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...other reason why Crichton discovered The Lost World is that he needed something to do while gestating his next project. This unborn novel, he says, will deal with the media, big legal trials, Menendez-like crimes, something along those lines. "Shoot mom and reload and keep shooting. Is that O.K.? I mean, what do we think about all this? Are we all victims of our upbringing in some form or another? Or do we at every moment have a choice, and are we responsible for that choice? You know, this is a phenomenally contentious area. Nature/nurture [whether you were born...
According to the blitzkrieging defense attorney herself, the question observers were asking about LESLIE ABRAMSON all last week was, "Has she had a face-lift?" Actually, the lawyer for Erik Menendez underwent nothing more than a (very subtle) hair- lift, swapping her famous fusilli curls for a slightly more relaxed, swept-back look. Abramson thus followed the lead of O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark, whose own makeover scored big in the court of public opinion. Abramson admits her new do was a concession to TV. "I like my hair its usual, old way," she says, "but it kept getting...
...MENENDEZ REDUX...
...successfully defending a rich parent killer, right? Right. Unless she is LESLIE ABRAMSON. "After 25 years of cross-examining, I know how to ask the right follow-up question," says Abramson of the show, in development for the fall of 1996--after she defends Erik Menendez for the second time...
...case is fantasy land,'' says Scott Wallace, special counsel to the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's not real life in the criminal justice system." And it would be unfortunate if the public's avid consumption of this and other trials of the rich and famous -- the Menendez brothers, Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith -- left the general impression that our criminal justice system routinely allows defendants a thorough and aggressive defense, in which no fact goes unchallenged or theory unexplored. In fact, the report that Spangenburg co-authored for the A.B.A. concluded that the indigent defense system...