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Barry Sheck has a keen grasp of legal minutiae but not the traffic code. The O.J. defense lawyer was stopped by cops after making an illegal U-turn in Manhattan and issued summonses for two other minor offenses. "I can't believe this is a story," said Scheck...
...shot, two gravestones, a smile. The trial can be reduced to these emblems. Or to entries in a specialized gazetteer: Rockingham, Bundy, Brentwood. A bestiary: barking dog, white Bronco, blond Kato. Names on a list: Marcia and Johnnie, Darden and Shapiro, Fung, Lee, Scheck, Ito, Fuhrman. A weird alphabet: DNA, O.J., A.C., L.A.P.D., the N word. All are signposts to a greater geography, one uneasily contained on the premises of the California Superior Court. Television viewers saw the proceedings and were captured by the legal dramatics; and yet there were always hints of unseen details and untold tales...
Simpson made some calls. He tried to reach "those guys from Brooklyn"--defense attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld--who spent their first night of freedom enjoying another win: watching the Yankees beat the Seattle Mariners. He telephoned his former in-laws, the Browns, and made the case, yet again, for his innocence. When Simpson's mother Eunice settled into a chair, a friend said, "he just sat down beside her and looked into her eyes. No words...
...thing that keeps happening whenever I contemplate telling a white lie or giving rein to a less than charitable impulse. Not that I do this very often, of course. But when I do, I now find myself subjected to involuntary cross-examination by a teeny little, very incredulous Barry Scheck voice. I think this is what psychiatrists call "internalizing." I'm hoping it goes away by Christmas...
...Guilty. Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran delivered a fire-and-brimstone assault on the Los Angeles police. He accused the department of plotting a frame-up of his client, who he said was innocent and had been targeted by a deceitful and ruthlessly racist detective, Mark Fuhrman. Defense attorney Barry Scheck said blood-DNA tests had been so tampered with they were worthless...