2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 13, 1995 Gloves at murder scene tied to Simpson ~iy 4. ." '~ ~ ~ ' Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - A former glove company ex- ecutive told jurors yesterday that gloves worn by O.J. Simpson during a series of football games in the early 1990s are the same style, size and, in some cases, color as a pair linked to the double murder with which Simpson is charged. That testimony from Richard Rubin marks the prosecution's most forceful response to the defense team's contention that the evidence gloves could not have been worn by Simpson because they do not fit him - a position graphically bolstered by the prosecution's own, ill-fated glove demonstration. It was during that demonstration that Simpson struggled to put on the evidence gloves, only to announce they did not fit him. Although Rubin dominated the day's testimony, legal wrangling and new jury problems continued to dog the trial and keep it on its precarious course toward conclusion. In the morning, one juror threatened to leave the panel because she needed to attend to a rental property that has been vacant and is losing money, sources said, but was convinced to stay when Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said he would consider having the county pay her losses. The defense, which favors the excusal of that juror - a retired white woman who sits in the front row of the jury box - immediately ob- jected. Simpson's lawyers later asked for that juror to be dis- missed and filed a motion urg- ing Ito to reconsider his offer to financially help her. In unusu- ally sharp language, the motion asked the court to produce any "precedent it purports to have." Then, at day's end, the de- fense submitted a bombshell Clark proposal: Simpson's lawyers asked Ito to end the jury sequestration, which has isolated the panelists from the outside world for the past nine months. Ito did not immediately rule, but some observers called the defense motion, which would permit jurors to return home at night, a sly attempt to expose the jury to news coverage of the case, particularly the widespread reporting of re- cently retired Detective Mark Fuhrman's decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment rather than testify further in the Simpson case. Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark clearly endorsed that view. She cited the furor surrounding the Fuhrman disclosures and said: "This takes the cake for the most transparent motion by the de- fense." Ito seemed to shrug it off, suggesting it was a "no- brainer." Rubin, a former general manager for the Aris glove company, was the day's only witness. It was his second appearance on the stand, as Rubin testified as part of the prosecution's main case, which concluded in July. Under questioning from the prosecution, Rubin reviewed photographs and videotapes showing a gloved Simpson at football games from 1990 to 1993. He said Simpson's gloves in those pictures matched the characteristics of those found at the scene of the crimes. In his cross-examination, Robert Blasier, one of Simpson's lawyers, tried to suggest Rubin was over- stating the significance of the similarities between the evidence gloves and those pictured in the photo- graphs. Blasier further intimated Rubin was doing so to favor the prosecution. FBI sniper takes Fifth Amendment WASHINGTON - An FBI sniper invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination yesterday when asked by a senator about how he shot and killed the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. Lawyers for FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi asked a Senate subcommittee to grant him limited immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony, but the panel rejected the request as it opened a second week of hearings into the tragedy on .Ruby Ridge. "I think we can get the underlying facts" without Horiuchi but "it obviously would have been better if we had that testimony," said Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, technology and government information. Sen. Herbert Kohl (D-Wis.), said he was "very disap- pointed not to hear his story." Granting immunity to Horiuchi could have scuttled any future criminal prosect- tion against him. Federal and state investigators are probing the events surround- ing the 1992 shootout and 1 I-day standoff in northern Idaho that killed a deputy U.S. marshal, Weaver's 14-year-old son and Weaver's wife, Vicki. Horiuchi testified at Weaver's 1993 criminal trial, declaring he killed Weaver's wife by mistake and intended instead to hit an armed man who was running into the Weavers' cabin. A 111 VNT9 / NArLY WAN1ft? Af1THE /%,AW CLf Rev leads protest near Justice Thomas' home F 6A IA,~ 9ro v 1 6 1-I1I iY. 0r,, r~r I ..tll. 