Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson Case: Justice Confronts Race, Domestic Violence, Lawyers, Money, and the Media

Table of contents

• Postmortem *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• List of Contributors x
• Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
• Editor's Introduction 1
• Part I - Race *
• Reasonable v. Unreasonable Doubt 33
• Black Jurors: Right to Acquit? 38
• Obsessed with O.J 46
• Racial Theater 57
• Notes on the Trial of the Century 64
• Part II - Domestic Violence *
• What Happened to Public Education about Domestic Violence? 75
• Simpson Sound Bites - What Is and Isn't News about Domestic Violence 83
• Race and Gender - Charlie Rose Interviews Gloria Steinem and Patricia Williams 91
• Part III - Lawyers *
• O.J. v. DNA - What the DNA Really Showed 105
• Johnnie Cochran and Marcia Clark - Role Models? 117
• The Dream Team's Dream Resources 126
• Part IV - Reforms *
• Our Faltering Jury 135
• Lessons about Jurors 145
• Jury Dismissed 155
• In Defense of the Criminal Jury 160
• The Jury System 168
• Inside the Jury Room 177
• Abandon the Military Model of Policing 186
• Policing the Police - The D.A.'s Job 189
• Part V - Cameras in the Courtroom? *
• The Pros and Cons of Televising Trials 195
• The Failure (And Promise) of Legal Journalism 199
• Part VI - The Trial in Historical Perspective *
• The Rights of the Accused in a "Crime Crisis" 211
• The Trial and the City - A Nasty Parody on Multiculturalism 219
• The Good News 228
• Appendix - A Quick Primer on the Civil Trial 236
• Copyright Acknowledgments *

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