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Whether all of it finds its way to trial depends on Clark's getting past the determined lawyering of defense attorney Robert Shapiro. With one challenge in particular -- the admissibility of bloody evidence gathered at O.J.'s home by police before they obtained a warrant -- Shapiro could deprive the prosecution of some of its deadliest persuaders. As the face-off continues this week between a confident prosecution and a relentlessly counterpunching defense, much of the struggle will center on these issues...
...persuasive the knife-purchase testimony might be in court will depend on what jurors think about the fact that Jose Camacho, the cutlery-store salesclerk, was paid $12,500 by the National Enquirer to repeat his story to them, money that Camacho will split with his bosses. Though Shapiro failed in an attempt to get Judge Kennedy-Powell to suppress the testimony, he could argue to a jury that Camacho and one of his bosses had embellished their story or invented it to make it more salable. "How can you trust an individual when he or she has a financial...
...down an indictment before a preliminary hearing on June 30 that he wanted to head off. At that hearing, prosecutors will be compelled to present the evidence and testimony they hope to use at trial -- an invaluable preview of what Simpson will be up against, and an opportunity for Shapiro to have some of it disallowed. If an indictment had come down first, the hearing would have been canceled and the case gone directly to trial with the prosecution's evidence still sealed...
...Shapiro has brought on as advisers the premium-brand attorneys Alan Dershowitz and F. Lee Bailey. But because Simpson spoke with detectives for more than three hours on June 13, shortly after the victims were discovered, he may find it difficult to change his story. Prosecutors can argue that any departure from the version of events he gave in his police interview -- when he presumably repeated his insistence that he was not involved in the killings at all -- shows that, in general, he can't be believed. Dilemmas like that are one reason for a new bumper sticker...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, / Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...