Jury selection to begin in OJ case

Brutus

Brutus

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By KEN RITTER
The Associated Press
Monday, September 8, 2008; 1:49 PM


LAS VEGAS -- Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorabilia, he and his lawyers walked into a courthouse Monday to pick jurors for his robbery-kidnapping trial.
After a morning hearing on remaining pretrial matters, prospective jurors were led into the courtroom and given an overview of the case, including the charges against Simpson and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart and the names of potential witnesses.
Judge Jackie Glass rejected a request by the defense to be allowed to ask potential jurors if they consider the fallen NFL star, actor and advertising pitchman a murderer.
"My determination is no, we are not going there," Glass said, noting that questionnaires filled out by prospects had asked whether they were familiar with Simpson's other trials and the verdicts in them.

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N&B

N&B

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Dunno, on the back burner.... the 4th Estate might be ready when our financial mess gets sorted. I'm prepping for a dose of mega-outrage by the talking heads. Friday-Saturday at earliest.

So whats the deal with Orenthal, anyways? Him and a few of his peeps trying to reclaim OJ's sports memorabilia... A citizen's sting operation? I'm curious as to what he wudda done had he been successful... maybe hire another PI to find his wife's killer? Turn the articles and the perpetrators over to the cops? Sell them on Ebay? We may never know...
 
zengrifter

zengrifter

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For O.J. Simpson: A different time, place and verdict

It was no 'trial of the century' in Las Vegas, but the outcome provokes strong emotions through Los Angeles, a city indelibly marked by Simpson's murder trial 13 years ago.

By Carla Hall
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

October 5, 2008

The verdict in the most recent O.J. Simpson trial came and went in the dark of night in a Las Vegas courtroom. The proceedings may not have been breathlessly awaited, but the outcome still provoked strong emotions through Los Angeles, a city indelibly marked by the first Simpson trial 13 years ago.

This latest verdict was seen by many as a sad epilogue: either Simpson is getting what he deserves or he can't figure out how to stay out of trouble. Or both.

"It's just catching up with him," said Vartan Tashjian, an Eagle Rock set dresser who watched Simpson's murder trial but did not pay much attention to the latest one.

The issues, this time, were armed robbery and kidnapping, not murder and race. The verdicts were read without fanfare. It was not a day the Earth stood still, as it did 13 years ago for the reading of the verdict.

"I woke up this morning to all these voice mails on my phone asking me to comment on the verdict, and I wondered, what verdict?" said Shawn Chapman Holley, a lawyer who was part of the team that defended Simpson on those infamous murder charges.

But as news of the verdict spread, observers weighed in. "I just couldn't believe they actually got him on this, as opposed to a double murder," said Andy Brown, a travel industry manager who lives in Brentwood, just five minutes from the condo once owned by Nicole Brown Simpson.

MORE- http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-react5-2008oct05,0,6002756.story
 
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