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...lying to you." On the other hand, defense lawyers cannot knowingly encourage their clients to lie on the stand without being liable to charges of suborning perjury. And if it is discovered that an attorney on either side leaked the document, that lawyer could be disbarred. Says former O.J. Simpson defense lawyer Carl Douglas: "There have been a series of leaks in this case, and I don't think they're coincidental...
Congratulations on your behind-the-scenes account of the civil trial of O.J. Simpson [NATION, Feb. 17]! It is in the best journalistic tradition. You caused me to think deeply about the two trials, civil and criminal. The verdict by a mainly white jury that Simpson is liable for the battering of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and the murder of her friend Ron Goldman, and the prior decision by a mostly black jury, which absolved him of murder, have raised the specter of racism. The case spells the eventual doom of the principles proclaimed by America's founders...
...four players--Glass (John Simpson '99), two women who recognize him (Gilli Bar-Hillel and Emily von Kohorn '00) and the baker (Driscoll)--engage in this bizarre incantation, and the results are surprisingly effective and funny as a parody of Glass's music...
...couple of weeks ago, on a Tuesday night, the country was treated to a very different this and that in the simultaneous broadcast of the State of the Union address and the announced verdict of the O.J. Simpson civil trial. Observers on television and in print tried to only connect--the President's reference to race troubles and the allegedly mythic figure of O.J. and the appearance of J.C. Watts Jr., the African-American Congressman who was selected to give the g.o.p. response. There was no logical relationship among these pieces; connections had to be forced. It was too hard...
...Look at the list from 1974. The Godfather, Part II. Chinatown. Lenny. The Conversation. And ... what was the fifth one? I can't remember." A quick trip to the reference shelf reveals the answer: The Towering Inferno, arguably the worst film ever nominated (and the only one starring O.J. Simpson). So maybe there is something to be said for including little art-house movies on Oscar night. And maybe Brenda Blethyn's closet holds something delightfully ill conceived...