Word: gil
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...SIMPSON WAS home, back at 360 North Rockingham, the mansion whose gates, landscaping and layout Americans have come to know so well. One of the first things the former football star saw was the silver-haired L.A. district attorney Gil Garcetti on TV, announcing that he had no plans to look for other killers. "Garcetti!" Simpson said aloud. "He wouldn't even give me that! Why doesn't that guy give me something--just say he'll look into it?" Simpson then retreated into his bedroom, sitting down on the edge of his huge bed and gazing at the space...
...convict a black defendant so dear to them as O.J. It would also probably mean another trial, and thanks to a year of saturated publicity, the search for a dozen unbiased jurors is certain to be more difficult than it was the first time. Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti has promised to retry Simpson even if the jury votes 11 to 1 for acquittal. The seminars on dna evidence. The bloody glove. Mark Fuhrman. Kato Kaelin. Could there be anyone, anywhere, who would want to go through that again...
...Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan said the tapes made him "sick." District Attorney Gil Garcetti said they "embarrassed" him, and Police Chief Willie Williams said he was going to comb the LAPD for Fuhrman-like cops and -- somehow -- get rid of them. "The politicians are saying what they have to say, but blacks here don't believe a word of it," reports TIME's Sylvestor Monroe from Los Angeles. "No one in the black community is shocked or horrified at the tapes. They know nothing has changed in Los Angeles since Rodney King. Fuhrman just confirms...
...Gil Garcetti, the Los Angeles district attorney with the deep tan and the chiseled face, is widely perceived to have micromanaged all the major moves in the Simpson case, from the early decision to file the charges in downtown Los Angeles rather than nearby Santa Monica, thus ensuring a mostly minority jury, to the decision not to seek the death penalty. It's a perception he denies, lavishly praising his prosecutors' strategic calls. But in an interview with Time late Friday, Garcetti took full responsibility for the state's presentation: "I can't promise the results of a case...
Sporting a big "No Mistrial" button,Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcettidenied defense charges that the prosecution wants a mistrial and has been trying have allegedly sympathetic jurors dismissed. In the courtroom, defense attorney Barry Scheck continued to cast doubts on the validity of evidence collected by the LAPD as he grilled criminalist Dennis Fung. Today, Fung acknowledged leavingdelicate blood samplesin a hot van for seven hours because the refrigerator in the van did not work. Scheck also accused Fung of lying about seeing bloodstains on Simpson's Bronco, saying that Fung was trying to protect the testimony of Detective...