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...charges are true--Nicholson's two attorneys, Jonathan Shapiro and Liam O'Grady, say their client will fight them vigorously--then Nicholson would have been either a very cool customer or a weirdly reckless one; maybe both. He allegedly went to work for the Russians just as the CIA was in an uproar over Ames, the most important mole ever discovered within the agency. On the basis of information Ames provided over almost nine years of betrayal, Moscow executed at least 10 Soviets working secretly for American intelligence. Anger and embarrassment led the agency to swear it would never happen...
...government may have a harder time building its case and assessing the damage done. Unlike Ames, Nicholson is pleading not guilty. For starters, attorney Shapiro wants to subpoena the tape of the lie-detector tests, which he says can be used to refute some of the CIA's claims. The affidavit against Nicholson already contains at least one apparently inflated charge. It accuses him of selling to the Russians the name of the CIA station chief in Moscow. But as a symbol of warming ties, the U.S. and Russia actually inform one another these days of the identities of their...
With the testimony of Simpson, however, Clark--and the world--can at least get some vicarious satisfaction. On Friday many members of the media and legal VIPs--including author Lawrence Schiller and former Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiro--were relegated to watching the trial on a screen in a "listening room" at the Doubletree hotel next door to the courthouse. And inside the courtroom there was an air of occasion as Simpson and plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli began their cat-and-mouse game. Simpson--who had stopped to jauntily sign autographs as he arrived--at last found himself nearly face...
...reason for lawyers to support cameras in the courtroom: so they can find jobs in television after the trial ends. Chris Darden, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Shapiro and Barry Scheck all have regular TV gigs as commentators. Now Johnnie Cochran is getting a nightly talk show, with Atlanta prosecutor Nancy Grace, on Court TV. No word on what Marcia Clark is doing. (Is it the hair...
...ROBERT SHAPIRO Former O.J. Simpson attorney...