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...Shapiro has hinted that he might try to frustrate the introduction of DNA test results. Expect it. 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...
...that evidence could be 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...
...ENVELOPE. With a lawyerly touch, Shapiro produced a sealed envelope containing evidence that he would not identify. When he objected to having it opened at that moment, Judge Kennedy-Powell ordered both sides to submit briefs on how they think it should be unsealed. What's inside -- Simpson's stiletto...
...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 place, Simpson was at home waiting for a limousine that would take him to the airport for his 11:45 p.m. flight to Chicago. Nicole Simpson's father says the conversation took place closer to 10 p.m. If this is true...
...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...