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Despite threats that he would bar DNA evidence because of the prosecution's delay in providing material to the defense, Judge Lance A. Ito has said that he will admit such evidence...
Procedural tussling continued to dominate center stage of the Simpson murder trial. Judge Lance Ito chided the prosecution for having taken too long to submit key pieces of evidence for DNA testing and threatened to suppress the test results. Ito also declined to pursue the matter of erroneous news leaks, declaring that those leaks were so widely discredited they have not hurt Simpson's defense. Meanwhile, the slow and laborious face-to-face questioning of prospective jurors got under way, out of range of TV cameras and radio mikes per the judge's orders...
...Simpson may be far more distraught than his placid -- almost bored -- expression under Court TV's headlamp shows. On Wednesday, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran asked Ito to let his client speak briefly about whether he could get a fair trial. Simpson started talking about the infamous June 17 low-speed chase on a Los Angeles freeway in which he, riding in a white Ford Bronco, was trailed by several squad cars from the Los Angeles police. Growing increasingly agitated, Simpson reportedly said: "Mrs. Clark -- Ms. Clark -- said I was trying to run . . . Everyone knows that I called my father...
Judge Lance Ito today blocked the press from covering jury selection in the O.J. Simpson murder case, at least until prospective jurors are questioned about pre-trial publicity. Citing unprecedented press coverage, Ito said the press could return to his court on Wednesday once that line of juror questioning is over. Transcripts of the "closed" sessions will be released when a jury is impaneled. Attorneys for media organizations are studying the ruling before deciding whether to file an appeal, but a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union immediately called Ito's courtroom a "star chamber...
Murray said the professors will choose several of the best among the 58 memos turned in and forward them to Ito tonight...