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...title a morass of sexual exploits and personal losses. As the murder trial of Susan Smith begins this week in Union, Judge William L. Howard Jr., who is barring all cameras from the courtroom, has indicated that the proceedings will not come to resemble those under way in O.J. Simpson's double-murder case. But the 10-page, 74-item juror questionnaire indicates that both the defense and prosecution teams will be grappling with explosive emotional material. "There may be some testimony about extramarital affairs,'' begins one question. "Do you have any personal knowledge of a situation that involved incest...
After 92 days of testimony, 58 witnesses and more than 400 exhibits, prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson murder trial ended their not always tidy case with testimony from fbi expert Douglas Deedrick on hair and fiber evidence, which the prosecution maintains links Simpson to the murders of his ex-wife and her friend. Current--repeat, current--estimates of the length of the defense case: four to six weeks...
...over. it's just begun. last week the prosecution in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson rested its case -- appropriate terminology since the whole drawn-out affair has been exhausting. This week Simpson's so-called Dream Team of lawyers begins its defense, and jurors and trial watchers can only pray they don't live up to their name in the soporific sense. In half-time analyses, legal pundits have seized upon the numbing numbers the trial has generated: so far, there have been 92 days of testimony, 58 prosecution witnesses and 488 exhibits. Ten jurors have been dismissed...
Moreover, some defense experts believe the defense team, led by Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., has already succeeded in establishing a reasonable doubt and should rest its case right now. Day after day, Simpson's lawyers slyly undermined the evidence not simply by poking pinholes in the testimony but also by conjuring several alternate crime scenarios-that the police are framing Simpson, that police incompetence tainted evidence and/or that drug hit men committed the crimes. "Basically, the majority of our case has been presented through cross-examination of prosecution witnesses," says Simpson's attorney Robert L. Shapiro. "They [prosecutors] have been...
Thecuts on O.J. Simpson's handprobably came from a glass rather than a knife, Simpson doctor Robert Huizenga testified. Prosecutors contend that Simpson cut his hand during a struggle with the victims. But Simpson maintains he broke a glass in his hand when he learned of Nicole's death. Huizenga, formerly the team doctor for the Los Angeles Raiders, also said that Simpson's pro football career had so damaged his body he could barely walk. Simpson also has a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis, the doctor said. The testimony serves to bolsterdefense claims that Simpson was physically unable...