Epstein Secrets

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

4.2.12 WC: 191694 I also knew that our Constitution said some things about religion. In our Yeshiva we learned mostly about the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of religion. But I started to read a little more about the Constitution and quick

nd would always be “a 75 student.” (I didn’t quite live up to his expectations, graduating with an average below 75). Moreover, my high school was a Yeshiva—a “parochial school” and I am not a parochial person. I did not respect most of my teachers, and the feeling was obviously mutual. Creativity was fro

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

r father’s deteriorating economic situation. She went to work as a bookkeeper, earning $12 a week. My father, who was not a good student, attended a Yeshiva high school in Williamsberg. It was called Torah V’Daas—ttranslated as Bible and Knowledge. He began to work during high school and never attended co

dvice. Among my clients who fit this category are OJ Simpson, who was among the most famous football p

ls, being especially keep at finding legal loopholes that render his clients’ convictions unconstitutional.” Similar predictions were made about the O.J. Simpson case and others that I subsequently won. I actually prefer difficult and challenging cases which the pundits claim are unwinnable. I also never decli

sanction [and] to persecution no assistance.” These powerful words written by the father of our country were displayed on the bulletin board of our Yeshiva as if they constituted the Magna Carta for American Jews.* Yet we saw bigotry all around us. We knew that no Jew had ever been elected president. No