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Meanwhile, the Simpson custody trial also took an unexpected turn when the Brown family, which is seeking to gain permanent guardianship of Simpson's two children, filed a motion to introduce the details of the murder case into the custody dispute. Judge Nancy Wieben Stock will decide whether to allow that evidence this week. If she does, the custody proceeding could become yet another mini-murder trial...
There is so much that needs to be explained. The plaintiffs have elicited damaging testimony from Simpson's former girlfriend Paula Barbieri, as well as his longtime buddy Al Cowlings, who reluctantly admitted that Nicole had confided that O.J. hit her. (Both were excluded from the murder trial because prosecutors considered them to be uncooperative, unpredictable witnesses.) Probably the most controversial testimony came from a worker for a battered woman's shelter who told how a frightened woman named Nicole called the facility a few days before the murders saying that her famous ex-husband was stalking and threatening...
...Nicole was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and obsessed with reuniting with O.J. All this could turn the jury off. "It is not likely to work," says Michael Seidman, professor of criminal law at the Georgetown University Law Center. "It doesn't explain a million things that Simpson has to explain. But I don't know that I could come up with a better strategy...
...biggest challenge for Baker, a respected trial lawyer who usually defends doctors against medical-malpractice claims, may come from his celebrity client. When the spotlight-seeking Simpson returns to the stand to answer friendlier questions from his own lawyers, he could be less guarded and even more prone to missteps. Says Seidman: "When you rehabilitate a witness, you give him a little more leeway to explain things at greater length...
...every denomination, as shown by the nearly 100,000 people paying their respects at his wake. At one time or another he was mentioned as a possibility to be the first Pope from America. Your issue was full of military scandal, technologic equipment and even more reporting on O.J. Simpson. I feel bad that you failed to tell the story of a small man with a small voice, who saw despair and gave all of us hope. DAVID O. CORSI Burr Ridge, Illinois...