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Simpson's highflying defense lawyer Robert Shapiro called in a team to help him through the crisis: forensic experts to go over every piece of evidence, an internist to monitor O.J.'s health and a psychiatrist to handle his deepening depression. On Friday morning Garcetti called Shapiro with word that the scientific tests were back, and that charges had been filed of first- degree murder involving special circumstances -- meaning that Simpson could get the death penalty if convicted...
...Shapiro agreed that his client would surrender that morning at 11, but the fear of suicide was so great that the lawyer wanted the doctors to see Simpson first. "When I saw O.J., he was kind of resigned that he had to go to jail," said forensic expert Dr. Michael Baden. "He was depressed -- I mean, truly depressed. So they called the prison doctors to tell them that O.J. should be watched...
...drama of that news left reporters gasping. But there was more to come three hours later, when Shapiro finally stood before the cameras. It turned out that Simpson had remained in one place ever since Nicole's funeral the day before -- not at his Brentwood mansion, where a stand-in had decoyed the media, but at the San Fernando Valley home of his friend Robert Kardashian. Shapiro said he had greeted Simpson that morning with news that he had been charged and that the surrender had been scheduled. But O.J. still had some things he wanted...
First he called his family lawyer and dictated a new codicil to his will. Then he wrote three letters -- to his children, to his mother and "To whom it may concern." As Shapiro explained later, Garcetti's office finally called and said police were coming to take O.J. into custody. But when the forensic psychiatrist went to get O.J., he and Cowlings were gone. The hunt...
...judge disbanded the grand jury on grounds that some of its members may have been affected by the flood of media coverage. As a result, the defense will have a chance to begin picking apart the prosecution's evidence in a June 30 hearing, giving Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro his much desired opportunity to cross-examine -- and undermine the credibility of -- the district attorney's witnesses. Also coming to O.J.'s defense: his current girlfriend, who told NBC's "Today Show," "he never...