-Caveat Lector- >From The Detroit News (www.detnews.com) October 3, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The statistics: Clark tops in battle of the words Reuter EAGAN, Minn. -- Prosecuting attorney Marcia Clark out-talked everyone else in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, a transcript service said Monday. West Publishing Corp., which compiled an electronic record of the former football player's double murder trial, said Clark spoke more than 37,000 words before the case went to the jury last week. Simpson defender Johnnie Cochran was second with more than 33,000 words, Clark colleague Christopher Darden third at more than 15,000 and defense lawyer Robert Shapiro fourth at more than 12,000. The company said the most frequently used significant word was "blood" -- 15,000 times -- followed by "glove" -- more than 13,000 mentions. In all, the trial generated more than a million lines of transcribed data, the company said, and featured 16,000 objections, 500 apologies and 300 sidebar conferences. Copyright 1995, The Detroit News ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From Time MAY 12, 1997 VOL. 149 NO. 19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE ARTS/BOOKS CLOSING ARGUMENT? NO, JUST A BELATED ONE, AS MARCIA CLARK'S MEMOIR REVEALS (SURPRISE!) AN EMBATTLED PROSECUTOR BY ELIZABETH GLEICK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is perhaps a measure of the sorry state of what passes for bookworthy news these days--or the sign of a publisher desperate to protect a $4.2 million investment--that the big newsbreak that will be trumpeted out of Without a Doubt (Viking; $25.95), Marcia Clark's long-awaited memoir of the O.J. Simpson trial, is that the former prosecutor was raped at the age of 17. This highly personal detail, which can be found on four pages in the middle of the nearly 500-page volume, is sure to surface during the tearful interview with Barbara Walters, bob up again with Oprah and then again ad nauseam. Clark is, at the very least, a victim of lousy timing. In the race to get out books on the Simpson case, she only barely made it to the track. (The book's official publication date is not until May 9, but on Saturday TIME obtained one of the first copies to reach stores.) Which Simpson principals haven't we heard from yet? Only Denise Brown and, perish the thought, Simpson's children, when they come of age. Currently competing for last place is former O.J. girlfriend Paula Barbieri, who only last January signed a reported $3 million deal. While the public's appetite for books on the case has been ravenous beyond publishers' dreams, Viking must be a little concerned that the end is nigh. Two months ago, the publisher announced that it was halving its planned 1 million-copy first printing. And now it must promote the heck out of a book that has little in the way of illuminating information. This is not to minimize the trauma Clark says she underwent as a teenager, or the potency of a painful memory that she says resurfaced only when she tried to prosecute her very first rape case, or the greater good done when rape victims anywhere find the courage to break their silence. And let no one ever forget that Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were also the victims of a crime that, in all likelihood, had more than a little to do with sexual violence. But in feeding the insatiable publicity maw, Clark has been forced to devalue her own life story. I wanted badly to like this book. For one thing, as life stories of people thrust into the spotlight go, Clark's is an interesting one, full of hard knocks and two tough marriages and professional success and a climactic trial by fire. During the Simpson case, some of the seamier details about her tempestuous relationship with her first husband Gaby, a professional backgammon player, surfaced in the tabloids. Clark explains how hard this hit her: "I was a survivor. I had surmounted my personal difficulties through acts that took considerable initiative and will. In the summer of 1994, I was not Marcia Kleks, the gambler's girlfriend. I was a lawyer--an intelligent and accomplished one, at that. I was a damned good mother. And everything admirable that I'd accomplished seemed threatened by this disturbing and unsolicited celebrity." And Clark deserves sympathy. She was the underdog in a trial full of pit bulls: her appearance endlessly scrutinized by the sexist media, her jobs as a single mother and public servant tough ones, her midtrial custody battle an unimaginable burden far removed from the experiences of the Johnnie Cochrans and Robert Shapiros of this world. But it does not help that Clark spends a lot of time airing these very complaints. She may be right, but she is not telling us something we did not already know. What she has on her side is a top-notch co-author, Teresa Carpenter, who is a Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist and the author of the riveting true-crime tale Missing Beauty. So while Without a Doubt has little to offer for the history books, it is well written, sometimes moving and occasionally amusing. At one point, Judge Lance Ito is compared with Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now: "increasingly cryptic and vain." And the anecdotes about fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden reveal a sweet rapport and a complex relationship. (As for the $64,000 question, Clark writes, tough-guy style, "The question is irrelevant. Fact of the matter is, Chris Darden and I were closer than lovers.") When the trial ended, Clark confesses, she fell into a "malaise," and who can blame her? She lost what she thought was a winnable case, and, as she puts it, "My old life was gone." She acknowledges that she did not want to write Without a Doubt but that the money she received to do so will at last allow her to be a "soccer mom." Fair enough. But in a book that offers up an assortment of intimate details, it is hard not to feel that the real Marcia Clark is still hidden. