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...names Chutzpah, by Harvard LawSchool Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, as anexample, but admits that many of the "betterbooks" cost more than a dollar...
...either the DNA tests or the police discoveries at Simpson's house are admitted into evidence, Shapiro may have to rely on other strategies. Defense adviser Alan Dershowitz, the ubiquitous specialist in appeals (Klaus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mike Tyson), suggested one possibility during an appearance on PBS's Charlie Rose Show. "Now you're going to see the defense brutally attacking these victims," he said. "By the end of this trial, nobody's going to have a kind thing to say about the two dead people." Last week Dershowitz insisted to TIME his words were "a general comment...
Shapiro has brought on as advisers the premium-brand attorneys Alan Dershowitz and F. Lee Bailey. But because Simpson spoke with detectives for more than three hours on June 13, shortly after the victims were discovered, he may find it difficult to change his story. Prosecutors can argue that any departure from the version of events he gave in his police interview -- when he presumably repeated his insistence that he was not involved in the killings at all -- shows that, in general, he can't be believed. Dilemmas like that are one reason for a new bumper sticker...
...Dershowitz's previous celebrity clients have included Leona Helmsley, Claus von Bulow and former boxing heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson...
Numerous professors at the law school, including Dean Robert C. Clark refused to comment on the Simpson case or on Dershowitz's decision to help in the football star's defense...