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...tapes, Johnnie Cochran let his frustrations out. In a tense exchange, the lawyer angrily asked that Ito clarify and reconsider his ruling. "With all due respect, there are some parts that are incoherent," the Simpson defense attorney said. Huh? "Cochran is really on the edge of contempt," reports James Willwerth from the trial. "Ito's decision really angered him -- he has lost his normal sweet-talking, mildly blustery salesman's pose. But you don't call a sitting judge's writing's incoherent." Testimony in the trial was canceled for another day as defense lawyers tried to find other ways...
...People v. O.J. Simpson has proved to be a trial by ordeal for almost everyone, including reporters. At the center of TIME's trial-coverage team are Elaine Lafferty, who has covered the case since the day after the murders, and Jim Willwerth, who started reporting when the trial began in January. Both have been consumed by the case as it unfolds in the courtroom as well as in the world outside. Senior editor Lee Aitken, who supervises TIME's O.J. coverage, compares the assignment to an overseas posting: "Jim and Elaine have immersed themselves so totally in the language...
Maybe so, but Willwerth points out some of the rewards. "Virtually every serious issue confronting American culture is being debated-or manipulated-in this case," he says. "The justice system, racial conflicts, domestic abuse, violence-they are all here...
...Whereas Willwerth, a 28-year TIME veteran, has covered many of those issues for us for years, Lafferty is one of our newer correspondents, having come aboard last January. She has given her home phone number to virtually everyone involved in the case-and, to her mixed gratification and dismay, many sources use it at almost any hour of the day or night. "Catching them at less harried moments means being around early and being around late," she says...
Simpson has had enough of the dozens of street vendors selling O.J. watches, O.J. T-shirts and every conceivable O.J. tchotchke outside the courthouse, so he's suing them. The defendant is also seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages from the manufacturers. To date, Willwerth notes, Simpson has licensed only a miniature replica of himself...