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...most devastating information provided by Kardashian in American Tragedy concerns a lie detector test that he says Simpson took two days after the murders. The test was arranged by Robert Shapiro, one of Simpson's lawyers, and was intended to help the defense. According to American Tragedy, Simpson scored a "minus 22," failing virtually every question asked about the murders. Simpson said, "Every time I heard Nicole's name, my heart would beat so fast, it would race, you know?" Apart from the matter of personal loyalty, it violates the professional code of ethics for a lawyer to ever reveal...
Kardashian confessed to Schiller his concern that the blood evidence points to Simpson; he offered up what he claimed was defense attorney Shapiro's theory of how Simpson committed the murders, and he described how the defense team redid Simpson's home before the jury visit, taking down photographs of white women and putting up pictures of black women, including Norman Rockwell's famous painting of a black girl being escorted to school by federal marshals. Cochran told Time that this anecdote is "an absolute lie." But Willwerth says they had it from three different sources, and Schiller...
...California bar, however, is Kardashian. According to Stephen Gillers, a legal-ethics expert at New York University, Schiller's journalistic privilege could have shielded Kardashian as a source for the book--if he hadn't gone on abc's 20/20 and repeated many of the damaging revelations about Simpson. "This is tantamount to a confession of professional misconduct by Kardashian," Gillers says. "It's like videotaping your own crime." The worst punishment Kardashian could suffer, though, is to be disbarred--and since he hadn't practiced law for years before the Simpson trial, that would not be a huge sacrifice...
Toobin criticizes Schiller from another direction, objecting that he was too close to the defense team, especially since he was financially involved with it. "Larry Schiller was in business with O.J.," Toobin says. "Are we now to believe that he's no longer involved with Simpson?" Schiller admits he "ingratiated" himself with the Simpson team--the family even got him a seat at the trial--but he insists that his book is unbiased, and he makes no apologies for his methods. "You pay for access. You don't pay for what somebody says. They answered my questions. The validity...
...opinions really are racist in their implications: that the jurors weren't very smart, that I'm this charismatic fellow that goes around and convinces people of stuff." Cochran simply denies a big scoop in The Run of His Life, that shortly after the murders, he told a friend Simpson should plead guilty...