Order in The Lab!

As the judge sets a date for the Simpson trial, lawyers wrangle over the DNA tests that could seal O.J.'s fate

Rising to his feet during a pretrial hearing in the O.J. Simpson case in Los Angeles last week, Deputy District Attorney William Hodgman waxed indignant. "If the defense wants to go fishing," he complained, "they're going to have to use their own pole and own tackle box." Hodgman was upset over the defense team's demands that the prosecutors turn over a laundry list of records including reports of prowler and burglary calls in the neighborhood of the murder site, records of local unsolved murders, and -- on the chance that Nicole Simpson's dog may have attacked the killer -- records of...

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