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...Gil Garcetti, the Los Angeles district attorney with the deep tan and the chiseled face, is widely perceived to have micromanaged all the major moves in the Simpson case, from the early decision to file the charges in downtown Los Angeles rather than nearby Santa Monica, thus ensuring a mostly minority jury, to the decision not to seek the death penalty. It's a perception he denies, lavishly praising his prosecutors' strategic calls. But in an interview with Time late Friday, Garcetti took full responsibility for the state's presentation: "I can't promise the results of a case...
Sporting a big "No Mistrial" 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...
...story in Monday's Crimson told a tale of simple honesty, a refreshing change in a year in which a multitude of student thefts came to light. Paul K. Kim '96 and Vanessa V. Gil '97 returned $3,000 they found in the street to its owner, Tommy's House of Pizza. To take the money would have been the easiest and safest from of theft imaginable, a great reward for little effort, virtually untraceable...
...Gil said she suggested to the man at Tommy's that they should give Kim a free pizza...
...They were more concerned about the money," Gil said. "It was quite a lot of money, but they didn't offer us any pizza...