The morning included conflict-of-interest argument after Judge Ito's wife was referenced on the Fuhrman tapes. In the afternoon, Michele Kestler testified about LAPD laboratory oversight, evidence documentation, and her work on the case. She described the laboratory's lack of accreditation, an unfinished procedures manual, authorized photographer access during a Bronco examination, and gaps and qualifications in inventory records and practices.

• Conflict of interest: Judge Ito's wife Captain York was referenced on the Fuhrman tapes; the prosecution announced it would not seek recusal, and the parties agreed to a sequenced procedure addressing admissibility and her materiality.
• Heated chambers meeting with defense accusing prosecution of 'prosecutorial extortion' and prosecution countering with year-long defense extortion allegations over Fuhrman issue.
• Kestler testified that the LAPD crime laboratory was not accredited and that a rough-draft crime-scene procedures manual begun around 1992 remained unimplemented, while training handouts and updated instruction existed.
• Kestler said a photographer she believed was from Life magazine attended the secured Bronco examination with authorization from the chief of police and was accompanied and directed.
• Kestler testified about Bronco evidence work in June and August 1994 and her eventual knowledge of unauthorized entry between those dates.
• Neufeld argued that the socks notation 'blood search, none obvious' contradicted Kestler's testimony, while Darden elicited that it referred to an intended future analysis rather than a completed search.