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...SUCCESS'' OF KATO KAELIN'S ACTING career since Kaelin became a "star'' witness in the O.J. Simpson trial [Chronicles, April 3] proves making it in Hollywood has very little to do with talent or hard work. Kato, I hope you are saving your money. Once the trial is over, it is quite possible you will need to find another superstar with a spare guesthouse...
...strangest development yet in the O. J. Simpson trial,13 of the remaining 18 jurorsshowed up in court today wearing black and saying they would not step into the jury box until Judge Lance Ito agreed to meet with them. The panelists were protesting Ito's dismissal of three of their guards in the wake of allegations that the guards were giving some jurors preferential treatment. Ito met privately with lawyers and sheriff's officials and then began to individually interview each juror. The interviews are expected to conclude Monday. The testimony of police evidence technician Andrea Mazzola...
Testimony in the O. J. Simpson case resumed after a day's hiatus during which Judge Lance Ito interviewedjurorsabout allegations of racial tension on the jury. The results of the interviews were not released. First on the stand for the prosecution today was evidence technician Andrea Mazzola, the assistant to criminalist Dennis Fung. Mazzolacollected most of the blood evidencein the Simpson case, and the defense is expected to question her lack of experience. In her testimony Mazzola denied a defense allegation that she contaminated blood samples by handling them without gloves, saying that criminalists always wear gloves for fear...
Attorneys for O.J. Simpson plan to file a motion accusing Judge Lance Ito of showing bias toward the prosecution, CNN reports. The defense is said to be particularly upset by Ito's treatment of DNA expert Barry Scheck. In court today, Ito at times grew visibly impatient with Scheck's deliberate and repetitive style, several times refusing requests for sidebar discussions from Scheck and prosecution attorney Hank Goldberg, and at one point curtly telling Scheck to sit down. When Fung concluded his testimony, Ito began questioning jurors about allegations of racial tensions on the jury, denying a request from Simpson...
...Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiropublicly apologized in the courtroom to police criminalist Dennis Fung and "all my friends in the Asian-American community" for sarcastic comments he made while handing out fortune cookies last week. Once the trial got underway, prosecutors began their attempt to rehabilitate Fung by screening time-coded videotape that shows that Fung was indeed givenblood samplesby Detective Philip Vannatter the evening after the murders and that Fung's assistant Andrea Mazzola carried the blood samples out of Nicole Simpson's home. The defense last week showed a videotape of its own to support their contention that...