"....Hodgman knows how important this stuff is," Pavelic fumed, "and he and Clark are deliberately withholding it." I told him there was a more likely explanation. "It's the L.A.P.D. that doesn't want us to have it," I said, "not the D.A. That's why they're stalling. I'll bring it up before Ito again, he's already told them at least once to turn it over. Don't worry, Bill, our chance will come...."

"....Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, I visited O.J. twice, once on Thanksgiving Day itself, which, since he was away from his family, was a very hard day for him. On the following Monday, Bill Pavelic and I spent four hours at the jail, going over and over the now-familiar details with O.J. I suspected that if he took the stand he would be a typical witness-that is, not as good as he thought he would be. I often tell clients that they must learn to be witnesses. They must take their time, listen to questions, and answer them simply. Testimony is definitely not social discourse. Over the course of the trial, Bill spent endless hours with O.J., keeping him informed and getting his input. During their conversations he subtly encouraged O.J. to control his constant storytelling impulses. In the time they spent together, the two men formed a bond of trust and true friendship. But that didn't mean O.J. didn't get as impatient with Bill as he did with the rest of us....."

"....One day, in complete exasperation, O.J. said, "Bill, I hope - this doesn't perjure me, and I haven't really told anyone until now, but I just remembered . . . somewhere, sometime that day, I spent some quality time in the head!...."

"....Then Bill Pavelic called me to report a phone call he'd received from John McNally on Christmas Day. "Hey, Bill," McNally had asked him, "what're you going to do once Shapiro's bumped from the case?...."

"....Pavelic was alarmed. "Bob, you know the files that left your office? They didn't go to Florida," he said. "Everything went to Cochran's office." Linell had been monitoring the goings-on with a growing concern. "Bob, something weird is going on here. What are they doing to you?...."

"....In his carefully detailed report to Skip Taft a few weeks later, Bill Pavelic wrote that his investigation had revealed a systematic and elaborate campaign of disclosures to the press, principally to columnists for Eastern papers, CNN, and supermarket tabloids. The object . . . to denigrate Shapiro's skills and his ability to keep client confidences, and to enhance Bailey's own modest role in the case so far...."

Read more about Bill Pavelic at his official site, BillPavelic.com

"....Soon after the Bailey fallout, I was at home, on a conference call with Johnnie and Bill Pavelic. Bill was outlining the point by-point chronology of everything Bailey had done, in the weeks before I was in Hawaii, and in the days since, including the leaks to the press about conversations only the lawyers could've been privy to. I was adamant that Bailey be removed from this case, from anything having to do with O.J. and the upcoming trial...."

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