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...such highbrow language hardly captures the raw reality of Judge Ito's courtroom last week, where each day brought a new spike in the players' emotional temperatures--and further discomfited the millions of TV viewers who thought they knew what to think about O.J. Over kitchen tables, in restaurants, around office coffee machines, people debated the lawyers' opening statements, critiqued Judge Ito's style, expressed amazement over snapshots of Simpson's body offered up by the defense and photos of Simpson's socks displayed by the prosecution...
Such viewers could only 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...
...Darden--a soft-spoken, studious lawyer who joined the prosecution team on Nov. 7, after supervising the grand jury investigation of Simpson's friend Al Cowlings--performed well, the most dramatic moment of the opening day came later, when Marcia Clark displayed graphic photographs of the bodies. Judge Lance Ito ruled these pictures off limits to television viewers, and the reactions of those present in the courtroom explained why. Ron Goldman's father Frederic wept at the sight of his son's slashed and bloody corpse up on the 87-in. video monitor, while Nicole Brown Simpson's three sisters...
Clark, whose trial demeanor can be both intense and compassionate, walked the jury through the murder scene, telling of hairs matching Simpson's, of telltale shoe prints and trails of blood--blood, she intoned repeatedly, that ``matches the defendant'' in dna tests. As she finished, after several interruptions from Ito, admonishing her not to argue her case in her opening statement, Clark appeared close to tears as she reminded the jury to remember the victims...
...mostly African-American jury of eight women and four men, this was the day's denouement. They were out of the courtroom by the time Judge Ito--informed that a hapless Court TV cameraman had slipped and televised the face of one alternate juror for a fraction of a second--excoriated the press and threatened to shut down the television cameras altogether. But as has happened before, Ito brandished a stick that he ultimately declined to use: he relented the next morning and let the show...