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...Really Don't Want to Know, a spoof of Simpson's own literary efforts; a work-in-progress by embattled Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman; and The Private Diary of an O.J. Juror by dismissed juror Michael Knox. But Viner, who was subpoenaed by Judge Lance Ito last week to answer accusations that the Knox book reveals too much about the Simpson jurors, insists he is performing a public service. The dismissed juror's memoir, which will be out at the end of the month, "could end up changing the jury system in terms of sequestration," Viner claims. Besides...
...Whole Truth, which has 900,000 copies in print, has prompted the prosecution to subpoena 17 hours of taped interviews made available by author Marc Eliot to determine whether Kaelin perjured himself. And one of the latest jurors to be dismissed, Francine Florio-Bunten, got in trouble with Judge Ito in part because of charges, which she has denied, that she was meeting with a literary agent. Although the California legislature attempted to end this chaos by making it a misdemeanor for any juror to profit from a criminal case until 90 days after the conclusion of the trial, that...
...setback for the O.J. Simpson defense team, Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution can introduce into evidence more than 40 graphic autopsy and crime-scene photos of the two slashed victims, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Judge Ito said the probative value of the "horrible" photos outweighed any prejudicial impact they might have. Most of the week's testimony involved further -- frequently tedious -- wrangling over the prosecution's blood evidence...
Thedwindling O.J. Simpson jury pool lurched closer to the minimal 12 todaywhen Judge Lance Ito dismissed two more jurors, leaving only two alternates in place. The defense immediately challenged one of the dismissals. Testimony was cancelled until an appeals court could rule on the matter. Judge Ito did not say why the two jurors -- a 28-year-old woman and a 54- year-old man -- had been dismissed, but it's believed that the woman was dismissed because she was taking notes for a book about the trial. It's the other juror whose dismissal the defense challenged, saysTIME...
...statement be read to jurors explaining that Simpson would find the experience too disturbing. Prosecutors challenged the defense proposal, asking that Simpson, an experienced film actor, leave the courtroom before the jury is seated, rather than be allowed to make a dramatic exit when the photos are introduced. Ito has yet to make a decision.O.J. Central