Word: bronco
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...headlamp shows. On Wednesday, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran asked Ito to let his client speak briefly about whether he could get a fair trial. Simpson started talking about the infamous June 17 low-speed chase on a Los Angeles freeway in which he, riding in a white Ford Bronco, was trailed by several squad cars from the Los Angeles police. Growing increasingly agitated, Simpson reportedly said: "Mrs. Clark -- Ms. Clark -- said I was trying to run . . . Everyone knows that I called my father-in-law. I was not in a frame of mind. I admit that...
Once again, O.J. Simpson's defense attorneys spent much of the week challenging the admissibility of key evidence seized by police, this time from Simpson's Ford Bronco. And once again, Judge Lance Ito ruled in favor of the prosecution. The judge also continued his attack on the press, scheduling a November hearing to determine whether or not to pull the plug on television cameras in the courtroom...
...Whether these tales are based in reality or in their own money-hungry delusion is another issue. Jurors, if selected, could refuse to support a majority verdict to later attract a book contract. At this rate, unemployment should plummet and people might have enough money to buy a second Bronco...
...supplies last. A new line of trading cards comes out, three dollars each, or two for five dollars, emblazoned with a stylish "Murder I" logo in blood red and flattering photos of, among other things: O.J.'s knife, O.J.'s lawyer, O.J.'s friend, O.J. and O.J.'s white Bronco, (Ford must be opening a new plant soon...
...realizes what Frank Rich writes, that "As long as the judge is on television...he has the ability to make and break stars, upstage the election campaign and destroy the productivity of the American workforce [barring the productivity, of course, of Ford Bronco plants]." Would Lance Ito ever consider losing this power and this audience by banning media coverage? The fact that he capitalizes on his center stage situation tells us a bit about the cost of our circus, and what we've become in supporting it. The judge-turned-jester now runs the court...