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...starters, the defense is saying it may not be ready to rest this week. The defense at first thought it had won a key round when Judge Lance Ito decided to instruct the jurors that they could take into account ex-detective Mark Fuhrman's "unavailability" to testify a second time. Even without telling the jurors that Fuhrman had invoked the Fifth Amendment, calling attention to his absence could further raise their suspicion of him. Prosecutor Marcia Clark appealed the ruling and, in a surprise decision, the Second District Court of Appeals ordered Ito to abandon his proposed instructions...
...both in and out of court. Last Wednesday, for the first time, the L.A. County courthouse was picketed in O.J. Simpson's defense. During a noontime rally by the N.A.A.C.P., demonstrators chanted, "No justice, no peace," waving placards that attacked the prosecution's evidence, the L.A.P.D.'s tactics and Ito's ruling on the tapes. "We are not deaf, dumb, stupid, blind or living in denial," declared protester Morris Griffin. "We have seen this case. We have seen contamination, corruption, conspiracy." Vendors sold T shirts bearing pictures of Ito and Fuhrman in the cross hairs of a rifle...
...three bloodstains he tested from inside O.J. Simpson's Bronco match the blood of Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Also, Johnnie Cochran confirmed that the defense plans to call FBI agent Frederick Whitehurst, who would testify that FBI lab personnel have fabricated evidence to help prosecutors in other cases. Judge Ito has not yet ruled on whether Whitehurst will testify. Justice officials today said they are investigating Whitehurst's allegations...
...Simpson defense released the name of the "mystery witness" they hope to call. He is Frederick Whitehurst, who testified last summer at the World Trade Center bombing trial that the prosecution in that case tried to pressure him to change his testimony. If Judge Ito agrees to let him testify, he is expected to challenge the FBI laboratory analysis of blood allegedly belonging to O.J. Simpson and the victims. In testimony today, Justice Department scientist Gary Sims said that three bloodstains he tested from inside Simpson's Bronco show a combination of blood consistent with the blood of Simpson...
...Simpson's attorneys are awaiting Judge Ito's decision on their request to call an unidentified, last-minute witness they claim can offer "startling" information. James Willwerth reports from the trial that rumors are that the information concerns the credibility of the prosecution: "It allegedly concerns a claim that a member of the prosecution team lied to the judge in chambers about what Mark Fuhrman said during a prosecution rehearsal of his testimony." If the witness were to testify that a prosecutor had lied to the judge, the impact on the Simpson case could be critical. Today, glove expert Richard...