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...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...
...treatment of DNA expert Barry Scheck. In court today, Ito at times grew visibly impatient with Scheck's deliberate and repetitive style, several times refusing requests for sidebar discussions from Scheck and prosecution attorney Hank Goldberg, and at one point curtly telling Scheck to sit down. When Fung concluded his testimony, Ito began questioning jurors about allegations of racial tensions on the jury, denying a request from Simpson's defense to allow Simpson to be present during the interviews...
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...
Prosecutors today attempted to salvage the credibility ofcriminalist Dennis Fung. During six previous days of withering cross-examination, defenseDNA expertBarry Scheck had cast so much doubt on Fung's testimony that a gleeful defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. was seen happily roaming the halls Thursday saying, "We're having Fung," while lawyer Robert Shapiro handed out fortune cookies...
...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