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There was no shortage of these in the 85 pages of court documents, many of them sworn statements by witnesses, that prosecutors presented to Judge Lance Ito. O.J. throwing Nicole against a wall, knocking her to a sidewalk, shattering her car windshield with a baseball bat, locking her in a wine closet, drunkenly pushing her from their Rolls-Royce as it drifted through a parking lot -- one after another the alleged episodes unfolded. When violence wasn't the major theme, it was humiliation. In one scene, O.J. taunted a pregnant Nicole as a "fat pig" and demanded that she abort...
...items, including Nicole's narrative, which the defense belittled as the work of a woman marshaling her case in a divorce dispute. Though that went far to make the prosecution's presentation seem like a pitch to the headlines, Clark's team insists it was a response to Judge Ito's request that prosecutors identify evidence they wished him to rule on immediately...
...deciding what to admit, Judge Ito will have to perform a particularly fine legal operation. A centuries-old rule of Anglo-American common law holds that jurors should not be told of a defendant's past behavior that is considered too inflammatory for a jury to handle. In all states past crimes are inadmissable as evidence to show that the defendant was predisposed to commit the crime. Thus the judge in William Kennedy Smith's rape trial refused to allow testimony from three young women who each claimed that Smith had assaulted them under similar circumstances. "We fear that...
...major victory for the prosecution, Judge Lance Ito ruled that today that the jury will be allowed to hear some of theevidence of alleged domestic violence in O.J. Simpson's past. Ito said that the evidence can be presented to prove motive and intent. The jury will now get to hear the highly publicized 911 emergency call made by Nicole Simpson on New Year's Day in 1989, which led to criminal charges against O.J., and will be told about a 1985 baseball bat attack that damaged...
...Ito also ruled today that relatives of Nicole Brown Simpson can sit in the courtroom for most of the trial. Defense attorney Robert Shapiro had asked yesterday that they be barred from some of the proceedings because they were witnesses in the trial. Ito said that the family members may be in the courtroom for "a majority" of the trial -- but not when another witness testifies on matters they will be called to discuss...