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...fight taking place in almost total secrecy. Not only have all the participants been placed under a gag order, but reporters have been barred from the courtroom altogether, as they typically are in California child-custody cases. There is no jury. Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock will be the only one to decide whether Sydney, 11, and Justin, 8, should live with their father, or remain with their maternal grandparents, Lou and Juditha Brown. The children have been living with the Browns ever since Simpson was arrested in June 1994. After his acquittal on murder charges last October...
...reason for lawyers to support cameras in the courtroom: so they can find jobs in television after the trial ends. Chris Darden, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Shapiro and Barry Scheck all have regular TV gigs as commentators. Now Johnnie Cochran is getting a nightly talk show, with Atlanta prosecutor Nancy Grace, on Court TV. No word on what Marcia Clark is doing. (Is it the hair...
Driscoll was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, Shepack said...
...Alex was dating schoolmate Molitor; it was her family's Jeep he was driving the night of the alleged rape. Although he returned from his exile with a Swedish woman, Elisabet Jansson, whom he described as his fiance, Jansson is gone and Kelly and Molitor are again romantically involved. Courtroom observers can be heard whispering, "What does she see in him?" They might well wonder: just before the trial the couple was in a car wreck, in Amy's car. Kelly, out on bond and late for his curfew, overturned on a curve while speeding. He fled the scene...
That noise you heard across the country last week was the sound of Americans going about their usual business: doing their jobs, tending to their kids, following the World Series--instead of watching the O.J. Simpson trial. With cameras banned from the courtroom in the civil suit brought against Simpson following his acquittal on murder charges a year ago, the nation has been spared another all-consuming TV spectacle. But that didn't make any less startling the defense's opening gambit: the trashing of Nicole Brown Simpson...