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...next speaker at the Saturday School series is Johnnie L. Cochran, lead counsel for the O.J. Simpson defense team, who will give a talk...
...altered lab results in another case, testimony the defense hoped to use to taint Martz' work on the Simpson case. Essentially, this ruling means that the defendant does not have an absolute right to throw something up against the wall and see if it sticks, which is what Johnnie Cochran has been doing throughout this trial. At some point the judge has to say that some testimony really isn't relevant to the case. Ito feels the jury has waited long enough. He wants to wrap up testimony as quickly as possible...
...most part, the prosecutors handled these witnesses like the hot potatoes they were, cross-examining them only briefly. But with McKinny, prosecutor Christopher Darden set himself up for what defense attorney Johnnie Cochran later termed "another glove day"--a reference to the prosecution's disastrous move to have Simpson try on the leather glove found at the crime scene. "When Mark Fuhrman used those words in your presence," Darden asked, "why didn't you tell him to stop?" McKinny replied: "For the same reasons I didn't tell him to stop when he told me of other procedures, cover...
Simpson prosecutors say they could complete their rebuttal as early as today. In testimony Wednesday, Justice Department scientist Gary Sims said that three bloodstains he tested from inside O.J. Simpson's Bronco match the blood of Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Also, Johnnie Cochran confirmed that the defense plans to call FBI agent Frederick Whitehurst, who would testify that FBI lab personnel have fabricated evidence to help prosecutors in other cases. Judge Ito has not yet ruled on whether Whitehurst will testify. Justice officials today said they are investigating Whitehurst's allegations...
...after Judge Ito decided not to allow the jury to hear most of the Mark Fuhrman tapes, Johnnie Cochran let his frustrations out. In a tense exchange, the lawyer angrily asked that Ito clarify and reconsider his ruling. "With all due respect, there are some parts that are incoherent," the Simpson defense attorney said. Huh? "Cochran is really on the edge of contempt," reports James Willwerth from the trial. "Ito's decision really angered him -- he has lost his normal sweet-talking, mildly blustery salesman's pose. But you don't call a sitting judge's writing's incoherent." Testimony...