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While most Americans are celebrating the official start of the summer season, Simpson jurors will be cooling their heels until the trial resumes Tuesday. One juror escaped just in time when Judge Lance Ito dismissed her "for cause" late on Thursday. Francine Floria-Bunten denied rumors that she was caught working on a book about the trial. She was replaced by a 71 year old black woman who said she had never heard of O.J. Simpson before the trial. Eight jurors have been dismissed so far in the trial; only four alternates remain...
...Simpson prosecution was taken by surprise while questioning Criminalist Collin Yamauchi when he blurted out on the witness stand that heinitially believed that O.J. Simpson had "an airtight alibi."In the ensuing commotion, the jury was hustled out of the courtroom while prosecutors frantically attempted damage control. WhenSimpson attorney Johnnie Cochran, addressing Judge Ito, called Prosecutor Marcia Clark "hysterical,"Clark shot back that his "sexist" remark was unacceptable. Simpson chuckled, watching this exchange. Clark insisted that Yamauchi's comment was not based on any knowledge of O.J.'s initial statement to the police, and should be disregarded...
...Simpson trial deals in the same kind of cognitive dissonance. Defense lawyers are suggesting that the l.a.p.d. has executed an ingenious frame-up of Simpson even as they lay bare the workaday ineptitude of the same alleged conspirators. These views would seem self-evidently irreconcilable, and yet the public is said to be so willing to believe in a police conspiracy that virtually every legal expert expects Simpson to walk...
...SIMPSON TRIAL...
Nearly four months after the opening of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the prosecution introduced its most damning evidence: the apparently incriminating results of DNA blood tests. Forensic scientist Robin Cotton testified that a blood drop found at the crime scene matched Simpson's -- with a 1-in-170 million chance it could have been someone else's-and that blood found on a sock at Simpson's estate matched his slain ex-wife's, with an even smaller margin of error. On cross-examination, the defense repeated its dual themes that the blood sent to Cotton...