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...further setback, the defense was denied immediate access to blood samples for DNA testing after arguing that the prosecution had acted in bad faith when a police crime lab withheld some for future testing. In a ruling released last Friday, Judge Lance Ito acknowledged that the prosecution's handling of the blood evidence was a "picture of confusion, miscommunication and noncommunication between the prosecuting attorneys and LAPD." But, he said, the performance "does not rise to the level of bad faith or misconduct...
Aren't the Democrats a majority? Clinton's setback is ominous...
Meanwhile, rent control advocates said they are upset about the setback, but vowed to fight...
...decision was a setback for Garcetti, who had every reason to hope the panel would hand down an indictment before a preliminary hearing on June 30 that he wanted to head off. At that hearing, prosecutors will be compelled to present the evidence and testimony they hope to use at trial -- an invaluable preview of what Simpson will be up against, and an opportunity for Shapiro to have some of it disallowed. If an indictment had come down first, the hearing would have been canceled and the case gone directly to trial with the prosecution's evidence still sealed...
...every gay success, there is a countervailing setback. For every invitation, there is a rebuff. If the view over the past quarter-century suggests that gay progress is inevitable, the picture today suggests that gays may instead be, as their opponents argue, a unique case rather than just another minority group. Far from continuing toward inclusion, gays may already be bumping up against the limits of tolerance. When Americans were polled by TIME/CNN last week, about 65% thought homosexual rights were being paid too much attention. Strikingly, those who described homosexuality as morally wrong made up exactly the same proportion...