"wore about size 10 shoes) and had written, ""If they don't fit, u must acquit"", a reference to Johnnie Cochran's famous line in the O. J. Simpson trial. Authorities believe that this murder was premeditated by Sheinbein and Needle. Sheinbein and Needle allegedly incapacitated Tello with a stun gun, and then choked and stabbed Tello, finally beating him to death with a sawed-off shotgun. The autopsy report concluded that the cause of death of the victim was ""a combination of blunt force injuries to the head, cutting wounds on the neck and chest, and ligature strangulation"". The two stored the"
"told the ""Los Angeles Times"". ""The timing sends the jury away for the weekend with the ill-fitting glove image virtually unimpaired."" Until that point the defense team's best-case scenario had been a hung jury; afterwards they began to seriously consider the possibility of an acquittal. In his closing argument, Cochran turned the glove demonstration into a metaphor for the inconsistencies throughout the prosecution case, using the phrase ""If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"" repeatedly. A day later, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on all charges. Simpson was later found liable for the deaths in a civil"
"""If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."" He used the phrase, which had been devised by fellow defense team member Gerald Uelmen, as a way to try to persuade the jury that Simpson could not have murdered Nicole Brown Simpson nor Ron Goldman. In a dramatic scene, Simpson appeared to have difficulty getting the glove on; stained with blood of both victims and Simpson, it had been found at the crime scene. Cochran did not represent Simpson in the subsequent civil trial for the same murders, and Simpson was found liable for the deaths. Cochran was criticized during the criminal"
"the gloves because the glove had been soaked in blood from Simpson, Brown and Goldman, and frozen and unfrozen several times. The leather glove seemed too tight for Simpson to put on easily, especially over the sanitary gloves he wore underneath. Uelmen came up with, and Cochran repeated, a quip he had used several times in relation to other points in his closing arguments: ""If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"". On June 22, 1995, Darden told Judge Ito of his concerns that Simpson ""has arthritis and we looked at the medication he takes and some of it is anti-inflammatory"
"to the jury, ""If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"", in reference to an earlier point in the trial when prosecutor Christopher Darden asked Simpson to try on a bloody glove found at the murder scene, and Simpson could not put it on because it did not fit his hand. The ""Associated Press"" obituary for Cochran mentioned the Chewbacca defense parody as one of the ways in which the attorney had entered pop culture. Criminologist Dr. Thomas O'Connor says that when DNA evidence shows ""inclusion"", that is, does not exonerate a client by exclusion from the DNA sample provided, ""About"
"defense for building the high-profile legal team that would later be dubbed the ""Dream Team."" Shapiro led the defense team through much of the trial before Johnnie Cochran took over as the lead chair. Shapiro is the co-founder of RightCounsel.com and is a senior partner in the Los Angeles-based law firm Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro, LLP. He also co-founded LegalZoom. Cochran joined the Simpson defense team and later took over as its chair, during the trial. In his closing arguments, Cochran famously uttered the phrase, ""If it doesn't fit, you must acquit,"" referencing the fact that"
"the real Jonnie Cochran tried to convince jurors that a knit cap did not constitute a disguise, after telling them that prosecutor Marcia Clark ""talks about O. J. being very, very recognizable"". ""It's no disguise,"" Cochran said; ""it makes no sense; it doesn't fit; if it doesn't fit, you must acquit."" ""If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"" was a refrain that Cochran also used in response to other points of the case. In the episode, Chef contacts a ""major record company"" executive, seeking to have his name credited as the composer of a fictional Alanis Morissette hit called ""Stinky"
"a stud field mouse."" Indignant, as Bailey expected, Darden asked him what he meant. ""You're not going to have our client try on these gloves, are you?"" he asked in response. ""They probably won't fit, and you may not wish to find out. But if, as I suspect, you lack the balls to find out, we might find out for you."" Bailey knew that it would carry more impact if the gloves failed to fit after the prosecution instead of the defense requested the defendant try them on. When the trial resumed, Darden asked Rubin questions about an undamaged pair"
