Christopher Darden
Christopher Darden
Christopher Allen "Chris" Dardenis an American lawyer, author, actor, lecturer and practicing attorney. He was a 15-year veteran of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, where he was assigned to the prosecution of O. J. Simpson, in which role he gained a great deal of national attention...
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My creative juices really don't stall. I like to write in a very straightforward, conversational way, but of course it has to be colorful as well.
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I am back in the courtroom as a defense attorney. In fact, my first court appearance in a felony case as a defense lawyer was in front of guess who?
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They want you to throw your common sense out the window.
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My grandparents and parents urged me to go to school and do well in school so that at the end of the day I'd have options, choices.
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Is it your opinion Dr. Reichardt that Nicole Brown deserved to have had her throat cut?
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This case is a circus and they've made it that way (pointing to the defense team). If they're going to refer me to the state bar, I'll refer them to the U.S. attorney.
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You can't be a writer without being very sensitive. And I think that many of us are overly sensitive when it comes to dealing with our publishers.
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And he's using a knife to settle a score. He stabs this woman and she's right there, one on one.
calm voices
We are the voices of calm and reason.
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Whenever I travel around the country, somebody always walks up to me and says, 'Mr. Darden, I've always wanted to meet you to tell you that you were wrong about O.J. Simpson. It was the Mafia ... It was anybody but O.J. Simpson,'
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The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.
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I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.
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I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
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The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.