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Cosby witness had no
additional information
1LOS ANGELES — The goateed
man depicted in a police
sketch as another possible wit
ness to the Ennis Cosby slaying
was candid and cooperative, po
lice said Tuesday, but unable to
give them any help in finding the
killer.
“He did not have any addition
al information of substance to of
fer,” said police Cmdr. Tim
McBride.
Meanwhile, CBS reported
Tuesday night it had received a
threatening fax, purportedly from
the same woman police arrested
in New York over the weekend for
allegedly trying to extort $40 mil
lion from the victim’s father. Au
thorities said she claimed to be
entertainer Bill Cosby’s illegiti
mate daughter.
The elder Cosby has denied be
ing related to the woman, identi
fied as Autumn Jackson. Police
said they don’t believe the extor
tion case is connected to the
killing.
CBS said the fax it received
threatened the network with ex
tortion if a woman identified as
Autumn Jackson Cosby “doesn’t
receive a fair settlement.” The
network carries the entertainer’s
show, “Cosby.”
Meanwhile, the man police had
hoped might help them solve the
murder case was released after be
ing questioned for eight hours. He
had been surrounded by officers
in a parking lot in suburban Tor
rance Monday afternoon because
his car was similar to a blue
hatchback seen by a security
guard near the crime scene.
World wide hot air
balloon trip cut short
2NUNKHAR, India — Adven
turer Steve Fossett packed up
his giant silver balloon in rural In
dia on Tuesday, surrounded by
villagers who had initially taken
the American for a monkey god in
a floating temple.
Most villagers had never seen a
hot-air balloon until Monday,
when Fossett’s landed in a mus
tard field at the end of a failed
round-the-world attempt. Many
said they took the balloon for a
floating temple and its pilot for a
human incarnation of their mon
key god Hanuman.
“We offered him pure cow
milk, and we were pleased that he
took two sips,” villager Shayam
Bahadur Singh said.
Beatles’ memorabilia
auction televised
3 LONDON — “All You Need is
Love,” the Beatles sang in the
1967 summer of love, at a concert
that launched global television
broadcasts.
Thirty years later, the Beatles
will be part of another innovation
in television — and this time, all
you need is cash.
A Mar. 22 satellite auction of
Beatles memorabilia will mark
the debut of a British-based auc
tion channel, London’s Bonhams
auction house said Tuesday.
Bonhams hopes as many as 25
million viewers will tune in to
watch bidding on Beatles guitars
and other souvenirs, auction
house manager Christopher Elwes
said Tuesday.
New Mass, law allows
pot for medicinal uses
4 BOSTON — Massachusetts
residents suffering from glau
coma, asthma or chemotherapy’s
side effects could legally possess
marijuana for medicinal purpos
es, under a state proposal un
veiled Tuesday.
The Department of Public
Health proposal would not let
doctors prescribe pot for patients,
but would certify they had ex
hausted other methods. A certifi
cate would be defense against
marijuana possession charges.
Similar laws passed in Novem
ber in Arizona and California, and
at least 35 other states have laws
providing greater tolerance for the
medical use of marijuana, but
many are little-known and little
used.
Second O.J. trial sees
closing arguments
5 SANTA MONICA, Calif. —
Pointing his finger at an un
flinching O.J. Simpson, a lawyer
angrily mocked the football star’s
explanations and told jurors
Tuesday: “There’s a killer in this
courtroom.”
“That’s the man who attacked
them, confronted them and who
killed them,” attorney Daniel
Petrocelli said in closing argu
ments in the wrongful-death case
against Simpson.
Again and again, Petrocelli
raised images of blood, fiber and
hair, a hat, gloves and shoes that
he said were indisputable proof
that Simpson killed ex-wife
Nicole Brown Simpson and her
friend Ronald Goldman on June
12,1994.
“Did Mr. Simpson explain why
his blood and DNA were found
next to the victims?” Petrocelli
asked. "Did he explain why his
glove was found ... why his knit
cap was at the scene. Did he ex
plain any of that? Not one word.”
Petrocelli made it clear that his
most prized new evidence —
which he believes will turn the
case around — is a collection of
photos showing Simpson wearing
the same kind of Bruno Magli
shoes the killer wore.
As Petrocelli showed jurors
bloody pictures of the victims, he
declared: “These pieces of evi
dence are the voices of Ron and
Nicole speaking to us from their
graves, telling us, telling all of
you, that there’s a killer in this
courtroom.”
Simpson’s attorneys were to
give their closing arguments after
Petrocelli finished Wednesday.
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