"the tapes had been revealed, Fuhrman took the Fifth Amendment when asked the same question by Uelmen. In May 2008, Mike Gilbert, one of Simpson's former sports agents, released his book ""How I Helped O.J. Get Away with Murder"", in which he revealed that the gloves did not fit because, on his advice, Simpson had stopped taking his arthritis medicine, which made his hands swell. On September 8, 2012, Darden accused Cochran of tampering with the glove before the trial. Dershowitz, a member of the Simpson defense team, refuted the claim, stating ""the defense doesn't get access to evidence except"
"placed his actions within the best tradition of American civil disobedience. He quoted from Thomas Paine, ""the most outspoken and farsighted of the leaders of the American Revolution: 'Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. Man has no property in man, neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.'"" Hoffman concluded: ""Thomas Paine was talking about this Spring day in this courtroom. A verdict of not guilty will say, 'When our country is right, keep it right; but when"
"incidents. Since the declarants were deceased, the videotaped statements became hearsay, and the issue for the trial judge was whether or not the statements were reliable enough to be admitted. The trial judge, Grossi J, ""...held that the hearsay statements from each of the complainants were sufficiently reliable to be admitted in evidence, based in large part on the 'striking' similarity between them"". Khelawon was convicted. The Court of Appeal for Ontario allowed Khelawon's appeal. Rosenberg JA (Armstrong JA concurring) rejected the statements, while Blair JA (dissenting) would have admitted the statements and dismissed the appeal. The Crown sought leave"
"found him guilty. After, he sought for a writ of habeas corpus for being forced to stand trial in prison clothing. The District Court denied relief but the Court of Appeals took up his case which was eventually brought in front of the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that Harry Lee Williams was not denied due process. While the Court concluded that no person could be compelled to stand trial in prison garb without their consent, wearing jail clothes could be a strategy to obtain sympathy from a jury. Accordingly, in the absence of a timely objection, there is no"
"changed hands, a bond had been formed between them. Similarly, the Gemara told that Amemar disqualified himself from presiding over the case of a person who removed a feather from Amemar’s head, and Mar Ukva disqualified himself from presiding over the case of a person who covered spittle that was lying before Mar Ukva. The ""Sifre"" interpreted the words ""Justice, justice shall you pursue"" in to teach that if a defendant has departed from a court with a judgment of innocence, the court has no right to call the defendant back to impose a judgment of guilt. And if a"
"telephone from his cell as he was being served his last meal. Glossip said that Sneed testified at trial that Glossip did not wear or own gloves, ""And now he's on TV saying that I did. It continues to show the discrepancies in anything that Justin Sneed has to say."" On the same day, Virgin CEO Richard Branson bought an advertisement in ""The Oklahoman"" newspaper which had advocated against the execution, with Branson stating the evidence against Glossip is flawed and that ""every person is deserving of a fair trial"", adding, ""Your state is about to execute a man whose"
"cannot be considered “harmless beyond a doubt.” Justice Marshall said, “the Court could not rest the reversal on a finding that respondent knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently consented to be tried in such attire, and thus had waived his due process right”. The defendant never conceded to wearing his prison clothes while on trial and a retrial should be awarded because of the violation of his fourteenth amendment rights under due process. The court’s decision upheld the previous decisions regarding defendants wearing prison uniforms without objection in a timely manner. The opinion of the court was that Williams’ due process rights"
"next day with testimony about how the glove might have shrunk, but by the weekend commentators on the trial were calling the impact permanent. ""[T]he prosecution created a 'Perry Mason' moment that could provide the basis for some jurors' reasonable doubt,"" said UCLA law professor Peter Arenella. ""[It also] solved the defense problem of how to get O.J. before the jury without being cross-examined."" Nor had their efforts to recover helped them much, in the opinion of defense attorney Jill Lansing. ""Detailed explanations regarding shrinkage ran headlong into the old adage that one picture is worth a thousand words,"" she"
"of Appeal lifted on September 30, 1946 on the order of 10 September 1946 and ordered the opening of the trial. However, the chamber of the court did not follow at all points of the argument for the prosecution: Specifically, they pointed out that it considered that the impunity Regulation of 1933 is applicable. The trial took place in November 1946. The prosecution called for the death penalty, the defense acquittal, citing impunity Regulation of 1933. The verdict was announced already on 29 November 1946 by the Chamber chairman Rudolf Goering (1883-): put acquittal using the impunity Regulation of 1933."
