Can’t seem to go beyond page 349. All I can read is:

Reasonable Doubts (page 349)
BY ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

Few events in recent years have highlighted racial tensions in the United States more keenly than the case of O. J. Simpson. Orenthal James Simpson (b. 1947) is an African American who achieved high distinction as a football player at both the collegiate and the professional levels; he subsequently became a widely popular television personality. On June 13, 1994, his white wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a white man, Ronald Goldman, were found murdered outside her condominium in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. A few days later Simpson was charged with the murder; after a car chase along the highways of southern California viewed by millions on television, Simpson was apprehended. The trial began on September 26, 1994. One of Simpson’s defense team’s central tactics was to broach the possibility, that Simpson had been framed by the Los Angeles Police Department, a charge made more plausible by the revelation of sloppy police work and also by tapes revealing police detective Mark Fuhrman to be highly prejudiced against African Americans. On October 3, 1995, the largely black jury’s decision was read: Simpson was found not guilty of both murders. A majority of whites continue to believe that Simpson is guilty, while a majority of African Americans believe he is innocent. It is also widely believed that the jury’s verdict was a kind of retribution for the Los Angeles Police Department’s handling of the Rodney King case.

In a subsequent civil trial brought against Simpson by the Goldman family, a largely white jury found Simpson guilty of wrongful death and awarded the Goldmans $8.5 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages.

Alan M. Dershowitz (b. 1938), a civil liberties lawyer and professor of law at Harvard, has written several books on legal matters, including TheBest Defense…

Here I keep in mind several things. Bell mentioned this piece in the forward so we can assume that Dershowitz was within his inner-circle of sorts — keep in mind that both are associated with Harvard. The other being that Dershowitz endorsed Joel Pollak in his congressional bid. Probably nothing but something of interest. It would be interesting to hear Dershowitz’s take on Derrick Bell although considering his recent “changes” I am not hopeful that that would result in any type of raional outcome.