Sept. 28, 2007, 11:22PM
Two Oklahomans sue Grisham

Associated Press

Novelist John Grisham has been named in a libel lawsuit filed over a nonfiction best seller he wrote about the 1982 murder of a cocktail waitress.

The lawsuit, filed Friday morning in U.S. District Court in Tulsa, Okla., also names several other defendants, seeks $75,000 and demands a jury trial.

The plaintiffs are Pontotoc County District Attorney Bill Peterson and Gary Rogers, a former agent for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

The two men originally convicted of the murder were exonerated and freed after 12 years in prison. Their experiences are chronicled in Grisham's The Innocent Man.