From: Kari
Date: 4/25/01
Time: 11:58:30 PM
First they made a huge deal with getting hair from O.J. Simpson, then they went into the the law about the Defense getting as much chance to test the swatches as the Prosecution and that the prosecution had already without permission from the court sent swatches to Cellmark. Marcia Clark stood up and stated flatly that the media report was incorrect that no swatches or other evidence had been sent anywhere. Barry Scheck then asked again for the book that showed internal testing of results of other cases, Marcia declares no such book exists, just as the video didn't exist. I agree, I believe the swatches were sent when the media said. At that point the tests showed exclusions so they decided none had gone. They also stopped Robin Cotton during the trial from even getting to the area of any samples arriving at Cellmark before the August Pretiral hearings for who got which samples. The big question which was never answered by the Prosecution was why suddenly there were more swatches on one hearing date than another. It was then that Marcia said that this was untrue they had just changed the evidence numbers. Her demeanor showed that she clearly was lying, If they had that many swatches, they shouldn't have lied about not giving any to the Defense as there was not enough sample. Why take only representative Samples if they end up with less than needed for the Defense to get any samples. Once they did it was to do only non destructive testing, and when the blonde hair was finally cataloged at either Cellmark or DOJ that they accused the Defense of being careless and demanded sanctions against the defense. The mystery of the missing tests or Were the early tests ever sent? Depends how you look at things.