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Blood samples found at the murder scene and at O.J. Simpson's estate will be parceled out so that both the prosecution and defense can conduct their own DNA and other tests. Judge Lance Ito ordered 10 percent of the samples to go to the defense and 90 percent to the prosecution. The decision was supposed to put to rest a contentious issue that has been a focus of Simpson's trial so far, since blood may be the key evidence that links O.J. to the murders. But the defense is loudly objecting to the way the blood will...
...Initial DNA tests on the bloody leather glove found at O.J. Simpson's estate strongly suggested a match with the blood of victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman but failed to show any definitive link to Simpson's blood, according to a source close to the Simpson case. Police confirmed that they had found Simpson's passport and $10,000 in Al Cowlings' Ford Bronco after the famous freeway chase...
...would leave the prosecution with enough samples for its testing. Lawyers on both sides of the case were sharply critical of each other as the day wore on, and rightly so, says TIME law writer Andrea Sachs. "It's not surprising that there's a battle going on the DNA testing," says Sachs. "It may turn out to be the center of the case...
Shapiro has hinted that he might try to frustrate the introduction of DNA test results. Expect it. Last week he threw himself into the path of virtually anything that might go before a jury, even demanding to see the resume of one witness, Michele Kestler, assistant director of the police crime lab, after he challenged her authority to say the prosecution required at least 100 of Simpson's hairs to match them against hairs in a wool ski hat found at the ^ murder scene. The defense offered one hair; the judge ruled that prosecutors could have between...
...either the DNA tests or the police discoveries at Simpson's house are admitted into evidence, Shapiro may have to rely on other strategies. Defense adviser Alan Dershowitz, the ubiquitous specialist in appeals (Klaus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mike Tyson), suggested one possibility during an appearance on PBS's Charlie Rose Show. "Now you're going to see the defense brutally attacking these victims," he said. "By the end of this trial, nobody's going to have a kind thing to say about the two dead people." Last week Dershowitz insisted to TIME his words were "a general comment...