Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some major setbacks last week. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution need not prove its case ``to a moral certainty'' and could introduce evidence of prior violence in the Simpson marriage. But O.J.'s lawyers barely flinched. They have their special reserves--their boundless high style and winning courtroom ways, their fax hookup with appeals adviser Alan Dershowitz in Cambridge, Massachusetts, their famous and attractive client...
...face of defense allegations of racism on the part of LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman)--and despite the fact that the fairness of O.J. Simpson's trial will more likely hinge upon issues of class and celebrity than upon skin color--the specter of racism looms large both inside the courtroom and out. ``Since so many African Americans don't trust the criminal-justice system--and for good reasons--[the case] is racial, and that's why Johnnie is important,'' says attorney Harlan Braun, who defended one of the four police officers in the Rodney King beating case...
...jury has heard none of this. They spent the hearings sequestered in a Los Angeles hotel, their first taste of what may be months of isolation. Scrambling to contain the damage, defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. complained to reporters outside the courtroom about "a tabloid prosecution" that took its cues from the best seller by Nicole's friend Faye Resnick. One day later, prosecutors temporarily withdrew 18 of the 62 items, including Nicole's narrative, which the defense belittled as the work of a woman marshaling her case in a divorce dispute. Though that went far to make the prosecution...
...thousands of letters he has received in jail, titled I Want to Tell You. Meanwhile, the star defendant has perfected a form of silent communication, grimacing from his seat at court statements that he doesn't like or mouthing "I didn't do it." And when something in the courtroom goes his way, he smiles...
...also ruled today that relatives of Nicole Brown Simpson can sit in the courtroom for most of the trial. Defense attorney Robert Shapiro had asked yesterday that they be barred from some of the proceedings because they were witnesses in the trial. Ito said that the family members may be in the courtroom for "a majority" of the trial -- but not when another witness testifies on matters they will be called to discuss...