The judge in Scott Peterson's double-murder trial sent jurors home until Monday because of what he described as a "potential development" in the case.

He also scheduled the next hearing in the case for Sept. 19, when he is expected to announce a date for jury selection in the double-murder trial, probably in mid-October.

Mr. Simpson's lawyers today argued against the incidents' being introduced at his double-murder trial, saying that virtually all the accounts of abuse were unsubstantiated.

He sat stony-faced as he heard the verdict at his double-murder trial: guilty.

But no one is laughing as the jury in Mr. Simpson's double-murder trial prepares to begin its first full day of deliberations on Monday and the Los Angeles Police Department braces for trouble.

A defense lawyer in the double-murder trial of a onetime lottery winner accused the prosecution's main witness today of masterminding a plot to kill the defendant in the slayings.

Alluding to Simpson's controversial double-murder trial in 1995, Letterman asked, "O. J., when the Truth Machine finally gets approved, will you take a test?"

Meanwhile, Haller shakes off the rust, and lingering self-doubts, as he prepares for the double-murder trial.

The inescapable drone of the double-murder trial, echoing from car radio to car radio, from TV to TV, has ceased.

Their prosecution in the mid-1980s attracted a level of media hoopla unsurpassed until O. J. Simpson's double-murder trial nearly a decade later, and from the start they were depicted as pedophiles and child pornographers.