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Some commentators predict that the anticamera sentiment will subside once the Simpson jury reaches a verdict. "After that happens, I suspect courts will become more permissive again," says professor James Carey of the Columbia School of Journalism. But will America's pool of potential witnesses prove so resilient? "Would I do it again if I had known?" asks Fenjves. "I don't know...
Sources in the D.A.'s office say that having a racially mixed jury was important to Garcetti, politically and morally, in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King verdict that led to the L.A. riots, in which thousands were injured and entire neighborhoods were destroyed. Garcetti will say only that "I hope this case is a turning point. There is a perception in minority communities that people of color are treated more harshly. If a racially mixed jury goes back to the community and says, 'Hey, we had an obligation to follow the evidence...
Still, it makes you wonder. The prosecution is concluding this case. We might just see a verdict months before Court TV's sweeps week! What then are we as a nation, and the press (as a multi-million dollar entertainment industry) to do, without the Bloody Glove, the White Ford Bronco and Kato the House Guest? What are we to do, scanning our 57 channels, without the live broadcasts from CNN and Court TV, without the nightly updates on the networks, without Kato co-hosting the USA Network's "Up-All-Night...
Will he then roll the dice? He is certainly not saying now. Neither is anyone close to him. Powell and his friends agree that one important vote will come from Alma, the general's wife of 32 years. What is her verdict? "Alma's not opining," says a Powell friend. "But her name isn't Sherman." If elected, she will serve...
...military jury cleared Air Force Captain Jim Wang in last year's friendly fire attack on two U.S. Army helicopters over Iraq. The verdict means that no one has been held criminally responsible for the deaths of 26 people. Wang, whomTIME's Mark Thompsondescribes as "a bit player" in the tragedy, was the radar officer in charge of monitoring the no-fly zone over northern Iraq when two F-15 fighter pilots mistakenly downed the Black Hawk helicopters. No other officer was tried in the April 14, 1994 shootdown. "Plainly the Air Force was hoping that a conviction for Wang...