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...courthouse. And inside the courtroom there was an air of occasion as Simpson and plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli began their cat-and-mouse game. Simpson--who had stopped to jauntily sign autographs as he arrived--at last found himself nearly face to face with members of the Goldman clan, who sat close to the witness box. And Petrocelli got right down to the business of punching holes in Simpson's credibility. "You are not as interested in specific facts as you are in the effect of his testimony on the jury," explains Wyoming criminal lawyer Gerry Spence. "Credibility...
...have actually wanted to answer those few thousand questions--he has insisted he did--but in the end, his lawyers decided it would be unwise. Now, however, as the defendant in a wrongful-death suit filed by the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, Simpson has no choice. So like some promise of light emerging from the fog of an obscure and unpredictable trial, there he was on the witness stand in a Santa Monica, California, courtroom last Friday morning, impeccably dressed, a little nervous--and who wouldn't be?--answering the first of what...
Instead of using the L.A. County coroners, the plaintiffs put Dr. Werner Spitz, a respected pathologist, on the stand. His testimony that the cuts on Simpson's left hand were caused by the struggle with Ron Goldman, who gouged Simpson with his fingernails, riveted jurors. (Spitz even offered to rake his nails across defense lawyer Robert Baker's skin to demonstrate. "We're not going to have any gouging of flesh out in my courtroom," Judge Fujisaki said.) Even without that dramatic flare-up, the cuts--or rather the assorted stories he has told about them--may prove problematic...
...talk about blood evidence and Bronco fibers, the first jury was not all that interested in grappling with the extremely complex forensic evidence the state presented. As Michael Brewer, a lawyer for Ron Goldman's mother Sharon Rufo, told the Los Angeles Times, pre-gag order, "The jurors don't care about the minutiae; they care about the essence." That is why the moment that Simpson struggled to get the glove on was so pivotal. The plaintiffs' team has already tried to dispatch that one, bringing on a glove expert to testify that it shrank but looked like the same...
...here: once committed to a point of view, people develop a vested interest. Although Oliver Stone's upcoming Framed! clearly overstates the case in its ugly, baseless claim that White House lawyer Vince Foster killed Nicole (highly unlikely since Foster was "murdered" a year earlier), Stone's case for Goldman's being killed by Al Cowlings in a cleanup operation probably shouldn't be dismissed out of hand...