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...outlines of the case remain the same. Lyle and Erik, who were 21 and 18 at the time of the murders, have confessed to shooting their parents Jose and Kitty as they watched television in their Beverly Hills living room. Erik, now 24, will again be represented by Leslie Abramson (although this time she will be paid by the county to the tune of about $10,000 a month, the Menendez millions having been wiped out last time around). And Abramson, along with deputy public defender Charles Gessler, who is lead attorney speaking for Lyle, 27, will again pound home...
...things are different. In a Simpson ripple effect, Judge Stanley Weisberg has banned cameras from his Van Nuys courtroom. He has also ruled that the brothers be tried together, as the separate juries last time created too much confusion. Abramson--surprisingly, given her penchant for publicity last time around and her telegenic presence for ABC as an expert commentator on the Simpson case--requested and was denied a gag order to prevent the prosecution, or anyone else, from talking to TV reporters about the case. The state's new team, headed by deputy district attorney David Conn, insists that this...
...states rushed to pass "three strikes'' sentencing laws with little thought for their effect on prisons and the courts. Now many legal observers worry about what changes, intended and unintended, the Simpson spectacle may engender. "Reforms will come speedily and without great caution or thought,'' predicts Brandeis professor Jeffrey Abramson, who wrote We, The Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy. Says Yale Kamisar, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School: "If I were teaching criminal law tomorrow, I couldn't look my students in the eye. What I'm teaching them seems unrelated to what...
Jury expert Abramson also believes that asking jurors to sit silently throughout a trial and not talk about a case is onerous and unreasonable. At the very least, he contends, jurors facing a welter of technicalities thrown at them without a clearly understood context should be allowed to ask questions screened by the judge. But Abramson would go further: "I favor allowing jurors to start talking [among themselves] about the one thing that's overwhelming their lives...
According to the blitzkrieging defense attorney herself, the question observers were asking about LESLIE ABRAMSON all last week was, "Has she had a face-lift?" Actually, the lawyer for Erik Menendez underwent nothing more than a (very subtle) hair- lift, swapping her famous fusilli curls for a slightly more relaxed, swept-back look. Abramson thus followed the lead of O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark, whose own makeover scored big in the court of public opinion. Abramson admits her new do was a concession to TV. "I like my hair its usual, old way," she says, "but it kept getting...