Shielded from Justice

Shielded from Justice
Author: Allyson Collins
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1998
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781564321831

Race as a Factor

Murder in Brentwood

Murder in Brentwood
Author: Mark Fuhrman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2014-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1621573222

For audiences of the popular FX television series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, based on Jeffrey Toobin's The Run of His Life and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Courtney B. Vance. Named on Vogue Magazine's "American Crime Story Reading List" as one of the "eight definitive books on the trial of the century." Twenty years ago, America was captivated by the awful drama of the O.J. Simpson trial. The Simpson "Dream Team" legal defense had a seemingly impossible task: convincing a jury that their client was innocent of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. In order for O.J. Simpson to get away with murder, the defense attorneys had to destroy the reputation of Mark Fuhrman, a brilliant Los Angeles detective who was the lead on the murder scene and had collected overwhelming physical evidence against Simpson. Now Fuhrman tells his side of the story in the #1 New York Times bestseller Murder in Brentwood, a damning exposé that reveals why and how Simpson's prosecution was bungled. Fuhrman offers a sincere mea culpa for allowing his personal mistakes to become a focal point of the defense's strategy but also stands by the evidence he collected, writing: "One thing I will not apologize for is my policework on the O.J. Simpson case." With Fuhrman's own hand-drawn maps of the crime scene, his reconstruction of the murders, and interrogation transcripts, Murder in Brentwood is the book that sets the record straight about what really happened on June 12, 1994—and reveals why the O.J. Simpson trial was such a catastrophe.

Official Negligence

Official Negligence
Author: Lou Cannon
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 744
Release: 1997
Genre: Current Events
ISBN:

How Rodney King and the riots changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.