Word: dna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe members of the jury weren't able to let go of their image of Simpson as a warm, enthusiastic football announcer. Or, even scarier, maybe his guilt was not what they were interested in. But DNA doesn't lie. Conceding that the jury did not want to invoke justice, how did they reconcile freeing O.J.? Proof of the jury's blindness and unwillingness to make O.J. pay was the fact that they took a scant three hours to deliberate over a case that produced 45,000 pages of paper, contained over 1,100 pieces of evidence and lasted nine...
...fact feel the injustice that so many blacks are subject to in our system? No. He was acquitted for a double murder that DNA suggests he committed, the very opposite of what usually happens to black men. Surely somewhere else last week, a black man was convicted for a murder he didn't commit, but nobody knows about it, and very few people care...
...DNA testing plays a major role in this brisk, whodunit-style narrative by a Russophile writer best known for his successful 1967 biography, Nicholas and Alexandra. The much publicized tool of forensic pathology led to an unseemly squabble among rival scientists trying to determine whether nine skeletons dug up near Ekaterinburg in 1991 were those of Nicholas and his family. At the end of August, U.S. and Russian experts announced that DNA testing had proved conclusively that one skeleton was that of Nicholas, thereby clearing the way for the family's interment in St. Petersburg's Cathedral of Sts. Peter...
...Johnnie Cochran delivered a fire-and-brimstone assault on the Los Angeles police. He accused the department of plotting a frame-up of his client, who he said was innocent and had been targeted by a deceitful and ruthlessly racist detective, Mark Fuhrman. Defense attorney Barry Scheck said blood-DNA tests had been so tampered with they were worthless...
...last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family will be reburied next February in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg. The family was slain by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg in 1918, and their remains (minus those of son Alexei and daughter Anastasia) were exhumed in 1992; DNA tests later confirmed the imperial identities...