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Cochran is quick to dismiss what promises to be one of the biggest challenges for the defense: Simpson's alleged pattern of past abuse. ``[The prosecution] has tried to tear him down piece by piece,'' he insists, ``but O.J. is not charged with getting into an altercation with his wife on Jan. 1, 1989. That matter was litigated in the courts, and it is over.'' Cochran also intends to stress the timing of the murders, using what he calls a ``commonsense'' approach. ``When did the person--who would be totally covered with blood--have time to dispose...
...about legislative threats to people's interests, and often they can do that honestly. This, in a sense, is more disturbing than the cases of dishonesty or demagoguery. It means that the corruption of the public interest by special interests is no easily cured pathology, but a stubbornly rational pattern of behavior. The costs of each group's selfishness are spread diffusely across the whole nation, after all, while the benefits are captured by the group. Though every group might prosper in the long run if all groups surrendered just enough to balance the budget, it makes no sense...
...more tolerant political philosophy (along with the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) and begun to believe he was marked for death -- correctly so. One conspirator distracted his bodyguards' attention; another pulled a shotgun trigger, creating, in the words of writer Marshall Frady, "a perfectly circular seven-inch pattern of holes over his heart." For insurance, the killers shot him again with the shotgun and pistols...
Prior crimes can be used, however, to show motive, intent or planning. More recently the law has carved out a further exception for sexual assault, spousal murder and child molestation by bringing forward evidence that a pattern of past offenses in those areas is an especially good indicator of guilt. That reasoning exasperates some legal thinkers. "You can't infer murder from abuse," insists Columbia University law professor George Fletcher. "Homicide may imply abuse, but abuse does not imply homicide." All the same, the crime bill that was recently passed by Congress allows prior behavior to be used as evidence...
...predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S. Southwest, O prevails but A makes an appearance; in the Alaskan and Canadian Inuit (Eskimo), A, B, AB and O blood groups show the pattern seen in the rest of the world...