Mr Carl Trudeau, and his team of crack lawyers. After a lengthy decision time, the verdict is annouced as guilty with an award of $3 million in wrongful death charges, and $38 million in punitive damages. We then have a predictable twist of Mr. Carl Trudeau finding that the stocks dipped from $50ish dollars to about $18.50, then the real suprise of him finding through an ex senator, a corperation that specializes in "fixing" these problems. And that is pretty much where we end.