Word: tysons
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...controversy over televised trials attracted widespread attention this past year with the extensively publicized trials of William Kennedy Smith and former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson...
Bailey said the presentation of the Tyson trial by reporters--and not by television cameras--meant that the American public saw a distorted version of the proceedings...
...While the American people was able to watch everything that transpired at the Kennedy Smith trial, it had to rely on a nonlawyer's opinion on what happened" in the Tyson case, Bailey said. he added that reporters tend to distort trial coverage to make it more interesting...
Simels spots defense blunders throughout the process, from jury selection to the refusal to call a key witness -- Tyson's bodyguard -- to Fuller's loud, agitated summation. "They should not have let Tyson testify at the grand jury," Simels argues. "Then they compounded it by allowing Mike to come up with a different story during the trial." Tyson appeared to be lying, and lying stupidly, fulfilling any juror's suspicions about the boxer's brutality. Notes Garrison: "You couldn't look at this delicate little thing and imagine her having Mike Tyson say, 'Hey, I want...
...Mike Tyson effect on rape cases...