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...nation's biggest terrorism trial opened in a Manhattan courtroom as prosecutors began making their case against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 other Muslim men who are accused of having plotted to blow up key New York City landmarks in 1993 as part of an alleged holy war against...
...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...
...mostly African-American jury of eight women and four men, this was the day's denouement. They were out of the courtroom by the time Judge Ito--informed that a hapless Court TV cameraman had slipped and televised the face of one alternate juror for a fraction of a second--excoriated the press and threatened to shut down the television cameras altogether. But as has happened before, Ito brandished a stick that he ultimately declined to use: he relented the next morning and let the show...
...Hollywood, when a high-budget movie opens, insiders discuss whether ``the money'' made it onto the screen--whether the result, that is, justifies the expense. In this trial, O.J. Simpson's money has certainly made it into the courtroom. Scrappy, overworked state employees appear to be just that when set against the silver-tongued, monied and remarkably personable defense lawyers. Cochran, chuckling modestly in a moment of theater that must have infuriated Clark and Darden, told the court last Thursday, ``We certainly don't refer to ourselves as the Dream Team. We're just a collection of lawyers just trying...
...those merely watching on the sidelines, the adversarial nature of courtroom proceedings does tempt an observer to keep score. Advantage prosecution, the pundits declared following Day One. TOUCHDOWN, JOHNNIE! blared the tabloid New York Post after Cochran took the floor. ``After the prosecution finished, it seemed so clear that O.J. was guilty,'' says U.S.C.'s Chemerinsky. ``Then after the defense finished, you felt he was not guilty. What more could you ask for?'' The jury, however, has yet to see the full presentation of evidence--and evidence, in theory, is what will take...