Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relief of many, the defendant himself rejected that argument. But then he announced his improbable alternative: he would prove that a Caucasian male was the real killer. And he would do so as his own counsel. Kunstler and Kuby gamely presented him with a copy of the courtroom bible Fundamentals of Trial Techniques...
...such highbrow language hardly captures the raw reality of Judge Ito's courtroom last week, where each day brought a new spike in the players' emotional temperatures--and further discomfited the millions of TV viewers who thought they knew what to think about O.J. Over kitchen tables, in restaurants, around office coffee machines, people debated the lawyers' opening statements, critiqued Judge Ito's style, expressed amazement over snapshots of Simpson's body offered up by the defense and photos of Simpson's socks displayed by the prosecution...
...course, for those Americans who have known since the Night of the White Bronco that the opening of the O.J. Simpson trial would do more to suck up leisure time than all the debates over the balanced-budget amendment and observations about the odd January weather combined, the high courtroom drama was the big payoff. But those who had cynically decided in advance that the so-called trial of the century would be nothing more than an interminable media fest were guilty of, to use Johnnie Cochran's new favorite phrase, ``a rush to judgment...
...grand jury investigation of Simpson's friend Al Cowlings--performed well, the most dramatic moment of the opening day came later, when Marcia Clark displayed graphic photographs of the bodies. Judge Lance Ito ruled these pictures off limits to television viewers, and the reactions of those present in the courtroom explained why. Ron Goldman's father Frederic wept at the sight of his son's slashed and bloody corpse up on the 87-in. video monitor, while Nicole Brown Simpson's three sisters cried quietly; Simpson's mother Eunice could not look. When Ito at last called a recess...
...conscience and my peace of mind. I will not have the blood of Nicole on Ron Shipp. I can sleep at night, unlike a lot of others." While Shipp's testimony appears to bolster the prosecution, some legal experts said that by allowing dreams to enter the courtroom, Judge Lance Ito had opened up an opportunity for the defense to appeal a guilty verdict. "I think it's safe to say that we don't usually try people based on dreams," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School. Still, the testimony so far shows "the prosecution has come...