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Background: as Defense Minister, Rabin oversaw a brutal policy to suppress the Palestinian intifadeh, granting soldiers the right to break bones...
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...
...committee considered several suggestions: "Our closets fit two comfortably," "We bring new meaning to the 'screw your roommate' dance," "We gladly feast on those who would suppress us" and "We are what you pretend...
Judge Lance Ito dismissed attempts by O.J. Simpson attorneys to suppress evidence and testimony in the Simpson case, another setback in a line of setbacks for the defense team. Defense attorney Gerald Uelmen said DNA tests done on blood found on O.J.'s driveway invaded his client's privacy. Uelmen claimed police should have obtained a search warrant before collecting the samples. Ito called the argument "interesting and novel" -- but unsupported...
...going to challenge the evidence, you're going to do that ahead of time through motions to suppress and hearings where witnesses testify about how evidence was seized," Prosser says. "They're doing what they should be doing on behalf of their clients, but that doesn't mean that's going to be their full defense...