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...court of public opinion may be one of America's most maligned institutions. But in every high-profile case, it's still the place where everybody goes to plead. So with the nation largely -- and, for the most part, miserably -- poised between affection for O.J. Simpson and revulsion at the bloody slicing of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, a public game is in play between O.J.'s accusers and his defenders. The aim is to persuade people that they do not know what they think they know. What they think they know is that O.J. is the world's nicest...
...court of public opinion so strenuously that you lose the courts of law. On Friday Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's game plan was thrown into the air when a judge dissolved a 23-member grand jury that was considering whether there was enough evidence to try Simpson on murder charges. Superior Court Judge Cecil J. Mills, in response to an unusual request from Simpson's attorney, Robert Shapiro, concluded that some jurors may have been tainted by exposure to the deluge of publicity...
...frantic dog that led passersby to the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman near midnight on June 12. And it was the wail of a canine earlier that prosecutors suggest marked the moment of Nicole's and Ronald's murders, at about 10:20 p.m. -- more than an hour before O.J. headed for the airport. The defense offered some of its own drama by handing over a sealed package of "evidence," to be opened at an undetermined date. The scramble to find the murder weapon continues too; the prosecution seems set on proving it was a stiletto-type...
Blood was the focus of the first day of preliminary hearings held to report evidence the prosecution has gathered against O.J. Simpson in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The defense worked today to have key evidence thrown out, including a blood-stained glove, and blood found on the seats of Simpson's Bronco. Simpson's attorneys claim the police gathered the evidence without a search warrant. Much of the day in court was also spent haggling over how much evidence the defense can have in order to conduct its own tests, including a comic episode...
Numerous professors at the law school, including Dean Robert C. Clark refused to comment on the Simpson case or on Dershowitz's decision to help in the football star's defense...