Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, extraordinary cases always run the risk of producing exaggerated lessons. In response to the abduction and murder of Polly Klaas, California and other states rushed to pass "three strikes'' sentencing laws with little thought for their effect on prisons and the courts. Now many legal observers worry about what changes, intended and unintended, the Simpson spectacle may engender. "Reforms will come speedily and without great caution or thought,'' predicts Brandeis professor Jeffrey Abramson, who wrote We, The Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy. Says Yale Kamisar, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School...
...LAWYERS. The carnival atmosphere surrounding the courtroom led to so many antics that the case's substance of a horrible double murder was often lost in the din. West Los Angeles public defender James Bendat believes judicial gag orders on lawyers in spectacular cases are the best remedy. "That would have been the right decision in terms of dealing with the media and preventing this buildup of frenzy," he says...
...very likely. It's also unlikely that such vicious assaults would have gone unpunished: smashing in Kardashian's face would have got Simpson arrested and given him pause; beating up Nicole got him phone therapy. Only when he was booked for murder was this "family matter" taken seriously enough to put domestic violence--the leading cause of injury among women, which kills at least 1,400 of them a year--on the national agenda. Network news teams investigated; talk shows buzzed. Calls to hot lines multiplied...
Cochran tried to make the opposite point at trial--not every man who beats his wife murders her. But just last year at its "murder summit," the International Association of Police Chiefs concluded otherwise: because their figures show that most women who are murdered are killed by men they know who have previously attacked them, the chiefs agreed that one of the most efficient ways to reduce the homicide rate is to build more shelters...
Still, if there is a fight for the kids, the blood spilled during Nicole's murder may count for something. "There's a pretty significant likelihood that if there is a custody battle, O.J. could lose custody," says Scott Altman, a professor of law at the University of Southern California. Although all states strongly favor parents over other relatives in child-custody cases, Altman believes three other factors could tip the balance in the Browns' favor: "For children who have already lived through a traumatic event, continuity of care could be important. Second, the judge could consider evidence that...