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Title: A 636 page ego trip!
Review: As both a trial attorney and "court" buff, I really enjoyed the factual basis of the book, and much of the accounts of the Simpson deposition and testimony were riviting, HOWEVER, when we hear about the genius, and yes heroic bravery of attorney Pettrocelli it goes so far off the deep end that it threatens to make the entire book perhaps best left on the shelf. The Best (worst) example of this was when he describes giving O.J. the chance to "lay his hands" on him while testifying. He goes to great lengths to to say that even though he is smaller then O.J. that he "wasn't afraid". As if O.J. was going to pull out a knife and kill him in a room full of lawyers! The value of this book lies not in the shameless self-promotion of the author but rather in explaining that both the criminal and civil juries in this case may well have come to the correct conclusion, and in explaining how the differences in the system can lead to this conclusion.
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