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Daily News (New York) March 4, 1995, Saturday BYLINE: By MICHELLE CARUSO in Los Angeles and LAURIE C. MERRILL in New York Prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson case wrapped up their blistering cross-examination of Rosa Lopez yesterday leaving the credibility of the star alibi witness in tatters. Even defense attorney Robert Shapiro conceded that there were problems with the testimony of the former maid of Simpson's Brentwood, Calif., neighbors. "To date she has been very consistent on some issues, and on some others she has clearly been inconsistent," he said. Yesterday afternoon, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran tried to salvage some of the damage wrought by prosecutor Chris Darden, asking Lopez if he ever coached her or gave her hand signals which she denied. Lopez, who says she saw Simpson's Bronco parked outside his mansion around the time prosecutors charge he was murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, also denied trying to sell her story to the National En-qurier, The Globe or the Star. In response to Cochran's question, Lopez said she was not offered money by a lawyer or Simpson's assistant. But in earlier cross-examination, Darden asked about a taped interview in which another maid, Sylvia Guerra, said that Lopez was offered $ 5,000 to tes-tify on Simpson's behalf. "You've heard the tape of Sylvia's interview with detectives in which she says you told her the lawyers were going to give you $ 5,000 for testifying, and that she could also get $ 5,000. . . . Is Sylvia lying?" Darden asked. "One hundred per cent," Lopez said. "And you're telling the truth?" Darden said. "One hundred per cent," Lopez said. Darden also grilled Lopez on whether she had the proper vantage point to see the Bronco when she was out walking a dog. He suggested the only place in the neighbor's yard to see where the Bronco was parked was a patch of ivy in the front. "Have you ever told any one you believe there are snakes and rats in that ivy and you wouldn't want to go in there?" Darden asked. "At night, sir, in the back, yes sir, because it was very ugly . . . I never said that about the front," Lopez responded. Darden also sought to prove that Lopez had been led on in her interview with Simpson gumshoe Zvonko (Bill) Pavelic. On the tape played yesterday, Lopez said at first she "took the dog [out for a walk] at 10." There is a pregnant pause while papers are shuffled, then Lopez says, "I took the dog at 10:20 . . . I took the dog at 10:15." Lopez also gave different dates of birth a difference of seven years on her driver's license and on her application for unemployment insurance, according to a court transcript released yesterday.

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