PROSECUTION WINDS DOWN

Simpson prosecutors say they could complete their rebuttal as early as today. In testimony Wednesday, Justice Department scientist Gary Sims said that three bloodstains he tested from inside O.J. Simpson's Bronco match the blood of Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Also, Johnnie Cochran confirmed that the defense plans to call FBI agent Frederick Whitehurst, who would testify that FBI lab personnel have fabricated evidence to help prosecutors in other cases. Judge Ito has not yet ruled on whether Whitehurst will testify. Justice officials today said they are investigating Whitehurst's allegations.

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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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