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Officer's testimony may cast doubt on time of murders
Simpson jurors see graphic photos
LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson looked away, and a prosecutor warned the victims' relatives, "You don't want to look," as the jurors yesterday saw the most gruesome photos of the bodies yet on a 7-foot, full-color screen.
The Associated Press
The photos of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were the backdrop as the first officer on the scene early June 13 offered some new details that the defense may seize upon to cast doubt on the estimated time of the murders.
Among those details: A container of ice cream was melting in the kitchen, and candles were burning in Nicole Brown Simpson's bathroom, and the tub was full.
But under prosecution questioning designed to blunt another defense line of attack, Officer Robert Riske stressed that he never had stepped in the blood, that he had warned others not to tread on it and that he had not touched any evidence.
He also described finding bloody footprints, as well as a knap cap and—perhaps most significant — a single bloody glove near a bush.
The defense has suggested that Detective Mark Fuhrman is a racist who may have moved a glove from
the murder scene and planted it at o.J. Simpson's estate. The bloody glove on Simpson's property matched the one at the murder scene.
Simpson's lawyers also contend evidence in the case was handled so sloppily that the prosecution's scientific tests were meaningful.
Riske, under questioning by prosecutor Marcia Clark, gave the defense an opening when he was asked if he had been trained at the police academy in how to preserve a crime scene.
"They kind of gloss over it," fliske said. "Them don't really train you."
What he knew,he said,he learned on the job, handling 15 homicide cases.
And under cross-examination, Riske acknowledged that some investigators walked near the bodies and other evidence without wearing shoe booties or gloves, and that the phone inside Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium wasn't dusted for fingerprints before he used it. He also said pictures indicated a bloody envelope at Goldman's feet had been moved.
Judge Lance Ita refused a defense request to play news footage showing
authorities walking through the crime scene and to question Riske about it. The judge said it was an inappropriate time to bring it up.
The numerous color pictures of the bodies at the murder scene were so graphic that the judge prevented them from being transmitted via television. He ordered TV and still photographers not to show them.
"You don't want to look," Clark warned the victims' family members in the audience.
Juditha Brown, Nicole Brown Simpson's mother, left as soon as the display began. Nicole Brown Simpson's father, Lou Brown, stayed for a time and then left with tears in his eyes. Goldman's stepmother and sister staved, sobbing quietly.
O. J. Simpson took notes and conferred with lawyer Robert Shapiro. Occasionally, he clutched the edge of the counsel table, looked up at the ceiling and sighed.
Riske, his voice in flat contrast to the gruesome spectacle on the screen, told jurors: "My partner and I crossed the street. We observed a female, white, in a black dress laying in a puddle of blood in the walkway."
Jurors leaned forward in their seats and took notes as they saw what Riske had seen, a pathway covered in blood, a woman's body curled on its left side, a thick pool of blood under her head.
"We approached the body of the female, and as we got probably 2 feet from her body, we discovered the body of a white male laying against the north fence," Piske recalled.
Goldman's form, clad in blue jeans and a brown jacket, flashed on the screen. Next to him, the prosecutor pointed out his beeper and a white, blood-stained envelope containing the glasses the waiter had come to return.
Riske, a patrolman with four years of experience, also reported that the front door was open but that there was no blood in the condo.
'No,' kiske repined.
During cross-examination, defense attorney Johnie Cochran Jr. asked the officer if any photos had been taken of the candlelit bathroom or if the scene had been video-taped by police. The officer said no.
And what about that ice cream?
Cochran wanted to know.
"And you don't have any pictures of it?" the lawyer asked.
"Would you agree that the best evidence of what you saw that night would be a picture?" Cochran asked. "Vee" said the witness.
Riske recalled that he found the cardboard container of Ben & Jerry's ice cream on a bannister at about 12:35 a.m.
"And at that time, the ice cream had not fully melted?" Cochran asked.
"No, not in my opinion," the officer said.
The melting rate of ice cream is expected to be a key defense point as Simpson's lawyers try to show that the victims were not slain at 10:15 p.m. as the prosecution contends, but later in the night when the former football star was en route to the airport for a flight to Chicago.
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Earthquake death toll rises in Colombia
PEREIRA, Colombia — Under an earthquake-flattened apartment building, Carmen Zamorano spent 22 hours waiting to be saved. Rescuers squeezed her hand and gave her an injection to relieve her pain.
Then, still trapped, she died.
The 22-year-old maid became the 38th known fatality from a 6.5-magnitude quake that hit Colombia at 1:41 p.m. Wednesday. Officials said the death toll probably would grow.
