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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unsettling as some of that may be, none of it can compare with the lesson prosecutors have had to accept -- that it's possible to play to the court of public opinion so strenuously that you lose the courts of law. On Friday Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's game plan was thrown into the air when a judge dissolved a 23-member grand jury that was considering whether there was enough evidence to try Simpson on murder charges. Superior Court Judge Cecil J. Mills, in response to an unusual request from Simpson's attorney, Robert Shapiro, concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing to the Crowd | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...decision was a setback for Garcetti, who had every reason to hope the panel would hand down an indictment before a preliminary hearing on June 30 that he wanted to head off. At that hearing, prosecutors will be compelled to present the evidence and testimony they hope to use at trial -- an invaluable preview of what Simpson will be up against, and an opportunity for Shapiro to have some of it disallowed. If an indictment had come down first, the hearing would have been canceled and the case gone directly to trial with the prosecution's evidence still sealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing to the Crowd | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

Simpson's highflying defense lawyer Robert Shapiro called in a team to help him through the crisis: forensic experts to go over every piece of evidence, an internist to monitor O.J.'s health and a psychiatrist to handle his deepening depression. On Friday morning Garcetti called Shapiro with word that the scientific tests were back, and that charges had been filed of first- degree murder involving special circumstances -- meaning that Simpson could get the death penalty if convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: O.J. Simpson: End of the Run | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...still had some surprise moves to spring even on his own team. The surrender deadline came and went; when Los Angeles police department Commander David Gascon finally appeared before reporters, he was in a quiet fury. O.J. had failed to surface, he announced, and was now a fugitive. D.A. Garcetti arrived about an hour later to warn anyone against helping Simpson escape. "If you assist him in any way," he said, "you are committing a felony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: O.J. Simpson: End of the Run | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

First he called his family lawyer and dictated a new codicil to his will. Then he wrote three letters -- to his children, to his mother and "To whom it may concern." As Shapiro explained later, Garcetti's office finally called and said police were coming to take O.J. into custody. But when the forensic psychiatrist went to get O.J., he and Cowlings were gone. The hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: O.J. Simpson: End of the Run | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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