European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july 30, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5o.j. Team claims mystery witness person could Clear Simpson attorney says los Angeles apr . Simpsons lawyer suggested Friday that there was a mystery witness who could exonerate him and demanded prosecutors turn Over investigative reports on the individual before a trial set for sept. 20. A there is at least one witness who police have talked to some time ago who has Given testimony or evidence that is totally inconsistent with the theory of a Lone assailant and its entirely inconsistent with the fact that or. Simpson is that assailant a attorney Johnnie Cochran or. Said. The comments came during a Brief hearing on a sweeping defense motion seeking total disclosure of evidence. The defense contends police investigators have failed to follow up on information Quot that could Clear Simpson. A a there Are witnesses there that have theories of multiple assailants of different ethnic background than or. Simpson that we think should be pursued vigorously a Cochran added. Deputy District attorney William Hodgman told Superior court judge Lance Ito that police were attempting to pursue that Lead that the witness lives very close to another state and that the prosecution would turn Over nil reports. A i wanted to assure this court that the land has been following up of this a the prosecutor said. The witness identity was not disclosed. The los Angeles times reported thursday that a Man who identified himself As a burglar told defense investigators and the paper that he was casing the neighbourhood on the night of the slayings. He said he heard a woman scream and saw two White men fleeing the crime scene about the time of the killings. The times said the Man who asked not to be identified had talked with police by Telephone and had a formal interview scheduled late this week. The judge set sept. 20 As the trial Date and aug. 9 As a Date for a Progress hearing on the sharing of evidence. Fridays hearing was punctuated with laughter and attempts by both sides at cordiality and Compromise. Hodgman suggested informal meetings with defense lawyers to discuss evidence. A a in a be Happy to make available whatever i can to the defense a said Hodgman. But he maintained there were limits to the prosecutions cooperation. A if the defense wants to go fishing on this particular one they re going to have to use their own pole and own tackle Box a Hodgman said. Deputy District attorney Marcia Clark the Lead prosecutor said earlier that the defense request was too sweeping including six months Worth of police re ports on prowler and burglary Calls in the neighbourhood where Nicole Brown Simpson 35, and Ronald Lyle Goldman 25, were killed june 12. Hodgman agreed to Supply computer matches of unidentified fingerprints recovered from the crime scene. . Simpson wearing a Gray suit listened intently and occasionally took notes. He has pleaded innocent to two counts of first degree murder. He has been jailed without bail since june 17. A this spirits Are up very much up a Cochran said Friday. The Broad july 19 defense motion sought the Fin . Simpson right and defense attorney Robert Shapiro smile As they appear in court Friday in los Angeles. Ger print matches and police reports of similar unsolved murders in California in the past  attorney Robert Shapiro even sought records of emergency room visits for cuts or dog bites during the 24 hours following the murders on the Chance that Nicole Simpsons dog May have bitten the killer. Tips called in to investigators and reports of a internal investigations of detectives and other personnel assigned to the Case also were sought. Ito told both sides that the court too had received a lot of mail and Telephone tips. Tie said both sides were Welcome to review them. The . Supreme court ruled decades ago that prosecutors must give defendants any information that could help exonerate them. In the past charges have been dropped and convictions reversed when defense lawyers could show prosecutors failed to turn Over crucial information. Meanwhile a newspaper report Friday disclosed that Simpson told police detectives hours after the slayings that he did no to know How he injured his left hand. Simpson spoke with police at downtown Headquarters upon returning from Chicago the Day after the Kilt Ings. During the interview police observed an injury on his left hand. The athlete said a the did no to remember How he injured himself a according to los Angeles police department detective Phillip Vannatter a grand jury testimony which was reviewed by a los Angeles daily journal reporter. Simpsons lawyers said he Cut his hand breaking a Glass in a Chicago hotel room when he was informed of the killings. Simpson told police june 13 that he probably injured his hand at his Brentwood estate and reinsured it in Chicago Vannatter said. Simpsons Friend and former Buffalo Bills teammate Al  Cowlings also was due Back in court late Friday even though prosecutors put off deciding whether to accuse him of helping Simpson flee  was behind the wheel of the White Ford Bronco on june 17, leading police on a slow Speed 60-mile freeway Chase that was watched live by millions of television viewers. Cowlings refused to comment thursday As he left the menus Central jail where he visited Simpson for about two hours. His attorney Donald re has said Cowlings Wasny to helping Simpson flee but rather trying to talk him out of suicide. Cowlings was arrested for investigation of aiding and abetting a fugitive. He remains free on $250,000 bail but a judge was expected to cancel the bail and order his Money returned at his municipal court hearing said re. Also thursday samples of Simpsons blood were split for genetic testing. Three defense experts went to a Maryland genetics Laboratory to oversee the a a cutting of 10 percent of bloodstains collected in the investigation. The samples will be placed in safekeeping for possible testing by defense  attack presidential aides on Whitewater Washington a the Senate launched its Whitewater hearings Friday with Sharp partisan attacks against the credibility of presidential aides and a sobering account of the last Days of White House lawyer Vincent Foster. A there can be no question that or. Foster committed suicide a Fri special agent Larry Monroe told the Senate banking committee. Monroe said extensive interviews conducted for Whitewater special counsel Robert b. Fiske showed that Foster a boyhood Friend of president Clinton was depressed distracted and worried most of the time and that he had tried unsuccessfully to Contact a psychiatrist. But the agent said there was no Evi Dence that Whitewater matters contributed to Fosters suicide. Still republicans pressed witnesses on the possibility that there was a connection. A the conclusion of or. Fiske that no Whitewater issues contributed to Fosters death is tenuous a sen. Orrin Hatch a Utah said in his opening statement. Questioned by sen. Christopher Dodd d-conn., Monroe said a we cannot conclusively Rule out that Whitewater could have played some role a Monroe said. A we uncovered no evidence that during this period of time that or. Foster raised any concern regarding that particular  another area of inquiry a whether papers in Fosters White House office were handled improperly after his death a was declared off limits by the panels chairman sen. Donald Riegle d-mich., because Fiske has not completed his investigation on that matter. But sen. Connie Mack r-fia., raised the Issue anyway. The Fri agent declined to answer. A a it a starting to get into an area that a still under investigation a Monroe said. Democrats and republicans alike said they were uncomfortable bringing up the Foster suicide but. That the Senate Resolution mandating the hearings included that As one of the areas of inquiry. A we should let his family celebrate his Many accomplishments and not dwell on the manner of his death a said sen. Ben night horse Campbell a Colo. The House banking committee conduct ing its own inquiry into the Whitewater matter declared the Foster suicide taboo. As the Senate hearing opened sen. Al Fonse do Amato r-n.y., Ana other republicans sought to discredit the testimony of White House officials who appeared before the House banking committee earlier this week. A the White House has concealed disguised and distorted the truth All in the service of politics and the presidents self preservation a d Amato charged do Amato specifically cited the testimony of White House counsel Lloyd Cutler and former counsel Bernard Nussbaum who told the House panel that there was nothing unethical about the discussions Between the w Hite House and regulators