A STAR IS BORN
Of course, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office didn’t like the outcome of the first Menendez trial. But the weeks that followed the trial weren’t much more pleasant. Abramson was everywhere. Marie Claire magazine declared her one of America’s foremost “ball-busters.” The New York Tunes called her the “queen of miracles.” Barbara Walters named her one of the ten most fascinating people of 1994. Over and over again, she kicked sand in District Attorney Gil Garcetti’s face. And she enjoyed it.
By the time of the first hearing a month after the mistrial, Abramson had assumed a new stature. TV crews followed her into the courthouse, barely keeping pace with the autograph hounds.
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