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...since the Simpson case erupted. One city council member reports being cornered at the gym by would-be jurors. From as far away as Minnesota and Florida, people eager -- avid! -- to do their official duty have been phoning the offices of Judge Lance Ito and District Attorney Gil Garcetti. That out-of-staters are ineligible is no barrier to their civic-mindedness...
District Attorney Gil Garcetti seemed to anticipate the scrutiny his announcement would attract, acknowledging in a press release the "deep public concern" about the death-penalty decision in the Simpson case but asserting that the decision had been made "independent of this concern." Yet that bland avowal, combined with a stated intention to comment no further until after the trial, invited immediate speculation that public concern -- or, more specifically, the concern of one potential juror who might create a hung jury -- was indeed Garcetti's paramount consideration. "I'm not suprised," says Wendy Alderson, a prominent Palm Springs jury consultant...
...recent episode from Somerset, Pennsylvania -- there is good reason to be unnerved? A breeding ground of poverty and broken families and drugs and guns and violence, real or just pictured, has brought forth a violent generation. "We need to throw out our entire juvenile-justice system," says Gil Garcetti, the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, whose biggest headache, after the O.J. trial, is the city's youth gangs. "We should replace it with one that both protects society from violent juvenile criminals and efficiently rehabilitates youths who can be saved -- and can differentiate between...
...team took a hammering. In one instance, Simpson's lawyers were rebuffed when they tried to punish prosecutors for seeking evidence against Simpson from testimony in a grand jury investigating his friend Al ("A.C.") Cowlings, the driver of the fleeing white Bronco. The defense was responding to District Attorney Gil Garcetti's earlier statement that his team would not ignore "other evidence that comes out that assists us in another case...
...those keeping score, the Simpson defense team played pretty good offense last week, while District Attorney Gil Garcetti's office seemed to be stumbling all over the field. Some of the moves by Simpson's legal team were largely theatrical: attorney Leroy Taft set up a toll-free number and a $500,000 reward for tips leading to the arrest of the "real killer." Potentially more damaging, the Los Angeles County coroner's office, pressured by media leaks, admitted that 16 pieces of evidence in the Simpson case had been mishandled. Though most of the errors were minor (a container...