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From http://www.decentdesigns.com/svlogic/html/hall_of_shame_7.html Marcia Clark Marcia Clark, 1995: Their sexism has gotten so irritating. The judge makes these cute little corrections to me about person. Instead of "manpower," "personpower." That kind of (bleep). That's just a change of a word, Judge. How about your (bleep) sexist attitude? And Cochran is so condescending and patronizing. I'm arguing against him, and he starts calling me hysterical. I mean, Jesus, I've never seen anything like this. In my whole life, I was not one to cry sexism. I was refusing to see it even when it was staring me in the face. In the context of this trial, I got nose - to - nose with it. And I couldn't ignore it anymore. Marcia Clark, 1997: I mean, Kenneth Starr is going to indict this 24-year-old? This little girl? How could he do such a thing to a little girl? Make up your mind, Marcia. Is patronizing women a bad thing, or isn't it? Is a 24-year-old a 'little girl' or is she a woman who should be respected as an adult? Who's the sexist? Who's condescending? Is a female who's a "colleague" of the President of the United States and who's offered a $40,000-a-year job after a personal recommendation by Vernon Jordan, the most powerful man in Washington, still a 'little girl'? A pox on anyone who claims to respect women and yet is caught calling Monica Lewinsky a 'girl'. In fact, they will be listed here so we can bask in their hypocrisy. Please email any Monica 'girl' references to us so we can add them. Offenders: Marcia Clark, Jeralyn Merritt, Susan Estrich, Dee Dee Myers, Victor Kamber, Melanie Lomax, John Gibson, William Ginsberg Wanna reform, Marcia? Just stop being a hypocrite. Stop using "little girlie" references when it helps the arguments you're trying to make. Be consistent and you will be believable. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ <<Here I'll insert my take on Clark: I watch her at least once a week on Rivera Live! when Geraldo is in the field or just taking the day off. I've seen her acquire the visage of a jilted prom date when discussing something about Orenthal. I've seen her do an almost about-face/170 degree turn on the Clinton "lying" issue ("I did not have ... with THAT woman, Ms Lewinsky."). This last thing is what disturbs me. I watched her and her brace of leagle beagles PROMISE, ASSURE, GUARANTEE the evidence against Orenthal as being conclusively damning. She PROMISED, ASSURED, GUARANTEED her office, the defense/defendant, the judge (Ito), the jury, the gallery in the court, and, lastly, the American viewing public of Orenthal's guilt and, again, that the evidence was conclusively damning. Upon hearing the verdict, I made no pronouncements; in fact, I went out and bought and read most all the books. Then, something all of a sudden didn't sit right when listening to her changed take on the "lying" issue, to her calling Clinton a "sexual predator", apparently changing her opinion (to which she -- along with anyone else -- is entirely entitled to do) about Clinton's private affairs, to the point of referring to him in the terms of being the stern father who wagged his finger at her (and everyone) else(she took very good notice of {and exception to} this, apparently). An additional thought when listening to the verbal tennis matches about Clinton's relationship with/to his 'subordinate': was Darden *her* subordinate, if she was lead prosecutor? Reports of little trips to the San Fran Bay Area (Big Sur/Carmel?) might indicate a bit of inter-employee intrigue (i.e., "fraternisation", or not maintaining a professional relationship). Result: an increase in skepticism about what *really* went on during (in and around) the trial -- especially after reading Bugliosi. A<>E<>R >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From http://www.tinavest.com/Outrage_paper.htm <<Good book. I read it hardback -- along with Darden & Shapiro after the Orenthal Circus left L.A. -- and found it to be one of the more critical and believable books on the trial. Left a skeptical taste on my tongue. A<>E<>R >> Outrage: Five Ways O.J. Got Away With Murder List Price: $6.99 Our Price: $5.24 You Save: $1.75! By: Vincent Bugliosi Synopsis: A best-selling account by the author of Helter Skelter outlines the main reasons O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, from the jury's makeup to the incompetence of the prosecutors. Reprint. >From The Publisher: Here at last is the account of the O.J. Simpson case that