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...every reason to hope the panel would hand down an indictment before a preliminary hearing on June 30 that he wanted to head off. At that hearing, prosecutors will be compelled to present the evidence and testimony they hope to use at trial -- an invaluable preview of what Simpson will be up against, and an opportunity for Shapiro to have some of it disallowed. If an indictment had come down first, the hearing would have been canceled and the case gone directly to trial with the prosecution's evidence still sealed...
...just Simpson's fame that has made his one of the most relentlessly reported cases ever. Hoping to overcome O.J.'s advantage in public sympathy -- unusual for an accused killer -- city officials and police have played to the media every step of the way. The flood of sometimes inaccurate leaks from police about bloody gloves and a ski mask was followed by a heavy round of appearances on public affairs shows by Garcetti. It's true that he objected to the decision of the Los Angeles city attorney to satisfy a media request for release of the taped call...
Shapiro has brought on as advisers the premium-brand attorneys Alan Dershowitz and F. Lee Bailey. But because Simpson spoke with detectives for more than three hours on June 13, shortly after the victims were discovered, he may find it difficult to change his story. Prosecutors can argue that any departure from the version of events he gave in his police interview -- when he presumably repeated his insistence that he was not involved in the killings at all -- shows that, in general, he can't be believed. Dilemmas like that are one reason for a new bumper sticker...
...count, O.J. Simpson has been called an American hero about 4,392,979 times since being charged with murdering his wife. The night of the chase alone, there were roughly 987,763 such references by commentators like Barbara Walters, who found themselves with hours of airtime to fill and nothing to say. Even the U.S. Senate got in on the chorus. In chamber on Friday, the chaplain offered a prayer for O.J.: "Our hearts go out to him . . . Our nation has been traumatized by the fall of a great hero." To this moment, I have not heard Nicole Simpson referred...
...shouldn't be so hard to humanize Nicole and cut O.J. down to size. He may have held the record for yards rushing, but he also holds it for celebrity afterlife. Only in the deflated coin of the realm would Simpson have been considered a hero. He was an athlete who turned a brilliant career running a football into a minor one flacking rental cars, sportscasting and acting. Much is made of the amiability with which he performed these duties, but accommodating fans is how a faded athlete convinces a company like Hertz to keep paying him top dollar...