Longtime tennis umpire Lois Goodman will have to submit to a DNA test in the death of her 80-year-old husband, Alan Goodman. Lois Goodman, 70, is charged with bludgeoning her husband with a broken coffee mug in April. She was arrested during the U.S. Open qualifying tournament in New York and flown back to Los Angeles, where the alleged crime occurred.
Lawyers for Goodman suggested that the DNA would be meaningless because prosecutors were already aware that she picked up pieces of the cup and gave them to police. The police initially dismissed the shards as meaningful evidence, which a judge has since ruled against.
Prosecutors are alleging that she wielded the broken cup as an "improvised knife" and then left her husband to die.
Goodman's attorneys counter that she immediately called 911 when she found her deceased husband. "Mrs. Goodman led everyone upstairs, past the pool of blood on the carpet, into the bedroom, where she had found her husband dead," stated a court motion that was published by the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>. "She gave the police a tour of the home. Mrs. Goodman even placed bloody towels and the shards of a coffee cup in a plastic grocery bag and offered these items to investigators, who told her they did not need the evidence."