European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 26, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5attempt to halt . Jury selection fails los Angeles apr . Simpsons prosecutor asked monday that scores of prospective jurors be dismissed because they May have heard her remark that they Are liars but the judge pressed on with jury selection. A a in a not at the Point of imploding a yet a Superior court judge Lance Ito said. A a. / a a �����.�.  \. Deputy District attorney Marcia Clark requested that Ito dismiss All 77 people remaining from the first group of prospective jurors and possibly the entire group of roughly 300. She said jury selection could Start Over after a hearing was held on the admissibility of Dan evidence. Clark said that the jury candidates objectivity May have been compromised by her saying during a closed hearing that Many of them were Simpson fans who were lying to get on the jury so they could acquit him. She said she was joking when she suggested potential jurors undergo lie Detector tests but because her remarks were published in a a cold transcript of the hearing the Media reported them seriously. A Ito said he would go ahead with jury selection noting that he had ordered the candidates to ignore All Media and stay out of bookstores. A this panel has had the strongest admonition a Ito said. A i think this panel is our Best Hope at this  when he resumed jury selection later in the Day Ito enforced the no Media Rule dismissing prospective jurors for such things As watching a football game Mother Given Medol worn by firefighter Glenwood Springs Colo. A firefighter Levi Brinkley was never without his St. Christophers medal so his Mother knew it must Nave been around his neck when he and 13 others died fighting a Forest fire on storm King Mountain. After she asked Federal officials to look for it a search began in a Many Many offices across the West for six weeks a said Mike Mottice Bureau of land management director in Glenwood Springs. The blackened medal turned up in a file buried in a stack of newspapers in the Garfield county coroners office. Deputy Coroner Trey Holt had recalled that the medal was identified by the forensic team that examined the firefighters bodies after they died july 6 in a Blaze on the Mountain just outside town. Levi Brinkley worked out of Prineville ore., As a hot shot one of the elite firefighters whom the . Forest service assigned to combat the most difficult Forest fires in the West. His Mother Kathy Brinkley said Levi Brinkley a brother Joe wants to Wear the medal. Joe Brinkley who had Given up firefighting returned to the lines after Levi Brinkley a death. He a working on a fire engine Crew near Prineville. A the just had to do it a she said adding that he now wants to be a hot shot like his brother. Levi Brinkley a remains were returned to his Oregon Home july 12, and a a memorial service was held two Days later. Last week the family received a Check for $27,000 from a fund collected in Colorado for storm King victims. The Money will be used for a scholarship set up by the family in Honor of Levi Brinkley the Mother said. A i just can to believe people Are so Nice so generous or so kind. Its humbling she said. Povich figures out a Way to outdo his wife los Angeles a in this television household Maury Povich has done a number on his wife Connie Chung. Povich a interview with the author of a controversial Book that claims . Simpson stalked and killed his sex wife gave Povich a show its highest ratings of the season. Chung a show on lbs Eye to Eye with Connie Chang also got a ratings boost from another interview with Faye Resnick. But the boost was not nearly As big As the one that Povich got. The Maury Povich show earned its Best ratings for the season with a 5.6 average and 20 share in 31 big City to markets according to figures released by the shows producer Paramount. Povich Chung share is the percentage of to sets in use at any one time that arc tuned to a particular broadcast. The show ranked no. 1 in 16 of those markets including new York and los Angeles. The audience for the Friday broadcast was 70 percent higher than for the Friday before. Resnick who wrote Nicole Brown Simpson the private diary of a life interrupted appeared on Eye to Eye with Connie Chung last thursday. The Chung interview shown in prime time boosted the Eye to Eye National ratings about 20 percent Quot to a 9.8 average and 16 share. Superior court judge Lance Ito who is hearing the Simpson Case had asked Povich lbs Ana in no a Larry King not to air their interviews with Resnick. Only King acquiesced on television Reading a newspaper sports Section and tuning in a radio stations traffic report. Also dismissed was a woman who said she overheard two prospective jurors on the courthouse elevator and is convinced that they Are lying to get on the jury. At Days end 11 prospects had been questioned and six excused bringing the total to 43 questioned and 23 dismissed. Defense attorneys Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran or. Opposed the Start Over proposal. Shapiro said prosecutors made it As a Means of a protecting themselves from their own  outside court Cochran said he never took Clarks statement As a joke. Neither apparently did Simpson who Shook his head when she offered that argument. Simpson is charged with the june 12 slayings of his second sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. Prosecutors also filed a 59-Page motion defending their Dan evidence saying no one convicted in a Dan Case was Ever exonerated later. Also they said no defendant has Ever retested prosecution evidence and found inconsistent results. A still unresolved Issue is whether Ito will sequester the 12 jurors and eight alternates eventually selected. The judge said he Hasni to decided. Clark and Deputy District attorney William Hodgman argued that sequestration is essential. Cochran opposed it. Hodgman said prosecutors have researched a location for jurors to be housed suggesting something Akin to a College Campus where they could hear lectures and go for walks. A no Side has a priority on ideas a Cochran quipped. A i have a place a neverland. I could have jurors housed up there. There Are All kinds of  another Cochran client is pop Star Michael Jackson owner of the neverland estate near Santa Barbara. Learning the ropes sixteen year old Matt Griffith of Scottsdale ariz., prepares to make an attempt at Lessoing a mechanical calf roping machine during the Cowboy and Indian Congress at West world in Scottsdale last week. The 10-Day Congress which ended sunday featured rodeos american Indian dancing and Western music. Body of Lincoln s Assassin May be exhumed Baltimore a descendants of presidential Assassin John Wilkes Booth want to dig up the body buried in his grave to determine whether authorities got the right Man in 1865. Two researchers and 22 descendants of the Man who killed Abraham Lincoln filed a court petition monday seeking to exhume the body from the family plot in Baltimore a Greenmount cemetery. Researchers Nathaniel Orlowek and Arthur Ben chitty have suggested that Booth might have escaped capture following Lincoln Skilling and that Federal troops mistakenly killed an innocent Man. If the court Grants the petition forensic experts will test to determine age sex race stature and the presence of any skeletal injuries. Booth was believed to have broken his leg after leaping from the presidential Box onto the stage at Fords theater