Word: dna
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...before then (Simpson was offering $500,000 for information that would prove his innocence), but the case may not turn on what people saw or didn't see. By the time of the trial, the court will have what is likely to be the most important evidence: results of DNA tests done on blood found at the homes of O.J. and Nicole Simpson...
...Lance Ito admitted, was political science, and both Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark and defense attorney Robert Shapiro in effect conceded that they lacked the expertise to come to his aid. Ito ordered both attorneys to round up expert witnesses to testify about how to handle and interpret the DNA tests...
...DNA fingerprinting, as the process is called, is a complex, high-tech forensic test that can link a suspect to the commission of a crime -- or establish his innocence. While still controversial, use of the tests is gaining widespread acceptance in American courtrooms, including California's. That fact was hardly lost on either the Simpson defense or the prosecution. Attorney Shapiro insisted that his own experts as well as those hired by the * prosecution had the right to conduct the DNA tests. He requested that the prosecution turn over half the samples of blood that were collected by investigators after...
...tests being performed in Maryland involve two different techniques: RFLP (for restriction fragment length polymorphisms) and a newer process called PCR (polymerase chain reaction). Both are based on the fact that no two people except for identical twins have identical DNA...
...Simpson pal Al Cowlings, who drove the football star on his odyssey through the L.A. Basin before O.J.'s arrest on June 17, will not be charged, L.A. officials declared. But he still has to appear in court Friday. Also today, a Baltimore lab began DNA tests on the blood samples gathered at O.J. Simpson's estate and at the scene where his wife and her friend were murdered. Despite last-minute wrangling over a judge's decision, O.J. Simpson's attorneys agreed to accept only a small percentage of the prosecution's blood samples to test on their...