
Toobin speaking about the Supreme Court at the John J. In 2003, he secured the first interview with Martha Stewart about the insider trading charges against her. Toobin joined CNN in 2002 as a legal analyst. In 2000 Toobin received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elián González custody saga, which had resulted in the return of the boy from the United States to communist-led Cuba. Each of these books was later adapted for television, the Simpson case as a mini-series, and the Clinton as an episode. He published books on some of these cases: The Run of His Life: The People v OJ Simpson (1997), and A Vast Conspiracy (1999), about the investigation of Clinton for the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.

Simpson civil case, and independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton. Toobin provided analysis of Michael Jackson's 2005 child molestation trial, the O.

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Simpson's criminal trial planned to accuse Mark Fuhrman of the LAPD of planting evidence. In 1994, Toobin broke the story in The New Yorker that the legal defense team in O. Toobin has provided broadcast legal analysis on several high-profile cases. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, and abandoned "the practice of law." He started working as a writer in 1993 at The New Yorker and in 1996 became a television legal analyst for ABC. Accordingly, the Circuit Court vacated the lower court's decision and ordered the dismissal of the case. The book was published before Walsh's appeal could be decided, mooting the case. Keenan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote an opinion that Toobin and his publisher had the right to release this book. Toobin went to court to affirm his right to publish. But he had taken thousands of pages of notes with him and based his book on such information, revealing material that Walsh believed should have been held as private. Toobin had been required to sign multiple agreements to protect the confidentiality of grand jury and internal proceedings of the office. Oliver North (1991), about his work in the Office of Independent Counsel, to which Walsh objected. Toobin wrote a book, Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States v. He moved to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn. Next he served as an associate counsel for Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh during the Iran–Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial. After passing the bar exam, he worked as a law clerk to U.S. Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic while a law student. Career Toobin promoting his book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court at the 2007 Texas Book Festival He attended Harvard Law School, where classmates included Elena Kagan, and he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Toobin graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American history and literature and was awarded a Harry S. While attending Harvard College for undergraduate studies, he covered sports for The Harvard Crimson. Toobin attended Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School. His younger brother, Mark, born in 1967 with Down syndrome, has lived apart from the family. Toobin was born to a Jewish-American family in New York City in 1960, a son of Marlene Sanders, former ABC News and CBS News correspondent, and Jerome Toobin, a news broadcasting producer. The latter two were adapted for television as seasons of FX's American Crime Story, with the Simpson case premiering in 2016. Simpson murder case, and the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.

Toobin has written several books, including accounts of the 1970s Patty Hearst kidnapping and her time with the SLA, the O. He continued to serve as legal analyst for CNN for two years. He was fired that fall for masturbating on-camera during a Zoom video conference call with co-workers. He wrote for The New Yorker from 1993 to 2020. He moved from government and the practice of law into full-time writing during the 1990s, when he published his first books. Jeffrey Ross Toobin ( / ˈ t uː b ɪ n/ born May 21, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, blogger, and longtime legal analyst for CNN.ĭuring the Iran–Contra affair, Toobin served as an associate counsel on its investigation at the Department of Justice.
