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...after all, I'm a child who grew up watching anything that was on, from "The Facts of Life" to the local news. Even though I don't watch it, lately I've had a few opportunities to see it being made, and one thing is clear: from the courtroom to the moon, if anything happens, television crews won't be far behind...
Inside the courtroom, jury selection dragged on, with 102 people in the pool so far. Outside, the cacophony from the first trial continued. A new 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...
...portrayal of life, death and the search for justice in the Tri-Cities area of Kindle County, an imaginary Rustbelt terrain of remarkable moral and spiritual ambiguity. Once again a sensational trial forms the ostensible center of the novel while Turow demonstrates how inadequately the order in the courtroom mirrors the messy reality outside...
This premise is, in other words, preposterous, yet Turow gets away with it. He does so in part by calling attention--before the reader can recognize it and complain--to how unlikely such a reunion of old friends within a single courtroom actually is. When Sonny asks her former lover if he plans to write a column about the upcoming trial, he jokingly responds with a question: "The Big Chill Meets Perry Mason...
That is a glib but not entirely inaccurate description of The Laws of Our Fathers. Turow's handling of the courtroom scenes and legal intricacies remains several cuts above the popular competition, including the creator of Perry Mason. Trial buffs, their numbers swollen by O.J. and Court TV, will find plenty to chew over here, such as Sonny's private ruminations on the bench about hearsay testimony: "The reporters and onlookers seem baffled by the arcana of the rule which allows a witness to testify about what someone said she would be doing in the future but not what...