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...shows no socks. But the work logs of police investigators Andrea Mazzola and Dennis Fung show that they collected the socks there slightly later. The defense suggests that the socks were put on the floor after the video was taken. Neither Clark nor deputy district attorney Chris Darden explained that discrepancy in their final arguments. They did raise the point that even corrupt cops would have no reason to plant socks without blood on them--the defense charges the blood was applied later...
...these are also the gloves that seemed too small for O.J. when Darden asked him to put them on in court. Will the jury care that O.J. was putting them on over latex lab gloves that would have hampered the fit? More important, it was Mark Fuhrman who found the glove in Simpson's yard. More than once, the jury heard excerpts from the letter by Kathleen Bell, a Fuhrman acquaintance, who said he told her if he wanted to arrest an interracial couple, he would invent a charge if necessary...
Meanwhile, most of the lawyers are already thinking about life after Simpson. Darden, who has looked solemn and unhappy much of the time, was asked last week what would be next for him. "Me?" he said with an apparent straight face. "This is my last case." Shapiro, who plans "to reacquaint myself with my family," will also soon be joining a large Los Angeles law firm as a senior partner, dissolving his own. But Johnnie Cochran swears that if O.J. is retried, he will still be beside him. "Despite the fact that I'll probably be in bankruptcy...
...most part, the prosecutors handled these witnesses like the hot potatoes they were, cross-examining them only briefly. But with McKinny, prosecutor Christopher Darden set himself up for what defense attorney Johnnie Cochran later termed "another glove day"--a reference to the prosecution's disastrous move to have Simpson try on the leather glove found at the crime scene. "When Mark Fuhrman used those words in your presence," Darden asked, "why didn't you tell him to stop?" McKinny replied: "For the same reasons I didn't tell him to stop when he told me of other procedures, cover...
...Robert Heidstra testified that he saw a car resembling O.J. Simpson's white Bronco speeding away from the crime scene about a half an hour after prosecutors say Simpson drove there to commit the murders. Heidstra earlier was the source of tense words betweendefense attorney Johnnie Cochranand prosecutor Christopher Darden after Darden asked him if one of the voices he had heard outside Nicole Simpson's house the night of the murders could have come from a black man. Cochran exploded, calling the question "racist" and demanding that it be struck from the record. The two lawyers, who have been...