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...only lawyer on TV last week whose opinion actually mattered, Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell ordered O.J. Simpson to stand trial
...worst kind of circumstantial evidence -- evidence that could be read as innocence as well as guilt, and the court should have "little difficulty in deciding that this certainly is not a case of any premeditated murder by anyone." In fact, he declared, there was insufficient proof that O.J. Simpson was guilty of anything...
Rising to respond, Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark, stern-faced and methodical, ticked off her evidence, piece by piece. The glove at the crime scene. Its mate on Simpson's path. The blood trails to Simpson's house. The Ford Bronco with traces of blood. That's how circumstantial evidence works. Put him on trial...
...preliminary hearing. It was billed as such -- a routine presentation of evidence to show probable cause that the defendant should be tried for murder. Instead, it turned out last week to be a sensational mini- trial and, in the minds of some television viewers, the unofficial conviction of Simpson...
After 21 witnesses, mind-numbing disquisitions on evidence gathering, soul- numbing descriptions of violence, the defendant wiping away tears as the coroner described in antiseptic detail the innards of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and of Ronald Goldman, and the impassioned final statements of both lawyers. Municipal Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell needed only 30 minutes or so to issue her ruling. Simpson would go to trial. There would be no bail. Legally, of course, he remains innocent until proved guilty. The real trial is still to come...