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A6 The Edmonton Journal, Saturday, July 2, 1994 World SIMPSON SLA YINGS Lights, camera, action it's the O.J. Show PATT MORRISON Los Angeles Times Blood-spattered dog led two witnesses to Nicole's body Reuter rtH'ip tea i nil -f ri i if i "Pray for OJ" T-shirts rippled like flags in the late June wind, Jay Akeem paid $10 for an extra-large and said: "We grew up on Perry Mason and Matlock It's tedious going through the proceedings though. I was watching this morning, the forensics, the LAPD woman (it was) getting real technical, but it's important." At the Legends sports bar in Santa Monica, Steve Grospitz was late for lunch with his sister because he'd been watching the case. "I actually was kind of wanting for this to get started; we heard so much hearsay. I was interested in what the court was going to do.

Michael Jackson, the Menendez thing" the city's energy, he figures, "is kind of exhausted." With only 80 seats in the courtroom, news stations and the curious found more engrossing events out on the courthouse sidewalks. See-saw debates went on between Simpson supporters and people like Jewish Defence League leader Irv Rubin, who demanded via bullhorn that defence attorney Robert L. Shapiro not forget his "Jewish brother, (victim) Ronald Goldman." Perennial candidate Melrose Larry Green told an O.J. supporter, "Stand up and smell the bagels!" Nearby, artist Rodney Vanworth created an instant mural when he spread a six-foot canvas on the sidewalk and invited people to write on it with markers. He had already drawn the figure of a red-smeared woman with knives sticking out of her body, a shoe, a jail cell, a sink and a toilet and a trophy with the words "hero" and "pity the victims" written on it.

Los Angeles Hundreds of reporters, scores of hours of video, thousands of words expended to convey the tedium and the lunacy of Thursday in Los Angeles and the mood of the day was best captured by the behavior of a copying machine in the county clerk's office. Turning out document replicas to satisfy all the reporters who wanted them, it simply overloaded and stopped. It was a day so crazy that O.J. Simpson's lawyer-friends Bob Kar-dashian and Leroy Taft, pursued into the street by reporters, took a bus a bus! to a downtown restaurant for lunch, and hitched a ride back to court in a police car and a day so routine that in cars mired in dense traffic a mere block from the courthouse, radios were blaring everything but O.J. The first day of O.J.

Simpson's preliminary hearing could fit anyplace in Los Angeles' kaleidoscope: "Variety" would call Thursday's court hearing a plodding legal sequel that couldn't hold the audience, compared to the original blockbuster, the slow-mo twilight freeway chase of two weeks ago. The California Institute of Technology could plot the course of Thursday's newsquake, from the courtroom epicentre, across town, across the country: to a gym in Long Beach, where people stayed aboard the Stairmasters so they could watch TV; to a Crenshaw district store, where a saleswoman's five-year-old daughter said as the TV came on, "Oh no, not O.J. to a noontime Chicago bar where no one wondered who "he" The Associated Press O.J. Simpson's lawyer Robert Shapiro, lifting his hand at right, dwarfed by media as he leaves court Friday Los Angela Two witnesses told a court Friday how a blood-splattered dog belonging to football great O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole, led them to her body.

Testifying on the second day of a court hearing to decide whether Simpson will stand trial on double murder charges, Sukru Boztepe and his wife Bettina said they were led to the murder scene shortly after midnight June 13 when they were trying to find the owner of a lost dog. "The dog stopped and looked to the right," Sukro Boztepe said. looked to the right too. I saw a body. "It was woman laying down horizontally all the way to the path.

Her face was turned to me on the right side. There was a lot of blood." The dog, a large white Akita, later proved to be Nicole Simpson's. Bettina Boztepe said she only looked at the body for a second. "It was such a big shock. I turned around very fast," she said.

