Dershowitz's book Reasonable Doubt, explores facts that may reveal possible reasons why O. Simpson was acquitted for the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Dershowitz asserts that the Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D.) intentionally tampered with evidence and unsuccessfully covered up their involvement with evidence tampering for their own ambitious effort to aid in convicting O.J. Simpson. Furthermore, Dershowitz suggests that the jury acquitted O.J. Simpson because the prosecution's "star" witnesses Officers Furhman and Vannatter were caught in a web of lies that further questioned their validity as ethical officers which weakened their character as witnesses to a crime. Overall, it is suggested that the jury acquitted Simpson because it was jury's intention that for a fair trial to exist the L.A.P.D. must follow strict procedure regardless of their belief of guilt. Reasonable Doubt leaves many readers in doubt of the court system because of Simpson's acquittal. First, was O.J. Simpson on trial or the L.A.P.D.? Second, what kinds of politics were involved and how did it affect the strategies of the opposing attorneys? Lastly, how does that effect our court system? .
We would like to trust the judicial system and believe that it is a legitimate institution we can search for truth. As I read Alan Dershowitz's book Reasonable Doubt it became clear that the question "Did O.J. do it (murder Nicole Brown)?" would never be answered. Dershowitz argues that "Neither the prosecutors nor the judges were searching very hard for the truth of why the detectives went to the Simpson residence. .
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They apparently though that the disclosure of that truth would make the proving of what they believed was a more important truth-that defendant was guilty- (48; ch. 2). Instead what would be answered is "Did the police cover up a scandal as an ambitious effort to convict O.J. Simpson?" The Defense for Simpson rallied on that question to persuade the jurors that there was a reasonable doubt if the police were proved to have incompetently gathered and tampered evidence that would favor for a conviction of Simpson.
