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...CAMERA. The "self-consciousness of everyone concerned" dragged out the case, in the view of Vincent Blasi, a Columbia University law professor and courtroom-cameras advocate. Uelmen agrees that the "entertainment medium" took command: "We had witnesses who treated their testimony like a gig. We had witnesses who were afraid to testify, who were afraid of what it would do to their reputations." But, adds Uelmen, "evidence was uncovered because of television coverage. All those photos of O.J. wearing gloves at football games, for example, came from volunteers.'' Of his own experience with TV trials, Midwest lawyer Stephen Jones, counsel...
...wrongful-death actions that will go to court, the standard of proof is "preponderance of evidence" rather than "beyond a reasonable doubt." Also, in a civil suit only nine of the 12 jurors are needed for a favorable verdict, and Simpson could be forced to testify. Predicts Professor Vincent Blasi of Columbia University law school: "There's a considerable chance that the Goldmans and the Browns will recover, given the amount and quality of the evidence." Then again, many experts predicted that Simpson would be convicted of double murder, right up to the day of his acquittal...
...Much hate-speech regulation seems designed not to solve a problem but to make a statement," notes Vincent Blasi, a law professor at Columbia. The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Jacobowitz, applauded the old code's demise but insisted that the best code is no code at all. Said Deborah Leavy, executive director of the Pennsylvania A.C.L.U.: "The university should stick to what it does best and educate...
...agenda. Instead, a group of Justices -- Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter and Anthony Kennedy -- combined to demonstrate the existence of a new centrist core. "These cases may indicate the emergence of a stronger, more open-minded group in the middle" than might have been expected, said Vincent Blasi, a liberal law professor at Columbia. "It's easy to take potshots from the ideological extreme, but when your judgments actually determine the future of the Constitution, it tends to make you more responsible...
...hard to argue that this serves the public any worse than screaming newspaper headlines, or TV reporters describing events from the courthouse steps. "It is a sorry state of affairs that today most of us learn about judicial proceedings from lawyers' sound bites and artists' sketches," says Vincent Blasi, a law professor at Columbia University. "Televised proceedings ought to dispel some of the myth and mystery that shroud our legal system...