Word: connely
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...time around and her telegenic presence for ABC as an expert commentator on the Simpson case--requested and was denied a gag order to prevent the prosecution, or anyone else, from talking to TV reporters about the case. The state's new team, headed by deputy district attorney David Conn, insists that this time the prosecution will focus on the murders themselves, rather than get derailed by the defense's claims that Lyle and Erik were sexually and emotionally abused by their parents...
...Conn, an impeccably tailored Clark Kent type who would have done just fine in front of the cameras, says he will offer a "blow-by-blow re-creation of the shootings to depict the horror of the crime and how unnecessary and brutal these killings were." Conn will direct the jurors' attention to the murder of Kitty in particular, who he says got "lost in the shuffle" during the first trial. "Whether or not [the brothers] felt a threat from Jose," says Conn, "there was no reason to believe there was a threat from their mother...
...Conn is bringing in a witness who already promises controversy. Roger McCarthy, an engineer from the Menlo Park, California, firm of Failure Analysis Associates, which provided law-enforcement officials with re-creations of the Oklahoma City bombing, will give jurors a CD-ROM presentation featuring grisly autopsy photographs and computer models of the murdered couple. According to Conn, McCarthy has determined the entry angles of the 12 bullets fired into Jose and Kitty and the sequence of the shots, illustrating the intent to kill and bolstering the prosecution's claim that the victims were shot in the knee because...
...manslaughter. "We're not going to get up and say you must acquit because the gloves don't fit," she said during her opening argument. If she succeeds, the brothers, who have been in jail nearly six years, may have already done much of their time. But if Conn manages to convince the seven male and five female jurors that the murders were premeditated--whether motivated by fear, as the defense contends, or greed--then the verdict will be first-degree murder, with a possible sentence of death. He will tell the jury the defendants used false identification to purchase...
...knows how long this trial will take. Even without a television audience to play to, the lawyers ran into overtime in their opening arguments. But Conn expects to wrap up the case by Christmas. Of course, even if freed, Lyle and Erik might not have much of a home to return to for the holidays...