SEVENTH SIMPSON JUROR EXCUSED

The 25-year-old flight attendant who told Judge Lance Ito that she could not "take any more" got her wish today whenIto released her from the trial. Tracy Hampton was replaced by a 28-year-old real estate appraiser. Ito's decision leaves only five alternate jurors, with the trial set to go on for several more months. TIME Los Angeles correspondent Elaine Lafferty says that "it's going to go down to the last alternate, and a lot of people are betting there won't be enough jurors to finish the trial." Testimony todaymoved into the heart of the case, DNA evidencethat the prosecution says links Simpson to the murders. Police chemist Gregory Matheson began testimony about the scientific validity of DNA testing as the prosecution showed, over defense objections, a photo of Nicole Brown Simpson's body at the crime scene.O.J. Central