I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.