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...tuck her two children into bed, and all through the weekend, she was back in her small 18th-floor office at the Los Angeles County courthouse, munching on celery (she does not eat dinner), smoking Dunhills and scribbling furiously on a white legal pad. Clark, deputy district attorney Christopher Darden and the six other lawyers working on the case--along with a bunch of cops who constantly drop by to visit Clark and offer help and moral support--ordered in pizza or Chinese food as the team scrambled to right the prosecutorial ship. ``I don't believe the defense...
...their opening statements, Clark and Darden hammered at two key points: the horrific crime and the motive. Darden handled the personality aspects of the case, speaking of the popular O.J. Simpson from movies and Hertz commercials and warning the jury of the defendant's ``private side.'' Simpson, he argued, was obsessed with Nicole, obsessed with control and jealous to the point of violence. ``If he couldn't have her, he didn't want anybody else to have her,'' Darden said. Simpson, who had been warned by his lawyers to refrain from his customary eye-rolling and grimacing, observed the proceedings...
...Although Darden--a soft-spoken, studious lawyer who joined the prosecution team on Nov. 7, after supervising the 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...
TheO.J. Simpson trialwas thrown into chaos today because of the illness of one prosecutor and a bitter back-and-forth between attorneys on both sides regarding an eleventh-hour witness list submitted by the defense. Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden denounced the list as a roster of "heroin addicts, thieves, felons and . . . a court-certified pathological liar." Prosecutor William Hodgman was hospitalized last evening, complaining of chest pains; he is still in the hospital. Judge Lance Ito noted that Hodgman appeared extremely disturbed as defense attorneys announced the new witnesses yesterday. "I've known him as a colleague...
...Simpson's neighborhood the night of the murder. Cochran claimed the woman informed the D.A.'s office that she had seen four men walking away from the murder scene at about 10:45 p.m. "They didn't want to listen," Cochran said. He said that Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden's depiction of the Simpsons' marriage as full of violence was "not exactly true." He said there was no evidence his client had hurt Nicole after 1989, when he pleaded no contest to spousal battery. Furthermore, he asserted that experts would testify that the murderer would have been covered with...