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Just days before the opening of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the former football star's high-powered legal defense suffered one of its most damaging defeats. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution could present in evidence the bulk of the materials it has gathered that might show Simpson was a violently jealous and abusive husband. The judge handed the defense one small win, though, allowing it to introduce some evidence regarding the alleged racist attitudes of a key detective. The mostly negative developments for the defense capped a week in which an embarrassing ego spat between...
...rather, if O.J. Simpson's defense lawyers are not primed, they aren't admitting it. True, some nerves have become a bit frazzled lately--Robert Shapiro and F. Lee Bailey weren't speaking there for a while--and the team suffered some major setbacks last week. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution need not prove its case ``to a moral certainty'' and could introduce evidence of prior violence in the Simpson marriage. But O.J.'s lawyers barely flinched. They have their special reserves--their boundless high style and winning courtroom ways, their fax hookup with appeals adviser Alan Dershowitz...
After a dramatic and contentious day in court yesterday, Judge Ito adjourned proceedings till next week after the prosecution demanded that he impose sanctions on the defense for producing a last-minute roster of witnesses without informing them.The O.J. Files
...eleventh-hour witness list submitted by the defense. Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden denounced the list as a roster of "heroin addicts, thieves, felons and . . . a court-certified pathological liar." Prosecutor William Hodgman was hospitalized last evening, complaining of chest pains; he is still in the hospital. Judge Lance Ito noted that Hodgman appeared extremely disturbed as defense attorneys announced the new witnesses yesterday. "I've known him as a colleague and a trial lawyer and I've never seen the expression on his face," said Ito...
Judge Lance Ito allowed broadcasters to continue televising the proceedings, after Court TV apologized profusely for showing the face of an alternate juror yesterday. Ito grumbled later in the day that he gets no respect: he said he has been treated like the "Rodney Dangerfield of judges."The O.J. Files