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Susan Smith's defense rested, clearing the way for jury deliberation over the death penalty, after a parade of relatives and friends testified that sending the 23-year-old woman to the electric chair would only compound the tragedy of her sons' deaths. The most wrenching moment, TIME's Lisa...
In a bitter coda to its videotaped, six-minute reenactment ofSusan Smith's car sinking with her two young boys inside, the prosecution rested its case in the sentencing phase today by showing stone-faced jurors photographs ofthe drowned children. Since the trial began, TIME's Lisa Towle notes, Judge...
It's over. it's just begun. last week the prosecution in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson rested its case -- appropriate terminology since the whole drawn-out affair has been exhausting. This week Simpson's so-called Dream Team of lawyers begins its defense, and jurors and trial watchers...
Those somber judicial robes that cloaked the broad shoulders of Warren Earl Burger for 17 years as Chief Justice of the United States never really disguised the fact that underneath he was an exuberant prairie yeoman--and proud of it. After a few sips of one of his fine clarets...
After five months,10 dismissed jurorsand several thousand hours of analysis on Court TV, the O.J. Simpson prosecution has finally rested its case. How did they do? "I don't think they hit the ball out of the park," saysTIME's Elaine Lafferty. "But they did a fairly solid, workmanlike...