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Few doubt Simpson’s guilt, poll reports
q A recent Associated Press poll
found that one-third of those sur
veyed would oppose a retrial.
NEW YORK (AP) — Most Americans are
fairly sure O.J. Simpson is guilty, although
one-third think murder charges should be
dropped if the jury can’t reach a verdict, ac
cording to an Associated Press poll.
Twenty-one percent believe Simpson killed
his ex-wife and her friend — up from 14 per
cent in January — and an additional 40 per
cent think he probably did. Twelve percent say
the charges are probably not true and 6 percent
say definitely not.
The rest are uncertain. “Don’t know” re
sponses dropped just 5 points after four months
of testimony.
If the jury deadlocks, 59 percent say the
prosecution should start over with a new jury,
as would ordinarily be done in a murder case.
But 33 percent would oppose a retrial, includ
ing six in 10 blacks, five in 10 of those who are
following the case very closely, and even two in
10 of those fairly sure of Simpson’s guilt.
The poll found evidence of declining interest
in Simpson’s trial, with 29 percent saying
they’re following it closely, down from 38 per
cent in January.
Results have a margin of error of plus or mi
nus 3 percentage points. ICR Survey Research
Group of Media, Pa., part of AUS Consultants,
polled a random sample of 1,004 adults by
Tobacco company
recalls cigarettes
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
What if the nation’s largest to
bacco company called for a na
tionwide recall of about 8 bil
lion cigarettee and nobody
listened?
Despite Mailgrams to ven
dors and despite a legion of
company officials dispatched to
collect the cigarettes, smokers
and retailers alike seemed un
ruffled or unaware of Philip
Morris USA’s recall announce
ment Friday.
While big grocery chains
like Safeway in northern Cali
fornia pulled packs of Marl
boro, Virginia Slims and Merit
from their shelves, many
smaller vendors around the
country didn’t. They said no-
hody told them they should.
“As far as business is con
cerned, we’re not going to do
anything until we hear from
the company,” said Raja
Chamoun at AD Tobacco in
San Francisco. “If we take
Philip Morris cigarettes off the
shelves, the store would be
empty.”
Mike Zeidan, owner of
Michael’s Pit Stop in San Fran
cisco, took the same approach.
“I’ve heard the reports,” he
said. “But nobody told me not
to sell them. You’d think you
would hear from Philip Morris.
But I didn’t hear anything, so I
didn’t do anything.”
Philip Morris issued a state
ment Friday afternoon, at the
start of the long holiday week
end, saying it was recalling an
estimated 8 billion cigarettes
because of possibly contami
nated filters that could cause
wheezing and eye, throat and
nose irritation.
Messages left Sunday for
Philip Morris officials were not
returned.
The company has sent Mail-
grams to some vendors telling
them to quit selling the possibly
tainted smokes, advised con
sumers to turn in packs for a re
fund, and dispatched sales repre
sentatives to collect the ciga
rettes, saying it might take two
or three days to contact stores.
phone May 17-21.
The trial by then had shifted into repeti
tive, arcane testimony about scientific blood
analysis. And for the four previous weeks, the
Oklahoma City bombing had displaced the
Simpson trial as the lead story on most TV
newscasts, said Andrew Tyndall, whose Tyn
dall Report monitors the nightly
network news.
“You could easily claim it is being flogged to
death,” Tyndall said. “The media overplayed it
and when something of real importance came
along, people asked themselves, ‘What was I do
ing wasting my time on this?”’
An overwhelming 84 percent said the news
media are giving the Simpson case too much
attention. Nevertheless, one in four people
who hold this view report they are following
the case closely.
“What people say they want and what they ac
tually do are not the same thing,” said Jay Mat-
tlin, director of news audience research at NBC.
He said ratings for “Dateline NBC” seg
ments showed that running a Simpson story
caused no drop in numbers of viewers.
Then why do only 7 percent say they are fol
lowing the case “very closely,” and 71 percent
say they are not following it closely?
People may be trying to give a socially ac
ceptable response, like the exaggerated number
who tell pollsters they vote. Or, despite know
ing all the personalities and oddities of the
Simpson case, they may think they’re not fol
lowing it closely because they’ve tuned out
mountains of dry data and DNA details.
Associated Press Poll
Q
The People vs.
O.J. Simpson
m Do you think the murder
, charges against
O.J. Simpson are...?
Definitely not true
Definitely true
Source: AP national poll of 1,003 adults taken Jan. Il
ls by ICR Survey Research Group of Media, Pa., part
of AUS Consultants. Margin of error: 3 percentage
points, plus or minus. Sums may not total 100 percent
because of rounding.
AP
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