The Runaway Jury Essay

Apprehension, deception, and uncertainty, these are all a part of The
Runaway Jury. In this book, there is a trial, not just any ordinary trial, but a multi-million dollar trial between big tobacco companies and regular people claiming that lung cancer caused from cigarettes killed their spouses. Now it has turned into a huge legal battle in a small town. I will be clarifying the conflict between Fitch and Easter, connecting the trial to the master settlement agreement and predicting the outcome of the trial. At first, I thought that Fitch was a man of few words and stood in the shadows. Also, I believed that Fitch was just a man that kept his head down and worried about himself. However, now I think that they are very consubstantial,
In the master settlement agreement, people were suing the “Big Tobacco” companies for false advertising, causing diseases, and being responsible for several deaths affiliated to lung cancer. This also relates to the book because the tobacco case in the book and the master settlement agreement were a nationwide ordeal. There is evidence of this in the book because it states, “There were Wall Street analysts, and specialists that were sent to watch the trial see how it would affect stock prices”(Grisham 24). This proves that it was a nationwide affair, not entirely because tobacco killed people, but because it comprised of money. Money is another connecting factor. In The Runaway Jury, large sums of money were put up to fight the case. In fact, the tobacco companies in the book had “The Fund” it was an account “That had no limits, left no trail, and did not exist”(Grisham 15). It contained millions just to fight whatever lawsuit came up. Similar to the trial in the book, the Master Settlement Agreement also dealt with large sums of money. It is believed that tobacco companies paid out an atrocious 206 billion dollars to make it go away. There were also a few extra conditions negotiated like not being able to