Outrage
“I could, of course, just stop now and leave well enough alone; but the various questions and considerations that make up this epilogue have come up in countless conversations I’ve had, and also on television or radio call-in shows focusing on the Simpson case. It is my hope that any reader who has stuck with me this far will find what follows both interesting and provocative.
O. J. Simpson was acquitted—so have the defense lawyers earned the right to be called the Dream Team?
Nothing co...uld be further from the truth. In fact, it was only the greater incompetence of the prosecution that saved Cochran, Shapiro, Bailey, Scheck, et al. from defeat.
Though the trial went on for nearly a year, I defy anyone to come up with one example of brilliant lawyering by the defense team, the type of thing that would cause an intelligent person to say to himself, “That was really something.” Indeed, the only hint of skill I saw on the entire defense team, including the two DNA lawyers, throughout the whole trial was Bailey’s cross-examination.MoreLess
O. J. Simpson was acquitted—so have the defense lawyers earned the right to be called the Dream Team?
Nothing co...uld be further from the truth. In fact, it was only the greater incompetence of the prosecution that saved Cochran, Shapiro, Bailey, Scheck, et al. from defeat.
Though the trial went on for nearly a year, I defy anyone to come up with one example of brilliant lawyering by the defense team, the type of thing that would cause an intelligent person to say to himself, “That was really something.” Indeed, the only hint of skill I saw on the entire defense team, including the two DNA lawyers, throughout the whole trial was Bailey’s cross-examination.MoreLess
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