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...blame them? Not many juries promise a continuing spot on daytime television, to say nothing of the prospect of big money for anyone willing to sell an inside account of the verdict deliberations. But even if the Simpson trial is in a class by itself, it still promises to exemplify problems that infect the American jury system as a whole. Those include the likely attempt by lawyers to skew the panel along racial and gender lines, plus a surfeit of dense testimony, in this case about the scientific validity of DNA evidence, in a trial that threatens...
...full, gloomy diagnosis of the larger problem has arrived in a new book, The Jury by Stephen J. Adler, legal editor of the Wall Street Journal (Times Books; $25). Adler describes the several juries he examined from selection through trial proceedings to the deliberations that bumptiously rendered a verdict: "There were lots of sincere, serious people who -- for a variety of reasons -- were missing key points, focusing on irrelevant issues, succumbing to barely recognized prejudices, failing to see through the cheapest appeals to sympathy or hate, and generally botching...
While the verdict is still out on many aspects of the 1994 Crimson football team after its 39-32 win over Columbia last weekend, the offensive backfield isn't one of them...
...Friday Simpson's lawyers heard the verdict. In a letter to attorneys Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran Jr., Assistant District Attorney Frank Sunstedt explained that after "consideration of all available aggravating and mitigating . . . evidence," the sentencing committee he chairs had opted to seek life without the possibility of parole...