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. Defense Attorney

Host Jacki Lyden talks with Richard Harpootlian har-POOT-lee-un), a defense lawyer in Columbia, South Carolina, about the imilarities and differences between the O.J. Simpson and Susan Smith murder rials. In contrast to the long, drawn-out Simpson trial, Susan Smith's was fast nd decisive.

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