7 h 8 m, 12 fev 1995 ano - Jurors take a field trip

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The jurors take field trip to Simpson home and to the Bundy Drive crime scene.



O.J., jury to tour crime scene Staff Writer The Record

LOS ANGELES -- O.J. Simpson will visit the killing scene, a restaurant, an apartment and his palatial estate Sunday -- his first trip to the area since he was arrested in the slashing deaths of his ex-wife and her friend.

Eight months ago Sunday, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed
at her Brentwood condominium. Its going to be a very melancholy time, defense attorney Carl Douglas said about Simpsons first trip home since June 17, the day he led police on a
slow, surreal chase while holding a gun to his head in the back of a Ford Bronco driven by friend Al A.C. Cowlings.

Simpson will be under heavy security when the judge, jurors and attorneys in his double-murder trial tour the four sites so crucial to the last hours of the victims. The visit will include stops at Simpsons estate, the condominium two miles away where Nicole Simpson and Goldman were killed on June 12, 1994, the
Mezzaluna restaurant and Goldmans apartment.

Late Friday, the court said Simpson decided to bar all media from his property during the trip.
For Simpson, the emotional impact of the trip is incalculable. It will be very odd for him to be at home but not really at home, said Loyola University Law Professor Laurie Levenson. Its unpredictable how he will react.

Superior Court Judge Lance Ito issued an order allowing police to close streets and restrict air space over the sites while jurors are viewing the
spots on Sunday. The judge said he would convene a court session at 8:30 a.m. PST Sunday in the trial courtroom, assemble jurors, attorneys, the defendant and the court staff
and leave in vans for the all-day tour.

In a highly unusual move, Ito ordered news media not to fly over the area in aircraft. He said the noise would disrupt the in-field court session.

Only a small pool of reporters, a still photographer and one camera crew will be allowed to cover the event, returning to brief colleagues when the tour is over late in the day.

It is supposed to be a nontestimonial event where certain things are identified and pointed out, where the jurors are given a chance to watch. They cannot ask any questions, said defense attorney Carl Douglas. They will not make any comments and generally those are the rules that apply for jury views, he said.

Ito cited the extensive and volatile nature of the public interest and media coverage related to this trial in enlisting the help of the Los Angeles
Police Department as well as the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department in handling security.

His primary concern, his order said, was to keep the sequestered jury free from possible contamination by outside influences. Joined by sheriffs deputies and court personnel on Friday, the judge paid a preview visit to the Brentwood condominium where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slain.

Group members, tracked by TV helicopters, continued on to Simpsons nearby estate where they walked around the grounds and examined places which have been mentioned in trial testimony. This will be like a regular court session except that it is held outdoors,

Levenson said. She noted that a court stenographer will be present in case objections are made on the record to any part of the viewing. Beyond the physical details, Levenson predicts an emotional impact on jurors

almost as powerful as the intellectual exercise of seeing in person where things happened.
Its sort of an eerie feeling standing there at the scene of a crime, Levenson said. It makes it real. ... You are almost transported in time.
You can imagine standing where her body was lying, what it was like late at night.

Simpson, charged with the slashing murders of his ex-wife and her friend, will be taken from his jail cell under heavy security. As a defendant, he has a right to be present for every court proceeding, and the so-called jury view is an official court session. For jurors, the visit may be reminiscent of an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, as they see the rambling, multimillion-dollar Simpson
estate with its gates, pool, tennis court and guesthouse as well as the $795,000 condominium where Ms. Simpson lived after their divorce.

Itos rehearsal visit on Friday likely helped him decide on what locations will be pointed out to jurors. Will they walk through the tiny walkway where a glove was found on Simpsons property? Will they see the interior of Ms. Simpsons condominium? Locations most likely to be viewed are the area around the front steps of the condominium where the two bodies were found crumpled in pools of blood.

For residents of the upscale Brentwood area where the killings occurred, the jury tour will mean another invasion of news media and curiosity seekers similar to the crowd that swarmed through the area last summer.

With authorities planning to close off streets due to security concerns, residents could be seriously inconvenienced. If you planned a birthday party for your kids on Sunday, what would you do? Levenson asked. People do have a right to be in their own homes, and Sunday is a day when most people are at home.'


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