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...nearly six-week trial turned out to be every bit as tangled and outrageous and bizarre as the defendant's coiffure. Last Friday the government announced it was withdrawing its appeal of the mistrial ruling made the day before by U.S. District Judge Lawrence McKenna. The judge had declared the mistrial because the jury informed him it was hopelessly deadlocked--after only five hours of actual deliberation. It seems that one of the jurors had a plane to catch to South Africa on Friday, with a nonrefundable ticket. King, 64, who has survived a 1985 tax-evasion case, three grand...
...that she has no idea how the defense found its way to her, and her lawyer concurs. As F. Lee Bailey tells it, he learned of the tapes last month through a call from a lawyer who gave him McKinny's first name and telephone number; defense investigator Patrick McKenna took it from there. McKenna says he dialed and left a message; McKinny called him about 15 minutes later. "I took a deep breath and said to her, 'I work for O.J. Simpson, and I really believe in my heart of hearts that he is innocent,'" McKenna recalls. "'Please...
...them instead. In fact, as the 1996 presidential race gets under way, investigating the boss before an opponent does it for you has become as integral a part of fledgling campaigns as fund raising and free media are. "It's essential," said Jack Pitney, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College. "You really need to see where the other side is going to come at you." Done right, counter-oppo (short for counter-opposition research, as the strategy is called) isn't defense at all. It's good offense...
First Period Bro-McKenna (Gorton) 4:47. Bro-Driscoll (Kellar, King...
...particularly pernicious sign of the times is a phenomenon called frontloading, in which students drink alcohol, usually hard liquor, in private before attending a social event. "It's difficult to get alcohol when you're out because of the age law," explains Seph McKenna, a junior who lives in a substance-free dorm at Boston College. "So people say, 'I'd better be lubricated before I go out."' When writer Christopher Buckley gave the keynote address at the annual evening banquet of the Yale Daily News last month, he was so outraged by the boorish behavior of audience members, many...