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Delays leave jurors in dark
LOS ANGELES — The opening
statement by O.J. Simpson’s lawyer
has had more stops and starts than
some space shot countdowns.
Johnnie Cochran Jr. has yet to
finish his remarks to the jury, and
now the prosecution wants him to
take back some of his words — stuff
the cat back in the bag. Unring the
bell.
His misdeed was to mention wit
nesses and evidence not shared with
the other side as required by law. The
most recent halt came Wednesday,
and Judge Lance Ito is expected to
rule today on possible sanctions
against the defense.
Is unringing the bell possible?
What will jurors think about this?
And did the defense lose ground?
Cochran, a master showman, prob
ably gained an advantage, some ex
perts say.
As they sit out the latest delay in
their hotel rooms, the sequestered
jurors have had plenty of time to
think about Cochran’s themes—that
the killers are on the loose and the
prosecution is obsessed with convict
ing Simpson, lawyer Gigi Gordon
says.
“The defense should be ordering
up champagne toasts,” Gordon said.
“This delay left jurors with Johnnie
Cochran’s words ringing in their
ears.”
The TV audience may be more
concerned about the gaps in proceed
ings than the jurors. Insulated as they
are, it’s unlikely jurors know about
the fight over the defense’s admitted
discovery violation.
Neither would they know that pros
ecutor William Hodgman was hospi
talized Wednesday night complain
ing of chest pains. He is now resting
at home and expected back in court
this week.
Indeed, the 12 jurors and 10 alter
nates must be getting the idea that
their role is to hurry up and wait.
They checked into a hotel Jan. 11.
A hearing on domestic abuse evi
dence was held without them and,
except for brief quizzes by Ito on what
Simpson headlines or rumors they
might have seen or heard, they weren’t
brought to court for a week and a half.
But when it came time for Cochran
to speak, they were hustled back to
their hotel two hours early — the
courtroom TV camera had caught an
alternate juror leaning forward.
The prosecutors demanded a 30
day delay to study the new evidence
and a chance to address jurors again.
The judge instead asked both sides to
propose admonitions for the jury.
The jurors will be waiting.
Statements begin in terrorism trial
NEW YORK — The largest ter
rorism trial in U.S. history starts this
week with opening statements and a
warning from the judge that religion
is not on trial.
Prosecutors will try to show that
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 11
other Muslims planned a “war of
urban terrorism” in America that
could have killed thousands of people.
Prosecutors will argue they plot
ted to blow up the World Trade Cen
ter, the United Nations, the FBI’s
New York headquarters, two tunnels
and a bridge, and to kill Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak and other
politicians and judges.
After 13 lawyers deliver their open
ing statements beginning today, U.Si
District Judge Michael Mukasey will
instruct the jury on seditious con
spiracy, the rarely used Civil War-era
charge used in the case.
The judge told lawyers last week
he would tell the jury the defendants
are not accused of trying to overthrow
the U.S. government, only of trying to
wage a war against it. He also will
advise them that if someone breaks
laws, “the fact that it is undertaken in
the name of religion is no defense
whatsoever.”
“There is no religion on trial here,”
♦he judge said in a preliminary draft
of his jury instructions.
Lawyers for Abdel-Rahman, the
56-year-old blind cleric alleged to
have headed the conspiracy, charge
that he’s being prosecuted for his
beliefs. Ifconvicted, he could face life
in prison.
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Navy pilot missing after crash
SAN DIEGO — The pilot of a Navy fighter was missing Sunday
after his plane plunged into the ocean, the fourth Navy jet to crash off
the California coast in three months.
The twin-engine FA-18 Hornet went down Saturday whi le taking off
from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on a training flight.
Lt. Cmdr. John Brindley, a spokesman for the commander of Naval
Air Pacific, said he didn’t know if any debris from the aircraft had been
found. He said such training operations were conducted 50 to 100 miles
offshore.
Government forces lose ground
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian government’s
army lost ground to anti-government forces Sunday in a fierce assault
around an embattled northwestern town, U.N. officials said.
In some of the worst fighting since a month-old truce between the
Muslim-led government and Bosnian Serbs silenced most guns, U.N.
spokesman Maj. Koos Sol reported 701 artillery and mortar blasts
around the town of Velika Kladusa.
Sol said Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslims pushed the government’s
Fifth Corps up to three miles farther southeast from Velika Kladusa.
Croatian Serbs and Muslims loyal to Fikret Abdic, whose native
stronghold is Velika Kladusa, are allied with the Bosnian Serbs but did
not sign the truce. 5
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