Word: simpson
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...lying to you." On the other hand, defense lawyers cannot knowingly encourage their clients to lie on the stand without being liable to charges of suborning perjury. And if it is discovered that an attorney on either side leaked the document, that lawyer could be disbarred. Says former O.J. Simpson defense lawyer Carl Douglas: "There have been a series of leaks in this case, and I don't think they're coincidental...
Congratulations on your behind-the-scenes account of the civil trial of O.J. Simpson [NATION, Feb. 17]! It is in the best journalistic tradition. You caused me to think deeply about the two trials, civil and criminal. The verdict by a mainly white jury that Simpson is liable for the battering of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and the murder of her friend Ron Goldman, and the prior decision by a mostly black jury, which absolved him of murder, have raised the specter of racism. The case spells the eventual doom of the principles proclaimed by America's founders...
...same people who cheered the verdict in Simpson's first trial criticized the decision in the second. As a black man, I understand their disillusionment just as I understood their jubilation. But why are so many so emotional about the whole affair? A number of those who rooted for Simpson's acquittal in the criminal trial openly expressed doubts about his innocence. Nevertheless they applauded the first decision with some misgivings. Why then are these people bemoaning the second verdict? The answer is that for blacks and whites alike, the issue was never Simpson's guilt or liability...
...four players--Glass (John Simpson '99), two women who recognize him (Gilli Bar-Hillel and Emily von Kohorn '00) and the baker (Driscoll)--engage in this bizarre incantation, and the results are surprisingly effective and funny as a parody of Glass's music...
...Look at the list from 1974. The Godfather, Part II. Chinatown. Lenny. The Conversation. And ... what was the fifth one? I can't remember." A quick trip to the reference shelf reveals the answer: The Towering Inferno, arguably the worst film ever nominated (and the only one starring O.J. Simpson). So maybe there is something to be said for including little art-house movies on Oscar night. And maybe Brenda Blethyn's closet holds something delightfully ill conceived...