no one else has dared to write, that no one else could write. In Outrage, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson and bestselling author of Helter Skelter goes to the heart of the trial that divided the country and made a mockery of justice. Vincent Bugliosi, who never lost a murder case, brilliantly outlines the five reasons why O.J. Simpson got away with murder: the worst possible jury, a sloppy and incomplete prosecution, a fatal change of venue, judicial error that allowed the defense to play the race card, and a weak summation and rebuttal that barely addressed the defense's frame-up and conspiracy theories. He reveals: --The offer Marcia Clark and Bill Hodgman should never have refused. --The bluff that saved the defense's cardboard case. --What Deputy Sheriff Jeff Stuart overheard when Rosey Grier visited Simpson injail. --The 17 words Johnnie Cochran used to cover his argument that could have beenhis undoing if caught. --Why the jurors never heard Simpson's first police interview-- filled withself-incriminating statements that alone could have convicted him of murder. 1. What mistake in jury selection could have cost Marcia Clark the trial--evenbefore she argued the case? 2. What did Simpson do to make sure the gloves wouldn't fit? 3. How did Judge Ito's behavior towards Marcia Clark prejudice the jury? 4. Why did the prosecutors suppress Simpson's "smoking gun"? 5. How did Johnnie Cochran con the jury? 6. Who might really have suggested that Simpson try on the evidencegloves? "Brilliant...the best book yet on the Simpson trial." --Newsday (N.Y.) "The brutally candid, irreverent and authoritative book for which trialwatchers have been hungry for too long." -- San Francisco Examiner The #1 New York Times bestseller by the author of Helter Skelterand prosecutor of Charles Manson. Published April 1997 by Dell Publishing Company (ISBN 0440223822) Paperback 464 pages Reprint edition ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From Wash (DC) Post http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/problemofevidenc e.htm A Problem of Evidence How the Prosecution Freed O. J. Simpson By Joseph Bosco Chapter One: "Almost Too Perfect" There's not much that happens within the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office that Lucienne Coleman doesn't know about. She has been a prominent prosecutor and department head for seventeen years. Ms. Coleman had been very close to Marcia Clark for most of the almost two decades they worked together at the DA's office. They are of the same age, and both began working around the same time. Lucienne and her husband used to go out socially with Marcia and her second ex-husband. Lucienne and Marcia talked privately within hours of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Marcia was excited, explaining that while the blood hadn't been typed yet, the blood in the Bronco, the blood drops on Nicole's walkway, the drops in O.J.'s foyer, and the glove at Rockingham were "a trail right to O.J.!" "Jeez, that's almost too perfect," Lucienne Coleman remembers thinking and saying out loud. "Do you think it could be a frame-up?" At that, Marcia got loud and belligerent, "which was not unusual." Marcia was adamant: "He's guilty as hell. He's a wife beater! He's evil!" "Oh, I didn't know that," Ms. Coleman said. "If he's a wife beater, then he probably did it." It would be some days before Lucienne Coleman had reason to ask herself, "How did Marcia know that so soon? That file was over at the City Attorney's Office. Only Fuhrman could have been the source that quickly." If you know the case well enough to participate on most levels of relatively informed "civilian" debate on the Simpson case, you know that Pat McKenna, a private investigator in West Palm Beach, Florida, is as "inside" the O.J. Simpson murder case as it gets. The lawyer and former marine was a probation officer in Chicago and a public defender in Florida. Before the Simpson case, Pat was best known publicly for his successful private-detective work in the William Kennedy Smith rape case. Pat McKenna looks, talks, and lives a life that comes damn close to rivaling the great PIs of fiction. If you spend much time with Pat, you can't help thinking that someone should do a TV series based on him. And cast it with an actor who looks a little something like Bruce Willis, but with the earthy, very salty wit, attitude, and talent of a James Garner in The Rockford Files. Within the world of criminal justice, Pat McKenna was already becoming a legend before the Simpson murders. He and his mentor, John McNally, the legendary PI and former New York City cop who collared jewel thief Jack "Murph The Surf" Murphy, were the two private detectives the defense team went to immediately. He would spend the next year and a half living out of a suitcase in West Hollywood. "I got hired on June fifteenth," Pat McKenna begins, "two days after the murders. I was totally convinced O.J. did it from what I'd seen on TV: He took a late night flight scooting out of town; a bloody ski mask was found on his property; bloody clothes were found in his washing machine. All the bullshit that was out there in the media then. After a while, the way it was covered, the spin that was put on it, it just snowballed