She has suffered extreme blunt force trauma to the head, but no weapon is found at the scene of the crime. It is at first assumed that her death was the result of an S&M scenario that accidentally went too far. She is found dead in her apartment, after having apparently been raped. The novel opens with the discovery of Carolyn Polhemus' dead body. A film adaptation of the novel starring Harrison Ford was released in 1990. His investigation of her death, and later, indictment for it, provide the impetus for the plot. Rusty Sabich is the deputy prosecuting attorney of (the fictional) Kindle County, who comes to be accused of murdering his former colleague, Carolyn Polhemus. Presumed Innocent centers on, and is told from the point of view of, prosecutor Rožat "Rusty" Sabich. Turow has received wide acclaim for the accuracy and realism of his depiction of the inner workings of the legal system a verisimilitude that derives from his own background as a prosecutor for the US Attorney's Chicago office. Presumed Innocent is a 1987 crime novel by Scott Turow it was his first novel.
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