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In Contempt By Christopher Darden: A Review - Online Essay

In Contempt By Christopher Darden: A Review

This report is based upon the book In Contempt, written by Christopher A.
Darden with Jess Walter. This book is published by Regan Books an imprint of
Harper Collins Publishers and is copyrighted 1996 by Christopher A. Darden.
Introduction of the Author

The book In Contempt was written by Christopher A. Darden. Chris Darden
is famous for being one of the prosecuting attorneys in the court case, The
People vs. Simpson. He has worked hard his whole life to reach the status he
has now achieved. He proved to America that even though he wasn't a high-priced
private lawyer that he could present a well-thought out and planned case under
tremendous pressure he and the other prosecutors had ...

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even went as far as to say in the book that this was the first case that
affected him personally and emotionally. As one may expect the majority of this
book is taken up with the Simpson case but, chapters two through six detail his
life from birth, his childhood in a working class district of Richmond,
California, and becoming a district attorney of Los Angeles in 1981. Chapters
two and three mostly consist of stories of him and his brother, Michael,
stealing from local stores or his brothers drug deals. When Michael hit his
mid-teens hestarted selling marijuana off the front porch of the house and Chris
was his lookout. In return, he was told that he would be cut in on the action
(but never was). No matter what, Michael always told Chris never to use drugs.
Throughout the book Chris Darden refers to his brother as a good role model for
him no matter what he did.
I feel the purpose of Chris Darden writing this book is to try to show
the hardships he had to go through ...

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Added: 4/1/2006 04:29:00 PM
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