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TV plug pulled on Simpson trial
Prosecutors tell of pattern of abuse by ex-football star
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors showed jurors maps and full-color photographs of bloody carnage and crumpled bodies, including one of Nicole Brown Simpson's uncovered corpse, to guide them yesterday through two murders they contend O.J. Simpson committed after years of obsession and jealousy.
The pictures of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, flashed on a large courtroom screen during prosecutor Marcia Clark's opening statement, brought gasps and sobs from the courtroom.
Moments before the defense was to unveil its case to jurors, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito pulled the plug on the courtroom's television feed because an alternate juror briefly was shown when she leaned forward in her seat.
"I'm going to terminate the television as a result of that." it said.
Defense Attorney Robert Shapiro jumped up and objected, pleading to have the defense's opening statement broadcast to the audience that had just seen the prosecution spend four hours portraying Simpson as an
abusive monster.
"We are representing a man whose life is at stake in this trial," Shapiro said.
"In fairness to his mother, his supporters and the audience worldwide, it would be tremendously unfair for the world to see TV coverage of the prosecution and not our defense," Shapiro said, turning to Simpson's relatives sitting behind the defense table.
At that point, he recessed court for the day and said he would have a hearing this morning on whether to oust the camera.
Clark said she supported ousting the cameras.
"The important people to hear from both sides are the jury," she said. "We are not playing to the world. We are playing to the jury."
For the first time, the prosecution mentioned a pair of dark socks found at the foot of Simpson's bed. Those socks, Clark said, contained a mixture of his blood and that of his former wife.
Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden led off the prosecution statement by acknowledging the power of Simpson's celebrity. He told jurors that they must realize the man on trial was not the one they admired on the football field, in the movies or in easy-going Hertz rental car commercials.
"The actor is not on trial here," Darden said.
As Goldman's and Nicole Simpson's relatives welt quietly, Darden told a tale of possessive love, degradation and control that spun radially out of control the night of June 12, 1994.
He recounted a titany of abuse: Simpson smashing the windshield of Nicole Simpson's white Mercedes, Simpson following his ex-wife on her dates and spying on her making love to another man, Simpson breaking into his ex-wife's house while she pleaded on the phone for police help.
"Her situation was hopeless, and she was helpless," Darden said. "You'll hear that telephone call, and you will hear the defendant, and you will get a true sense of the fear he instilled in her."
Facing the jury, with his back to Simpson. Darden said:
"The man you will see is the face of a wife beater, a batterer, an abuser, a controller. You will see the face of Ron and Nicole's murderer."
Throughout the presentation, both attorneys referred to Nicole Simpson by her unmarried name, "Nicole Brown," and called Simpson only "the defendant."
Clark tracked one hour and 10 minutes the evening of June 12 when she said Simpson could not account for his whereabouts. She said she would prove that in that period, Simpson became a murderer.
"Being wealthy, being famous cannot change one simple truth. He's a
person, and people have good sides and bad sides," Clark said. "We will show you the other side of the smiling face you saw on the Hertz commercial."
Darden portrayed Simpson as a controlling man, a millionaire Pygmalion who plucked a teen-age Nicole Brown from a waitressing job and installed her at his side.
"It wasn't really love," he said of the 17-year relationship. "What this defendant had for Nicole Brown was obsession. He was obsessed with her. He could not stand to lose her, and so he murdered her."
In yesterday morning's session, Darden and Clark made no startling revelations. They went over ground already well-plowed in Simpson's preliminary hearing and pretrial hearings.
But for the 22 jurors and alternates seated below the wall-mounted television camera and thus out of public view, much of the material was new. They had been sequestered by the time the most shocking of the domestic abuse allegations against Simpson were revealed in open court.
"He killed Nicole for a single reason. Not because he hated her; he didn't hate Nicole. He didn't kill her because he didn't love her anymore, because in his mind he did," Darden said. "He killed for a reason. ... He killed her out of jealousy. He killed her because he couldn't have her."
Peso plummeting despite bond sales
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico's faltering economy took another jolt yesterday when a government-bond sale fell short and interest rates rose sharply. The pesc fell to a near-record low.
The government sold only $275 million of the $400 million worth of dollar-linked tesobonos it offered yesterday and had to pay a higher interest rate to induce investors to buy them. It received only $324 million in bids.
The Mexican peso, which opened the day at 5.715 to the dollar, fell to 5.825, near the all-time low close of 5.85.
The peso's value is down by about a third since late December, when declining foreign reserves forced the government to abandon efforts to prop it up.
The devaluation has scared away investors and depressed the local market. Interest rates have soared, strangling consumer credit and creating fears of massive defaults on loans.
The stock market has been on a roller coaster for the past two weeks, partly from uncertainty about a $40 billion American loan-guarantee package that has encountered problems in Congress.
"The country would enter an extremely difficult situation" if the guarantees are not approved, the president of the Association of Mexican Banks, Jose Madariaga Lomelin, said Monday.
Mexico is selling tesobonos to raise funds to pay off existing bonds.
Tesobonus are bonds denominated in dollars but purchased and cashed in with pesos. Technically peso bonds, they work just like dollar bonds for investors.
The government hopes the loan guarantees will reassure investors. That would help it convert relatively costly short-term debt into cheaper, longer-term debt and give administrators breathing space to revive the economy.
The fall of the peso has affected several American corporations.
Earlier, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said uncertain economic conditions forced it to suspend plans for adding 12 Wal-Mart Supercenters and 13 Sam's Clubs in Mexico, where it already operates 33 stores. PepsiCo stock was downgraded because of wide investments in Mexico, and Price-Costco Inc. canceled the sale of 11 retail membership stores when its buyer couldn't raise enough money because of the falling peso.
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