In 1995: How the LAPD's crime lab became the trial's weakest link
On June 27, 1995, prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson murder trial presented hair and fiber evidence while LAPD criminalist Collin Yamauchi acknowledged that some evidence handling had not followed optimal protocols — a concession defense attorney Barry Scheck had spent months engineering.
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