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...including author Lawrence Schiller and former Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiro--were relegated to watching the trial on a screen in a "listening room" at the Doubletree hotel next door to the courthouse. And inside the courtroom there was an air of occasion as Simpson and plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli began their cat-and-mouse game. Simpson--who had stopped to jauntily sign autographs as he arrived--at last found himself nearly face to face with members of the Goldman clan, who sat close to the witness box. And Petrocelli got right down to the business of punching holes...
...have been a negative one. He did not feel vengeful toward his wife. People who say he talked incessantly about Nicole in the weeks preceding the murders, including golfing buddies of his like Alan Austin, were wrong. Even tangible evidence like his phone records were wrong: at one point, Petrocelli put up a display of all Simpson's phone calls from his residence and his cellular phone on the day of June 12. Simpson acknowledged the eight calls to ex-girlfriend Paula Barbieri--who has offered the potentially damaging news in her deposition, and may soon say in court, that...
...most compelling series of "nos" came during the exchanges about domestic violence. As Petrocelli wove for the jury a narrative of Simpson's life and times with Nicole, he hammered away at their tempestuous relationship--one that resulted in calls to police and a no-contest plea to spousal battery in 1989. With an enormous blow-up of Nicole's face, cut and purpled with bruises, looming on a huge screen behind the former football star, the lawyer quizzed him about numerous other incidents in which witnesses say Nicole was hit by her husband. And Petrocelli walked Simpson through some...
...plaintiffs' lawyers have the advantage of plucking out the elements of the prosecution's case that worked and rethinking the rest. In fact, the original prosecutors spent hours with Petrocelli and his team, helping them prepare. As Boston criminal lawyer Harvey Silverglate puts it, "The side that prevailed is going to try it as close as they can to the way that they did when they won, and the other side is going to change the contour of the second trial...
Lawyers for the plaintiffs also forged into new territory in their opening statements. Daniel Petrocelli, representing Ron Goldman's father, moved the estimated time of the murder to 20 minutes later, to coincide with the time a neighbor, Robert Heidstra, says he heard male voices shouting and saw a car similar to Simpson's Bronco leaving the scene. Petrocelli also promised to show a photo of Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes, of the type that left prints at the murder scene and that Simpson has denied owning. TIME has learned that the plaintiffs also plan to present more evidence...