Word: trialing
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History, they say, plays the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. But what about the third time? In the O.J. Simpson case--recalling his 1995 trial and O.J. 2, its 1997 civil sequel--it became nostalgia. As the Juice and his cronies stood accused of robbing a memorabilia collector at gunpoint, the coverage--O.J. 3: What Happens in Vegas--had the misty tone of a high school reunion. My, his daughter has grown! Doesn't his girlfriend look like Nicole? "A lot of these people I know from many years ago," said Dan Abrams on MSNBC almost...
...made today's media, after all--not just individual careers but entire channels, as well as cable's flood-the-zone philosophy. (Natalee Holloway, Britney and K-Fed--all bigger because of O.J.) O.J. 3 was also a showcase for the outlets that sprang up after O.J.'s first trial, each, like new species of velociraptor, sharper-toothed than the last and eager now to take a bite. Fox News and MSNBC didn't even exist circa O.J. 1, while O.J. 3's big scoop, the hotel-room tape, was reported (i.e., purchased) by muckraker website TMZ.com (owned, like TIME...
...start of the road rage trial in October 2001, Simpson apparently had so much confidence in Galanter that he entered the Miami courtroom whistling, "If I Only Had a Brain." He has good reason to be impressed by Galanter. Simpson faced up to 16 years behind bars. But Galanter, 50, presented an interesting defense. Police had O.J.'s thumbprint on the pair of glasses worn by the man that Simpson allegedly cut off while driving his SUV in a Miami suburb. However, because the print was on the outside of the lens, Galanter argued Simpson hadn't grabbed the glasses...
More than one prosecutor in Miami acknowledges that no matter what Simpson does, he makes Galanter look good. "He was a nobody until he represented O.J. on a case that never should have gone to trial," says one Miami-based prosecutor who asked not to be named, referring to the road-rage case, adding "almost anybody could have won that." Since then, Galanter has parlayed his connection to Simpson into regular appearances on TV talk shows analyzing a variety of criminal cases, including the Kobe Bryant rape accusation and the Scott Peterson murder trial...
While Galanter gets most ink from his representation of Simpson, the Philadelphia native actually started out as a state prosecutor in Florida. Galanter honed his trial skills at the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office under Janet Reno. That's also where he met his wife, Elyse. She was a court reporter in former Judge Tom Scott's courtroom and that's where Galanter had been assigned as well. They've been together 21 years, married for eight...