Reasons Why The OJ Trial Is The Most Absurd Event in the History of America #2

[Jamie Lednik]

[From Spy mag.]

101-200 of 1001

101. Police concluded it would have been all but impossible for Fuhrman
to have taken a glove from the crime scene and plant it at OJ's house.
102. According to testimony by Robert Riske, the first officer at the
crime scene, police had noticed all of the evidence before Fuhrman had
arrived.
103. All of the evidence samples had been collected and logged before OJ
ever gave police his blood sample.
104. Fourteen officers arrived at the crime scene long before Fuhrman
and saw no glove for him to abscond with.
105. Fuhrman was never out of sight of other officers.
106. Video footage showed that Fuhrman was not wearing his jacket during
the investigation, making it impossible to conceal a bloody glove.
107. Kato Kaelin reported hearing three loud thumps on his wall near
where the glove was found, thumps that he heard before police knew of
the murders.
108. Fuhrman had no way of knowing whether Simpson would have an alibi
for the time when the murders occurred.
109. Furhman did not even know whether eyewitnesses might emerge to say
they saw the crimes committed.
110. Fibers on the glove were later found to be consistent with those
from the inside of OJ's car, a fact that Fuhrman could not have
predicted when he reported finding the glove.
111. OJ's book has a photograph of his son Jason wearing OJ's LAPD
baseball cap, given to him by the force.
112. Ron Shipp, a former LAPD officer, often played tennis at OJ's
estate.
113. Against policy, he introduced 40 autograph-hungry cops to the star.
114. One of the security guards helping then-murder suspect OJ elude
photographers at Nicole's funeral was Sgt. Dennis Sebenik, an off-duty
LAPD officer.
115. Although OJ was the sole suspect at the time, LAPD officials agreed
to let him turn himself in after the murders.
116. The gun that OJ held to his head during the Bronco chase was
registerd to Earl C. Paysinger, a respected LAPD cop.
117. He had bought the gun for OJ for his own security prior to the
murders.
118. After the 1989 incident, Det. John Edwards allowed OJ to go back
inside his home, unaccompanied, to get dressed before being taken into
custody.
119. Instead, OJ jumped into his Bentley and fled the scene.
120. Prior to 1989, police responded to Nicole's calls at least seven
times, yet OJ was not arrested and no report was taken.
121. Black Police chief Willie Williams: "The idea that you could get
detective from several different units, police officers, civilian
technicians . . . and who knows what else together and contrive a plot
and keep it secret is unbelievable . . . . It's too fanciful to
imagine. It's something that belongs in Disneyland."
122. OJ had pressured Nicole to get breast implants, then worried that
other men would look at her breasts. Her body was found with her
breasts slashed.
123. Six days before the murders, Nicole discovered that a spare set of
keys to her condo -- including the security gate from the street -- was
missing.
124. On the flight to Chicago, OJ got up to use the bathroom every 15
minutes.
125. Forensic expert Henry Lee, who disputed many of the prosecutions's
blood evidence, was at Kardashian's house with OJ and AC the night
before they made their escape.
126. The two women lawyers brought in to coach OJ during mock trial
sessions told the Dream Team that OJ would be no match for Clark on the
stand.
127. On the day of the murders, OJ phoned Playmate Traci Adell, whom he
had never met, and told her about the end of his rlationship with
Nicole: "I've had enough. I've lived my life."
128. Adell said, "I think he knew that he would lose it if he didn't
stop soon."
129. The night of the murders, OJ left a message for Gretchen Stockdale,
a former LA Raiders cheerleader: "Hey, Gretchen, sweetheart, it's
Orenthal James, who is finally at a place in his life where he is, like,
totally, totally unattached with everybody. Hah! Hah!"
130. Four days before the murders, OJ rented a pay-per-view porn film
called _The Genesis Chamber,_ in which a blond woman is raped at
knifepoint.
131. Less than two weeks before the murders, Navy SEALs taught OJ the
"Silent Kill" knife attack technique for his TV pilot _Frogman._
132. In the weeks before the murders, OJ still referred to Nicole as "my
wife."
133. An LA drug dealer came forward and testified under polygraph that
he had sold OJ and Kato $100 worth of crystal meth -- a drug with
notoriously violent side effects -- shortly before the murders occurred,
which they snorted in OJ's Bentley in a Burger King parking lot.
134. At first, Kato refused to tell his friends what he knew, saying,
"It's too big."
135. When OJ visited the crime scene to identify Nicole's body, officers
reported he was cool and calm.
136. OJ never asked the police how, where, or when Nicole had been
killed when they called him.
137. At the funeral, Nicole's mother asked if OJ had anything to do with
the murders. He responded: "Oh! Oh! Oh! Judi, I loved her. I loved
her too much."
138. As she lay in the casket, OJ pulled up Nicole's dress and pulled
down her collar to look at the wounds.
139. As the casket was lowered into the ground, a woman next to OJ
moaned. OJ whispered to her, "Shit happens."
140. Another woman alleges that OJ was trying to hit on her at the
funeral.
141. The defense contends there was a massive struggle, but Nicole's
children slept through the murders.
142. OJ on giving the police a fake name when arrested as a youth: "I
was really putting one over, a teenage black kid fooling the
Establishment."
143. Kardashian picked OJ up at the airport and drove him home the day
after the murders.
144. Several pieces of OJ's luggage ended up at Kardashian's home.
145. Later they re-emerged, empty, inside OJ's closet.
146. Kardashian was not an active-status lawyer at the time of the
murders, but he paid the fees to reinstate his active status.
147. By activating his status and becoming a member of the the Dream
