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Every star needs supporting actors. Simpson's have come, almost literally, from Central Casting. Brian Kaelin, with his sleepy-surfer blondness, is a part-time actor whose films include Beach Fever. Robert Shapiro, the Rupert Murdoch look-alike, and Gerald Uelmen, a less telegenic Matlock, play bad cop- good cop for the defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy...
When it was all over, the defense counsel spoke. Sad-eyed, indignation banked to a mere smolder, Robert Shapiro argued that all the accusations laid against his client were the worst kind of circumstantial evidence -- evidence that could be read as innocence as well as guilt, and the court should have "little difficulty in deciding that this certainly is not a case of any premeditated murder by anyone." In fact, he declared, there was insufficient proof that O.J. Simpson was guilty of anything...
...that glove that defense lawyer Shapiro wanted ruled out of bounds. Shapiro argued that it had been collected during a search without a warrant. According to the exclusionary rule, which enforces the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unlawful searches and seizures, illegally procured evidence cannot be admitted at trial, however vital it may be to proving guilt. Thus for two days, the hearing turned itself inside out as investigating detectives found themselves having to explain their own actions rather than Simpson...
Televised live and nationwide, court proceedings to determine whether there is enough evidence to try O.J. Simpson for murdering his ex-wife and her friend got under way. Simpson's attorney Robert Shapiro immediately mounted an aggressive defense, asking that key pieces of evidence be suppressed because, he claimed, they were improperly seized by police. Prosecutors obtained judicial permission to get 40 to 100 hairs from Simpson in order to compare them scientifically with strands found in a cap at the murder scene, and a Los Angeles store employee testified that he sold a 15-in. knife to Simpson...
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, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...