DNA X rays tease jurors about scene
Jurors in the Simpson case viewed DNA autoradiography images of blood samples from Simpson and two victims, but prosecutors ran out of time to link him to the crime scene. Expert Robin Cotton explained PCR and DNA mixing while jurors saw evidence such as a shoeprint and parts from Goldman’s shoe and Simpson’s Bronco, with mixed DNA from multiple people noted but not fully explained.
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DNA expert tests and contends lab contamination unlikely
Cotton explains PCR and RFLP testing to jurors as she asserts one person’s DNA cannot be transformed into another’s through contamination and notes remote contamination risk at Cellmark. Defense argues samples were contaminated before labs, while prosecutors credit DNA as strongest murder-evidence.
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Fuhrman sues The New Yorker over libel claims
Detec tive Mark Fuhrman files a libel suit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking 50 million dollars alleging an article in The New Yorker damaged his reputation by implying he planted evidence to frame O J Simpson. The piece quoted unidentified Simpson lawyers calling him racist and portraying a bloody glove scenario as a sham theory.
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