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Thank you for the article "Rich Justice, Poor Justice" on the kind of legal defense money can buy [LAW, June 19]. It's about time someone wrote about the real criminal justice system in America. If O.J. Simpson had been poor, the state of California would have sought the death penalty, and he would already have been executed. Daniel K. Sherwood Wakefield, Massachusetts AOL: DER ANWALT...
...Simpson is set free, it will mean either that he is guilty but had a good enough defense to beat the rap or that he is innocent and might have been sentenced to life in prison were it not for a multimillion-dollar legal defense. Once they have been indicted and put on trial, people with limited financial resources stand a good chance of being convicted, even if innocent. Just as the winner of a formal debate is the better debater and is not necessarily the one whose position represents the truth, it seems that American justice depends less...
TIME's James Willwerth reports the defense expects to take about 30 working days to make its presentation. The case will have several distinct phases: One: character witnesses ranging from Simpson relatives to golfing buddies, who will talk about "how much O.J. loved, but more importantly, respected Nicole; how he had come to terms with the divorce; how calm and unbloody he was on the flight to Chicago; and how tortured he was returning to Los Angeles." Two: the neighbors. Three: as many as 10 witnesses who will accuse LAPD Det.Mark Fuhrmanof being a racist. Four: tough challenges...
...after the attorney's apparent suicide. (Whitewater prosecutors are already investigating whether White House aides committed a crime by removing tax-related papers -- since recovered -- from Foster's office two days after he was found dead July 22, 1993.) D'Amato, who expressed frustration earlier this year that the Simpson trial was getting the kind of coverage his hearings deserve, promised further sessions through the end of 1995 and perhaps into election year...
After five months,10 dismissed jurorsand several thousand hours of analysis on Court TV, the O.J. Simpson prosecution has finally rested its case. How did they do? "I don't think they hit the ball out of the park," saysTIME's Elaine Lafferty. "But they did a fairly solid, workmanlike job. The DNA evidence was as strong as everyone thought it would be, but the problems with glove that didn't fit were a major flaw." The prosecution dropped plans to call Nicole Brown Simpson's mother as its final witness, fearing that she might become too upset under cross-examination.Simpson...