In the latest parallel to the case of the more famous ex-football player, Dr. Henry Lee, noted as one of the best criminologists in the world, will take the stand — via videotape — for the defense in Carruth's capital murder trial.

Neither side contends that Carruth himself fired shots into the car of Cherica Adams, the woman carrying his baby. Struck four times in the back and neck, Adams died nearly a month after the Nov. 16, 1999, drive-by shooting, but the baby survived.

Lee was expected to testify — out of the jury's presence — Wednesday afternoon. Although the state has not yet presented its case, Lee's tight schedule did not permit him to appear in court when the defense is expected to begin calling witnesses, probably sometime next week.

Instead, the expert's testimony will be videotaped and shown to the jury after Rudolf begins presenting his case.

Lee, the first Asian-American to serve as Public Safety Commissioner of Connecticut, provided key testimony for Simpson, charged with murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

During Simpson's 1995 criminal trial, Lee said that there was "something wrong" with the Los Angeles Police Department's handling of the evidence. He also cast doubt on prosecutors' contention that one set of footprints found at the crime scene were consistent with the theory that Simpson went to his ex-wife's home and committed the murder. Lee told the jury that his analysis of photographs revealed a second set of imprints on the ground, on Goldman's clothing and on other evidence at the scene, lending to the defense's notion that the crime was committed by more than one person.

Lee's testimony was considered a key reason that the jury in the "trial of the century" acquitted Simpson.

The 62-year-old criminologist's resume includes other high-profile cases, including the Jon Benet Ramsey grand jury investigation, the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith and the investigation of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco.

Most recently Lee made headlines for a more lighthearted endeavor. He has teamed up with singer Wayne Newton to find the lost grave of Pocahontas, the Native American princess who befriended Jamestown settlers in the 17th century.

Born in China, Lee's family fled to Taiwan during World War II. His father was killed by communists, and his mother raised Lee and his 12 siblings.

He began his law enforcement career as a police captain in Taipei before coming to the United States in 1965. Once here, he attended John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and went on to earn his doctorate in biochemistry from New York University.

After serving as director of Connecticut's crime laboratory, he was tapped as public safety commissioner — but kept his promise to step down from the post as head of the state police to pursue his other work.