Jim Bottomley, Esquire was an established lawyer and member of society. He was educated at Stanford University and Hastings Law School. He had a beautiful family, wonderful children, and a sterling background in every respect. No one thought him capable of murder. Not even he believed he had shot Marietta Cordero Birbilis. They told him he did it, but he initially remembered nothing. Why would he kill a woman he was in love with? But kill her he had, and to this day he's in prison with everyone still scratching their heads, even Jim Bottomley.A chronicle of prison life as well as a study in personalities, FALL FROM GRACE showcases one man's struggle with an imperfect legal system and a far less than imperfect penal system. But the overriding question is still unsolved in his own mind: why did he pull the trigger? What about Marietta, and more importantly, himself, caused him to buy a gun and use it to commit a bloody murder without, he says, any forethought whatsoever?