O.J. SIMPSON . . . DEFENSE GOES ON OFFENSE

The O.J. Simpson defense team tried building a case for challenging the many DNA blood-test results expected to surface during the trial. His attorneys repeatedly prodded police criminologists on whether blood samples had been collected properly. One admission: criminologist Collin Yamauchi said he mislabeled one blood sample. Defense attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld also pressured the prosecution to release blood samples so they could conduct their own DNA tests.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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