But she recalled seeing that blood had flowed from the body toward the street. Both were shown a picture of the murder scene showing Nicole Simpson's body. Although the court camera could not capture the image on screen, Simpson, sitting at the defence table, was able to see it and became visibly upset, taking deep breaths, sighing heavily and wiping his hand across his face. His lawyer, Robert Shapiro, put his left arm around Simpson's shoulder to comfort him. Simpson has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his 35-year-old ex-wife and her friend, waiter and aspiring model Ronald Goldman, 25.

Rnth wre stnhhoH to Hpnth nnt- was when the waitress asked, "Do you think he did it?" to the Peachtree Street Macy's in Atlanta, where of the 66 color TVs in the electronics department, all but two were turned to CNN and OJ. And the radio shrinks could say that we have had it up to here with O.J. or that we're so avid for every scrap about the case that the Boston Globe can trill on for a dozen rapt paragraphs about the prosecutor's "head of tight curls" and the defence attorney's "deep, deep tan." The day, frame by frame: At 7:30 a.m., an hour when even the homeless have just begun to populate downtown streets, Nicole Brown Simpson's sisters, parents and friends are sitting in the back booth of a scruffy downtown coffee shop. The hearing that had gotten as much build-up as the opening of a new Spielberg movie began with promising drama, when the helicopters hove into sound and view at 8:40 a.m., tracking the police van bringing O.J. to court.

The courtroom pace moved pounderously, disappointing many who had expected incendiary TV-movie lawyering. But not everyone. At the corner of Jefferson Boule-verd and Crenshaw Avenue, where He said the dog appeared agitated and had blood on all four paws. He said the Akita followed him home and after he had put his own dog in his apartment he tried to take the Akita for a walk to find its owner but the dog resisted. At about 11:40 p.m.

Sukru Boztepe came home and found Schwab sitting in the pool area of the apartment complex with the large white dog. Boztepe said he and his wife agreed to keep the dog overnight and take it to an animal shelter the next morning. But it became very distressed when they took it to their apartment and clawed at the door to get out. He said around midnight, he and his wife decided to take the dog for a walk to see if it would lead them to its owner. In a surprise development, Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell, who is conducting the pretrial hearing, announced in court Shapiro had met in private with Superior Court Judge Lance Ito.

She said Ito agreed to appoint retired judge Delbert Wong as a "Special Master to accompany counsel for the defendant to recover certain items of real evidence, to place any such real evidence under seal and return any said items to this court." "Judge Wong recovered certain items related to the matter. They are in the envelope here that I am holding in my hand," the judge added, holding up a large manila envelope. When Kennedy-Powell said she proposed to open the envelope Shapiro objected, saying it was the property of the defence, who had the right to have it remain sealed. Deputy district attorney Marcia Clark argued by law all evidence must be shared between the defence and the prosecution and Kennedy-Powell said she would make a decision after seeing motions from both sides. The hearing was adjourned later Friday afternoon after Clark asked for time to listen to tapes handed to her by the former football star's defence.

Kennedy-Powell said the hearing will resume Tuesday morning. Clark asked for the adjournment, saying she needs time to listen to tapes provided by Simpson's lawyer containing testimony given to the defence team by two witnesses who are to take the witness stand next. Shapiro said he had no objection to the adjournment. side Nicole Simpson's apartment late at night June 12, after Goldman had gone to her home to deliver a pair of glasses left at the restaurant where he worked by Nicole Simpson's mother. Nicole Simpson and her family had dined at the restaurant earlier that evening.

The Boztepe's testified they did not see Goldman's body, which lice said was found several feet away from that of Nicole Simpson in shrubbery. Another witness, Steve Schwab, a television buff who told the court he could remember precise times by which program was on TV, said a ii cr lie was warning ms uug ai woo p.m. when he spotted the Akita. Valued Graduates. Take charge of your future! Thousands of Albertans have built dynamic and rewarding careers on what they learned at NAIT and you can too! A NAIT education will give you the technical skills and know-how to succeed in a changing workplace.

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