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Fred Shuttlesworth and other blacks angry with Thomas' voting record got no closer to Thomas' dining room yester- day than the beginning of the short suburban street on which he lives in an upper-class neighborhood where Wash- ington suburbs meet Virginia farmland. The $550,000 house that Thomas and his wife, Virginia, had built for them on a 5-acre lot after his confirmation four years ago was well out of sight, around a corner and behind a thick screen of trees. The protesters were not allowed any farther because the street is private prop- erty belonging to the 22 homeowners in the Havenwood neighborhood associa- tion. Fifty Fairfax County police offic- ers, plus security from the court and the Justice Department, were on hand to make sure noone trespassed, but there were no incidents. Sharpton said the "prayer vigil" 25 miles outside Washington was in re- sponse to remarks attributed to the jus- tice last month by his friend, newspaper columnist Armstrong Williams. Will- iams quoted Thomas as saying he had voted against affirmative action and legally mandated school desegregation because they were against "God's law." "You cannot embrace racism to deal with racism. It's not Christian," Will- iams said Thomas told him. Sharpton said yesterday using reli- gious beliefs to decide legal questions violates the doctrine of separation of church and state. Satellite shut down after overheating CAPE CANAVERAL - A saucer- shaped satellite trailing space shuttle Endeavour was shut down by ground controllers yesterday after it overheated and began tilting. It was the latest in a series of prob- lems with the $25 million Wake Shield Facility, a giant steel disk on which scientists are trying to grow ultra-thin semiconductor film in the pure vacuum of space. The five astronauts were supposed to recapture the satellite today, two days after they released it. But NASA post-. poned the retrieval until tomorrow to give scientists an extra day to do their work. NASA controllers had just finished producing the third of seven planned wafers of semiconductor film when they were forced to halt the experiment. The satellite, 12 feet in diameter, began over- heating and had pitched forward at least 15 degrees. Nearly all the instruments on the Wake Shield were turned off to cool the spacecraft, orbiting about 40 miles be- .' ON T HE W Swiss banks find dormant accounts of Holocaust victims PARIS - Leading Swiss banks an- nounced yesterday they have discov- ered $34 million dollars in dormant accounts that may belong to Holocaust victims and that they will help Jewish survivors and their heirs track down lost assets. Lifting the veil of secrecy on one of the most controversial legacies of the war, the Swiss Bankers' Association said a partial survey of a dozen major banks that conducted most of the country's financial business in 1945 revealed nearly 900 abandoned accounts containing funds that may have been deposited by Jews and others who were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis.. But the World Jewish Congress and other agencies acting on behalf of Ho- . locaust victims say the forsaken depos- its represent only a fraction of the wealth of Jewish Nazi victims. Far larger as- sets, estimated by some experts to be worth several billion dollars, were con- fiscated from Jewish victims in Eastern Europe and may have been stashed by the Nazis in Swiss accounts or safe deposit boxes. Nazi SS boss Heinrich Himmler, for example, is believed to have dispatched a hoard of paintings, jewelry and money stolen from Hungarian Jews to Switzer- land toward the end of the war. New hind Endeavour. . Mission operations director Lee Briscoe said the one-day delay in 're- trieving the Wake Shield should have minimal impact on the rest of the 11- day mission, which ends Monday. U.S. economy marks record trade deficit WASHINGTON - The United States suffered its worst trade perfor- mance in history as the depressed Mexi- can economy cut into U.S. exports and Americans' appetite for foreign oil, cars and electronic products continued un- abated. In brighter economic news, the gov- ernment also reported yesterday that prices at the wholesale level fell by 01 percent in August. The absence of tn-. flationary pressures cheered Wall Street, helping to push the Dow Jones industrial average up 42.27 to a record closing high of 4,747.21. The Commerce Department said the deficit in America's current account jumped to $43.62 billion in the April- June quarter from the first-quarter defi- cit of $39.03 billion. rOR L v information on"Himmler'sTreasure"and other Nazi booty taken from East Euro- pean Jews has come to light from the archives of East German and other com- munist secret services since the collapse of the Soviet empire six years ago. Link sought in deaths of 7 Mexican women CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Seven women - at least four of whom looked alike and were raped and strangled - have been found dumped in the desert since Aug. 19, and authori- ties are investigating whether a serial killer is responsible. , "That's still speculation," State Judi- cial Police spokesman Ernesto Garcia: said Monday. "We can't determine if it's one person." The first victim found was Elizabeth Castro Garcia, thought to have been 15 to 17. Her body was discovered on uninhabited land near the city's airport. Six more bodies have been found in the same general area, the most recent on Sunday. Four of the seven, including Castro, were young and slim with dark conmi- plexions and long hair. The three others had probably been there for months and were little more than skeletal remains. Their identities and cause of death have not been estab- lished. It was also unknown whether they had been sexually assaulted. - From Daily wire services Looking for Business Experience? Join The Michigan Daily Finance Staff " Be responsible for daily billing, figuring commissions, tearsheets, assisting with payroll and accounts payable and the reconciliation of the phone bills. " 10 hrs./week, flexible around your schedule! * Contact Heather Rooney at 763-3246 between 8 a.m.-5 p.m. to set up an interview. Wednesdays in the UK! 8Sate 996-9191 $1 f - s o lis les L rs Right at Home! @ 7:30 Koessler Rm. 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