Page anuary 15,15! :ketj S-86 d command ai e did in the press 'eiview on TNT. ve such animosia steroid thing. it the beginningi even points to cii on hit the i a3-pointerbef« throws and tk ine. The Rockets :s, including 34 with 19 point! Ided 13 points. cave letimes,” coacl id. “It does some ifidence. second half we rn "T The Battalion News Page 13 Wednesday • January 15, 1997 Defense rests in civil trial Thirty newly-revealed photos show Simpson in 'ugly-ass' shoes SANTA MONICA,. Calif. (AP) -In his civil trial, O.J. Simpson has employed some of the same themes that got him acquitted of murder: claims of conspiracy, corruption and contamination of evidence. But a new “C” has been added — credibility. Simpson has pitted his credi- oints overafw bility against that of Nicole Brown Simpson, asking the jury to believe his tale of a blissful marriage and reject her claims of abuse. The most crucial new ele ments were Simpson’s own testi mony and photographs which were either unused or unavail able during the criminal trial. “This case may very well come down to a photo finish,” said Loyola University Dean Laurie Levenson, who has been observing the trial. “Which pic tures do you believe?” hings together, d four 3-pointen free throws wher, ihind the 3-point a layup late in the ras a season-high point range, with hitting four anti its, and Baylot nters. m scoring (10.8) s (0.6). get the chance to Davis said. “1 igs playing (over- t’t learn here." le next step for lecoming more der in die way he ot a vocal guy," lie has said a few season and I'm > get more and season goes on.” 1 just wants to the team's tand rebound hots," he said, at I do best for i follow, ird every game r than she is,' ion’t think she an 100 percent the ordeal has ■ perspective on oench my senior ■eciate these four play," Alexander tiling I have out 1 because I know I want to make iportunity Texas s a distinct pos ts game all sea- me — a rivalry r game, you jusi he competition clean game The defense rested Tuesday after 39 witnesses and 14 days of testimony. The plaintiffs started calling their rebuttal witnesses immediately. Closing arguments in the wrongful-death case are scheduled for next week. Just before Thanksgiving, when confronted with a photo of him apparently wearing Bruno Maglis — the same kind of shoes that made tracks around the bodies of Ms. Simpson and Ronald Goldman — Simpson branded the picture a fake. Earli er he said he would never wear such “ugly-ass” shoes. Over the Christmas break, the plaintiffs came up with 30 more photos appearing to show Simp son in the same shoes. Confront ed with the pictures, Simpson tes tified: “I didn’t wear those shoes.” “Do you have any explanation for why all these photographs show you wearing those shoes?” plaintiffs’ attorney Daniel, Petro- celli asked. “No,” Simpson said. Johnnie Cochran Jr., who headed Simpson’s “Dream Team” in the murder case, said he was troubled by tlie pictures. “We didn’t have those in the criminal case, and the question is quite simply whether they’re le gitimate, whether the pho tographs are fakes or they’re legit imate. And only the jury is going to make that decision,” Cochran told a Boston radio station. The defense fought back with its own startling photos — of the bloody gloves. One picture showed an apparent hole in a crime scene glove — a hole nowhere visible on the glove giv en to the jurors. Defense attor ney Robert Baker suggested there had been a sinister switch. Then there were the bloody crime scene photos. Defense forensic wizard Henry Lee held up his magnifying glass and showed jurors a new trail of sev en blood drops leading away from the scene. This supported a two-killer theory. “The defense managed to raise some mystery, which never hurts,” Levenson said. “You have to give them credit. They didn’t roll over and die after the Bruno Magli shoe pictures.” The defense’s secret weapon, of course, was Simpson and his much-vaunted charisma. He didn’t testify at his murder trial, and his first turn on the stand in November was under hostile questioning by the plaintiffs. But Friday, under friendly questioning, it appeared he would charm his way through. Simpson portrayed himself as a loving husband mystified by his wife’s mood swings in their final months together. TALION tied l ising sy table live Hon, call >569 J i live Many Texans left powerless by storms HOUSTON (AP) — The recent frigid weather loosened its grip on ice-crusted South Texas as temperatures began inching above the freezing mark Tuesday, but more than 100,000 residents remained cold and in the dark because of power outages. The cold wave and ice storm that swept across the state beginning over the weekend is blamed for at least 13 deaths, most of them in traffic accidents, authorities said. Some roads and highway bridges re mained treacherous as far south as Kenedy County, just north of the Rio Grande Valley, but there was no repeat of Monday’s hun dreds of collisions. Improving conditions allowed state trans portation officials early Tuesday afternoon to reopen for the first time in 20 hours a 200- mile stretch of Interstate 10 in West Texas, from Junction to Fort Stockton. In Houston, people downtown had a new hazard to consider — ice falling from the city’s skyscrapers. As temperatures rose, ice that had coated the exterior of buildings be gan tumbling to the streets. Barricades were erected on sidewalks around the 75-story Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the Southwest, and the 35-story angular twin-tower Pennzoil Place across the street to keep pedestrians from be ing pelted by the flying chunks of ice. In Austin, the Texas legislature began its biennial session, but the number of specta tors was down because of difficulties getting into the city. A winter weather advisory remained in ef fect throughout the day for south central Texas and the Hill Country, with tempera tures near or below freezing generally north of a line from Del Rio to College Station. Light freezing rain and sleet was reported in the Hill Country. The most serious power problems were in southeast Texas, where 53,500 Entergy cus tomers in the three counties around Beau mont and Port Arthur and some 50,000 Houston Lighting & Power Co. users re mained in the dark. Still, that was an im provement from the nearly 300,000 cus tomers who were powerless 24 hours earlier. “We’re continuing to have trees and tree limbs fall onto our lines,” Entergy spokesman Kim McMurray said. “We’ll get one area put back on and then a tree limb falls and knocks that same area out or some other.” Company crews from other states were Voiding the Kat. \f y °' J fo \ee her a'jai*, ‘jet a bacj <,£ cheefeballs lAow how to V (e that Lockom thiny. 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