THE SIMPSON VERDICTS : The Wonders of Databases
Computer-assisted number crunching reveals the following updated facts from the caseof the People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson:
Number of times they spoke in court
Marcia Clark: 37,000
Johnnie L. Cochran: 33,000
Christopher A. Darden: 15,000
Robert L. Shapiro: 12,000
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Number of times word was used:
Blood: 15,000
Glove: 13,000
DNA: 10,000
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Objections:
Overruled: 9,000
Sustained: 7,000
Kardashian and the luggage
O.J. Simpson’s friend and lawyer Robert Kardashian says he was “wrongly smeared” by suggestions that he stashed the contents of Simpson’s luggage when Simpson returned from Chicago the day after the murders of his ex- wife and her friend. “I would never be an accessory to a crime, let alone a double murder, “ Kardashian said in an interview on “Dateline NBC.” Kardashian said he never looked inside the bag. He said Simpson’s personal assistant took the bag from his house several months later and had the clothing, “or whatever was in the bag,” cleaned. Police didn’t ask for the bag until seven months after the murders, he said. Kardashian handed it over empty. Kardashian refused to take the witness stand to discuss the garment bag, citing attorney- client privilege.
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