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Prosecutor Pamela Bozanich began her closing argument last Wednesday by tacking a single picture to the courtroom bulletin board. The full-color glossy showed the TV room of the Menendez mansion in Beverly Hills, California, patriarch Jose lifeless on a couch, his wife Kitty in a smashed and bloodied heap on the floor. In blunt language that veered from the schoolmarmish to the sarcastic, Bozanich delivered her message: "Lyle Menendez, accompanied by his brother, planned this murder . . . this was an intentional killing...
Nervously standing by the courtroom door was Police Lt. John F. Rooney, sporting a new tan and a well-tailored suit. Sgt. Kathleen Stanford, heavily made-up and wearing a sweater, slacks and two huge earrings, sat next to Rooney...
...controversy first began to simmer last July, when Ontario Judge Francis Kovacs banned substantive coverage of Homolka's trial and barred foreign journalists from his courtroom. Even after Homolka was sentenced to only 12 years for the barbaric deaths of two girls, the press could not report the obvious: that she had struck a plea. Canadian journalists who had attended the trial itched to write, as the Post eventually did, about how Leslie Mahaffy, 14, was hacked to bits and encased in concrete blocks, and Kristen French, 15, was held hostage for almost two weeks before her body was deposited...
Attending Witness for the Prosecution is about as fun as serving jury duty. In this faithful production of Agatha Christie's humdrum courtroom drama, the audience is asked to sit through a lengthy and primarily uneventful murder trial. Similar to real-life jury duty, the brightest moment of the play comes in the end when a verdict is announced and the plot, finally, twists...
Witness relies heavily on courtroom tension between the defense and the prosecuting attorney. Unfortunately, Michael Wertheim plays the prosecutor more as a petulant child than as a true force with which to be reckoned. Wertheim compromises the credibility and austerity of his character by stumbling through and forgetting many of his lines. As a result, a lot of dialogue exchanged in the courtroom fails in its mission to excite the witnesses and the audience...