BLOOD, FIBER EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT SIMPSON TRIAL.Byline: Linda Deutsch Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Plaintiffs presented the heart of their physical evidence against O.J. Simpson on Wednesday as witnesses placed blood and fiber possibly matching Simpson and his Bronco bronco: see mustang. near the two slashed bodies. A DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. lab expert gave jurors in the wrongful-death trial a wealth of genetic evidence, including test results showing an extremely high likelihood that Simpson's blood dripped alongside bloody shoeprints at the crime scene. The chances are at least 1-in-170-million that anybody else's DNA besides Simpson's could be contained in a blood drop found near the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal and Ronald Goldman Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was murdered in Los Angeles, California in 1994 at the age of 25 along with his friend Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. , testified Robin Cotton, director of Cellmark Diagnostics in Maryland. Less sophisticated testing on four other blood drops Blood Drops is the seventh episode of the American crime drama which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada. It originally aired as Episode 7 of on November 17, 2000. Plot The CSIs arrive at a family residence where four people have been brutally stabbed. Mr. gave a better chance that the blood could have belonged to someone else besides Simpson, but the calculations were still overwhelmingly against him. Cotton's testimony mirrored that of the first trial, in which Simpson was acquitted on criminal charges, although this time it came immediately after testimony about hair and fiber evidence, providing a one-two punch one-two punch n. 1. A combination of two blows delivered in rapid succession in boxing, especially a left lead followed by a right cross. 2. Informal An especially forceful or effective combination or sequence of two things. that was lacking the first time around. Before Cotton took the stand, an FBI agent said nylon carpet fibers used in Ford vehicles were found on items near the bodies and could have come from the carpet of Simpson's 1994 Ford Bronco. But Douglas Deedrick's testimony into the rarity of the fibers - testimony zapped from Simpson's criminal trial as prosecution punishment - also was barred from the civil trial. An impatient Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki stymied the plaintiffs' plan to narrow down those fibers from a pool of 72,000 possible Ford vehicles. Defense lawyers said such evidence was irrelevant. In the end, Deedrick, a scientific expert in trace evidence, testified that fibers matching samples taken from the Bronco were found inside a knit cap at the scene and on a glove found at Simpson's estate. Deedrick offered other scientific connections that seemed to fascinate jurors, who scribbled furiously as he presented his charts. |
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