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Rising to his feet during a pretrial hearing in the O.J. Simpson case in Los Angeles last week, Deputy District Attorney William Hodgman waxed indignant. "If the defense wants to go fishing," he complained, "they're going to have to use their own pole and own tackle box." Hodgman was upset over the defense team's demands that the prosecutors turn over a laundry list of records including reports of prowler and burglary calls in the neighborhood of the murder site, records of local unsolved murders, and -- on the chance that Nicole Simpson's dog may have attacked the killer...
...urgency, it was because both sides were aware that the time to prepare their case was growing short. As expected, the judge set an early date for the opening of the trial: Sept. 19. No one could know for sure whether any more witnesses would turn up before then (Simpson was offering $500,000 for information that would prove his innocence), but the case may not turn on what people saw or didn't see. By the time of the trial, the court will have what is likely to be the most important evidence: results of DNA tests done...
...called, is a complex, high-tech forensic test that can link a suspect to the commission of a crime -- or establish his innocence. While still controversial, use of the tests is gaining widespread acceptance in American courtrooms, including California's. That fact was hardly lost on either the Simpson defense or the prosecution. Attorney Shapiro insisted that his own experts as well as those hired by the * prosecution had the right to conduct the DNA tests. He requested that the prosecution turn over half the samples of blood that were collected by investigators after the slayings...
...prosecution apparently has an ace up its sleeve: According to a report on ABC TV news that cited unidentified sources, a jogger who saw O.J. Simpson's white Bronco near Nicole Simpson's house the night of the murder will testify at the trial...
Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor, Wendy Cole Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Austin: S.C. Gwynne Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson Denver: Richard Woodbury...