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...believe they know what it was. The owner of a Los Angeles cutlery shop and a salesclerk testified that five weeks before the killings, Simpson bought a 15-in. stiletto with a 6-in. folding blade; before paying, he had it sharpened. To help the courtroom visualize such a knife, co- prosecutor William Hodgman displayed glossy photographs showing a duplicate of the stiletto that he said Simpson had purchased. This was followed by hints that a coroner would offer testimony to prove that the knife wounds on the victims came from the stiletto. Said Hodgman: "Stay tuned next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flesh and Blood | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...WITNESSES. How persuasive the knife-purchase testimony might be in court will depend on what jurors think about the fact that Jose Camacho, the cutlery-store salesclerk, was paid $12,500 by the National Enquirer to repeat his story to them, money that Camacho will split with his bosses. Though Shapiro failed in an attempt to get Judge Kennedy-Powell to suppress the testimony, he could argue to a jury that Camacho and one of his bosses had embellished their story or invented it to make it more salable. "How can you trust an individual when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flesh and Blood | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...claiming that the injunction infringed on free speech, was skewed against pro-life sentiment and was too overreaching. Mathew Staver, their lawyer, noting that 300 ft. is almost the length of a football field, maintained, "This injunction, instead of using a surgeon's scalpel, cuts with a butcher's knife." No one knew how the Justices would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keep Your Distance | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...wants a runaway game where the fans leave the stands before half time. About the time a viewer might be tempted to switch to a shopping channel, the anchors would go to a replay of the ceremonious delivery of the mysterious brown envelope, which contains either a knife or a red herring. It's as riveting as the MacGuffin in a Hitchcock thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: One Life to Live | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...special effects are appropriately muted, confined mostly to Cranston's "invisible" exploits, although there is a really cool live knife that has a tendency to bite the hand holding it. It's all about control, of course...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Shadow Knows Entertainment | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

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