o.j. simpson case? >> if anything good happened, it didn't offset the evil, i don't think. we did have an occasion to ask ourselves a lot of serious issues. is a person that is successful and well off and a sports superstar, is he still a victim of racism? where does his anger come from? also we learned from that case putting cameras in a courtroom is still dangerous, we learned that in a previous case that that no one knows they are there. but the people on stage do. and that's another lesson we took from that. tavis: speaking of cases that have gone over and over and anything to learn from james and vis-a-vis and others? >> i have read about two crime books and there are two about the kennedy assassination i recommend. one is jerald cosmer's case closed that reviews the theories that float around. another book by menninger that explains the theories of a baltimore man, donahue. that book is not easy to read but if there is a flaw in his thesis, i don't see it. i recommend it. tavis: one case you make that our fascination with these popular crimes is not new or not america

o.j. simpson trial. caylee anthony was killed and her remains found months later. >> reporter: jury collection will begin in a trial that will no doubt be the biggest in origin county history. casey renans jail ready to be transported to the secret county where she'll be tried. the judge will not reveal the location. three sources indicate lit happen in pinellas county. others are saying it will be west palm beach. media outled lets are prepping for coverage. tents are set up across from the courthouse. the court received roughly 600 requests for media credentials. there is a security plan in place that includes designated spots outside the courthouse restricting with protests can stand. to keep the trouble we saw outside the anthony house from popping up outside the courthouse. >>> the commute in and out of new york city is likely to be many congested this morning. a derailed train has occur tailed train service this morning. it was after a sunday morning subway crash. more than 30 people were injured.

o.j. simpson's appeal. in december of 2008 simpson was found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping. he's currently serving time at a medium security corrections center in nevada. his lawyer will now take the case for an appeal to the federal courts. he says it's a tough battle because no judge wants to be the one that lets simpson go free. >>> items belonging to the man known as the unabomber will go on auction today. among those items a typewriter where he reportedly typed much of his manifesto and axes and various tools and a number of sunglasses. he's serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for setting 16 explosions that killed three people including two in sacramento. proceeds from the auction will benefit the families of the victims. >>> three women raped in less than ten days. the campus where the assaults were reported and what the university's doing to fight back. >>> plus the damage to crops caused by the wet weather. how it will effect local fruit lovers. >>> welcome back to the morning news. the current storm system bringing a lot of snow to the lake tah

o.j. simpson's appeal. in december of 2008, simpson was found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping.currently serving time as a medium security corrections center in nevada. his lawyer will appeal the case in the federal courts. he says it's a tough battle because no judge wants to be the one to let jimp -- simpson go free. >>> fiance of dorothy barbaz says she's back in her home in quarter after her release. virginia -- qatar after her release. she vanished -- vanished. she went to syria. syria deported her to iran. she has iranian citizenship. she's also a citizen of the united states and canada. >>> well, wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords will have a very important surgery today. doctors will replace part of her school with a plastic implant. that procedure is being called a critical step in her recovery. she was shot in the head during a political rally in arizona. doctors will be updaying her husband, mark kelly, as you know, he's the commander of the space shuttle "endeavour." it just docked with the international space station literally about five hours ago. >>> actor z

o.j. simpson, an alleged killer once lived, neighbors objected to living next to strauss-kahn. his release from riker's island was fading fast, until the security company hired to watch the defendant came up with other accommodations. while he was temporarily homeless, strauss-kahn was certainly not penniless. even though the sex assault charges forced his resignation from the imf, he will be rewarded with a golden parachute. the former imf head will receive a lump sum of up to $349,000. and a six-figure pension every year for the rest of his life. either in or out of prison. and he may need every penny of that, because mounting a major defense won't come cheap. but his defense is not his main problem right now. this isn't over. he's only in this temporary place for three or four days. if he doesn't find a permanent residence, david, he could go right back to the judge and right back to riker's. >> right back in that uniform, perhaps. chris, thank you. and we should point out that chris will have much more late-breaking developments tonight on "20/20," 10:00 eastern. >>> we tur

o.j. simpson murder trial. really? >> yeah.agree with it at first and i thought, well, you know, yes, a dead child potentially in the hands of her own young mother. i didn't think it was going to be this big. i've got to tell you, i walked down the street and people talked to me about the casey anthony case. a lot of people are watching. so it could possibly be as big or bigger than the o.j. simpson case. they are talking about the trial again of the century. >> that's interesting. good litmus test. people on the streets, what are they asking about. sunny, there you have it. the people are smart. thank you. >>> and you know you've made it when you're imitated and saturday night live just did it with one of our own. that's next. losing weight clicked for me when i realized that weight watchers online is for guys. all the guys, they think, "do some crunches. that'll just make you thin right away." that just doesn't work. so with weight watchers online, it teaches you about doing the right things when you're eating. there's someth

