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...further setback, the defense was denied immediate access to blood samples for DNA testing after arguing that the prosecution had acted in bad faith when a police crime lab withheld some for future testing. In a ruling released last Friday, Judge Lance Ito acknowledged that the prosecution's handling of the blood evidence was a "picture of confusion, miscommunication and noncommunication between the prosecuting attorneys and LAPD." But, he said, the performance "does not rise to the level of bad faith or misconduct...
...Simpson's lawyers called for new DNA tests to determine whether the first ones, tying him to Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, were compromised by contaminated blood samples and improper handling. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecutors would not have to share blood evidence with the defense, even though they had been "less than exemplary" in handling...
Judge Lance Ito ruled that O.J.'s prosecutors would not have to share blood samples but scolded them for sloppiness
...Angeles news organizations report that O.J. Simpson's defense team has asked Judge Lance Ito for access to police reports in an unsolved murder similar to slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles television station KNBC said the victim in the unsolved case was Brett Cantor, who was found dead in July, 1993 with his throat slashed and with numerous stab wounds...
Judge Lance Ito barred the defense from getting its hands on personnel records of two Los Angeles detectives involved in the O.J. Simpson case. The decision by Ito was a blow to the defense, which had hoped to discredit detective Mark Fuhrman as racially prejudiced and dishonest. Fuhrman testified that he found a glove, which matches one found at the scene of the murders, at the Simpson estate. The defense team has implied that Fuhrman planted the glove to frame the former football star. Ito also delayed the O.J. Simpson trial by one week, to Sept...