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Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz was first off the mark with 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...
PITTSBURGH: Utah Representative Enid Waldholtz's estranged husband Joe Waldholtz was jailed today for contempt of court. Waldholtz is under investigation for allegedly stealing $600,000 that he was supposed to invest for his grandmother, who is incapacitated by Alzheimer's disease. When Waldholtz told the judge that he was too busy negotiating his divorce from to account for the missing $600,000, the judge ordered him jailed for contempt. Waldholtz was under court order to produce records that showed what he did with the missing funds. The judge also ordered Waldholtz to return any of the money still...
...even." There's enough gore to make this a Mystery Violence Theater. After some superb mannerist films, the Coens are back in the deadpan realist territory of Blood Simple, but without the cinematic elan. Fargo is all attitude and low aptitude. Its function is to italicize the Coens' giddy contempt toward people who talk and think Minnesotan. Which is, y'know, kind of a bad deal...
JAILED. F. LEE BAILEY, 62, attorney; for contempt of court; in Tallahassee, Florida. He helped spring O.J. Simpson, but now Bailey is behind bars for failing to obey a judge's order to hand over $25 million in stock that the U.S. government claims as its own but the celebrity lawyer considers payment for legal services rendered to a drug-trafficking client...
Prominent attorney and former Simpson counsel F. Lee Bailey was imprisoned last week after being held in contempt of court for his failure to turn over $24 million in stock to the federal government. The stock was rendered as payment to Bailey by a former client...