Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. —Unknown
Michael being Michael was very consoling to me, Sherman said. I was a wreck. Still am a wreck. And Michael was saying, ‘Don’t worry. It’s going to be okay.
Michael Skakel settles his 2013 slander lawsuit against HLN host Nancy Grace
Fuhrman is a liar, a racist, and a bully. It’s a great irony that he disgraced himself for his pivotal role in letting Simpson escape justice and then rehabilitated himself by helping to put an innoce...
As Jay Leno suggested, referring to the Skakel trial, many people would prefer to be found guilty of murder than be suspected of masturbating in a tree: I would rather confess to murder. Wouldn’t you?...
After Dunne’s book tour, Garr led several members of the Moxley investigation team on a visit to Dunne’s home in Hadlyme, Connecticut, bearing gifts: a State Police plaque, a T-shirt, and a mug. They...
She was medevaced to Hillside Hospital in Long Island. When I arrived at Hillside they were absolutely horrified. They had never seen anything like it, she says. I had open sores all over my body from...
Each one of us bears ultimate responsibility for what we do with our grief.
With 401 reporters certified to cover the case, only one, Leslie Stahl, bothered to look beneath the flimsy veneer at the myriad facts undermining the prosecutor’s frail parable.
Then along came Mark Fuhrman, whom I grew to admire after the fiasco of the Simpson trial. … Say what you want, the guy is a great detective.
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law applied by an independent judiciary immune to the gusting winds of popular sentiment. —Caroline Kennedy
Look at the five kids in the Central Park jogger case. There was not a trace of evidence—but with notorious cases, jurors can find you guilty anyway.
Garr, who, in addition to his role as evidence manager, was a key witness for the prosecution, never revealed his conflicts to Michael’s lawyers or to the Court. His bosses in the police and prosecuto...
Dunne’s M.O. never varied. He began by evoking his daughter’s death in a soft-touch approach to the victim’s family. Once his nose was under the tent, Dunne launched into reckless accusations; damning...
Dunne was incorrect about Fuhrman being a great detective. Everyone already knew Fuhrman was a bigot, a perjurer, and a thug; but it turned out, he was a sorry detective as well.
Media condemnation of Michael’s arrogance amplified because he appeared not to be paying attention as he cast his eyes downward toward the defense table. My wrists were sore from writing ‘Object Micke...
The inferno that devoured Michael is no anomaly. It feeds every day on the economically disadvantaged and minorities
Someone killed Martha Moxley and got away with it. And the reason he got away with it was that the Greenwich Police Department … didn’t have the courage to go after him.
After my father’s death, I watched my mother and Uncle Teddy—my father’s last living brother—plea to the judge to allow his alleged killer, Sirhan Sirhan, to escape the death penalty.