Volume 42, Number 14 · September 21, 1995
Twelve Angry Persons
By Andrew Hacker
The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom
by Stephen J. Adler
Doubleday/Main Street, 304 pp., $12.95 (paperback forthcoming in October) (paper)
We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy
by Jeffrey Abramson
Free Press, 308 pp., $14.00 (paperback forthcoming in November) (paper)
The Private Diary of an O.J. Juror: Behind the Scenes of the Trial of the Century
by Michael Knox, by Mike Walker
Dove Books, 300 pp., $5.99 (paper)
Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror
by Hazel Thornton, with commentaries by Lawrence J. Wrightsman, by Amy J. Posey, by Alan Scheflin
Temple University Press, 200 pp., $14.95 (both forthcoming in November) (paper)
About the case of California v. Simpson, one thing is certain: it has been in no way typical or even illustrative of criminal trials. Simpson's fame, the huge cast of lawyers, the length of the trial, the intricacy of testimony, the thousands of hours on television, the bizarre taped statements of Mark Fuhrman—there has never been anything like it.
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