Use some common sense: The jury at MacDonald's trial convicted him YEARS before Fatal Vision was published. Indeed, the jurors, who didn't even know Joe McGinniss or why he was attending the trial, deliberated for only six hours because they found the evidence so convincing. McGinniss himself was convinced that MacDonald was innocent when he agreed to write the book, only to be won over by the strength of the evidence. Therefore, in spite of what dtucker and MacDonald himself say, the book had NOTHING to do with the verdict or the fact that all appeals have failed. An army of high-priced defense lawyers -- including none other than Alan Dershowitz, who won acquittals for O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bulow -- has been unable to overturn the original verdict even now that DNA technology is available to them.
Review of Fatal Vision
