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...Shapiro reserves his harshest criticism for his colleagues, however. In classic Shapiro-speak, the author notes that F. Lee Bailey's "reputation for hard drinking was still alive and well," then describes Bailey rambling one night after a few drinks. He continues to suggest that Bailey was the defense-team sieve, responsible for leaking stories to the New York Daily News and Simpson's original police interview to the tabloid Star, an interview in which, according to the Darden book, a disoriented Simpson was unable to explain his cut hand and unwilling to take a lie detector test...
...Shapiro will never speak to Bailey again, and he has said he will never work with Cochran again. He blames Cochran and Carl Douglas for violating the rules of reciprocal discovery in the defense's opening statement, when Cochran sprang new witnesses upon the prosecution. And he shows a Cochran determined to play the race card. "A defense built on race will never help us," Shapiro told Cochran. "Never say never, Bob," Cochran replied...
...inflammatory issue of race, Shapiro has an ally in Darden. While Shapiro places the credit for the team's success mostly on his own shoulders, Darden blames the prosecution's failures on, alternately, the jurors, "12 people lined up at the grinder with big axes," and Cochran, who made it "clear that there were going to be two sides in this case, not prosecution and defense, but black and white...
Such 20/20 hindsight is still to come from the pens of Clark and Cochran. And those books, like Darden's and Shapiro's, will no doubt have one thing in common: each writer will work hard to drum up support for his team, even if doing so means dumping a little more dirt on the other...
...thought she had had enough of the O.J. Simpson case after writing two cover stories and half a dozen shorter pieces about the most chewed-over trial in recent history. So she was pleasantly surprised when she read the new books by prosecutor Christopher Darden and defense attorney Robert Shapiro. "Both were amazingly interesting," says the TIME senior writer, who reviews the latest crop of O.J. titles in this week's issue. "Their behind-the-scenes stories were full of tales of blood and private anguish." Gleick, who describes herself as a devoted Court TV watcher, interviewed Shapiro...