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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100440223822
ISBN-139780440223825
eBay Product ID (ePID)487601
Product Key Features
Book TitleOutrage : the Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicMurder / General, General, Legal History
IllustratorYes
GenreLaw, True Crime
AuthorVincent Bugliosi
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight9.5 Oz
Item Length6.8 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal364.1/523/0979494
SynopsisHere at last is the account of the O.J. Simpson case that no one else has dared to write, that no one elsecouldwrite. InOutrage, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson and bestselling author ofHelter Skeltergoes to the heart of the trial that divided the country and made a mockery of justice. Vincent Bugliosi, who never lost a murder case, brilliantly outlines the five reasons why O.J. Simpson got away with murder: the worst possible jury, a sloppy and incomplete prosecution, a fatal change of venue, judicial error that allowed the defense to play the race card, and a weak summation and rebuttal that barely addressed the defense's frame-up and conspiracy theories. He reveals: --The offer Marcia Clark and Bill Hodgman shouldneverhave refused. --The bluff that saved the defense's cardboard case. --What Deputy Sheriff Jeff Stuart overheard when Rosey Grier visited Simpson in jail. --The 17 words Johnnie Cochran used to cover his argument that could have been his undoing if caught. --Why the jurors never heard Simpson's first police interview-- filled with self-incriminating statements that alone could have convicted him of murder. 1. What mistake in jury selection could have cost Marcia Clark the trial--even before she argued the case? 2. What did Simpson do to make sure the gloves wouldn't fit? 3. How did Judge Ito's behavior towards Marcia Clark prejudice the jury? 4. Why did the prosecutors suppress Simpson's "smoking gun"? 5. How did Johnnie Cochran con the jury? 6. Who mightreallyhave suggested that Simpson try on the evidence gloves?
The only thing that makes reading or even thinking about these grisly murders again is knowing that OJ is finally rotting in prison. Even though he's there because he was convicted of other crimes, there is still some symmetry knowing he's finally where he should be, locked up like the narcissistic sociopath murderer he really is. Bugliosi wrote this only a few years after it all happened and was not short on opinions regarding these crimes, or the insanely bungled court cases that resulted in OJ's acquittal. The author's continual focus on what was lost (the lives of two innocent people) as opposed to the myth of OJ is much appreciated. His explanation as to why the trial of the century was such a classic cluster**k is sometimes a little technical for a non-lawyer, but nonetheless the points come through loud and clear. This trial was a colossal screwup and based on the evidence in the case alone, OJ was guilty as sin of committing the crimes. Why he ever thought this was the answer to his problems is mind-boggling. He has children for God's sake. Where are they now? How immeasurably have they suffered?? How immeasurably have the families of Ron and Nicole suffered? Bugliosi never loses sight of this.