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...Reasonable Doubts, a discussion of the legal issues of the case with very little real drama. That missing ingredient, however, has been whipped up in generous gobs in both prosecutor Christopher Darden's In Contempt (ReganBooks; $26), written with Jess Walter, and this week's offering, defense attorney Robert Shapiro's The Search for Justice (Warner Books; $24.95), written with Larkin Warren. There are no bombshells here, but both lawyers take the reader on a breathless you-are-there ride, evoking once again all the emotions of that fevered epoch in this country's history. Which emotions, of course, depends...
...books reflect their authors' public personas. Darden's autobiographical memoir is brooding, complex, ambitious and at times emotionally overwrought. He has a habit, for instance, of referring to Simpson with an unprintable epithet. Shapiro takes a more measured, if Hollywoody, approach. But in both works, details of the lawyers' behind-the-scenes machinations remain strangely compelling. Darden describes a jaunt to the Bahamas, where he unsuccessfully pursued a tip that Simpson was planning to flee there the day of the Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals...
...lawyers geared up for their opening arguments, even the casual Court TV viewer could see that the defense lawyers were locked in a tense standoff. Lucky Shapiro gets to be the first to offer a narrative of the power grabbing and camera hogging by the unruly Dream Teamers, a narrative in which he manages convincingly to describe his frustration at being edged out by Johnnie Cochran while also insisting that his diminished role had been planned all along. Shapiro is skilled, in fact, at doling out praise that is either damning or faint, sometimes both: Marcia Clark was an "honorable...
...Kelly, Shapiro, Tarr. A: Harvard--Cleary, Duffy...
...Penn--Shapiro...