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...Friday Simpson's lawyers heard the verdict. In a letter to attorneys Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran Jr., Assistant District Attorney Frank Sunstedt explained that after "consideration of all available aggravating and mitigating . . . evidence," the sentencing committee he chairs had opted to seek life without the possibility of parole...
However long the O.J. Simpson proceedings drag on, some bedeviling questions may never be answered. One important unknown, however, has always been guaranteed a resolution, even before the opening bell of the trial. To wit: Would the prosecution, rolling high, try for the death penalty, or would it lower the stakes -- and possibly raise the chances of conviction -- by demanding mere life imprisonment...
District Attorney Gil Garcetti seemed to anticipate the scrutiny his announcement would attract, acknowledging in a press release the "deep public concern" about the death-penalty decision in the Simpson case but asserting that the decision had been made "independent of this concern." Yet that bland avowal, combined with a stated intention to comment no further until after the trial, invited immediate speculation that public concern -- or, more specifically, the concern of one potential juror who might create a hung jury -- was indeed Garcetti's paramount consideration. "I'm not suprised," says Wendy Alderson, a prominent Palm Springs jury consultant...
Meanwhile, as their colleagues were putting finishing touches on their letter, prosecutors Marcia Clark and William Hodgman were investigating an intriguing, if tenuous, lead. With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C. Cowlings has moved to the fore. Last month Cowlings was described as a gofer to an alleged Los Angeles cocaine kingpin, whom he improbably thanked in court papers for helping him end a freebasing habit...
...test has matched O.J. Simpson's blood to that found near the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, according to news reports citing anonymous sources. DNA evidence is important in the case because there were apparently no eyewitnesses to the murders. The defense is expected to control the fallout from this report by claiming that the blood was days or weeks old, observers...