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...that time, the Simpson 12 (plus two remaining alternates) have been subjected to something like sensory deprivation. Contact with family and friends has been limited to a nightly 15-minute phone call, monitored by sheriff's deputies, and the five-hour conjugal visits on Saturdays. The deputies collect the jurors' room keys each night and routinely search their belongings for diaries or other forbidden items. When a juror got permission to celebrate her wedding anniversary by having dinner with her husband in the hotel restaurant, two security guards watched over them throughout the meal...
According to the resolution, the council was concerned that the judge allowed a juror to be seated who had previously admitted his bias against Abu-Jumal. Sabo had also allegedly facilitated the selection of a jury which did not include any Black members...
...possible mistrial in theSusan Smithmurder trial was thrown out by Circuit Judge William Howard, who ruled that an accidental contact between a juror and a member of the Smith family--apparently in a hotel laundry room--was of no importance. Sara Singleton, grandmother of Susan Smith's ex-husband, said "it was innocent. . . it was stupid," in comments that seemed to confirm she was the family member in question. The sentencing phase of the trial, which began today, could last up to a week. Smith was found guilty of two counts of murder last Saturday...
...over. it's just begun. last week the prosecution in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson rested its case -- appropriate terminology since the whole drawn-out affair has been exhausting. This week Simpson's so-called Dream Team of lawyers begins its defense, and jurors and trial watchers can only pray they don't live up to their name in the soporific sense. In half-time analyses, legal pundits have seized upon the numbing numbers the trial has generated: so far, there have been 92 days of testimony, 58 prosecution witnesses and 488 exhibits. Ten jurors have been dismissed...
...evidence was overwhelming,' I think it will go a long way to restoring confidence in our criminal-justice system." At the same time, Garcetti agrees that race can be a factor in jury deliberations. He cites a recent murder case in which one black juror held out, saying he would not send another black man to prison. The other jurors eventually brought him around...