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...ONLY WINNERS IN THE O.J. CASE WILL be defense attorneys Johnnie Cochran, Robert Shapiro and F. Lee Bailey [Justice, Jan. 30]. Whether they win or lose the case, they will take O.J. Simpson's bank account to the cleaners and make even more money selling their stories after the trial...
...prosecution's objections began when it sounded as if Cochran was engaging in legal arguments, not simply presenting the case. But what sent Hodgman to the hospital later that night, and had Clark back in court the next day arguing heatedly for a 30-day continuance and sanctions against the defense, was Cochran's citing of more than a dozen witnesses not previously on the defense's witness list. One of the fresh witnesses: Mary Ann Gerchas, the woman who claimed she had seen men in knit caps running away from Nicole's house on the night of the murder...
...prosecution's seemingly damning points, Cochran offered counterpoints, many of them news to every listener. But it was a strategy not without risk. Cochran must now deliver the credible witnesses and solid blood evidence that he promised. He claims, for example, that there was blood under Nicole Brown Simpson's fingernails of a type that matched neither O.J.'s nor the victims'. (The prosecution has since declared that ``Cochran took one line out of a report given to him. There is a scientific explanation that you will see presented at trial.'') Cochran also said there was a woman...
Even as the lawyers wait for Ito to rule this week on the prosecution's 27 motions for sanctions--which could include an admonition to the jury to disregard some of Cochran's statements because the defense did not comply with California's discovery laws--Clark has already absorbed the new blows. Darden argued to the judge that some of Cochran's witnesses were not likely to hold up under cross-examination. He called them a collection of ``heroin addicts, thieves, felons,'' adding that one is ``a court-certified pathological liar,'' and the prosecution's research may bear this...
...those merely watching on the sidelines, the adversarial nature of courtroom proceedings does tempt an observer to keep score. Advantage prosecution, the pundits declared following Day One. TOUCHDOWN, JOHNNIE! blared the tabloid New York Post after Cochran took the floor. ``After the prosecution finished, it seemed so clear that O.J. was guilty,'' says U.S.C.'s Chemerinsky. ``Then after the defense finished, you felt he was not guilty. What more could you ask for?'' The jury, however, has yet to see the full presentation of evidence--and evidence, in theory, is what will take...