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Title: Triumph of Justice : Closing the Book On the Simpson Saga by Peter Knobler, Daniel Petrocelli ISBN: 0-609-60170-9 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 25 April, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not Guilty, but Certainly Responsible . . .
Comment: If Daniel Petrocelli argued before the civil jury as clear as he wrote this book, it is without a doubt no surprise they came to the verdict they did . . .
Having read Toobin's The Run of His Life, and Schiller's American Tragedy, both of which are good books, I read Petrocelli's book with the thought that there would be nothing more I could possible learn about the Simpson circus. But there was. Much more.
For example, how could the police have planted the evidence before they had Simpson's blood? How did "the killer" get cut from broken glass, when the cuts were on the back of his fingers? These are only a few of the delicious examples Petrocelli points out.
His description of people and the day to day trial events are vivid; as vivid as his description of Simpson's demeanor. As vivid, even, as Nicole and Ron's autopsy photos.
The book is compelling, and it not once allows the reader to put it down. So, if you were angered that Simpson was found "not guilty," then you will be delightfully rewarded in Petrocelli's account of the civil case.
The case of State of California v. Simpson cost more than $30 million, and took more than a year to complete. The evidence was staggering, and the arguments on both sides strong. Yet, the verdict was "not guilty."
The book Triumph of Justice cost me $20, took me less than a week to read, and Petrocelli's arguments were succinct, powerful, and persuasive. He may not have been "guilty" of murder, but after reading this book, I would certainly find Simpson "responsible" for two grisly deaths.
Rating: 4
Summary: Everything that Dan Petrocelli Had Against O.J. Simpson
Comment: _Triumph of Justice: The Final Judgment on the Simpson Saga_, by Daniel Petrocelli with Peter Knobler, is must reading for any Simpson case junkie. Even though it's over 600 pages long, I found it compelling, page-turning reading. Petrocelli, who masterminded the civil case which won a 33.5 million judgment against Simpson for liability in the deaths of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, shows us how he presented a tighter and more focused case than the criminal prosecution, and used his lawyerly skills to preempt a defense by Simpson first by excluding blacks from the civil jury by convincing the judge that they were biased, then by making motions upheld by the trial judge which prevented the defense from arguing that anyone else could have committed the murders or framed Simpson. Petrocelli provides a wealth of circumstantial evidence against Simpson, even greater than in the criminal trial, and shows his committed advocacy to his client Fred Goldman by calling every witness who favored his side a truthful hero and every witness who favored the defense a liar and a bad guy. He also makes the leap of faith that if O.J. Simpson lied about anything in the case, it must be because he was the murderer, and Petrocelli does not examine any other reasonable theories why an innocent man might lie. But the wealth of information Petrocelli developed through investigation and depositions manages to focus the primary question which I myself raised in my book _The Frame of the Century?_ That question is: if O.J. Simpson did not commit the murders at Bundy, how could there be any possible reasonable explanation of how there could be so much credible evidence against him? Petrocelli's book may not be the final judgment on Simpson's guilt, but it does eliminate just about every other theory of the crime except the ones I examine in my own book. I endorse this book as the strongest possible case that can be made for O.J. Simpson's guilt. Once you have read it, you'll understand why gaping holes are left whic! h leave open the possibility that O.J. Simpson could only have been framed by someone with intimate access to him and Nicole, who also has a law enforcement background. That is the theory presented in _The Frame of the Century?_, which can be found on the web using any search engine.
Rating: 2
Summary: Boring and incompetent writing
Comment: Petrocelli (and/or his ghost writer) have put together a book that is replete with incorrect use of the language in terms of tenses and punctuation marks, and the writing style is without any real sense of flow. I found this effort tedious and poorly organized, certainly not worthy of an attorney of his stature -- unless it was written soley for the money that nearly any book about O.J. Simpson can produce.
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Title: Outrage : The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder by Vincent Bugliosi ISBN: 0440223822 Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 10 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Run of His Life : The People versus O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin, Jeffery Toobin ISBN: 0684842785 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years by Edward Klein ISBN: 031231292X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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