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Summary: Excellent Review of the OJ Simpson Case!
Review: I backed into this book. That is, I read Mr. Furhman's other book "Murder in Greenwich" first. AND LOVED IT. GREAT BOOK, CHECK IT OUT! This is the first OJ book I read. Like everyone else I was OJ'd out-big time. But Mr. Furhman does a fine job in his first book. Alot of the evidence he mentions was brought up at trial but there is alot of things he noticed/discovered that was never brought up. He really redeems himself, showing that he is an excellent detective, hung out to dry by OJ's manipulative defense team. I'll be reading all of his books in the future.
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Summary: Great Insider's view of the Case
Review: After all has been said and done, I am convinced of Mark Furman's integrity as a detective. I am also convinced that he can be completely trusted to tell the truth about the facts of this case. His defense of himself re: the tapes was a little un-convincing, but this does not diminish the book as very entertaining and a good education about the case.
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Summary: Mr. Fuhrman needs no redemption
Review: This book sat on my shelf for months before I finally read it, and now I'm actually glad for the time and distance from the trial. I've never been sure what to believe about Mr. Fuhrman. After reading his book, and some of the others about the trial and its aftermath, I believe he needed no redemption, and had he been financially able to mount a defense, would have been handily acquitted of perjury charges. I wish the Fuhrmans peace in Idaho, and I'm anxious to read "Murder in Greenwich."
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: The best book on the OJ business. Furhman is a superb writer and must have been a great detective. This is one of the 2 or 3 best "true crime" books I have ever read. I would rank it behind only "In Cold Blood" and" Helter Skelter." I hope Mr. Furhman continues writing.
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Summary: Best Of The Bunch
Review: The cover price of this book is justified by Chapter 16 alone, where Fuhrman hypothesizes how events may have transpired on the night of June 12, 1994 at the house on Bundy. The events as he outlines them fit the facts, pardon the expression, like a glove. Although predictably self-serving in places, this book provides a much clearer account of the events and the evidence than any of the efforts by the other protagonists. Racism was definitely a factor in this trial, but was initiated by the Simpson defense team in favor of their black client before a largely black jury. By the time Cochran et al were done that jury would have refused to convict O.J. even if he had confessed on the stand in open court.
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Summary: Absorbing and fascinating. Very enlightining.
Review: Before I read Murder In Brentwood I was not sure wheteher O.J. was guilty. Now I am.I had believed Mark Fuhrman to be a racist. Now I know that he is not. That was an illusion created by the scheme team. I could not put the book down.I felt a lot of outrage from reading it. Outrage over our atrocious criminal justice system and over the fact that a good man and cop was destroyed so that an obviously guilty celebrity could go free. Mark Fuhrman was an outstanding police officer as his distinguished service record clearly indicates(he received more than 55 official commodations in 20 years) and he was no racist. In the book he tells of how hard he once fought to clear a black man of a murder charge because he believed the man to be innocent.He tells how it is impossible to a racist and a good cop. But most of all he makes it clear just how absurd the defense's conspiracy theory really was. The prosecution should have let him present closing arguments. At the book's beginning, Detective Fuhrman walks us through the gruesome murder scene at Bundy and gives us a fascinating insight into detective work. He tells us of how evidence was mishandled and walks us through Vannatter and Lange's interogation of O.J.pointing out their many mistakes. He shows how nearly everyone was intimidated by O.J. and his celebrity status. It is at times a frustrating read but it is always fascinating.The last page of the book where he says that even had he known the nightmare awaiting him, he still would have answered that call at 1:00a.m. and vigorously investigated the case doing all that he could to solve it because what else could he do, he was a cop is one of the most enlightening and moving things I have ever read.
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Summary: Truly convincing
Review: Mark makes you a believer, both in the case and in him. Anybody who is lucky enough to pick up his book will find that everything he says rings true. About the investigation, and about his remorse for past incidents that the 'dream team' unfortunately put to good use in winning the case for their sociopathic killer client.
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Summary: A clear cut case of how the media can make you or break you.
Review: The one big message I got from the book is how the media can turn you into a target to further their own agenda. I feel the media was instrumental in the finding of murderer O.J.Simpson innocent. The reason for the book was clear to me; it was for Fuhrman to reabilitate himself so that he could try to get back to a semi-normal life. I found it to be a book hard to put down and read with ease, and I would recommend it for the jurors from the trial to help them realize what idiots they were.
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Summary: Mark Fuhrman is not a racist. Wonderful straightforward book
Review: I picked up a copy of Murder In Brentwood recently, and could not put it down. Mark Fuhrman gives us the facts plain and simple. For those of you who got sucked into the "Fuhrman is a racist" drama, I hope that you will read the book and give it some more thought.
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Summary: Somewhat repetitive, but essential to understanding the case
Review: Furhman is not perfect, but he's not guilty, either. The best part of the book is the author's walk-through of his own investigation of the crime scenes. He also highlights a little known fact, that Judge Ito had to be VERY biased, and therefore should have recused himself. The down points of the book are that Furhman used too many of Vincent Bugliosi's arguments and words from the book _OUTRAGE_, and that Furhman's thoughts, although powerful, are at times disorganized. He goes over the same ground a few times. However, to me, this kind of repetitiveness convinces me that here is a man who is speaking the truth, but feels that he may never be believed again. For arguments about why the trial was lost, try OUTRAGE. For a more personal look at excellent detective work and the inside scoop on Furhman, read MURDER IN BRENTWOOD. Reading about the terrible miscarriage of justice made me angry about the verdict all over again.
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