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...strategy he will roll out this week. He will examine many of the witnesses, while Shapiro and two junior attorneys will handle the others; Bailey will conduct most of the cross-examination. Throughout, Cochran says, they will hammer on what he calls the prosecution's overzealousness to convict Simpson. ``This is a classic rush-to-judgment case,'' he maintains. ``They made a decision within four or five days that he is guilty, and they have not wanted to pursue any other theory...
...hearsay.TIME law reporter Andrea Sachssays the evidence is crucial. "This will be the most important evidence in the case," Sachs says. "DNA is science and numbers. But this evidence is about matters of the heart that jurors can understand. This could have a devastating impact and change minds to convict...
...history of the mismanagement of this case begins in Texas. The state courts, through an incredible contortion of reason and good sense, managed to convict two people for the very same crime. To do that, the courts had to rely on the following incredible contention: the knowledge that Ms. Hogan was in fact the trigger-woman did not constitute new evidence that might bear on the case of Mr. Jacobs. Is that the kind of thinking they teach in law school...
...acquit Fleiss. Her view never wavered through four days of a debate that grew so rancorous she sometimes had to blow a whistle to silence the bickering. But with the weekend approaching and the jurors tiring, Mitrowski agreed to a compromise with the three male jurors determined to convict: a drug count would be dropped in exchange for accepting three of five pandering charges...
...lower court's argument that the law impinges upon the First Amendment. But the high court also ruled that under the law defendants must have been aware that the material in question depicted minors -- a caveat that could undermine the law and make it harder for prosecutors to convict...