Journey to Justice
by Johnnie Cochran
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Author: Johnnie CochranEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-09-30
ISBN: 0345405838
Number of pages: 383
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
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Book Review: An excellent book about an excellent black trial lawyer
Summary: 5 Stars
Vilified and maligned since the shocking O.J. verdict, the high profile lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, Jr., member of the famed :"Dream Team" sets the record straight in his new book, Journey to Justice, co-authored with Tim Rutten. In this book, we learn a lot about Johnnie Cochran the man, his passion and committment. We learn more about his deep family ties, religious conviction, and sense of justice, which led him to take such high profile cases, from Leonard Deadwyler, a black motorist stopped for speeding to the hospital with his pregnant, then shot dead, to the black football star Ron Settles, who was murdered by the police in an apparent attempt to make his death look like a suicide. Those looking for a lot of details on the O.J case would be well advised to steer clear of this book, but those who want to learn more about the life of one of the finest trial lawyers in America will not be disappointed
Summary of Journey to Justice
He's become a household name: Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., the brilliant orator and legal strategist who captained the Dream Team in the trial of the century. But behind the man the media created is a story of a life spent in the trenches of the American legal system, fighting not for clients as high-profile as O. J. Simpson, but for individuals whose voices are too often silenced. Journey to Justice is an unflinching portrait of Johnnie Cochran and the legal system that he has so profoundly influenced. It will forever change our understanding of what works and what doesn't in America's most noble and troubling institution.From the Paperback edition.
No one came out of the O.J. Simpson murder trial mess with colors flying higher than the lead defense attorney, Johnnie Cochran, and no book from the key figures in the trial could be expected to shed more light on the successful defense strategy than Cochran's. Cochran, however, has chosen to write a pious, slippery memoir whose passages on his boyhood in Shreveport, Louisiana, are much more compelling than those on the trial itself. Cochran's charisma and his preacher's voice are on display here, as is his bitterness toward Christopher Darden, Robert Shapiro, his ex-wife, and just about anyone else who crossed or disbelieved him during his most famous case.
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