CBS Evening News - 1994-10-18
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[0:03] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:08] with Dan Rather and Connie Chung.
[0:12] >> Good evening. Jury selection in the OJ
[0:14] Simpson murder trial came to an abrupt
[0:16] stop today so the lawyers could read a
[0:19] book. The judge is concerned that the
[0:21] just published book might influence
[0:23] potential jurors. And that was not the
[0:25] only surprise at the Simpson trial
[0:27] today. Correspondent Bill Whitaker has
[0:29] the latest from Los Angeles.
[0:31] >> After scolding prosecutors in open
[0:33] court, threatening to punish them for
[0:35] taking so long to test blood samples,
[0:37] Judge Lanceito today abruptly reversed
[0:40] course, he refused to keep out crucial
[0:42] DNA evidence as threatened. It was
[0:44] another in a long string of pre-trial
[0:46] defeats for the defense. The defense is
[0:49] u certainly stunned and disappointed by
[0:51] the ruling that uh we had expected um
[0:55] based upon the judge's comments last
[0:57] week perhaps a far different ruling.
[0:59] >> But a second surprise in court today
[1:01] swirled around this explosive tell all
[1:03] book by Nicole Simpson's best friend FA
[1:06] Resnik which hit the bookstores and the
[1:08] courtroom like a bombshell. In it,
[1:10] Resnik claims in graphic detail that her
[1:12] friend Nicole was beaten, stalked, and
[1:15] threatened by OJ Simpson. And in the
[1:17] most sensational allegation, Resnik says
[1:20] O.J. told her that if Nicole was with
[1:22] any other man, OJ would kill her.
[1:25] >> It would give people, I think, a
[1:27] completely fresh view of of why this
[1:33] whole incident could have happened the
[1:35] way it happened.
[1:36] >> After Judge Itto scanned a copy of the
[1:38] book he'd sent his clerk out to buy, he
[1:40] brought j