In Helter Skelter, Bugliosi claims an aversion to “the stereotyped image of the prosecutor” as “a right-wing, law-and-order type intent on winning convictions at any cost.” But that’s exactly how he came across. In file photographs he’s often haloed in microphones, his solemn pronouncements helping the world make sense of the senseless. Journalists lauded his “even-toned arguments.”
