Word: hodgman
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...court. "The detectives' decision to book the cash as Cowlings' personal property and not as evidence would be damaging to prosecution at trial," concluded the internal memo, dated Oct. 27, 1994. The chase, which was never mentioned to the jury, was a "mixed bag,'' according to prosecutor William Hodgman. "If you knew some of the evidence we were dealing with, you would understand what the cost-benefit analysis...
...gloves, would Cochran have? "I don't know," Cochran says now. "I don't like to ask questions or do things when I don't know what the answers are going to be. Darden forgot that. That's something he is going to have to learn." Hodgman offers this assessment: "If we had to do it over again, we would do the glove demonstration differently...
...prosecution's objections began when it sounded as if Cochran was engaging in legal arguments, not simply presenting the case. But what sent Hodgman to the hospital later that night, and had Clark back in court the next day arguing heatedly for a 30-day continuance and sanctions against the defense, was Cochran's citing of more than a dozen witnesses not previously on the defense's witness list. One of the fresh witnesses: Mary Ann Gerchas, the woman who claimed she had seen men in knit caps running away from Nicole's house on the night of the murder...
...watch, transfixed, the spectacle of surprise witnesses, new details of blood and fibers, a testy Ito and lawyers positively sputtering with outrage. Who could have predicted that among those holding press conferences would be doctors from the California Medical Center, reporting on the condition of deputy district attorney William Hodgman, who was stricken with chest pains at the end of Day Two? Hodgman, ordinarily mild-mannered, got so upset in court that Ito said, ``How do you suggest I deal with the objections of the prosecution after I succeed in peeling them off the ceiling?'' Ito added, ``I have known...
...deliberate withholding of the witnesses,'' says Erwin Chemerinsky, a law professor at the University of Southern California. ``I understand why the prosecution was outraged.'' And at the very least, the defense must enjoy seeing the prosecution so rattled at such a crucial point in the trial. ``For Bill Hodgman to object 13 times is a sign of how bad the damage to the prosecution was,'' says Los Angeles criminal-defense lawyer Andrew Stein. ``Marcia Clark and Bill Hodgmanwere right to be indignant...