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...high drama that has overtaken the O.J. Simpson murder trial played itself out on two stages, both dangerous to the prosecution. Pugilistic defense attorney Barry Scheck forced Los Angeles criminalist Dennis Fung to admit to a series of apparent oversights, slips and errors made in gathering and preserving physical evidence. Meanwhile, Judge Lance Ito summoned ousted juror Jeanette Harris to a special hearing in order to quiz her about her allegations of racial tensions on the jury. Among her complaints: a system of segregated gyms and video-viewing rooms was set up because of disagreements between white and black jurors...
...Simpson case resumed after a day's hiatus during which Judge Lance Ito interviewedjurorsabout allegations of racial tension on the jury. The results of the interviews were not released. First on the stand for the prosecution today was evidence technician Andrea Mazzola, the assistant to criminalist Dennis Fung. Mazzolacollected most of the blood evidencein the Simpson case, and the defense is expected to question her lack of experience. In her testimony Mazzola denied a defense allegation that she contaminated blood samples by handling them without gloves, saying that criminalists always wear gloves for fear of AIDS and other diseases...
Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiropublicly apologized in the courtroom to police criminalist Dennis Fung and "all my friends in the Asian-American community" for sarcastic comments he made while handing out fortune cookies last week. Once the trial got underway, prosecutors began their attempt to rehabilitate Fung by screening time-coded videotape that shows that Fung was indeed givenblood samplesby Detective Philip Vannatter the evening after the murders and that Fung's assistant Andrea Mazzola carried the blood samples out of Nicole Simpson's home. The defense last week showed a videotape of its own to support their contention that...
...Mistrial" button,Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcettidenied defense charges that the prosecution wants a mistrial and has been trying have allegedly sympathetic jurors dismissed. In the courtroom, defense attorney Barry Scheck continued to cast doubts on the validity of evidence collected by the LAPD as he grilled criminalist Dennis Fung. Today, Fung acknowledged leavingdelicate blood samplesin a hot van for seven hours because the refrigerator in the van did not work. Scheck also accused Fung of lying about seeing bloodstains on Simpson's Bronco, saying that Fung was trying to protect the testimony of Detective Mark Fuhrman.O.J. Central
...Robert Shapiro, the Rupert Murdoch look-alike, and Gerald Uelmen, a less telegenic Matlock, play bad cop- good cop for the defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy, gambler and hard-eyed madam -- are ready to offer the predictable wisdom that no man should be presumed guilty if he can afford to retain one of them. And just...