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Viner is hardly alone in his efforts to profit from the Simpson case. Starting with the mass-market paperback O.J. Simpson: American Hero, American Tragedy (Pinnacle), which materialized about two weeks after the murders, a total of 12 books related to the case have landed in stores to date. Some half-dozen more-including a memoir by Johnnie Cochran's ex-wife, Barbara Cochran Berry (Basic Books), and works by regular trial watchers Dominick Dunne and Joe McGinniss (both published by Crown) and Jeffrey Toobin (Random House)-are still to come. How much more will the market bear? Says Thomas...
...have genuine educational value. "A lot of the information you get from these O.J. books helps people understand the legal process, the investigative process and things like dna testing," he explains. Eliot, who received a mid-six-figure advance from Harper Paperbacks for the Kato Kaelin book, says the Simpson story is just too juicy for readers to pass up: "There's lesbianism, other men, sex, drugs," says Eliot. "It's got everything everyone wants, and it's real." And Little, Brown, which paid O.J. Simpson $1 million to pull together some self-serving letters into I Want to Tell...
...profit from the tragedies of grief-stricken people there. Johnnie Cochran Jr. has filed a class action against a Texas company that made the fertilizer allegedly used as an ingredient in the bomb [OKLAHOMA CITY, May 22]. That's like blaming knife sellers for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Jean Wilson Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
...SIMPSON TRIAL...
...setback for the O.J. Simpson defense team, Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution can introduce into evidence more than 40 graphic autopsy and crime-scene photos of the two slashed victims, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Judge Ito said the probative value of the "horrible" photos outweighed any prejudicial impact they might have. Most of the week's testimony involved further -- frequently tedious -- wrangling over the prosecution's blood evidence...