Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prosecution opened its murder case against O.J. Simpson by presenting witnesses and evidence intended to undermine his public image as a genial ex-jock with a portrait of a jealous wife abuser...
...prosecution opened its murder case against O.J. Simpson by presenting witnesses and evidence intended to undermine his public image as a genial ex- jock with a portrait of a jealous wife abuser. A detective testified about a 1989 beating incident; a friend recounted how Simpson had told him about dreams of killing his former wife; and his ex-sister-in-law sobbed as she detailed other instances of violence. Before testimony began, Judge Lance Ito had admonished defense attorneys in front of the jury for having violated witness-disclosure rules; Ito sanctioned the defense by allowing prosecutors to reopen their...
...points: the horrific crime and the motive. Darden handled the personality aspects of the case, speaking of the popular O.J. Simpson from movies and Hertz commercials and warning the jury of the defendant's ``private side.'' Simpson, he argued, was obsessed with Nicole, obsessed with control and jealous to the point of violence. ``If he couldn't have her, he didn't want anybody else to have her,'' Darden said. Simpson, who had been warned by his lawyers to refrain from his customary eye-rolling and grimacing, observed the proceedings impassively, occasionally scribbling notes or shaking his head...
...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 two of its usually media-savvy...
With the O.J. Simpson jury sequestered, the double-murder case entered one of its more dramatic phases as the prosecution and defense battled over evidence that might show the ex-football star to have been a jealous and physically abusive husband. The defense challenged the material as irrelevant, unreliable, inflammatory and prejudicial...