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These inconsistencies are undeniable. The ballistics report shows that Jackie was shot from 24 ft. to 28 ft. away, not the 12 ft. or so Kay claimed. Nor did the door appear to have been broken down. After the guilty verdict, Kay wrote a letter to the judge explaining that she had actually used her brother-in-law's sawed-off shotgun but lied because she did not want to incriminate him for possessing an illegal firearm. A witness came forward to say that Kay told her she had laid in wait to kill Jackie two days earlier but changed...
...District judge in Los Angeles tossed out Keating's 1993 conviction--and 12 1/2-year sentence--for fraud. The judge, whose ruling could lead to a retrial, said several jurors were prejudiced by knowledge of Keating's 1991 conviction on similar charges in a California state court. That verdict vaporized too: a federal appeals court overturned it last April on grounds that Judge Lance Ito (of O.J. fame) had given jurors improper instructions...
...made it difficult for the defense to offer alternate scenarios of a police conspiracy or murderous drug lords without any hard evidence. Even without the testimony of Simpson, the plaintiffs may be able to reach the necessary "preponderance of the evidence" required to tip the scales toward a favorable verdict...
Conversely, a favorable verdict for Simpson in the civil case would not automatically assure him of winning custody. "The court could still rather easily find that it is in the children's best interests that they remain with their grandparents," says Guggenheim. "They suffered a very significant trauma when they lost their mother. And the nurturing they were given by the caregivers in the weeks and months after her death was especially important to their development. Therefore, I would expect an expert to say that taking them away now from their grandparents would inflict new harm on them...
...well-publicized cases brought by minorities and women. In 1991, for example, a California jury awarded $17.6 million in compensatory and punitive damages to Janella Sue Martin, who sued after Texaco denied her a promotion and gave the job to a man. The trial judge set aside the verdict, and the case was later settled for an undisclosed but hefty...