Reasonable Doubts: The O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078620785X ISBN 13: 9780786207855

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1996

Synopsis

Using the O.J. Simpson case as a backdrop, the famous defense lawyer examines the American criminal justice system, analyzing its strengths and weaknesses

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About the Author

Alan M. Dershowitz is the bestselling author of Chutzpah, Reversal of Fortune, The Best Defense, and many other books. He was first in his class at Yale Law School, and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge David Bazelton and Justice Arthur Goldberg, he was appointed to the Harvard Law faculty, where he became a full professor at age twenty-eight, the youngest in the school's history. Newsweek has described him as "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights." Professor Dershowitz has served on the National Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union and as consultant for various foundations and presidential commissions. His clients have included Claus von Bulow, Patricia Hearst, Senator Mike Gravel, Harry Reems, Anatoly Scharansky, F. Lee Bailey, William Kuntzler, and several death row inmates. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 078620785X
• ISBN 13: 9780786207855
• Binding: Hardcover