Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marcia Clark was steaming, too angry even to listen to her favorite blues tapes as she drove home that night. After 20 murder trials--almost all of which she's won--she thought she had seen it all. Of course she had expected a little razzle-dazzle from Johnnie Cochran Jr. during his opening arguments, but, she says, the surprise unveiling of 14 new witnesses by O.J. Simpson's defense lawyers stunned even her. ``This was plain sleazy,'' Clark said in an interview with Time. ``I was floored. They disregarded the judge's orders...
...plan, says Clark, is to research and impeach the new witnesses--witnesses the prosecution believes Cochran mentioned merely to create a fog of reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors at the outset of the trial, even though he knows their testimony will not survive cross-examination. ``Let me tell you this,'' says a bemused Clark. ``This was not the typical first week of a murder trial...
...Johnnie Cochran, meanwhile, along with co-counsel Carl Douglas, is at his Wilshire Boulevard office overlooking Hancock Park late into the night. He too will be working through the weekend, with a brief break to have a session with his personal trainer (``I want to be standing when this is over,'' he says), and to lament the fact that he wasn't able to use his Super Bowl tickets this year. But he admits he's feeling pretty good about his case right now. ``People have been coming up to me and saying, `Before you started talking, I thought this...
...jurors that the defense had violated the law in withholding information from the prosecution, and had caused delays in the trial. He forbade the defense team from calling the new witnesses until the end of their case. Among the witnesses described in court last week by Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran was a woman who allegedly will testify that she saw four men running away from the crime scene the night of the murders...
...final leg of Cochran's opening statement today, he questioned the existence of the so-called "trail of blood" that the prosecution says extends from the bodies of the two murder victims to the bloody socks at the foot of Simpson's bed. "The evidence will be shown to be contaminated, compromised and corrupted," Cochran said. "The gathering of evidence was a complete disaster."The O.J. Files