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SANTA MONICA, California: His sports career finished, his professional reputation ruined, O.J. Simpson could always seek moral support from the 1968 Heisman Trophy he won as college football's best player. Not anymore. Under a court order signed by Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, sheriff's deputies and a huge moving van arrived at Simpson's estate to confiscate property for payment of $33.5 million in damages for the death of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The $5,100 Heisman was one of the first items to go. The $500,000 inventory list submitted to Fujisaki by the Goldman family lawyers...
...reward in the case. One came just a few days after the Jan. 16 murder, when an edgy informant with a slight foreign accent got on the phone with a junior reporter in the Enquirer's Los Angeles office. "You guys are the ones who did the O.J. Simpson case," the caller said as he divulged information about a man who had admitted shooting an African American with a .38-cal. gun in the same area where Cosby was killed. "The tipster was afraid," says Enquirer editor Steve Coz, but "he was interested in the money...
Thanks to the jury in the O.J. Simpson civil trial, justice has not been denied [NATION, Feb. 17]. But let us remember that O.J. remains free. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are dead, and at the end of the day, no amount of money will compensate for the miscarriage of justice in the criminal trial. I can only hope that those who feel Simpson is innocent will review the evidence presented at both the criminal and civil trials. This entire ordeal was not about racism. Instead it was about photographs, footprints, fingerprints, cuts, blood, dna, shoes, diaries, domestic abuse...
Prosecutor Christopher Darden's article on the role color played in the Simpson trial was very moving. He summarized what American society is about: race. It was courageous of Darden to assert that the justice system in the U.S. is a farce. Two innocent people were murdered. Why is O.J. so different? Because he has thrown a football and appeared on TV and in movies? No, it is because the case was about black and white. I am proud that I am Canadian. Here, we believe in punishing those who are guilty, and our juries make decisions based on justice...
...active defense attorney, having defended such clients as O.J. Simpson, Claus Von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mike Tyson. He has also authored several books including Reasonable Doubts, Chutzpah and Reversal of Fortune...