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...Simpson defense team ran into some heavy battering -- from its own witnesses. Among the damaging testimony and evidence elicited by prosecutors: a doctor who said that although Simpson was physically infirm, he would have been fit enough to commit the murders; an O.J. workout videotape made shortly before the murders in which he jokes about punching "the wife"; and a police photographer who said bloody socks never showed up in a tape he made of O.J.'s bedroom because they had already been collected by police...
...Simpson's defensesuffered a setback when a North Carolina judge ruled that, despite screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny's assertion that Los Angeles Police detective Mark Furman used racial slurs during taped interviews, the defense could not compel her to testify. McKinney's testimony seemed to contradict the detective's flat denial that he had ever used such slurs during the past ten years when he was under cross-examination by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. The defense would like to undercut that testimony, saysTIME's James Willwerth. "What's really at stake here is playing the racial card. The defense...
...blood found on a sock inO.J. Simpson's bedroom and on a gate at the murder scene planted by police? Witnesses for the O.J. Simpson defense can't agree on the razor-thin strand of evidence that might support such a claim. Monday, Fredric Rieders, a forensic toxicologist, testified that the blood apparently contained EDTA, a chemical preservative used in crime analysis, which suggested that the blood could have been planted by someone with access to samples from the victims and the defendant. Today, FBI Special Agent Roger Martz -- who performed the analysis of the blood -- said Rieders essentially misrepresented...
...SIMPSON'S DEFENSE BEGINS...
Attorneys for O.J. Simpson began an aggressive defense with a string of family witnesses who recounted how upset and shocked the football hero was when he learned his ex-wife had been murdered. But a neighborhood witness testified that he saw a white sport vehicle -- possibly Simpson's Bronco-speed away from the crime scene (though somewhat later than fits the prosecution's time scenario). In another defense setback, the judge refused to allow testimony suggesting that drug hit men were the killers, ruling that the theory was "highly speculative...