Word: criminalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sentencing of L.A.P.D. criminalist Dennis Fung, he as much as said the same thing: "When I heard what Mark had done, I immediately drew him aside and asked, 'What can I do to help?' I knew that if I were caught, my career would be in the toilet, and I'd probably go to jail, but it seemed worth it to get a black guy in trouble...
...been convicted according to plan, the wall of silence might well have held. It was not until the jury in last fall's civil suit found for Simpson that an outraged Yamauchi broke ranks and signed his book deal. "Two long, costly trials, and O.J. walked," the criminalist wrote. "After all our hard work, it was too much. The physical evidence we'd fabricated was massive, irrefutable. The system just didn't work...
...inflame jurors. Prosecutors had long contended that the photos, which graphically illustrate how the victims were killed, were essential to their case. It is not yet known when the prosecution will present the pictures to the jury, which slogged through yet another day of often tedious DNA testimony from criminalist Collin Yamauchi...
...Simpson prosecution was taken by surprise while questioning Criminalist Collin Yamauchi when he blurted out on the witness stand that heinitially believed that O.J. Simpson had "an airtight alibi."In the ensuing commotion, the jury was hustled out of the courtroom while prosecutors frantically attempted damage control. WhenSimpson attorney Johnnie Cochran, addressing Judge Ito, called Prosecutor Marcia Clark "hysterical,"Clark shot back that his "sexist" remark was unacceptable. Simpson chuckled, watching this exchange. Clark insisted that Yamauchi's comment was not based on any knowledge of O.J.'s initial statement to the police, and should be disregarded...
...complaints about the turgid pace of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Ito told attorneys to speed up their questioning, tossed out some obstreperous spectators and even said the lunch break would be shortened. Testimony was largely taken up by the defense's exhaustive efforts to show that a police criminalist was both incompetent and an integral player in a complex police conspiracy against Simpson...