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...weary of this yet? Has a single citizen of the global village OD'd on O.J.? Apparently not. Every day for two weeks everybody was talking, everybody was watching. Last Friday, when the pretrial hearing reached its grisly climax, was Day 26 of America Held Hostage by its own lust for sensation. On ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, ESPN2 and especially COURT TV (the all-O.J. channel), the talkathon played six or more hours a day. Afternoon ratings soared 24% above their usual levels; prime-time specials were available for the law- impaired and the jurisimprudent. If you still...
Dershowitz has been an outspoken critic of how the case has been handled, questioning whether prosecutors have violated Simpson's rights with excessive pretrial publicity...
Because not only does Hackney have a distorted view of free expression--he also has awful judgment, and little sense of consequences. The Penn president didn't realize that in condemning Jacobowitz to a drawn-out pretrial period, he would incur the ravenous attention of the national media, and the censure of his own campus...
...object, but he was overruled. The jury deliberated only 45 minutes; Roberts found himself on death row. A federal judge subsequently ordered a new trial, on the ground that the first had been "fundamentally unfair," in part because Roberts' lawyers had failed to "adequately and effectively investigate" the crime. Pretrial proceedings are scheduled to get under way this month -- 10 years after Roberts' arrest...
...TRIAL OF FOUR LOS ANGELES POLICEMEN unleashed the worst riots in modern American history. The jury's acquittal of all but one for the beating of black motorist Rodney King seemed so at odds with a highly publicized home video that the city exploded in protest. This time, as pretrial maneuvering ended for the long-awaited civil rights version of the same case, scheduled to begin this week, federal attorneys have tightened their arguments. The prosecution will call civilian eyewitnesses, who have told a grand jury that King did not attack his tormentors, as well as an L.A.P.D...