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...witness for the defense at some of the country's most high-profile criminal trials. A forensic chemist specializing in explosives residue, he gave testimony critical of FBI lab work in the World Trade Center bombing trial and was on the defense team's witness list in the O.J. Simpson trial, where he stood ready to testify about evidence contamination. And now, with hearings under way in the Oklahoma City bombing case--in which late last week in Denver, Judge Richard Matsch ruled that defendants Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols could be tried separately--Whitehurst is again waiting...
That noise you heard across the country last week was the sound of Americans going about their usual business: doing their jobs, tending to their kids, following the World Series--instead of watching the O.J. Simpson trial. With cameras banned from the courtroom in the civil suit brought against Simpson following his acquittal on murder charges a year ago, the nation has been spared another all-consuming TV spectacle. But that didn't make any less startling the defense's opening gambit: the trashing of Nicole Brown Simpson...
...Simpson's murdered ex-wife had been largely spared during the criminal trial. But lead defense attorney Robert Baker attacked her in his opening statement as a promiscuous woman who abused alcohol and drugs, had an abortion to get rid of a baby fathered by one of her boyfriends and ran with an unsavory crowd. "She was bringing prostitutes and drug users into her house with [O.J.'s] children there, and he was very upset about it," said Baker...
...Simpson will live in Eliot House next semester while teaching a class titled "The Creating of Legislation: The Congress and The Press...
...looking forward to it tremendously," Simpson said. "We have three children, and we love being around young people. People say, 'Are you sad to be leaving the Senate?' I say I'm not going home to fish. I'm going into the most exciting phase of my life...