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...School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz will be part of the legal team defending football star O.J. Simpson from charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend...
Attorney F. Lee Bailey confirmed that he and Dershowitz were joining the Simpson legal team Friday night in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live...
...Simpson was ordered by the court to give up strands of his hair, so investigators could see if the filaments matched those found in a hat at the crime scene. Although the L.A. District Attorney has officially turned off the tap of information, clues like this one indicating the direction of the investigation continue to dribble out. At the same time, defense attorneys have been aggressively scrambling for evidence to undermine the D.A.'s case. But one "fact" supporting an O.J. alibi seems to have fallen through. Nicole Brown Simpson wasn't talking to her mother on the phone...
...however much our image of O.J. Simpson may have to be revised, his celebrity will continue to protect him. This is only partly because the impression of O.J.'s likability -- stamped into our brain by hundreds or even thousands of media moments over the years -- will never be completely destroyed, even by the most compelling of contrary facts. More important is that likable or unlikable, O.J. Simpson is and always will be a real person in other people's mind. And all but the most hardened death-penalty enthusiasts will quaver at the thought of this real person -- O.J. Simpson...
...retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell belatedly concluded after a career of upholding death sentences, the death penalty cannot be administered fairly. Nothing illustrates that better than the thought experiment of trying to imagine O.J. Simpson in the gas chamber. It's just not going to happen, no matter what he may have done. And rightly so. After all, this is a guy we've shared beers with -- at least in our mind...