SIMPSON TRIAL SIDESHOW: FALSE ABUSE CHARGES O.K. IF IT'S A CUSTODY CASE

WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO DEPT. One of the many peculiar sub-dramas of California's O.J. Simpson murder trial that will go down in the history of litigation is the story of dismissed juror Jeanette Harris. It seems from the nationwide media that Ms. Harris was dismissed from the jury -- thus endangering her chances of retiring as a millionairess with the profits from her published memoirs, paid interviews, etc. -- because it came out that she had falsely answered the voir dire questions about being a domestic violence victim, and then went around talking about how qualified she was to empathize, having been a domestic violence victim herself. She then, however, explained in her televised interview with KCAL-TV that she is now being unfairly and falsely accused because she had "never, ever been a victim of domestic abuse." She explained that although she had accused her husband in court papers filed in 1988 of "shoving her and forcing sex on her," this didn't count because those court pleadings were just filed as part of a child custody dispute.