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...though, Petrocelli's team has opted to go with witness Robert Heidstra, who was previously a witness for the defense. In late October, Heidstra told the civil jury that he heard a voice yelling, "Hey, hey, hey!" at about 10:40 and that moments later he saw a white utility vehicle speeding away from the scene. Though this tightens the race Simpson would have had to make between Nicole's house and his own, Heidstra is a strong witness. "Some of us always thought it was a mistake to pin the murders to 10:15," a former Simpson prosecutor says...
Lawyers for the plaintiffs also forged into new territory in their opening statements. Daniel Petrocelli, representing Ron Goldman's father, moved the estimated time of the murder to 20 minutes later, to coincide with the time a neighbor, Robert Heidstra, says he heard male voices shouting and saw a car similar to Simpson's Bronco leaving the scene. Petrocelli also promised to show a photo of Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes, of the type that left prints at the murder scene and that Simpson has denied owning. TIME has learned that the plaintiffs also plan to present more evidence...
...stunning break for the Simpson prosecution, defense witness 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...
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