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...lawyers in the O.J. Simpson murder trial prepare to debate the admissibility of DNA evidence, two Harvard population geneticists continue to challenge the validity of DNA fingerprinting...
...Simpson case represents one of the most notable uses of DNA profiling, a technique used all over the country to convict criminals and clear innocent suspects. The statistical methods now being challenged by Harvard researchers are employed in thousands of cases each year...
...Simpson's defense has enlisted Scheck and Neufeld to help deal with the DNA evidence; however, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office has Lisa Kahn on their staff. Kahn is a leading prosecution DNA expert...
...battle is not over with" said Dr. Mark V. Bloom, assistant director of the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The defense will continue to fight against the DNA fingerprinting, because it could be some of the most incriminating evidence brought against Simpson...
Procedural tussling continued to dominate center stage of the Simpson murder trial. Judge Lance Ito chided the prosecution for having taken too long to submit key pieces of evidence for DNA testing and threatened to suppress the test results. Ito also declined to pursue the matter of erroneous news leaks, declaring that those leaks were so widely discredited they have not hurt Simpson's defense. Meanwhile, the slow and laborious face-to-face questioning of prospective jurors got under way, out of range of TV cameras and radio mikes per the judge's orders...