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i told them i didn t think o.j. would go for that. back to o.j. after that meeting and told him and he said no how no way. this is a key, key issue right now whether or not there was legal malpractice, whether or not galanter informed o.j. of any plea deal. sure. it s very important, wolf. why is it important? because when you are establishing ineffective assistance of counsel you re really looking at two things. one the deficiency of the attorney s performance and number two that prejudiced the outcome meaning because of that deficiency it affected the result. you got convicted. so, clearly, in the event o.j. was informed of the plea deal if there was one and he said no, then certainly that s outcome determine nah tiff. that is a critical issue and again a question of fact. did he, was he offered a plea deal and did yale galanter inform him of that? certainly as an attorney you have an obligation to do that so the judge is going to assess who is credible, who is not, who should i
he blames for the 33 years he is currently serving in prison. could his former attorney end up derailing o.j. simpson s fight for freedom? plus, a cnn money exclusive. bernard madoff speaking out from prison about the notorious ponzi scheme that cost thousands of people billions of dollars. you ll hear what he says haunts him the most. and a brazen jewelry heist at one of hollywood s biggest events. details on the potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in diamonds stolen during the famed cannes film festival. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. another dramatic day in court for o.j. simpson who came face to face with the man he blames for the 33 years he s now serving in prison on robbery and kidnapping convictions. his ex-attorney yale galanter but galanter told the court just the opposite today arguing it
he said the allegations are absolutely ridiculous. we have been in contact with dennis morris, the lawyer for mayor rob ford. said he may or may not have some kind of briefing for us later today, but tells us the mayor will be fighting these allegations. again, the star being very certain, they say, that the person they saw on this video was mayor rob ford. why is this so outrageous? i don t have to tell you. this is a city dealing with a lot of gang violence in the first instance. shootings in the second instance. drug turf wars in the third instance. and here, allegedly, what the toronto star alleges, is that the mayor himself is a drug user. now, many people in toronto, as you know, the mayor is a contentious political figure, he is very controversial, but many people in toronto here still shocked today and wanting to know if this video exists, can we see it? so far it has not transpired. i know the toronto star said they re worried about the whole video being erased. there could be
had been stolen from him. simpson said he told galanter, his own lawyer, about the scheme before he even did it. yale galanter shot down simpson s testimony as soon as he took the stand. listen to how he responded to that. he told me that he and some of his boys had an opportunity to get some of his property back. that he thought it might be in las vegas. and i said, tell me about it. and he proceeded to tell me about it. what did he tell you about it? he told me that he finally had a lead on some personal items of his pictures and personal memorabilia that had been stolen from his house in california many years before. that he wasn t sure, but he thought it might be in las vegas. and, you know, he wanted to know what i thought. and what did you respond to