"loud voice answered the British jailer ""If the British mandate wants to put handcuffs on me, may it submit!"" The shackles were only removed shortly before the assembly of the panel of the court. The accused reassured their families ""We will yet laugh at them, and if not us, others will laugh."" The presiding judge declared that all accused had been found guilty. At the request of the judges, lawyers brought forward documents concerning the ages of Michaelov and Nachman Zitterbaum. Consultation over the verdict lasted for nearly two hours during which time observers and journalists were transferred by the"
"day, defendants Hoffman and Rubin appeared in court dressed in judicial robes. When the judge ordered them to remove the robes, they complied, to reveal that they were wearing Chicago police uniforms underneath. Hoffman blew kisses at the jury. Judge Hoffman was a frequent target of the defendants, who insulted him to his face. Abbie Hoffman told Judge Hoffman ""you are a ""shande fur de Goyim"" [disgrace in front of the gentiles]. You would have served Hitler better."" He later added that ""your idea of justice is the only obscenity in the room."" Both Davis and Rubin told the judge"
"statements ""we had them begging that they'd never be gang members again, begging us"" and that he would tell black people ""You do what you're told, understand, nigger?"" The tapes, as well as Fuhrman himself, became central to the 1995 O. J. Simpson murder trial. Fuhrman was the detective who found a bloody glove on Simpson's estate. This glove was later determined to be the other half of the pair of another glove found at the murder scene and to be soaked in the blood of both victims. Simpson's defense team argued that Fuhrman planted the glove on Simpson's estate"
"sentence should be imposed regardless of Killen's age. Prosecuting the case were Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and Neshoba County District Attorney Mark Duncan. On August 12, Killen was released from prison on a $600,000 appeal bond. He claimed that he could no longer use his right hand (using his left hand to place his right one on the Bible during his swearing-in) and that he was permanently confined to his wheelchair. Gordon said he was convinced by the testimony that Killen was neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community. On September 3, ""The Clarion-Ledger"" reported that"
"game were the same model as those found at the crime scene and a pair purchased by Nicole a year before the murders, on a trip to New York. While he testified, he and prosecutor Christopher Darden regularly referred to the actual gloves, which were present in the courtroom. During a break, Robert Shapiro, one of Simpson's attorneys, picked them up and tried them on himself. They fit tightly, and he doubted that they would fit Simpson since his client's hands were much larger. Another of Simpson's attorneys, F. Lee Bailey, had also been studying the gloves for a long"
"the most talked about of which was by Darrow. Modern commentators have praised Darrow's closing argument, which used powerful emotional rhetoric focused on the moral superiority of the unions' position. However contemporary reaction was universally negative. The ""Chicago Tribune"" called it ""the most unseemly, abusive, inflammatory speech ever delivered in an American courtroom."" Despite most observers' opinions that the verdict would be guilty, the jury returned an acquittal for Haywood in late July. Pettibone was defended in a separate trial by Judge Orrin N. Hilton of Denver, Colorado and was also acquitted, and charges were dropped against Moyer. Orchard pled"
"day, defendants Hoffman and Rubin appeared in court dressed in judicial robes, while on another day, Hoffman was sworn in as a witness with his hand giving the finger. Judge Hoffman became the favorite courtroom target of the Chicago Seven defendants, who frequently would insult the judge to his face. Abbie Hoffman told Judge Hoffman ""you are a 'shande fur de Goyim' [disgrace in front of the gentiles]. You would have served Hitler better."" He later added that ""your idea of justice is the only obscenity in the room."" Both Davis and Rubin told the Judge ""this court is bullshit."""
