Manson Prosecutor and Prolific True-Crime Author Vincent Bugliosi, born in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1934, is best known for his prosecution of Charles Manson and his hippie cult followers. During the year-long trial, Bugliosi used vicarious liability and aiding and abetting theories to convict Manson. This skilled prosecutor described Manson as a “dictatorial maharajah of a tribe of bootlicking slaves.” According to his biography, Vincent Bugliosi successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder convictions without a single loss.
Vincent Bugliosi died last month. His Chicago Tribune obituary discussed not only the prosecutor’s most famous (and infamous) trial, but also his career as an author; he wrote 12 books about true-crime stories. The Tribune listed four of the books, including Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder and Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Tribune unconscionably omitted The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, written in 2008. The inner jacket contains pictures of 111 U.S. military members killed overseas in Bush’s illegal invasion and war in Iraq.
In a non-partisan argument, Prosecution sets forth the same legal arguments used to convict Manson and the how and why Bush should be put to trial in an American courtroom. Bugliosi’s book explains the legal theories any state Attorney General could use to also indict Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice as co-conspirators who aided and abetted the murders. While encouraging someone to bring forth felony charges, Bugliosi posits whether “the Iraq war was the second-biggest blunder in American history (behind Vietnam) or the biggest crime ever committed by an American president.”
Vincent Bugliosi dedicated this true-crime book to “the thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children who have lost their precious lives in the senseless Iraq war and to all the loved ones they left behind whose suffering will never end, with the hope that this book will help bring those responsible to justice.”
Thank you, Mr. Bugliosi, and God Bless.
