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...hope those lawyers get to serve on the jury." O.J. Simpson attorney Robert L. Shapiro, in an interview with the National Law Journal responding to a national poll of lawyers which indicated that 61 percent believe the football superstar's trail will result in other acquittal or a hung jury for Simpson, accused of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Of nearly 50 criminal defense attorneys polled, only one in five thought Simpson would be found guilty...
...grant that the trial of O.J. Simpson is a case unto itself. What with the consuming attention of the media, the camera-ready lawyering, the surrounding atmosphere -- alternately tragic and coarse, that seems like something from Dostoyevsky read aloud by Jackie Collins -- there's nothing typical about it. This would extend to the jury selection that begins this week. In a nation where jury duty is considered second only to a tax audit among the devices of government-inflicted pain, there are people who are struggling to sit in judgment on this one. Responses to jury call notices...
...blame them? Not many juries promise a continuing spot on daytime television, to say nothing of the prospect of big money for anyone willing to sell an inside account of the verdict deliberations. But even if the Simpson trial is in a class by itself, it still promises to exemplify problems that infect the American jury system as a whole. Those include the likely attempt by lawyers to skew the panel along racial and gender lines, plus a surfeit of dense testimony, in this case about the scientific validity of DNA evidence, in a trial that threatens...
...special knives (other than for cooking), such as hunting or pen knives?" --One of many questions that make up a 75-page questionnaire distributed to prospective jurors in the trial of O.J. Simpson...
Potential jurors in the O.J. Simpson trial will have to reveal myriad details of their personal life to attorneys on both sides. As TIME Daily reported exclusively last night, the queries cover everything from their television talk-show preferences to knives they own (other than those for kitchen use) and the media they get their news from. Lawyers on both sides have till Oct. 12 to review the answers. Then the first round of the in-person questioning of more than 300 candidates begins...