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Anxiously awaiting what I honestly thought would be a great experience, I reported to 111 Center Street, the New York Supreme Court, at 9 a.m. sharp one muggy Monday. After passing through security, I was told to join the other "prospective jurors" in the "Juror Assembly Room"--it was a barn, and we were crammed in like so many cattle. The lady next to me was reading "Lust in the Desert" and the gentleman on my other side, well, he had the right idea--he was out cold...
...Brentwood mansion they came: a sacked juror, a jailbird lawyer and assorted other apostles of O.J. SIMPSON, all for a black-tie dinner to oppose domestic violence and, not least, to rub elbows with the Juice. With security provided by the Nation of Islam, the night was one of image repair for America's most dubiously innocent man. Attorney F. Lee Bailey, fresh from the slammer, pronounced his own jail stay "not so great." Simpson pal and chauffeur A.C. Cowlings seemed proud when a guest praised his driving. Outside Simpson's gates protesters clamored, but inside, Simpson charmed the antiviolence...
...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 that the defense team offered to have Simpson take a lie detector test at the outset, knowing full well that the prosecution would never agree to admit the results, whatever they were, into evidence. And he describes the moment...
...sewer lines and endless minutiae about closing costs and mortgage points. No one knows the protagonists--imagine trying to cast the pudgy David Hale, a confessed felon and owner of a failed burial insurance company. The best visual from the first Whitewater trial is already gone: the Trekkie alternate juror in Vulcan regalia. The wonder is that she was beamed...
...actor; in Rome. Born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of a sportswear salesman, Balsam went from the career-minting Actors Studio to live '50s TV to the movies, where he became a star portraying men who would never be stars. He was an uncertain juror in Twelve Angry Men (1957); a doomed detective in Psycho (1960); a Navy doctor utterly at sea in the moral morass of the nuclear age in The Bedford Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role that resulted...