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With the testimony of Simpson, however, Clark--and the world--can at least get some vicarious satisfaction. On Friday many members of the media and legal VIPs--including author Lawrence Schiller and former Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiro--were relegated to watching the trial on a screen in a "listening room" at the Doubletree hotel next door to the courthouse. And inside the courtroom there was an air of occasion as Simpson and plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli began their cat-and-mouse game. Simpson--who had stopped to jauntily sign autographs as he arrived--at last found himself nearly face...
...never: though Simpson's confidence grew as the day went on, the spell he cast may have been a negative one. He did not feel vengeful toward his wife. People who say he talked incessantly about Nicole in the weeks preceding the murders, including golfing buddies of his like Alan Austin, were wrong. Even tangible evidence like his phone records were wrong: at one point, Petrocelli put up a display of all Simpson's phone calls from his residence and his cellular phone on the day of June 12. Simpson acknowledged the eight calls to ex-girlfriend Paula Barbieri...
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...
...Books about the case keep climbing best-seller lists; erstwhile O.J. friends still give prime-time interviews to the likes of Barbara Walters; dozens of cameras greet the parade of witnesses who have been entering the courtroom since the civil trial began on Oct. 23. And last week, with Simpson on the stand, the tangled tale was back on the front pages, back on Nightline and Larry King Live, back as a staple of our dinner-table conversations...
...that videotapes of former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman's testimony could not be shown to jurors, while earlier rulings have made it difficult for the defense to offer alternate scenarios of a police conspiracy or murderous drug lords without any hard evidence. Even without the testimony of Simpson, the plaintiffs may be able to reach the necessary "preponderance of the evidence" required to tip the scales toward a favorable verdict...