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...prosecution is on stronger ground with its testimony from Allan Park, the limo driver who went to Simpson's residence to drive him to the airport. He reported that no one answered when he rang at 10:42 p.m., a time verified by a phone call he then made to his boss. During the call, he says, he saw a black person about six feet tall enter the house--after which O.J. answered the intercom to say he had been sleeping. That contradicts the defense contention that O.J. had been hitting golf balls in his yard around that time...
...around the crime scene, in his car and at his home. Defense attorneys say the blood was either contaminated by police incompetence, making DNA tests unreliable, or planted by Fuhrman and Vannatter. To support the latter claim, they point out that blood disappeared from the lab sample taken from Simpson's arm for comparison purposes in the DNA tests. A nurse originally testified that the sample contained around 8 cc of blood on June 13, but according to defense testimony it lost 1.5 cc of blood during the police investigation. The defense postulates--but without evidence--that Vannatter took...
...BLOODY SOCKS The defense produced a police videotape of Simpson's bedroom with an automatic time mark of 4:13 p.m. It 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...
...GLOVES For prosecutors, the glove found at Simpson's estate is key. It matches the one found at the murder scene. A glove expert testified that the pair is the kind Simpson is seen wearing on TV broadcasts, and credit-card records show that Nicole bought him such gloves. The one found at Simpson's house has both victims' blood...
...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...