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...Want to Tell You,"O.J. Simpson's instant book, hit stores across the country today, along with a tape version. Presented as his response to the 300,000 people who have written to him in jail, the book was co-authored with Lawrence Schiller, a freelance writer who also collaborated with Norman Mailer on the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Executioner's Song." O.J. writes: "I could never kill anyone, especially Nicole," and complains of an untrustworthy legal system and a sensationalist and racist media. He says he would "jump in front of a bullet" to protect his ex-wife. Much...
...TheO.J. Simpson trialwas thrown into chaos today because of the illness of one prosecutor and a bitter back-and-forth between attorneys on both sides regarding an eleventh-hour witness list submitted by the defense. Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden denounced the list as a roster of "heroin addicts, thieves, felons and . . . a court-certified pathological liar." Prosecutor William Hodgman was hospitalized last evening, complaining of chest pains; he is still in the hospital. Judge Lance Ito noted that Hodgman appeared extremely disturbed as defense attorneys announced the new witnesses yesterday. "I've known him as a colleague...
Johnnie Cochran, lead defense attorney forO.J. Simpson, marched through his opening statement today, crisply attacking the prosecutors' case, while portraying his client as a victim of a "rush to judgment" by Los Angeles authorities. "We're going to talk about the trails that they didn't pursue," Cochran said. He hinted of a frame-up by authorities, claiming that the district attorney's office had ignored an account by a woman who was in Nicole Brown Simpson's neighborhood the night of the murder. Cochran claimed the woman informed the D.A.'s office that she had seen four men walking...
With the O.J. Simpson jury sequestered, the double-murder case entered one of its more dramatic phases as the prosecution and defense battled over evidence that might show the ex-football star to have been a jealous and physically abusive husband. The defense challenged the material as irrelevant, unreliable, inflammatory and prejudicial...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Richard Hornik (Deputy, Foreign), Janice C. Simpson (Deputy, Domestic) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Douglas Frantz, J. Madeleine Nash, Richard N. Ostling National Correspondents: Margot Hornblower, Jon D. Hull, Jack E. White Diplomatic Correspondent: J.F.O. McAllister Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: John Moody, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, Adam Cohen, Sharon Epperson, Jenifer Mattos...