In Contempt
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-02-12 Summary: very inspiring ... First off, Jess Walters is a wonderful writer. Very powerful writing. After reading the book, I have the upmost respect for Darden and his fight for justice. Although he could not achieve justice for Nicole Brown, I admire him for his heart. This is an easy book to read. Getting an insider look through the eyes of Darden is well worth your time. It inspires emotion and inspiration. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-10-24 Summary: An Inside Look from the Prosecution ... In this well written book, Darden gives readers a behind the scene look at what happened at the trial. He tells readers how racism was injected into the trial by the defense team, gives his account of the infamous glove demonstration, and reveals the stress he was under being the focus of the Dream Team's wrath. He does not hold back frank opinions about Judge Ito, the Dream Team, fellow prosecutors, Furhman etc. The book is a very interesting read that provides important context to the most famous trial of the 20th ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | An examination of the trial of OJ Simpson for the murder of his wife, for which he was recently found not guilty, which addresses the evidence brought forward in the trial and discusses the consequences of the not guilty verdict for the American legal and racial scene....more
Without a Doubt
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-10-09 Summary: WITHOUT A DOUBT...O. J. IS GUILTY... ... Any reasonable person who listened to the evidence at the so-called "trial of the century" knows without out a doubt that O. J. Simpson killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, the hapless waiter who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Anyone who watched the announcement of the verdict and saw the shock and disbelief on O. J. Simpson's own face, as the not guilty verdict was read, would know that even the defendant knew he was guilty. The prosecution never had much of a chance, because the presiding ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2006-07-16 Summary: A No Win Situation - But A Good Book ... I read four books after the trial. I read the Schiller 1000 page saga, Outrage, the present book and a book on Johnny Cochrane. Each book was different and gives us different insights. I think it is clear to any reasonable and unbiased thinking person that O.J. did in fact kill Nicole and Ron and it is just as it is clear that Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK. Also it is clear from the other reviewers that Marcia Clark evokes a certain emotional response that colors their view of the book. If you still think O.J. is innocent ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | The lead prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder trial provides an insider's glimpse of the case, its outcome, the personal issues involved, and life in the Office of the Los Angeles District Attorney. Read by Marcia Clark. ...more
[2] ... Review | Closing arguments in the infamous O.J. Simpson trial hadn't even been made when the first O.J. book--the defendant's own, I Want to Tell You --hit the stands, and the ink wasn't even dry on newspaper accounts of the jury's verdict when Johnnie Cochran, Christopher Darden, Mark Fuhrman, members of the Brown and Goldman families, detectives concerned with the case, and even journalists covering the trial hurried into the fray with their own tell-all versions of this latest "trial of the century." So...more
Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson Case: Justice Confronts Race, Domestic Violence, Lawyers, Money, and the Media
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | A collection of essays about the O.J. Simpson trial drawn from magazines such as Newsweek, The New Republic, and Congressional Quarterly, includes articles on the different reactions between African-Americans and white Americans and the effects of pretrial publicity on jurors. ...more
Journey to Justice
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2002-07-16 Summary: A good look at the way things are ... I just noticed my copy of this book in my library and decided to write a belated review. This book has nothing to do with OJ, it was merely the publicity around OJ that made a bestseller possible for Cochran. Regardless of how you feel about him, it is impossible to come away from this look into the treatment of minorities in LA without a new perspective. Whenever a person of color is stopped at a red light in a surburban town just because he is in the wrong place at the right time, Cochran's themes resonate. Watching ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2002-09-09 Summary: Cochran will get you thinking about the judicial system ... Heard the taped version of JOURNEY TO JUSTICE, written and narrated by Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. . . . I thought I had heard ALL I wanted to ever know about the O.J. Simpson case, but I was wrong . . . Cochran's story got me to rethink the verdict again, and he makes some compelling points about why the prosecution was not able to prove its case well enough to get a guilty conviction . . . I particularly liked some inside dirt that I had not heard before; i.e., how Robert Shaprio nearly blew the case for the defense ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | He's become a household name: Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., the brilliant orator and legal strategist who captained the Dream Team in the trial of the century. But behind the man the media created is a story of a life spent in the trenches of the American legal system, fighting not for clients as high-profile as O. J. Simpson, but for individuals whose voices are too often silenced. Journey to Justice is an unflinching portrait of Johnnie Cochran and the legal system that he has so profoundly...more
[2] ... Review | No one came out of the O.J. Simpson murder trial mess with colors flying higher than the lead defense attorney, Johnnie Cochran, and no book from the key figures in the trial could be expected to shed more light on the successful defense strategy than Cochran's. Cochran, however, has chosen to write a pious, slippery memoir whose passages on his boyhood in Shreveport, Louisiana, are much more compelling than those on the trial itself. Cochran's charisma and his preacher's voice are on display here,...more
The Crooked Lawyer
The D.A.: A True Story
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | A look inside the life of Larry Longo, a deputy district attorney in central Los Angeles, is set against a backdrop of the Rodney King and Menendez trials and also portrays a violence-prone city of diverse people....more
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