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Late one night during the O.J. Simpson criminal trial last year, prosecutor Marcia Clark let down her hair and indulged a fantasy: getting the chance to cross-examine Simpson herself. The accused murderer's defense attorneys, after all, kept dangling the tantalizing prospect before her. "It'll never happen," Clark said. "But I would love it." Striking a hungry, heavy-lidded pose at her desk, she cooed, "Good morning, Mr. Simpson. I have a few thousand questions...
...Simpson may or may not have actually wanted to answer those few thousand questions--he has insisted he did--but in the end, his lawyers decided it would be unwise. Now, however, as the defendant in a wrongful-death suit filed by the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, Simpson has no choice. So like some promise of light emerging from the fog of an obscure and unpredictable trial, there he was on the witness stand in a Santa Monica, California, courtroom last Friday morning, impeccably dressed, a little nervous--and who wouldn't be?--answering...
When The People v. Orenthal James Simpson concluded last October, America's silly season ended. Gone was O.J., nothing but O.J., from television and from the tabloids. What lingered, though, from the most avidly discussed criminal trial in the late 20th century was not fond memories of the Dancing Itos but bitter divisions and unanswered questions. Simpson was acquitted in a matter of hours by a mostly black jury after a yearlong proceeding tainted by race baiting and muddied by mountains of evidence and theories of police conspiracy. Nothing seemed the same: not juries, not police departments, not the reputations...
...Just as Simpson's speech was given prominence, so have other conservatives who have appeared at Forum events. When Ralph Reed spoke on Oct. 30, he could not have received a warmer introduction from Mark Merritt, a former Republican National Committee chieftain who runs an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group this semester. This demagogue Reed, whose unctuous invective against "moral decay" was the embodiment of religious hypocrisy, whose appropriation of the Kennedys' rhetoric served only to undermine their name and that of the school, was welcomed by the K-School establishment in order to promote (over C-SPAN...
SANTA MONICA, Calif: O.J. Simpson took everyone by surprise Tuesday, stepping down from the witness stand without taking questions from his own attorney after two brutal days of cross examination by lawyers for the plaintiffs. Defense attorney Robert Baker's surprising decision to put off his chance to ask sympathetic questions of Simpson until next month leaves the jury to reflect on two days of withering attacks on Simpson's credibility without the expected screen that the defense might have provided in its own line of questioning. Responding to criticism of his strategy, Baker told reporters, "There...