Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case
Memoir
By: Alan M. Dershowitz
Date: 1996
Source: Dershowitz, Alan M. Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case. New York: Touchstone Books, 1996, 161–162, 165–167, 180–181.
About the Author: Alan Dershowitz (1938–) attended Yale Law School and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg. At twenty-eight, he was appointed full professor at Harvard Law School, the youngest full professor in school history. In addition to his teaching, in 1972, Dershowitz began to represent clients—many of whom were well known—including Leona Helmsley, Patricia Hearst, Claus von Bulow, F. Lee Bailey, and, of course, O.J. Simpson. He has written over a dozen books.
Introduction
The "trial of the century" has occurred many times in American history, and many more times in world history. As early as 1806, with the Aaron Burr...
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