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Detective Mark Fuhrman, the key investigator in the O.J. Simpson case who has been repeatedly accused of racism by the defense, has been given a desk job, apparently to take him out of the line of political fire. Judge Lance Ito, who's overseeing the trial, forbade the defense access to the officer's military record, ABC News reported. Fuhrman had testified he found a key piece of evidence being used by the prosecution: a bloody glove on the Simpson estate. Fuhrman's attorney said the decision had nothing to do with the Simpson case but added that his client...
...Simpson case. They said they would not release the grisly photos of the victims, Nicole Simpson's medical records or the contents of a mysterious yellow envelope presented by the defense as evidence. Following the momentary harmonic convergence, both sides disappeared into a closed session with Judge Lance Ito, locking out the press. The trial is set to start September...
...wrangling, a compromise was reached. The defense's experts could visit Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown, Maryland, where the prosecution had sent the samples for testing, and could pare off 10% of each sample. But the material removed would in effect be held in escrow. After hearing expert testimony, Judge Ito would rule on the disposal of the sliced-off portions...
...hearing earlier in the week centered on that subject and was notable for some pretrial confessions -- confessions of ignorance about testing, that is. The only kind of science he studied in college, Judge Lance Ito admitted, was political science, and both Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark and defense attorney Robert Shapiro in effect conceded that they lacked the expertise to come to his aid. Ito ordered both attorneys to round up expert witnesses to testify about how to handle and interpret the DNA tests...
Presiding over the O.J. Simpson murder case for his first week, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito ordered the trial to begin on Sept. 19. The defense said police had interviewed a witness who might exonerate Simpson. Earlier in the week, Judge Ito allowed the prosecution to begin DNA tests of blood found at the crime scene and at O.J.'s home but ruled that small samplings be set aside for possible independent tests by the defense...