Word: bronco
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...call in Aurora, Colorado, came from a woman threatening to asphyxiate herself with a garden hose connected to an auto exhaust pipe. Within minutes, nine paramedics and fire fighters aboard two pumper trucks, a battalion fire chief in a Ford Bronco and a pair of medics from a private ambulance company had converged on the scene to administer oxygen to the woman and transport her to a hospital. Across this Denver suburb, a variety of rescue scenes were being repeated in similar all-hands fashion. Boasts fire chief Ray Barnes: "When lives are at stake, we want the fullest emergency...
...Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. But the former football star never lost his cool. Asked by plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli, who did the bulk of the interrogating, if he had an explanation for how the blood of his ex-wife and Goldman might have ended up in his Bronco, Simpson responded, as he had dozens of times already, that he had no idea. Dismissed juror Ann-Marie Jamison, though, did not buy his claims and told CNN, "It seemed a little unbelievable...
...talk about blood evidence and Bronco fibers, the first jury was not all that interested in grappling with the extremely complex forensic evidence the state presented. As Michael Brewer, a lawyer for Ron Goldman's mother Sharon Rufo, told the Los Angeles Times, pre-gag order, "The jurors don't care about the minutiae; they care about the essence." That is why the moment that Simpson struggled to get the glove on was so pivotal. The plaintiffs' team has already tried to dispatch that one, bringing on a glove expert to testify that it shrank but looked like the same...
...will Simpson's actions the day he was supposed to surrender to police. Unlike in the criminal trial, where prosecutors were worried that introducing the tale of Simpson's slow-speed Bronco chase would open the door to testimony about a grief-stricken and suicidal husband, Simpson will now be called to account for those hours--and for the fact that he carried with him a disguise, a pile of cash and his passport...
...forged into new territory in their opening statements. Daniel Petrocelli, representing Ron Goldman's father, moved the estimated time of the murder to 20 minutes later, to coincide with the time a neighbor, Robert Heidstra, says he heard male voices shouting and saw a car similar to Simpson's Bronco leaving the scene. Petrocelli also promised to show a photo of Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes, of the type that left prints at the murder scene and that Simpson has denied owning. TIME has learned that the plaintiffs also plan to present more evidence of domestic violence, beginning six weeks...