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...Dream Team is ready: ready for trial and weary of the endless warm-ups and preseason skirmishes. Or rather, if O.J. Simpson's defense lawyers are not primed, they aren't admitting it. True, some nerves have become a bit frazzled lately--Robert Shapiro and F. Lee Bailey weren't speaking there for a while--and the team suffered some major setbacks last week. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution need not prove its case ``to a moral certainty'' and could introduce evidence of prior violence in the Simpson marriage. But O.J.'s lawyers barely flinched. They have their...
...Cochran Jr. Renowned as much for his legal brilliance as for such high-profile clients as Michael Jackson and rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, Cochran--one of the smoothest, best-connected lawyers in all Los Angeles--is now the undisputed leader of the defense team. He was responsible for convincing Shapiro and Bailey to make up; he will be presenting opening arguments and making trial assignments; and he is the person O.J. calls every night from prison. Last Thursday morning Cochran, 57, a devout Baptist, even called his troops into a prayer meeting in a room at the L.A. County courthouse...
...appeared cool, determined, even upbeat. Fielding calls in his ultramodern Wilshire Boulevard office from his second wife Dale and from Simpson's friends Paula Barbieri and Robert Kardashian, Cochran offered a preview of the strategy he will roll out this week. He will examine many of the witnesses, while Shapiro and two junior attorneys will handle the others; Bailey will conduct most of the cross-examination. Throughout, Cochran says, they will hammer on what he calls the prosecution's overzealousness to convict Simpson. ``This is a classic rush-to-judgment case,'' he maintains. ``They made a decision within four...
Cochran brings another key ingredient to the mix--his credibility in the African-American community. For despite pronouncements by Shapiro and others that race will not be a factor (even in the face of defense allegations of racism on the part of LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman)--and despite the fact that the fairness of O.J. Simpson's trial will more likely hinge upon issues of class and celebrity than upon skin color--the specter of racism looms large both inside the courtroom and out. ``Since so many African Americans don't trust the criminal-justice system--and for good reasons...
...when Fitzpatrick became a regular at the group's bookstore. ``He was a pretty muscular guy with a physically intimidating presence,'' says Gunderson, who remembers Fitzpatrick trying to draw members into drug dealing and militant actions involving ``Molotov cocktails or guns or bombs.'' Fitzpatrick sold a shotgun to Rob Shapiro, another collective member. ``He said it was important that we be armed,'' says Shapiro. At a bar one night, Fitzpatrick plied the group with beer while urging them to make an armed attack on a polling place during the 1986 election. ``By the end of the evening we were sufficiently...