{"id":22900,"date":"2025-06-18T02:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22900"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:13:05","slug":"book-29-of-52-presumed-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/book-29-of-52-presumed-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 29 (of 52) &#8211; Presumed Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22901\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/presumedguilty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22901\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22901\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/presumedguilty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/presumedguilty.jpg 424w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/presumedguilty-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presumed Guilty &#8211; Scott Turow<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When his fianc\u00e9&#8217;s son is charged with murdering his girlfriend, Rusty Sabich once again finds himself at the defense table, hoping to save his stepson (to be) without destroying his relationship with his mother.\u00a0 As the trial goes on, the evidence seems to support acquittal, but does it also point to a killer even closer to home?<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Presumed Guilty<\/em>, Scott Turow returns once again to the character of Rusty Sabich, star of 1997&#8217;s <em>Presumed Innocent<\/em> and 2010&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/book-50-of-52-innocent\/\"><em>Innocent<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 With less of a focus on the cases Sabich faced in the past, I had a better reaction to this entry.\u00a0 I have a feeling this is the end of the road for these characters, and this was a satisfying sendoff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When his fianc\u00e9&#8217;s son is charged with murdering his girlfriend, Rusty Sabich once again finds himself at the defense table, hoping to save his stepson (to be) without destroying his relationship with his mother.\u00a0 As the trial goes on, the evidence seems to support acquittal, but does it also point to a killer even closer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10800,12053,9800,317],"class_list":["post-22900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-innocent","tag-presumed-guilty","tag-presumed-innocent","tag-scott-turow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22909,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900\/revisions\/22909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}