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...prosecution introduce the freeway chase! Why didn't the prosecution introduce the freeway chase!" Dominick Dunne pounds the arm of a green damask sofa in his Manhattan apartment. It is the morning of what happens to be his 72nd birthday, and Dunne is talking about the O.J. Simpson trial with as much anger as if the verdict had been announced that day, not 2 1/2 years earlier. He goes on: "How could Marcia have been flirting with Cochran? What kind of message does that send to the jury...
...idea what it's like talking to Dunne. The author of best-selling romans a clef about murder like The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and An Inconvenient Woman, Dunne became renowned for his coverage of the Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith and Menendez brothers trials. He sat in the Simpson courtroom from the first day to the last, and each month produced a savvy, pungent report for Vanity Fair. Appearing endlessly on TV, he became an O.J. celebrity himself. Now, trailing even Simpson's niece, Dunne has finally produced his own O.J. book, Another City, Not My Own. Coyly subtitled...
...Goldman family. "You know," Dunne quotes Scheck as saying, "in every job there are things to do that you don't want to do. I'm defending this guy." A few days later, Scheck reminds Dunne of the conversation and tells him briskly that he absolutely believes in Simpson's innocence...
...Simpson said she questioned whether Woodward's supporters were motivated by genuine concern...
...think it sets a terrible precedent," Aisha C. Simpson '96 said. "It's obvious the media had a grand influence on this case. What are we saying about the judicial system...