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...adviser. "And on the first day of the trial, Dr. Vinson was asked to leave the courtroom because the prosecutors were concerned that the public might feel that the jury or the jury system was being manipulated if they were using a jury consultant." "Meanwhile," Martel continues, "Jo-Ellan Dimitrius was literally steering the ship at that point for the defense--and you saw the jury that resulted...
Even without his jury consultant Dimitrius, Cochran would have relished jury selection. "When the prosecutors kicked off 10 of the first 11 jurors, the [peremptory challenges] they used were against blacks. But every time they would do it, we would get other blacks. We had 18 [prospective] jurors in view. So I knew when they kicked one off, I could see who the next one was coming, and the next one after that. So I'll tell you quite frankly, when we got to the point where I had eight black jurors, and the alternates were so good also...
When cold computer analysis clashed with the gut instincts of prosecutors Bill Hodgman and Marcia Clark, Vinson was banished from the strategizing. Simpson's defense team, on the other hand, soaked up the services of its jury consultant every step of the way. As late as last week Dimitrius joined defense lawyers at Robert Shapiro's office for a strategy session in which O.J. participated for 45 minutes by telephone. "He's got a real good sense of who he appeals to," said a source close to the defense...
...candidates who regularly read newspapers and magazines and watch TV news. (His approved fare for the dozen jurors: edited tapes of sitcoms and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.) "Ito cut down the pool of intelligent, independent people, and they weren't just whites," said Harvey Giss, a Los Angeles prosecutor. Even Dimitrius, though pleased with the outcome, said "Both sides lost good jurors in the process...
...chosen. In a case where jurors may be sequestered -- and exhausted -- for as long as six months, alternates cannot be an afterthought. As last week's jury selection drew to a close, a tired Clark remarked that everyone had earned their pay. Leaving the courtroom, she bid adieu to Dimitrius, perhaps thinking the defense consultant's job was completed. Dimitrius smiled and said "Not so soon. I'll be back." Dimitrius has been hired for the duration of the trial...