JUDGE SAYS FAMILIES CAN STAY

Ito also ruled today that relatives of Nicole Brown Simpson can sit in the courtroom for most of the trial. Defense attorney Robert Shapiro had asked yesterday that they be barred from some of the proceedings because they were witnesses in the trial. Ito said that the family members may be in the courtroom for "a majority" of the trial -- but not when another witness testifies on matters they will be called to discuss.

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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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