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...unprecedented if short-lived mutiny. Thirteen jurors, upset by the dismissal of three deputies guarding the group, refused to come to court and demanded instead that Ito come to the hotel and hear them out. When the judge refused, the jurors relented; but when they filed into the courtroom, a majority of them (a biracial group of African Americans and Caucasians) were wearing black clothing as a symbol of protest. Testimony was canceled for the day so that Ito, once again, could turn his attention to the physical and psychological needs of his jury panel. Said Simpson defense lawyer...
Sidebar transcripts from yesterday's trial show a room that at times seemed to resemble an elementary schoolclassroom more than a courtroom. Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran complained that one juror wasn't paying attention (Ito agreed, although he took no action), while defense attorney Peter Neufeld complained that prosecutor Marcia Clark was giggling during testimony. Clark denied it, saying "this did not happen. ...Mr. Neufeld is on some other planet." Neufeld today apologized to criminalist Andrea Mazzola for mispronouncing her name, then resumed his cross-examination, trying to show that Mazzola was part of a police conspiracy to frame Simpson...
...first-ever U.N. war crimes tribunal convened today with its first defendant: Dusan Tadic, the only suspect in custody of 22Bosnian Serbs charged with crimes against humanity. Sitting behind bulletproof glass in a courtroom in The Hague, Tadic pleaded innocent to charges that included murder and rape -- the first time rape has ever been tried as a war crime. The chief suspect not in custody: Radovan Karadzic, theBosnian Serb leaderwho is being investigated for genocide. The tribunal is the first international prosecution of violations of the Geneva Convention since the Tokyo and Nuremberg tribunals set up by the victorious World...
JOHN GRISHAM will redefine the term "celebrity lawyer" this fall, when he returns to the courtroom after a five-year hiatus for writing blockbusters like The Client and The Chamber. The author is taking on the Illinois Central Railroad on behalf of the estate of an employee who was killed while at work. He accepted the case in 1991, just after the publication of his first best seller, The Firm...
...Trial" hits its stride when Piper pushes the comedy. Renard's miming, the scene when Zed is mistaken for a transvestite, and the moments when Zed's student's stomach flu "affects" everyone else are all hysterical. The chaotic finale in the courtroom is the most insane moment of the play. Directing the entire enormous cast in such a tornado of action is to Piper's credit...