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on against the “Chicago 7” growing out of demonstrations during the 1968 Democratic Convention. After the trial of that case, the lead defense lawyer—William Kunstler—was held in contempt of court and sentenced to four years imprisonment. I was part of the legal team assembled to prepare the appeal of that contempt
to the team. After extensive investigation, we were able to demonstrate, by means of sophisticated scientific evidence, that the police had planted O.J. Simpson’s blood, along with the blood of his alleged victims, on a sock found in Simpson’s bedroom after the crime. The blood on the sock had high levels of a
dn’t kill my mother. He didn’t inject anything into her. She died of natural causes.” (No one seeking my help ever tells me their case is “just like” O.J. Simpson’s! ) When the daughter of an alleged murder victim is so certain the defendant is innocent, even when the defendant is her father, the case is certain
181 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017268 4.2.12 WC: 191694 OJ Simpson and Claus Von Bulow My two most famous—i
ley, Noam Chomsky, Rabbi Meyer Kahana, Rabbi Adan Steinzaltz, Justice Antonin Scalia, Ken Starr, Elie Wiesel, Vaclav Havel, Golda Meir, Red Auerbach, William Kunstler, Roy Cohn, Norman Mailer, Patrick Buchanan, Norman Podhoretz, Bill O’Reilley, Skip Gates, Alan Keyes, Dennis Prager, Jeremy Ben Ami, Mike Hukabee, Sh
most controversial defendants in recent history: OJ Simpson; Claus Von Bulow; Mike Tyson; Leona Helms
ssional life. Chutzpah covered my Jewish causes and cases. Reversal of Fortune and Reasonable Doubts each dealt with one specific case (Von Bulow and O.J. Simpson). I will try not to repeat what I wrote in those books, though some overlap is inevitable. This more ambitious effort seeks to place my entire profes
d Richard Falk of Princeton were claiming that the United States was the worst human rights violator in the world.'°° Some hard left lawyers, such as William Kunstler, refused to say anything critical of the human rights records of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other “socialist” countries, while railing against
at these changing attitudes are wrong and bigoted. But I must recognize that the perception of me by many others is changing. After I helped win the O.J. Simpson case, I thought that it would be that aspect of my career that would be the focus of my obituary. Now I think it will also be Israel. Since I’m never
191694 OJ’s glove I happen to be on the way to Australia to deliver a talk. There was a stopover in Los Angeles and I decided to pay a visit to the OJ trial. My usual role was to provide legal briefs and memoranda from my office in Cambridge on two or three occasions I appeared in court to argue mot
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