o.j. simpson case.ore than 500 reporters from around the world requested credentials from the court to cover the case. the judge is so concerned about pretrial attention, he will not even reveal what floor they will be on. her story was captivatincaptiva. a 22-year-old mother, whose daughter disappeared. and then something did not add up. she waited 31 days to tell anybody her daughter was missing. when she finally told her story, it was under pressure from her mother, cindy. she dialed 911. repeated searches turned up no signs of caylee. and then her skeleton remains were found a five-minute walk away from casey's home. her legal team says she's not guilty. >> she is not running from this. she never attempted to run away from the situation. >> but the evidence prosecutors will present is compelling. photos of casey out partying, when her daughter was missing. and then there is the residue from a heart-shaped sticker found on a piece of duct tape that was placed over caylee's mouth. they will hear about

o.j. simpson did.ised like never before. >> a change in venue and the notion being that you want to find people not unduly influenced by the coverage. it doesn't mean people who haven't heard of this, right? >> it's not that you heard it or watched any coverage. it's not that you formed an opinion. it's can you put that aside. just decide the case on the evidence that you hear on the courtroom. and can you be fair. >> how do they speed up this jury selection process? let's face it, there are a lot of people who want do not want on the jury. they'll throw down every exkuls. >> -- excuse. >> that's not the test -- do you want to serve is not the test. there would be people who do or do not want to serve. it's not the test. speeding up isn't necessarily the judge's primary concern. quick justice is not the correct justice. three hours to question an individual juror is too long. the judge said you cannot pretry your case on each juror. in other words, you don't get to try it and see if they like it and if

o.j. simpson in the courtroom. he was a public figure.at it was like to be looked at. i think dominique strauss-kahn is going to have a similar presence in the courtroom. if the dna evidence incriminates him, none of that stuff matters, but it helps. and if i can add one thing. i said randall's island. that's soccer fields. it's rikers island. >> i played on randall's island when i was a kid. there's a lot of glass on there. >> it's been fixed now. >> mark, do you agree with jeff that it helps to be a public figure in terms of knowing how to present yourself in court? >> it certainly doesn't hurt. this is somebody that has been in situations where he knows how to handle himself and that beats the heck out of somebody who doesn't. and the fact that he has a high profile job and by some accounts probably one of the most high profile jobs in the world, certainly is not going to hurt him. at the same time, the things that do hurt him is that you're going to have prosecutors and judges who are going to, with all of the media attention, try to

o.j. simpson trial. 340r than 500 reporters from around the world have requested credentials just to go tohouse to cover this trial. the judge is so concerned with pretrial attention he won't even reveal what florida city he's going to use to select the jurors. even before she was accused of murdering her own child, casey anthony's story was captivating. a then 22-year-old mother whose adorable 2-year-old daughter, caylee, mysteriously disappears. but when details in the case began to come out, investigators said something didn't add up. the time line. she had waited 31 days to tell anyone her daughter was missing. and when she finally told her story, it was only under pressure from her mother, cindy. cindy had gone to the lot where the car casey was driving had been towed. then she dialed 911. >> there's something wrong. i found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car. >> reporter: repeated searches turned up no signs of caylee and then six months from when deputies began their investigation, her skeletal remains were found in the orlando underb

o.j. simpson triechlt more than 500 journalists around the world have requested credentials to go boo thele attention, the judge won't even reveal what city he plans to use to select the jurors. even before she was accused of murdering her own child, casey anthony's story was captivated. a then 22-year-old mother who's adorable 2-year-old daughter caylee mysteriously disappeared. but when details of the case began to come out, investigators say something didn't add up. abnormalities like casey's timeline. she wait third degree 1 days to tell anyone her daughter was missing and when she finally told her storying it was only under pressure from her mother cindy. cindy had gone to the lot where the car she was driving had been towed. then she dialed 911. >> there's something wrong. i found my daughter's car today. and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car hr her skeletal remains were found in the orlando underbrush, only a five-minute walk way from casey's home. >> i certainly have never seen anything like this. >> from the beginning her legal team has said she's not guilty

o.j. simpson appeal has been rejected in a unanimous decision by the nevada supreme court. in december of 2008 he was found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping. he's currently serving time at a medium security correction center in nevada. his lawyer will take case for appeal to the federal courts. he says it's a tough battle because no judge wants to be the one that lets simpson go free. >>> time now 6:18. new reports about rape on a college campus. in just the past nine days three rapes have been reported at cal pollly's san louis bus pow camp. two in a campus dormitory. another one at a fraternity house. university has created a task force. they're going to take disciplinary action against anyone they find to be involved. >>> 6:18 is the time right now. back over to sal to check in. how's the commute. >>> pretty uneventful which is just great. might be boring for traffic reporters, but it's great for you if you're going to be driving out there. go out and take a look at what we have on the east shore freeway. the traffic is moving along pretty well here as you can see

