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...Last week he threw himself into the path of virtually anything that might go before a jury, even demanding to see the resume of one witness, Michele Kestler, assistant director of the police crime lab, after he challenged her authority to say the prosecution required at least 100 of Simpson's hairs to match them against hairs in a wool ski hat found at the ^ murder scene. The defense offered one hair; the judge ruled that prosecutors could have between...
...TIME. Using some theatrics of her own, prosecutor Clark had earlier produced an envelope containing telephone records that could settle a controversy over the time of a phone call between Nicole Simpson and her mother Juditha Brown -- though Clark did not immediately disclose the contents. A coroner's report says the mother reported that they spoke at about 11 o'clock on the night of the murder. On the Sunday-morning talk shows, that point had been seized upon by F. Lee Bailey -- the famed defense attorney who is advising Shapiro -- to bolster the claim that when the killings took...
...mostly to settle the time issue that prosecutors spent much of Thursday and Friday constructing a wrenching sequence of events that led to the discovery of the bodies. One neighbor testified that he heard the "plaintive wail" of a dog beginning around 10:20 on the night Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed. Another told how he was led to the murder scene by Nicole's agitated dog, which had blood on its paws. A third spoke of seeing blood trailing down from Nicole Simpson's body. "I remember," said Bettina Rasmussen, "it was coming down like a river...
...hearing played itself out to adjournment last week, police continued to collect evidence, at one point leaving Simpson's house with three grocery bags of material and towing away his Bentley. The prosecution said it will not produce at the hearing what most people expect to be the crucial evidence -- the results of DNA testing of bloodstains that could prove whether Simpson was at the scene of the crime or whether blood from the victims was found in his car or at his home...
...either the DNA tests or the police discoveries at Simpson's house are admitted into evidence, Shapiro may have to rely on other strategies. Defense adviser Alan Dershowitz, the ubiquitous specialist in appeals (Klaus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mike Tyson), suggested one possibility during an appearance on PBS's Charlie Rose Show. "Now you're going to see the defense brutally attacking these victims," he said. "By the end of this trial, nobody's going to have a kind thing to say about the two dead people." Last week Dershowitz insisted to TIME his words were "a general comment...