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...fight made clear how ferociously the defense will attempt to discredit the DNA evidence once the trial gets under way. Last Monday the prosecution disclosed that two different DNA tests had turned up a genetic match between Simpson's blood and the trail of blood droplets leading from the site where Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slain. This sent defense lawyers scrambling to demonstrate that various samples had been mishandled and might be contaminated. Under questioning, Andrea Mazzola, a novice police lab technician, said that her work in Simpson's driveway had been unsupervised by a senior technician...
...Simpson didn't have enough lawyers working for him already, he hired the Los Angeles firm Spensley Horn Jubas & Lubitz to help fight bootleg T-shirt makers, trading-card manufacturers and other entrepreneurs using his name and likeness without permission. The new attorneys have filed applications to federally register the terms "O.J. Simpson," "O.J." and "The Juice" as trademarks. Meanwhile, a limited edition of 300 football cards, signed and dated by O.J. from his jail cell, went on sale for $850 each...
...Simpson's lawyers called for new DNA tests to determine whether the first ones, tying him to Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, were compromised by contaminated blood samples and improper handling. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecutors would not have to share blood evidence with the defense, even though they had been "less than exemplary" in handling...
...brutal week for Simpson's defense...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Janice C. Simpson (Deputy), Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, J. Madeleine Nash, Richard N. Ostling, Paul A. Witteman National Correspondents: Margot Hornblower, Richard Hornik, Jon D. Hull, Jack E. White Diplomatic Correspondent: J.F.O. McAllister...