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...book in question, which arrived in stores last week, is American Tragedy by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth, a TIME correspondent who covered the trial. Schiller is a colorful operator whose exploits include photographing Marilyn Monroe in the nude and providing Norman Mailer with the reporting about Gary Gilmore for The Executioner's Song. Schiller was the one who created and sold Simpson's sanctimonious, self-serving best seller, I Want to Tell You, and thereby raised money to pay Simpson's lawyers. With American Tragedy, he has produced quite a different book, a serious effort that describes the conduct...
...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...
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...
However, panelist Jeff Schiller, a network manager at MIT, argued that the key escrow proposal makes many experts uncomfortable...
...have to balance the requirements of law enforcement with those of public privacy," Schiller said. --By Amita M. Shukla