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Whether all of it finds its way to trial depends on Clark's getting past the determined lawyering of defense attorney Robert Shapiro. With one challenge in particular -- the admissibility of bloody evidence gathered at O.J.'s home by police before they obtained a warrant -- Shapiro could deprive the prosecution of some of its deadliest persuaders. As the face-off continues this week between a confident prosecution and a relentlessly counterpunching defense, much of the struggle will center on these issues...
...decisive if the prosecution is permitted to use it at a trial. It came to light only because of a defense motion to suppress 34 items collected by police. Shapiro maintains that they were gathered illegally because detectives searched Simpson's house for nearly six hours before obtaining a warrant. Even the warrant is illegal, he says, because in their effort to get it, police claimed that Simpson had fled when in fact he had taken a long-planned business trip. Under some circumstances -- say, for instance, when police fear that evidence will be destroyed -- warrantless searches are permissible...
...Simpson in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The defense worked today to have key evidence thrown out, including a blood-stained glove, and blood found on the seats of Simpson's Bronco. Simpson's attorneys claim the police gathered the evidence without a search warrant. Much of the day in court was also spent haggling over how much evidence the defense can have in order to conduct its own tests, including a comic episode of how much hair would be plucked from Simpson's head. More serious is the blood issue, with DNA tests ongoing...
...ground in the history of war-crime prosecutions. Some Nuremberg precedents have been rejected: no defendants will be tried in absentia; nobody will be hanged. All the tribunal can do, says Theo Van Boven, the court's registrar, "is rule that a case exists and issue an international arrest warrant. That would severely limit the movement of such people. They would become pariahs...
Under pressure from Muslim fundamentalists, authorities in Bangladesh have issued a warrant for the arrest of Taslima Nasrin, a doctor turned feminist writer who was quoted in a Calcutta newspaper as saying that the Koran should be revised thoroughly. Nasrin, previously threatened by fundamentalists for her controversial book Lajja (Shame), in which she described atrocities on minority Hindus by the majority Muslims, denies making the statement and has gone into hiding...