Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, September 16, 1994 TAG: 9409160066
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES LENGTH: Medium
Meanwhile, Simpson's lawyers are considering calling as witnesses his younger children, including his 8-year-old daughter, who reportedly told police she ``heard Mommy's best friend'' the night of the slayings.
The genetic test results on two drops of blood, first reported in Thursday's Los Angeles Times, were forwarded to the Simpson defense and confirm preliminary results reported last month by prosecutors, sources speaking on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press.
The sources said there was nothing new in the latest results, which the defense plans to attack as unreliable because of sloppy police and lab work.
Simpson, 47, is charged with murder in the June 12 slashing deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
A hair whose existence was never reported in the media was found on Goldman's clothing and matches that of a black person, the sources told the AP. The strand is being analyzed to determine whether it matches Simpson's hair.
But the finding may work in the defense's favor, the sources said, because if prosecutors try to argue the hair is Simpson's, the defense can ask why only one hair was found on the body when presumably the attacker would have lost more in a struggle.
Earlier, authorities said they had found a black person's hairs in a ski cap at the crime scene outside Nicole Simpson's condominium.
The sources also said no final decision had been made on whether to have Nicole Simpson's children, Sydney, 8, and Justin, 6, testify at the trial, scheduled to start with jury selection Sept. 26.
Simpson returns to court Monday for a hearing on defense requests to dismiss the charges and throw out much of the evidence, and a prosecution request to sequester the jury.
by CNB