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Last month, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki ruled that no cameras will be allowed in his courtroom when the O.J. Simpson wrongful-death lawsuit commences this week. Not only that, but the attorneys in this civil case--unlike their loose-lipped counterparts who starred in the criminal proceedings--have been muzzled by a strict gag order. Courtroom sketch artists will be permitted to ply their trade, sort of: they may not draw during the proceedings and so must produce their sketches from memory after leaving court each day. And Fujisaki, who has a reputation for take-no-prisoners...
Still, despite the judge's best efforts, much about the Sequel of the Century will seem like deja vu. John Q. Kelly and Daniel M. Petrocelli, lead lawyers for the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, who hope to hold O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths, expect to admit some 2,000 pieces of evidence, including the bloody glove. Nearly 350 witnesses will be called, including Kato Kaelin and Mark Fuhrman, though the judge has ruled that Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden will not testify. Both sides estimate that it will take at least four months...
Thanks to the criminal trial and its endless postmortems, the attorneys can already identify some of the potential land mines in the case and have been filing motions to defuse them. The plaintiffs' lawyers want to exclude all testimony regarding possible evidence tampering and racist cops. Simpson's attorney, Robert C. Baker, has moved to exclude anything pertaining to violence between Nicole and O.J. Both motions are likely to fail, and a controversial new California law, which permits statements of crime victims to be admitted in court, will open the door to a dramatic reading of Nicole's diary...
...After all, the legal system is omnipresent. You can't look at the newspaper or watch TV without hearing about some legal action, whether it's a dramatic case like the one involving O.J. Simpson, or an insider trading infraction, or a class action against the cigarette industry, or an oil spill," he said...
Retiring Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) will teach "Creating Legislation: Congress and the Press." It'll draw on the three-term senator's political career, including his oft-controversial encounters with the media. It meets this semester...