Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reggie Love. In her strong portrayal, Sarandon turns a moderately interesting part into "The Client"'s highlight performance, occasional showing the impressive depth she captured in "Thelma and Louise." Had Schumacher fully exploited Sarandon's hard-ball verbal confrontations, "The Client" might have succeed ed as a fast-paced courtroom drama; unfortunately, Schumacher fails to commit to the dynamic court plot, preferring to interstice the Sway family drama with a few dismally unoriginal mob scenes...
...network filth-mongers themselves haven't realized the extent of their degradation just yet; they are too busy grappling with a present dilemma precipitated by the profusion of grotes-queries. The next courtroom appearance for O.J. happens to coincide exactly with that of the infamous Menendez brothers. The latter celebrities are to undergo a ritual which the Simpson case has elevated from legalistic obscurity to event of national import: the "pre-trial" hearing. Why waste time on self-examination when the really crucial question is yet to be decided: Which freak gets top billing in the rogue's gallery...
...Marathon: Can U.S viewers get enough courtroom drama...
After six days of testimony in a California courtroom and on national television, Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell ruled -- not unexpectedly -- that there was sufficient evidence to order O.J. Simpson to stand trial for the < murders of his ex-wife and her friend. As part of its case, the prosecution called a police expert who testified that some blood found near the murder victims matched Simpson's -- a match, the expert said, that existed for only 0.43% of the population. Earlier, in a major defeat for the defense, Judge Kennedy-Powell ruled that because police feared an emergency situation after spotting...
...doubt that they believe they know what it was. The owner of a Los Angeles cutlery shop and a salesclerk testified that five weeks before the killings, Simpson bought a 15-in. stiletto with a 6-in. folding blade; before paying, he had it sharpened. To help the courtroom visualize such a knife, co- prosecutor William Hodgman displayed glossy photographs showing a duplicate of the stiletto that he said Simpson had purchased. This was followed by hints that a coroner would offer testimony to prove that the knife wounds on the victims came from the stiletto. Said Hodgman: "Stay tuned...