"this case. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that a Section 1983 suit was available in cases where the relief sought by the inmate would not ""necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction or sentence."" Since there was no telling whether the results of the tests Mr. Skinner sought would establish his guilt, clear him or be inconclusive, she wrote, the suit was proper.. Skinner echoed this strategy to a CNN reporter: ""all the District Attorney's gotta do is turn over the evidence, test it and let the chips fall where they may. If I'm innocent, I go home, if I'm"
"judge declared a mistrial on April 27, 1991. In January 1992, a second trial began in which prosecutors presented new evidence: a bloody cashmere glove allegedly belonging to Warmus that was photographed and recovered from the crime scene. Warmus' attorney questioned why the glove, which was found by Solomon in a closet between the first and second trial, was allowed as evidence, and argued that the prosecution failed to provide definitive proof that the glove was Warmus' nor that it was the same glove as the one pictured in the crime scene photographs. The judge allowed the glove to stand"
"violated. The Supreme Court reversed, reinstating the conviction, on June 21, 1976. Section one of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution states “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. Williams argued that being tried in clearly identifiable prison clothes gave a perception of guilt and therefore undermined his due process right to be presumed innocent"
"entitled: ""Late-breaking news: Rosario Ponce couldn't take it any more and confessed her crime."" a story which the newspaper has taken pains to disavow. On 22 April 2013 the district attorney Lozada was to have presented the three gloves found on or near Ciro's body. The existence of the third glove was key to the prosecution's case as it is assumed that a person only wears two gloves at a time. Finding a third glove was to have been proof that a second person was present with Ciro at the time of his death. However the district attorney, upon appearing"
"was the first time in his long career that he had to say that in court based on a complaint from a juror"". During Judge Popescul's charge to the jury, he instructed them: You must not find Gerald Stanley guilty unless you are sure he is guilty. Even if you believe that Mr. Stanley is probably guilty or likely guilty, that is not sufficient. In those circumstances, you must give the benefit of the doubt to Mr. Stanley and find him not guilty because the Crown has failed to satisfy you of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."" He also"
"closing speech for the defence, Gilbert Gray QC asked the jury whether they believed any hangman's noose would be padded and lagged with seventy-seven-and-a-half inches of Elastoplast to avoid chafing, or that any scaffold would be cushioned for comfort by a rubber mattress and sleeping bags. Pointing out that Whittle would not have died if the wire had not snagged on a stanchion because her feet were only six inches from the bottom of the shaft, the QC said: ""This is not something the defence has made up. Her height from the neck was four feet and there was a"
"Estelle v. Williams Estelle v. Williams, 425 U.S. 501 (1976), is a Supreme Court case involving Harry Lee Williams' conviction of assault on his former landlord in Harris County, Texas. While awaiting trial Williams was unable to post bail. He was tried in his prison uniform, and later was found guilty. He sought a writ of habeas corpus saying being tried in a prison uniform violated his Constitutional rights in accordance with the 14th Amendment. The Court of Appeals ruled that the accused does not have to stand trial in identifiable prison clothes and Williams’ right to due process was"
"alleged comment, testified that ""the gist of the quotes in what was said appear to be accurate,"" but that he did not remember Judge Murphy using the words ""tell her."" Walsh said Crowley told him about Murphy's remarks in the lobby conference and acknowledged he did not know whether the judge said, ""get over it,"" ""she needs to get over it,"" or ""tell her to get over it."" Murphy testified that the quotes attributed to him by defense witnesses were ""absolutely preposterous."" In February 2005, the jury found that the ""Boston Herald"" and David Wedge had defamed Judge Murphy and"
"the records at the jail so indicate that. And I think that the record should be made clear in that regard. And we took the further statement, as I said, to talk to Dr. Johnson this morning who verifies that fact also. So I felt compelled to indicate that to the Court."" The prosecution also stated their belief that the glove shrank from having been soaked in blood and later testing. They presented a photo during the trial of Simpson earlier wearing the same type of glove that was found at the crime scene. Prosecutors claimed that the presence of"