Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder
by Vincent Bugliosi
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Author: Vincent BugliosiEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-03-10
ISBN: 0440223822
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Island Books
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Book Review: "THE TRIAL [BOOK] OF THE CENTURY!!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Anybody that has even the tiniest microgram of doubt as to whether Orenthal James Simpson is guilty of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in 1994 will have that doubt irrevocably washed from his or her mind forever after reading this incredibly-forthright volume, penned by Vincent T. Bugliosi.
Employing his unparalleled brand of logic and common sense, along with wit, humor, and an almost savage fury which has coursed through his veins since the disastrous outcome of the Simpson trial in October 1995, Bugliosi takes no prisoners, as he systematically hammers unrelentingly at the "mind-boggling incompetence" of the prosecution's case.
As Mr. B. so aptly points out to we who were previously blind to it, it really is hard to imagine how the prosecution's case could possibly have been worse. Particularly, I think, Christopher Darden's seemingly-endless string of abominations he uttered to the jury during closing arguments. These were statements that had to be some of the very LAST things a prosecutor should say to a jury when he is trying to convict a man for murders he so obviously was guilty of. Such gems like .... "I'm glad I'm not in your shoes." ... "You've got a tough job here." ... "We don't want to do anything to this man; I don't" (almost apologetic toward Simpson!). ... "The decision is yours, and I'm glad it's not mine." When thinking back to when I watched these proceedings live on national TV in September 1995, I can't believe, now, after having it "spoon-fed" to me (as Vince is wont to say) by Mr. Bugliosi that I wasn't screaming at my TV set at the top of my lungs due to the sheer idiotic nature of such Darden statements in closing arguments! But, as Vincent points out multiple times in this book, it's amazing how something obvious only becomes obvious once it's pointed out by someone else.
This has got to be one of the very best "Why Didn't I Think Of That?" books ever published. I watched the majority of this long trial, and not once did I have the overwhelming opinion that the prosecutors were performing in such a dreadful manner. But, then too, I'm no lawyer. But Mr. Bugliosi is. He seems to have a built-in radar of some kind that enables him to see the most obvious of things. Things that every person, even non-attorneys, probably should be able to detect, but most do not.
The amount of evidence that irresistibly points towards Simpson's guilt that the prosecutors, for one flimsy reason or another, decided NOT to introduce at the trial is staggering! The two most important items being Simpson's very incriminating 32-minute interview with the police the day after the murders...and the infamous "slow-speed Bronco chase" of June 17, 1994. I had always thought, while watching the trial on TV, that there simply MUST be some legal reason for excluding such valuable evidence of guilt. But there was NO such legal basis. Unbelievable!
You'll truly believe, as I sincerely now do, that if Mr. Bugliosi had been the lead prosecutor in the Simpson case, Mr. Simpson would NOT be on the streets or on a fairway right now! He'd be where he belongs...behind bars!
Detective Mark Fuhrman is not the "devil incarnate" the defense made him out to be. Far from it. Vince tells us why.
BOTH sides' opening & closing remarks to the jury were pitifully lacking. Find out the details here.
And find out what Vince is convinced is the #1 Key reason for the jury having acquitted Simpson.
A very nice 21-page bonus in the book is the inclusion of the entire verbatim transcript of Simpson's interview with the police the day after the murders where he admits to dripping blood the previous night, an interview that points without question to a guilty state of mind, as Simpson gives several hesitant, convoluted answers. A passage from this interview I found extremely telling and interesting was when Simpson tells the detectives after being asked if he's had any recent "problems" with Nicole: "I always have problems with her. ... Our relationship has been a problem relationship."
There's an additional snippet from this interview I found quite humorous (although it wasn't meant to be), and somewhat revealing of Simpson's willingness to tell a lie. Simpson tells the detectives, in a very round-about way after stammering for the right words for half a minute or so, that after Nicole returned two pieces of jewelry to O.J. that she had previously received from Simpson as gifts, Simpson turned around, just days later, and presented one of these two gifts to his then-current girlfriend, Paula Barbieri! "I told her [Paula] I bought it for her. ... What am I going to do with it?", Simpson told the police detectives. I now wonder just what Miss Barbieri thinks about getting this "used" gift from Mr. Simpson, and what does she now think of this lie she was told about the gift being purchased for her.
"Outrage" is a fascinatingly-absorbing true-crime tale, which will have you wondering (as I did) how it was possible for the lawyers for the State of California to have been this inept.
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