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...reconsider a ruling that lets police use deadly force against people who try to escape from custody while awaiting a criminal trial, effectively saying it is constitutional to shoot at even unarmed fugitives. Without comment, the justices turned away an appeal in a Houston case that argued against shooting "pretrial detainees." The incident involved Roland Brothers Jr., a Texas man arrested in 1998 for auto theft, who was shot by sheriff's deputies while trying to escape. His family sued, claiming the act was unconstitutional. Today's decision resolved a nine-year-old legal contradiction: In 1985, the High court...
With jury selection in the O.J. Simpson murder case set to begin on Monday, prosecutors and defense attorneys spent their last week of pretrial hearings arguing over the admissibility of critical evidence seized by police at Simpson's estate. Judge Lance Ito ruled in favor of the prosecution on the vast majority of the disputed evidence. He also attacked what he called "outrageous" and "incorrect" reporting on the case and threatened to kick TV cameras out of the courtroom...
Prosser is supportive of Dershowitz and all of Simpson's attorneys. So far, she says, the defense has litigated pretrial matters appropriately...
Rising to his feet during a pretrial hearing in the O.J. Simpson case in Los Angeles last week, Deputy District Attorney William Hodgman waxed indignant. "If the defense wants to go fishing," he complained, "they're going to have to use their own pole and own tackle box." Hodgman was upset over the defense team's demands that the prosecutors turn over a laundry list of records including reports of prowler and burglary calls in the neighborhood of the murder site, records of local unsolved murders, and -- on the chance that Nicole Simpson's dog may have attacked the killer...
...hearing earlier in the week centered on that subject and was notable for some pretrial confessions -- confessions of ignorance about testing, that is. The only kind of science he studied in college, Judge Lance Ito admitted, was political science, and both Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark and defense attorney Robert Shapiro in effect conceded that they lacked the expertise to come to his aid. Ito ordered both attorneys to round up expert witnesses to testify about how to handle and interpret the DNA tests...