o.j. simpson civil case, after the criminal case in l.a., with all the attention that case had received, they were able to find a fair jury of people who knew something about the case. they knew facts of the case. they knew what had happened. but they hadn't developed opinions. >> tell me about this separate issue, which i noticed. when maria shriver made this very painful statement about the horrific ordeal she and her family are going through, clearly arnold schwarzenegger and i have always got along well, i think he's a good man, and this is awful for all of them, but she said she wanted privacy for her children. shortly after that, some of her children went on twitter and began to talk quite frankly about what happened, almost breaking their own plea from privacy. can we expect any privacy anymore given the existence of twitter, social networks, facebook and so on? >> we can hope for it. we can't expect it. the reality is i think maria shriver has every right to ask for it, to demand it, to hope for it, a and yet she knows as well as everyone -- i know and respect and like maria a lot, an

o.j. simpson running to get on the... sweating at the airport to make the next plane >> get out of town. >> right. but, look, he was still on a plane, there's been reports about phone call he is made to his daughter, whether he was concerned or not. that's the sort of stuff that we're going to have to see what happens. but a lot of the early information-- as is the case in many high-profile investigations, wasn't necessarily... >> rose: you were a prosecutor, right? >> no. lawyer, not a prosecutor. >> rose: what would be the thing if you were the lawyer you would most want him to do now? >> if you're his lawyer, the most important thing is to understand the facts as to what happened, understand the context. he probably wants to explain... because if you think about the facts in this case, either way they're hard to believe. let's assume... >> rose: it's a stunning thing about this case. >> if you assume for a moment that he's guilty, he walks out of the shower naked, the housekeeper comes in and he assaults her. she think

o.j. >> tried to show simpson had no scars the day after the murders.ldn't have been in a fight with ron goldman and they're expected to call simpson's doctor to say he had art light too severe to kill two people so fast. and if jurors are searching for reasonable doubt, lawyers say they need look no further than the glove. >> indicating the fingers are all the way -- >> as the o.j. simpson trial mesmerized america, a horrible crime in the former yugoslavia, tens of thousand of muslim civilians, mostly women and children, were being driven from this town, srebrenica, as that town itself became a killing field of able-bodied men. >> after days of uncertainty and terror, the first of srebrenica's pitiful refugees arrived in safe territory. they had escaped with their lives and little else. there were no men among them. only women and children. many of them elderly, some of them sick. the first batch of around 3,000 muslim civilians was herded out of the srebrenica enclave in serbian vehicles, dropped close to the confrontation line, and had to walk throug

o.j. simpson trial. >> i believe one of the three times, to the mom casey aptny has actually cried or showne judge is referring to her as opposed to her daughter, caylee. the judge said the media coverage has made it difficult, in his mind, to get a fair trial. i believe moving it will go a long way toward ding that. >> the jury will be picked from clearwater. what do we know what the jury pool might be like there? >> we know a lot, george. it's pinellas county. the clear water st. pete area. you move a trial, a jury trial from one venn you to another, you try to get basically the same composition of the jury. same population. the seem median income, the same level of high school graduates. you're going to find the same thing in pinellas as you do in orange county. but there's a difference, in pinellas, one of the oldest demographics in the state of florida. it's been long referred to as good's waiting room. you'll have an older set of jurors to pick from. a lot of retirees. they don't have to go the work every day. you'll see an older jury, it typically means conservative. >> anyone picked

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o.j. simpson and there are more hits for casey.though it's memorial day, the judge considered having testimony today but then said opening the court and bringing in deputies and bay liiliffs wo be too expensive. so the jurors will spend their holiday away from family and friends. their every conversation supervised by bailiffs to make sure there are no outside influences to taint their opinions of this case because the only information they're supposed to have is what they hear inside the courtroom. for "today," kerry sanders, nbc news, orlando. >>> and for more insight, we're joined by a former prosecutor and nbc news legal analyst. good morning. >> good morning. >> the evidence here that we're looking at, the series of text messages that were sent by casey anthony to her boyfriend, anthony lazaro just hours after caylee was reported missing, how damaging are the messages? >> i think they're going to be a difficult hurdle for the defense to overcome. they certainly showcasy as somebody who wasn't originally concerned about the whe

o.j. simpson, but in the end they get fair trials. especially somebody like strauss-kahn who has all kinds of resources. he has the best lawyers money can buy. if anybody can match the state dollar for dollar, witness for witness, expert for expert, it's somebody like strauss-kahn and i think he can get a fair trial in our system. >> speaking of those resources he got a severance from the imf. something like $300,000. are there restrictions on how he can spend that money? >> no. he's innocent until proven guilty. and he can use his money as he sees fit at this point in time. there's no restriction on how he can spend his money. there's just restriction on where he can go. he cannot leave that apartment without the judge's permission. he can do whatever he wants inside that apartment, within the terms of that bail package. but he can continue to live his life as a businessman within the confines of that apartment. >> jami floyd, great insight. >> appreciate it. >> and now here's russ. >> okay, rebecca, thank you very much. >>> when isr