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...incredible remarks I've ever heard in a court of law in 32 years of practicing law . . . To say that our mostly African American jurors can't be fair is absolutely outrageous." At one point during the back-and-forth O.J. Simpson began to cry. The upshot? Judge Lance Ito said the motion to block the defense from questioning Fuhrman was "premature...
Prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson trial pleaded with Judge Lance Ito to admit evidence that Simpson had often beaten his ex-wife Nicole during their 17-year relationship. Outside the courtroom, meanwhile, lawyers on both sides dealt with fall-out from yesterday's sensational revelations. This morning the District Attorney's office withdrew some items from consideration in this evidenciary hearing, including passages from Nicole Simpsons' journal and a statement allegedly made by Simpson that if he caught any of his ex-wife's boyfriends driving his cars, he would "cut their (expletive) heads off." TIME Los Angeles correspondent...
...evidence of domestic violence involvingO.J. Simpsonand his wife and testimony about his threats against Nicole Brown Simpson's friends surfaced today as Judge Lance Ito moved closer to making critical decisions about the evidence the jury in the murder case will ultimately hear. The admissibility of 59 incidents of domestic violence at the hand of O.J. Simpson against his wife were reviewed during today's hearing -- closed to the now sequestered jury. Among the most incriminating evidence: that Eddie Reynoza, who worked on a movie with O.J. Simpson, told investigators that Simpson became angry at the mention of Nicole Simpson...
...case, waiving all of their previous objections. The move means that opening statements in the Simpson trial may begin within two weeks. Hearings to consider the admissibility of the evidence had been expected to last up to six weeks.TIME Los Angeles correspondent Pat Colesays that given Judge Lance Ito's tendency to be unsympathetic to O.J.'s defense motions: "They probably figured that he was going to allow it anyway, so why not cut to the chase? O.J. Simpson's money might be getting short...
...nation's TV households tuned in to the oddest car chase in TV history: O.J. Simpson's slow-speed flight along the Los Angeles freeways, ending with his surrender in the driveway of his Brentwood home. The courtroom drama that followed has grown increasingly tedious (anybody know what Judge Ito's right profile looks like?). But that evening-long episode of The Fugitive, with play-by-play from Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw and seemingly every local newscaster in Los Angeles, was the daffiest media spectacle of the year...