anti-O.J." Pat McKenna would change his mind soon, however. Oh, would he change his mind. "The DA was happy about it," remembers Peter Bozanich, assistant district attorney, as regards Gil Garcetti in the hours and days after the murders. "If O.J. Simpson killed his wife and this kid," continues Peter Bozanich, who until recently had been head of the elite Special Trials unit and assistant chief of Central Operations, a high totem working out of the downtown Criminal Courts Building, "that's just really an American tragedy and it's something we're not happy to see. But the DA saw it as an opportunity. Which kind of troubled me." Peter Bozanich is today running the Compton office, a very unpleasant but busy place to be if you're law enforcement in Los Angeles County, because he, like Lucienne Coleman, began to question the ethics and the strategy of their office in the Simpson case, Peter just at a higher level than Lucienne. "I'll never forget," he goes on. "I was out for lunch one day and I hear O.J. Simpson's wife is dead, and I think, `Oh, man, O.J. Simpson's wife is dead!' And then I hear, `O.J.'s estranged wife is dead.' Hmm. That kind of puts a different light on it. So it looks like, after a couple of days, a week, whatever it was, that he probably did it. And I ran into the DA and I asked if he understood who O.J. Simpson was. He said, `Yeah, he's O.J. Simpson the football player.' "I said, `No, he's not a football player, this guy blocks out the sun! And if you had the prototypical defendant, somebody you didn't want as a defendant, this is him. Okay? He's probably the most universally admired man in America.' Politicians, a lotta people hate `em. Sports figures, a lotta people hate 'em. But O.J. somehow transcended all that stuff. "So, I said, `If it's him, don't play it as if he's some Jack-the-Ripper type of murderer. Let it just run its course until the evidence comes in. If he did it, try to explain what he did, and why he did it. But don't use it as a bully pulpit for your domestic violence program.' "Then, I see Garcetti on CNN. I just went, `Oh, man, here we go. There's no going back from this.' It was real unfortunate to see. It was the fall of an American hero. I remember telling Gil, and I told Marcia, `Do not call this guy a murderer. Call him the culprit or the perpetrator.'" After a moment of long thought, the long, tall dapper Mr. Bozanich, who used to be Marcia Clark's direct supervisor, who has known her for many years, leaned forward on his desk and quietly, sadly said, "Marcia told me from the beginning that the case was `a loser,' but it was `going to make' her--and it did." © 1996 Joseph Bosco >From amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688144136/o/qid=919293986/sr=2-1/002 -6253979-3547654 In A Problem of Evidence, Bosco takes us with him into the courtroom where he sat everyday and introduces us to the full cast of characters. In a series of remarkable vignettes and close-up impressions, we watch them in action for better and worse. We see what television did not show. We measure the real evidence and the real actors after all the spin, deception, and lies. In exclusive interviews, about material never before revealed, we hear from Dr. Henry Lee, the country's leading forensic scientist; Pat McKenna, private investigator for the defense; Dr. Mark Goulston, psychiatrist who consulted for the prosecution; and Peter Bozanich, assistant Los Angeles district attorney. Revelations from A Problem of Evidence: On the evidence, one person could not, by himself, have committed the two murders. A plausible explanation for there being a single killer is steroid psychosis, a condition that can account for hyper-violent superhuman rage about which a person has little or no memory. O.J. was loaded on steroids. Yet the prosecution never brought this up. In court, Marcia Clark giggled, preened, and flirted. She flirted with Chris Darden and she flirted with Johnnie Cochran. Mrs. Cochran, watching Marcia in action one day, was annoyed enough to say: "If she doesn't keep her hands off my husband, I'm going to give her the ultimate sanction." Captain Margaret York, wife of Lance Ito and the highest-ranking female officer in the LAPD, declared under penalty of perjury that she had no independent recollection of Mark Fuhrman when he served under her in West LA. Had she admitted what many suspect, the judge might have had to recuse himself. Shortly after the prosecution's glove expert testified that "fat liquor" is added to the leather for elasticity, Bob Shapiro related an instant F. Lee Bailey joke: "After Mr. Bailey found out the gloves had liquor in them, he ordered a dozen pair." DNA evidence might have been convincing, were it not for the fact there were huge arithmetic errors (prompting the scientist to say "I'm embarrassed") and some comparison data was based on a sample of two other African-Americans. Mark Fuhrman appears all over the latter years of the obviously sick relationship between O.J. and Nicole: two other narcissistic, totally self- absorbed, promiscuous, manipulative liars and emotional cheats who perpetually chose to live life in the passing lane of a two-lane highway. This was a bloody "no accident" waiting to happen. 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