Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of the engrossing Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson portion of the show, an old advertisement for Converse basketball shoes came on. If memory has failed you, this was really one of the first star-specific basketball shoe ads to hit the airwaves...
Michael was and is a great player. In my eyes, however, his success has signaled the downfall of the NBA. The path of this can be seen by looking at the metamorphosis of the Air Jordan basketball shoe...
...just that with the parties under a gag order and cameras banned from the courtroom, the proceedings have been a little harder for outside observers to decipher. In reality, this is turning out to be a very different trial, with key pieces of evidence, including the bloody shoe prints, and the time line being cast in an entirely new light. Rulings by Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki--who has been nicknamed the anti-Ito for his decisive, suffer-no-fools demeanor--have also caused significant shifts in strategy. Last week, for example, Fujisaki ruled that videotapes of former Los Angeles...
...criminal trial, FBI shoe expert William Bodziak testified that bloody footprints leading away from the Bundy crime scene came from a pair of size-12, expensive, Italian-made Bruno Magli shoes, only 299 pairs of which were sold in the U.S. Simpson denied owning anything like them, going so far as to say in his January deposition that he would never wear such "ugly-ass" shoes. Then free-lance photographer Harry Scull found a photograph he had taken of Simpson walking through the end zone before a Sept. 26, 1993, Buffalo Bills game; he appears to be wearing the Bruno...
Last week Bodziak again testified that the shoes appeared to be the same, but the defense is claiming the photograph was doctored. The defense also showed that Bodziak was unable to identify an assortment of other shoe prints surrounding the crime scene. Since then, though, the National Enquirer has come up with another photograph showing Simpson wearing similar shoes in 1993. "God, how we searched for those shoes," says the former Simpson prosecutor now. "We sat watching Christmas videos with the Brown family. We digitally enhanced photos of things in his closet, hoping to find an old shoe...