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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Defense lawyers
attacked the reliability of DNA evidence in
the O.J. Simpson case Tuesday, suggesting
police bungled blood collection, mislabeled a
sample and assigned inexperienced techni
cians to the case.
Under defense questioning, one police
criminologist acknowledged mislabeling a
blood sample and another said she was still a
trainee when she collected evidence in the
double-murder case.
Superior Court Judge Lance Ito repeatedly
tried to rein in the detailed questioning at a
hearing that had been called only to consider
whether the defense would be allowed to con
duct its own tests on newly disclosed blood
samples.
“That is for another hearing,” Ito said of
the broader line of questioning, and he sus
tained some objections by Deputy District At
torney lisa Kahn.
Simpson, 47, pleaded innocent to the June
12 killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simp
son and her friend Ronald Goldman. His trial
is scheduled Sept. 19.
Police criminologist Collin Yamauchi told
defense attorney Barry Scheck he mislabeled
one blood sample.
But Yamauchi insisted he took pains to
protect evidence, even going so far as to avoid
touching blood-soaked swatches with a ruler
while measuring them.
“I didn’t want to risk contamination so I
made approximations,” he said. “I tried to
avoid touching them as much as possible.”
Yamauchi, who performed some of the ear
liest tests on the Simpson blood samples, also
acknowledged his first experience in DNA
testing was six months ago.
A second criminologist, Andrea Mazzola,
testified she was still a trainee when she was
sent to collect evidence.
“I went out to the crime scenes with more
experienced criminologists and assisted
them,” said Mazzola, who was hired in Janu
ary.
Asked to detail the number of crime scenes
in which she had primary responsibility for
collecting evidence, she replied: “Zero.”
Her testimony also suggested she began
collecting blood samples from Simpson’s dri
veway before a search warrant was issued.
She said she arrived at 7 a.m. on June 13,
met with detectives who pointed out items of
interest and “proceeded to have them pho
tographed and collected." The search warrant
was issued at 10:45 a.m.
Scheck and attorney Peter Neufeld, foren
sic specialists known throughout the country,
led the defense attack against the DNA evi
dence, which is crucial to the case.
On Monday, prosecutors said DNA tests
found the genetic makeup of Simpson’s blood
matched that of blood found near the bodies
of Ms. Simpson and Goldman.
On Tuesday, Simpson’s lawyers asked
Gregory Matheson — Yamauchi’s supervisor
—- why some blood samples were withheld
from testing, something that wasn’t originally
revealed to the defense.
Matheson said he couldn’t remember spe
cific conversations about how much evidence
could be shared with the defense. He suggest
ed Yamauchi made the decision to hold back
some samples when others were sent to a
Maryland laboratory for testing.
“I don’t specifically remember any discus
sions on this topic,” Matheson said. “We may
have had them. I don’t know.”
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House Speaker Thomas Foley
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His remarks signaled shrinking
Democratic expectations in
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Foley said an acceptable bill
would have to “make significant
if initial steps” toward insurance
reform, universal health cover
age and controlling costs —
without aggravating the deficit
or the price of insurance.
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deals with one or more of these
issues in a significant way, and
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ments and consideration, I
think that would be worth do
ing,” Foley said at a breakfast
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about hypothetical courses of
action.
“If that can’t be done, if we
can’t find a consensus, the oth
er instance is to say we have to
probably pick it up again in the
next Congress,” he said.
The House already has left
town for its summer recess,
waiting for the Senate to take
the first action on health care
reform. Many Democrats be
lieve the momentum — and
chances — for reform this year
will be lost if senators also de
part and put off action until af
ter Labor Day.
Some have said they want
the Senate kept in session until
a health bill is passed. Senate
Majority Leader George
Mitchell’s intentions were un
clear. Asked Tuesday about his
time frame, he said he wants to
pass health care “as promptly
as we can.”
Since winning a $500 billion
deficit reduction plan a year
ago, Clinton has made health
reform the central issue of his
administration. Early this year
he sent Congress a comprehen
sive bill that would have in
sured all Americans and re
quired most employers to help
pay the premiums.
But the Senate has been
weighing an increasingly narrow
er series of bills. First Clinton’s
ambitious plan was supplanted by
a more modest Mitchell bill.
That’s now been overshadowed by
a bipartisan group’s even more re
strained proposal, which empha
sizes insurance reforms and
deficit reduction while expanding
coverage to fewer uninsured
Americans.
The leaders of the so-called
“mainstream” bipartisan group,
Sens. John Chafee, R-R.I. and
John Breaux, D-La., were shop
ping their plan around this
week while Senate aides
searched for a politically feasi
ble compromise. Chafee briefed
Republican leaders Tuesday af
ter accompanying Breaux on
Democratic rounds Monday.
Liberals and their interest-
group allies continued a bar
rage against the moderates’
proposal. “This is a trojan horse
for real reform,” Sen. Howard
Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said
Tuesday on the floor.
But some Democrats sound
ed more like Foley. “Let’s not
be captives of the rhetorical
goals we’ve laid out ... if there’s
some way to make discernible
progress,” said Sen. Tom
Daschle, D-S.D., a member of
the Democratic leadership.
While Daschle and others
have been vowing to stay and
pass some sort of bill this year,
Foley suggested the situation is
not that urgent.
Despite general agreement
with Democrats’ health-care
goals, he said, the public is not
clamoring for immediate re
form. “There’s not ‘This must
be done or we’re gping to bring
down the Congress,’” he said.
Foley downplayed potential
damage to Clinton if reform
does not pass this year. “He’s
nptjeaving office. He’s not end-,
ing his term,” he said when
asked if a delay would hurt
Clinton.
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