"I have painful news for the nation," said a reporter for a national radio station that kept listeners abreast of efforts to save her. "Carmen Zamorano is gone."
Authorities said 26 people were confirmed dead in Pereira, a city of 700,000 in Colombia's coffee-growing region 100 miles west of Bogota. It was the hardest-hit area, though another 12 people died elsewhere in western Colombia.
More than a dozen bodies may remain buried in the five-story apartment building where Miss Zamorano died, authorities said.
Hours after she died, her employer, who had been trapped near her, was pulled from the wreckage.
Rescuers using search dogs dug through collapsed buildings, looking for survivors. For some, the effort was too late.
As Red Cross workers tried to reach Miss Zamorano and her employer, children who apparently survived the earthquake elsewhere in the building were given up for dead.
President Ernesto Samper arrived in Pereira yesterday with other senior officials to inspect rescue operations and help the region recover.
The earthquake was centered about 175 miles west of Bogota, the Geophysical Institute of the Andes reported.
Massachusetts to cut welfare
New law will force thousands of poor to find employment
BOSTON — A sweeping welfare bill, described as the nation's toughest, easily passed the Massachusetts Legislature yesterday, as lawmakers voted to force thousands of poor people to go work and to cut welfare checks for others.
The bill was approved by the House 133-21 and the Senate 313-1. Gov. William F. Weld, who had been fighting for more than a year to require welfare recipients to get jobs, said he planned to sign the bill today.
If state officials get clearance from the federal government to implement the program, Massachusetts would go further than any other state in the growing national movement to overhaul welfare, supporters of the bill said.
"It looks to be the radical reform we've been working for," Weld said. "It's going to be better for the people who are receiving the benefits, because they're not going to be stuck in that system."
"It represents a total change in the way we look at public assistance," said Democratic state Sen. Therese Murray, who spent part of her childhood in public housing.
The Associated Press
"I think it will become a national model."
Some 400 welfare mothers and others stormed the Statehouse to protest the action. State troopers wrestled with demonstrators trying to rush Weld's office, and eight people were arrested, one for attacking
"We're being called irresponsible. Our children are being called illegitimate," said Lisa Sanderson, a 26-year-old welfare mother from Framingham.
an officer.
Many demonstrators called the work requirement an excuse to make them scapegoats and accused politicians of stereotyping them. After being told that Weld wasn't available to meet with them, one of the demonstrators yelled, "Why? Is he eating bonbons and watching TV?"
The bill also would set a two-year time limit on welfare payments for able-bodied adults, although the state could grant extensions under certain hardship cases.
The bill would force able-bodied parents with children ages 6 and older to go to work within 60 days, either in private sector jobs or in state-funded community service.
Officials said this would apply to about 18,400 people, who would have to work at least 20 hours a week. That represents more than 17 percent of the state's overall welfare caseload of 104,000 families.
- Stop extra payments to welfare mothers who have additional children, cutting $90 per month per additional child.
— Halt payments for teen-age mothers who don't finish high school and don't live at home or a group home.
Other major provisions would:
— Cut payments for all able-bodied recipients by 2.75 percent, or about $15 a month. As a tradeoff, they would be able to keep more of their earnings if their jobs don't pay enough to set them off welfare.
- Reduce payments for parents whose children frequently skip school.
pieces of the Massachusetts plan, but none has done it on such a broad scale, according to summaries of state initiatives provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Wisconsin has a much-acclaimed program setting a two-year time limit and requiring recipients to find jobs as quickly as within 30 days if they are judged ready to work. But that is being tested in two counties with relatively low unemployment rates.
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Indiana recently got federal approval for a two-year time limit, but it applies to less than one-fifth of the welfare population who enroll in a trial job training and education program. In Massachusetts, the two-year limit will apply to about half of welfare families.
Other states have approved some
Both Democratic and Republican legislators had expressed growing frustration with a system they said encouraged poor people to depend on the government.
But advocates for welfare recipients said the bill will punish children by reducing welfare grants and by limiting their parents' ability to get job training and education to lead productive lives.
"Most people are in fact trying to get into the labor market," said Steve Savner, senior staff attorney with the Center for Law and Social Policy, a Washington advocacy group focusing on poverty issues.
Savern said many families would reach the end of the two-year time limit without having the skills to earn a decent living.
The Legislature was under pressure to pass the bill because the governor cut off money for welfare, trying to prod lawmakers into action. The bill approved yesterday restored funds that otherwise would have run out next week.
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