

On Saturday Boris Johnson toughened up several Covid measures and made face masks compulsory in all shops. Sir Martin Sorrell, who runs the S4Capital advertising agency, said firms are already starting to cancel their parties. Scotland’s national clinical director, Professor Jason Leitch, said people shouldn’t cancel office Christmas parties this year but urged Scots to informally “Covid certify” themselves before attending events, by taking a lateral flow test and ensuring they are vaccinated before they socialise.įirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is not asking people to put Christmas plans on hold at the moment following the emergence of the Omicron variant, but she urged Scots to take a lateral flow test before mixing with other households.īusinesses appear to be running scared in the face of the Omicron variant and have already started to cancel their Christmas party bookings in swathes. The Health Secretary has urged the public to take a lateral flow Covid test before attending a Christmas bash this season, while minister Thérèse Coffey suggested people should avoid “snogging under the mistletoe”. There is no Government guidance to that end.”

On Christmas parties, we don’t want people to cancel such events. Fuhrman had exaggerated his familiarity with Captain York, he might also have exaggerated his animus for blacks and the penchant of Los Angeles police officers to tamper with evidence.The Prime Minister rebuffed these comments just hours later, however, and said: “The Prime Minister has been very clear on this. York, who was the highest-ranking woman in the LAPD, could have been used to plant some doubt as to the veracity of the defense's claims, as "prosecutors hoped to show that if Mr. When asked if he had planted evidence during the trial, Fuhrman invoked the Fifth Amendment, and in a 2014 interview with The New York Daily News, he said that recorded statements of him using the n-word were taken out of context. Simpson has shown so far, the defense's strategy was built around presenting the LAPD as a racist institution which ineptly collected physical evidence, primarily by discrediting Detective Mark Fuhrman as a racist and accusing him of planting evidence. As The Times explained, "had prosecutors elected to call Captain York, Judge Ito would have had to step off the case." This would have caused significant delays in the trial.Īdditionally, as The People v. This was very important, as it could have changed the entire course of the trial. In August 1995, The New York Times reported that a different judge, John Reid, ruled that York did not need to testify in the trial, because she could not contribute any "relevant" information. Captain York and Judge Ito are married, which could've resulted in a major change to the case.
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For example, the connection between Judge Lance Ito and LAPD Captain Margaret York may have affected the trial - and it really was a coincidence. Simpson: American Crime Story, there were also some odd coincidences in the case. But as shown on the most recent episode of American Crime Story: The People v. Simpson's murder trial, many surprising twists and turns came from the lawyers from both the prosecution and the defense.
