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Schiller has also provoked a battery of charges and countercharges about ethics and truthfulness that involve not only Kardashian, but some of Simpson's other lawyers, as well as Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Run of His Life, currently a best-selling Simpson book, and Johnnie Cochran Jr., Simpson's lead attorney, who has a new book out too. His is a vain autobiography called Journey to Justice. Toobin and Cochran are both attacking Schiller, and, for good measure, each other. Opening arguments for Simpson's next trial, the civil one, are set to begin this week, but make...
...Simpson committed the murders, and he described how the defense team redid Simpson's home before the jury visit, taking down photographs of white women and putting up pictures of black women, including Norman Rockwell's famous painting of a black girl being escorted to school by federal marshals. Cochran told Time that this anecdote is "an absolute lie." But Willwerth says they had it from three different sources, and Schiller saw the changes himself...
Carl Douglas and Shawn Chapman, lawyers in Cochran's office, also gave interviews to Schiller, as did 27 other people. The only one of the group who really risks sanctions from the California bar, however, is Kardashian. According to Stephen Gillers, a legal-ethics expert at New York University, Schiller's journalistic privilege could have shielded Kardashian as a source for the book--if he hadn't gone on abc's 20/20 and repeated many of the damaging revelations about Simpson. "This is tantamount to a confession of professional misconduct by Kardashian," Gillers says. "It's like videotaping your...
...book, American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense, by Lawrence Schiller and TIME correspondent James Willwerth, quotes Robert Kardashian, the former Simpson confidant, as saying he now has doubts about Simpson's innocence. "What he's doing is violating attorney-client privilege," defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran charged, as he was busy promoting his own memoirs...
...wealthy black men and asked them to bankroll the film. Among those who responded: actors Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes and Robert Guillaume; San Antonio Spurs basketball player Charles D. Smith; record producer Jheryl Busby; businessman Olden Lee; Black Entertainment Television chief Bob Johnson; and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Each chipped in a minimum of $100,000. Because the film has been sold to Columbia Pictures for $3.6 million, their investment has already been repaid--with interest...