OJ lawyers promise more appeals for new trialBy KEN RITTER
(Ito switched his Toshiba laptop for an IBM Thinkpad; was he surfing the internet during the trial?) Randos suddenly becoming experts: check. ("We are as up to date as the lawyers are," boasted a Canadian OJ website owner of his 10,000 users. "It makes for intelligent discussions.")...
It was the first few weeks of 1995 when Sky News' live coverage of the OJ Simpson court case got under way. Each evening we showed the trial and invited questions. In those days, the main form of correspondence was by letter. But there was also a new electronic method emerging, called ...
Alan Dershowitz, another of Simpson's former lawyers, told Sky News earlier thatthe defence was "a nightmare team"and that he did not want the former sports star to take the stand. "Ultimately it was the glove" that made Simpson refuse to take the stand at his trial, Mr Dershowitz sa...
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O.J. Simpson and his defense team in October 1995 as the not-guilty verdict is read during his trial for the killing of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. (Myung J. Chun/Pool) In 1994 and 1995, when lawyers for O.J. Simpson offered up the possibility that the former footba...
“I expressed my concern that Robert Shapiro [one of Simpson’s lawyers] wouldn’t let him tell the truth. I said I knew it obviously wasn’t planned and that he had snapped in the heat of passion.” When Rand asked if Simpson seemed guilty, Lyle said, “Absolutely.” ...
The prosecution and defense teams, combined with star witnesses, aided in the case being named the "Trial of the Century."
Although the case stuttered through until October, the weak Judge Lance Ito was obsequious to lawyers' demands for delays, but the interest among Sky News viewers surged and remained undimmed. As the court camera panned to the state of California seal, signalling another adjournment, we and n...