Reasonable Doubts the O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System

Dershowitz, Alan M.

ISBN 10: 0671573004 ISBN 13: 9780671573003

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio, 1996

Synopsis

Using the O.J. Simpson case as a backdrop, the defense lawyer examines the American criminal justice system, analyzing its strengths and weaknesses.

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Review:

Alan Dershowitz, arguably one of the foremost legal thinkers of our time, gives an eye-opening account of the O.J. Simpson case and examines the larger issues of race, money, media, and gender that shape the criminal justice system in America.

About the Author:

Alan M. Dershowitz is the bestselling author of Chutzpah, Reversal of Fortune, The Best Defense, and many other books. He was first in his class at Yale Law School, and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge David Bazelton and Justice Arthur Goldberg, he was appointed to the Harvard Law faculty, where he became a full professor at age twenty-eight, the youngest in the school's history. Newsweek has described him as "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights." Professor Dershowitz has served on the National Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union and as consultant for various foundations and presidential commissions. His clients have included Claus von Bulow, Patricia Hearst, Senator Mike Gravel, Harry Reems, Anatoly Scharansky, F. Lee Bailey, William Kuntzler, and several death row inmates. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0671573004
• ISBN 13: 9780671573003
• Binding: Audio Cassette