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Robert L. Shapiro, the lead lawyer for football star and accused murderer O.J. Simpson, may be the most media savvy attorney in America, but even he can't get used to the trial he helped create...
...courtroom where Simpson's trial will take place is wired like a Hollywood sound studio, and whispered sound carries with the speed and spark of the Santa Ana winds which warm and occasionally burn this sprawling metropolis. Shapiro, who made the remark after a Los Angeles County prosecutor made a statement with which he did not agree, later apologized...
People around the country may think the fuss over the Simpson case is just what Shapiro whispered too loud, but those people don't live in Los Angeles. Local television stations cover the most minor of evidentiary hearings the papers labor over the details and everyone in town offers you an opinion on the case...
...clear that the prosecutors feel enormous pressure. The defense attorneys, in contrast, appear to be having fun Simpson, the most famous murder defendant in American history sits stone-faced and relatively silent Speak up even a little in this case, and for better and worse, you will be heard
First-year law students will not only watch it; they'll act it out. Epps says that because the case raises many legal issues, this fall's first-year course on lawyering concentrates on a trial similar to the Simpson case. In fact, one piece of required reading was the book Juice, a biography of Simpson...