Well, I had no idea that Grisham thought viewing child porn was OK.

"But they got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons, went too far and got into child porn."

And he happens to live in Charlottesville, VA

"I have no sympathy for real pedophiles,” he said, speaking to The Telegraph from his office in Charlottesville, Virginia. "God, please lock those people up. But so many of these guys do not deserve harsh prison sentences, and that's what they're getting."

"There's so many 'sex offenders' - that's what they're called - that they put them in the same prison. Like they're a bunch of perverts... We've gone nuts with this incarceration," he added, citing an anecdote of a law-school pal who he says accidentally viewed porn that was apparently incorrectly labelled as child porn.

Porn incorrectly labeled as child porn? I would think if something was labeled 'child porn', it's a given that you wouldn't click on it if you're not sick in the head and have half a brain. You don't have to have a law degree to know this. Maybe he missed the day this was discussed in law school?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2014/10/16/millionair-author-john-grisham-says-not-all-men-who-watch-child-porn-are-pedophiles/#41c1f5ff7341