THE CASE IS MADE, FOR NOW

THE PROSECUTION RESTS. BUT THE DEFENSE MAY OFFER SOME SURPRISES INCLUDING O.J.'S OWN TESTIMONY

It's over. it's just begun. last week the prosecution in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson rested its case -- appropriate terminology since the whole drawn-out affair has been exhausting. This week Simpson's so-called Dream Team of lawyers begins its defense, and jurors and trial watchers can only pray they don't live up to their name in the soporific sense. In half-time analyses, legal pundits have seized upon the numbing numbers the trial has generated: so far, there have been 92 days of testimony, 58 prosecution witnesses and 488 exhibits. Ten jurors have been dismissed and 12 books published (one by...

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