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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, July 10, 1994

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 10, 1994  the stars and stripes Page 5judge sends Simpson toward trial los Angeles apr . Simpson spent his 47th birthday in jail saturday facing a double murder trial after a judge found there was enough evidence to link him to the brutal knifing of his former wife and her Friend a was you might imagine its not going to be very pleasant a lawyer Robert Kardashian said Friday after speaking briefly to his longtime Friend before Simpson was led off to jail. Simpson showed no emotion As municipal judge Kathleen Kennedy Powell ordered him held without bail until a july 22 arraignment in Superior court. Earlier he cried while listening to a Coroner describe How his sex wife a Throat was slashed to the spine. Kardashian said Simpson told him he had expected the judges ruling. Kennedy Powell said there was enough evidence to suspect Simpson in the murders. She noted prosecutors Only had to show probable cause not guilt beyond a reasonable doubt the Standard they will be held to at trial Nicole Brown Simpson 35, and Ronald Goldman 25, were killed june 12, and their bodies were found Early the next morning outside Nicole Simpsons Brentwood condominium about two Miles from Simpsons  lawyer Robert Shapiro argued that the prosecutors Case was purely circumstantial. A there is not and cannot be at this Point in time a Strong suspicion that  next in the . Simpson cases Superior court judge will be assigned to the Case to preside Over pretrial motions and the trial. Simpson will be arraigned july 22 in Superior court. He must enter a plea and dates will be set for pretrial hearings motions and the trial. A the District attorney will decide whether to seek the death penalty. A pretrial motions will be filed. The defense is Likely to seek dismissal of the Case on grounds of insufficient evidence a review of the municipal court ruling admitting evidence seized in a warrant less search dismissal delay of change of venue because of pretrial publicity end a ruling to bar Dan evidence As unreliable. A hearings will be held on pretrial motions. A the trial could begin in mid september if the defense invokes Simpsons right to a a speedy trial. A a. V source the associated press Simpson is guilty of anything a Shapiro said. A this is a Case that everybody has jumped to an immediate and unrealistic  he argued that the murder weapon had not yet been found and that tests on blood droplets found at Simpsons estate and the murder scene were not conclusive. He suggested that it would have been impossible for Simpson to commit the crime and then abandon a a a clothing in less than an hour. Bloody . Denies on Leader says he was mistreated in talks Washington a Clinton administration officials Are disputing an allegation by Panama a president that he was Browbeaten into agreeing to accept haitian refugees a a decision he has since reversed. . Officials tried Friday to deflect president Guillermo Endara a accusations that the administration treated Panama like a a banana  a the president of Panama was treated with the utmost respect by . Officials a said state department spokeswoman Christine Shelley. Another administration official expressed astonishment at Endara a statement that he a Felt mocked and intimidated into agreeing to accept 10,000 haitian refugees fleeing their impoverished and repressive Homeland by boat. He cancelled the acceptance thursday. A i negotiated with them till Midnight and they mistreated me. They treated me As if this were a banana Republic a Endara said. In an interview published saturday in the Washington Post Endara said he agreed to accept the haitians Only to help out the United states. A what really made me furious is that it Wasny to a question of whether Panama was obligated to do something. I was doing a favor for the United sates Quot he said. Endara said that during his discussions with . Officials. National Security Council representative Rand Beers behaved a like a pig and a treated me like a a subaltern of the american Empire a the . Official speaking on Condi Endara is amps but Deputy District attorney Marcia Clark Saia physical evidence including everything from blood drops to Matching bloody gloves found at the scene and at the estate clearly linked Simpson to the murders. R a a the Eye dance is consistent and very powerful even at this Early stage that the defendant has indeed committed every crime that he is charged with Quot she said. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty they said the Case could go to trial by mid september if Simpsons lawyers invoke his right to a speedy trial. Final witnesses at the hearing included police blood expert Gregory Matheson who said  blood Type potentially matched one of a Trail of drops found alongside bloody shoe prints leaving the. Murder scene. He said that the blood matched neither of the victims and that Simpson was among the .43 percent of the population about one in every 200 people who could have left the blood drops. But Matheson acknowledged under Cross examination that there Are 40,000 to 80,000 people in the los Angeles area with the same genetic markers As those found in the droplets. Matheson also said that the tests Only exclude sources of blood rather than identify a particular person. Prosecutors however Are expected to use More so hrs Ticatch Dan analysis of blood Sam pies during  Friday Deputy medical examiner Irwin Golden used Black and White drawings of bodies with vivid red slash Marks to show How a a gaping knife wounds killed the victims. Simpson struggled for composure from the Onset sighing heavily looking away and rubbing his face As Golden described Nicole Simpsons clothing a Short Black dress still Damp with blood two Days after the murder. Tion of anonymity said the discussions with Endara had been cordial throughout. The official said Endara misrepresented his own role by saying Panama objected to the use of . Military bases to House haitian refugees temporarily while a panamanian site for a Haven was being readied by the United nations. In fact the official reported Endara agreed last sunday to a written statement that said pending completion of the . Haven the United states would a cooperate in providing interim Safe Haven facilities using space at existing . Defense Sites in  . Haitian policy suffered another setback last week when the United states was Able to get agreement from other nations to provide Only 2,000 to 3,000 troops and civilians for a peacekeeping Force in Haiti if military rulers there left Power the new York times reported saturday. A Force that once was envisioned at 12,000 to 14,000 Strong has been scaled Back by planners to 9,000 to 12,000, with the United states counting on other countries. To provide at least half of the total the newspaper said. The haitian refugee flow continued unabated Friday As the administration grappled with where to put the boat people until a solution to the country a political crisis is found. A the . Embassy in port a Prince Haiti said Friday that overloaded coast guard and Navy ships will be unable to pick up some haitians fleeing their military dominated Homeland. American ships have no place to put Many of the More than 10,700 boat people who have fled Haiti since monday embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager said. The coast guard said the past four Days have been the busiest period in its history. It a \ Quot -.-9 it x. It it to y. V s by. W a a it Ltd u Kab it a a % a a a Ltd x of it a s by v a v f it  or a Vvs to 5 \ a is a haitian refugees let mops dry out on the deck of the . Hospital ship Comfort on Friday. The ship docked in Kingston Jamaica is helping boat people picked up at sea  
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