Team, Kardashian sought to dodge testifying on the grounds of
attorney-client privilege.
148. OJ took his golf clubs to Chicago, left them in the trunk of a
Hertz employee's car, then requested the clubs be flown to LA
immediately.
149. Rather than send someone to get the clubs, he and Kardashian went
to the airport to retrieve them.
150. If the knife had been in the golf bag, it wouldn't have set off the
airport metal detector.
151. When police tried to get documents regarding OJ's wife-beating from
his office, he was blocked by one of the defense and a court-appointed
master who was supervising the search of the office.
152. When the officer returned three weeks later, OJ's personal
assistant, Cathy Randa, had shredded them.
153. Robert Shapiro claimed they were merely "pamphlets" and
"brochures."
154. 6/13/94 Police notice cuts on OJ's hands. Shapiro later described
them as "paper cuts."
155. 6/17/94 DA Gil Garcetti refuses to blame the LAPD for OJ's escape:
"How many members of the media have been surrounding Mr. Simpson's house
and he was able to get away somehow?"
156. 6/18/94 Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran on whether he will take
the case: "I just think the way I feel about him would preclude me from
giving him the best representation possible."
157. As AC Cowlings is released on $250,000 bail, he pushed past
reporters, cursing and snarling "Don't you have no respect?"
158. 6/19/94 Shapiro on OJ's state: "[He] started to cry, and said, 'I
wish I could spend Father's Day with my children.'"
159. 6/19/94 Shapiro added that he had delivered a "special message"
from the Rev. Billy Graham to OJ.
160. 6/23/94 The US Senate begins its day with a prayer for OJ from
Rev. Richard Halverson.
161. "We pray for OJ . . . . Whether he is innocent or guilty rests with
our system of justice. But our hearts go out to him in his profound
loss."
162. Halverson never prays for or even mentions either victim.
163. 6/24/94 The grand jury is dismissed because members may have been
tainted by broadcasts of Nicole's 911 calls, freeing OJ from indictment.
164. 6/27/94 A courthouse camera mike inadvertently picks up OJ's
comment to a baliff: "I'll do anything to stay out of that cell."
165. 6/29/94 OJ is moved to a new cell, so that he and cellblock
neighbor Erik Menendez will not be able to overhear each other's
conversations.
166. 6/30/94 Shapiro resists the prosecution request for 40-100 of OJ's
haris from comparison to those found on the knit hat at the crime scene,
and offers only one hair.
167. A man walks into court wearing one of the special badges that
identifies him as a member of the defense team, claiming to be "a good
friend of OJ's and Shapiro's"
168. Shapiro told deputies, "I've never seen him in my life," and they
hustled the man out.
l69. Kardashian and Leroy "Skip" Taft, OJ's business attorney, are so
mobbed by reporters that they run for a bus to go to a restaurant for
lunch.
170. The two lawyers hitched a ride in a squad car to return.
171. 7/1/94 Steven Schwab, who found Kato the Akita with bloody paws,
testified that he knew exactly when he had gone for the walk because he
timed it to be between _The Dick Van Dyke Show_ and _Mary Tyler Moore._
172. 7/5/94 Defense atty. Uelmen questions Det. Mark Fuhrman's ability
to recognize the blood on OJ's Bronco, asking whether dried blood
"look[s] different that dried taco sauce?"
173. Fuhrman retorts: "I don't take too much note of dried taco sauce,
so I couldn't really say."
174. 7/6/94 Shapiro contests Det. Vannatter's claim that police became
concerned when nobody answered the door at OJ's house, because they had
been told he had a live-in maid: "Does a full-time, live-in maid to you
mean 7 days a week, 24 hours a day?"
175. Vannatter snorts at the wealthy attorney: "I don't know, sir. I've
never had a maid."
176. 7/7/94 When Marcia Clark objects to Shapiro's questionaing of
Vannatter about his alleged mishandling of OJ's Bronco, he retorts, "I
haven't even finished. It gets better."
177. 7/8/94 Shapiro asks Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell to throw out the
case because the prosecution theory "just doesn't stand up to logic."
178. 7/9/94 Shapiro on OJ's spending his 47th birthday in jail: "He's
in tears. It's a horrible day. We're trying to have some pleasant
conversation, but it's difficult."
179. 7/12/94 Shapiro on the defense's motions: "We are not going to
file anything frivolous."
180. 7/15/94 Kardashian on hiding OJ's garment bag rather than giving
it to police: "I never opened it . . . . My fault is that I'm a
genteleman and I carried the bag. [The LAPD] said, 'You can't go in' so
I wasn't going to let it sit on the driveway."
181. Cowlings's lawyer Donald Re says that instead of arresting his
client, police should have hailed AC as a hero: "If he had not
intervened, OJ Simpson would be dead."
182. 7/18/94 Cochran on strategy: "As much as I don't want to see race
brought into this case . . . . It could be a very powerful issue . . . .
I thingk you'll see the defense really seek to exploit it."
183. 7/22/94 After pleading "absolutely 100% not guilty" at his second
arraignmnent, OJ gives a jaunty thumbs-up sign to spectators as he
leaves the court.
184. 7/25/94 When Ito's remark that the battle over DNA presents a
"Yossarian situation" is met with blank stares from the lawyers, he
explains, "You know, 'Catch-22.'"
185. 7/29/94 The DA's office postpones the case against Cowlings.
Cowlings's lawyer crows, "AC is in good spirits. AC realizes he has
done nothing wrong."
186. 8/6/94 Police reveal they have a receipt from a Burbank costume
shop where OJ bought a wig and fake mustache a month before the murders.
187. 8/8/94 California's state election officer asks Ito to recess the
trial on Nov. 7 & 8 so the televised proceedings won't keep the voters
from the polls.
188. 8/9/94 Shapiro says with a straight face that no defense attorny
has discussed evidence of the case with any reporter, despite the fact
that numerous press acounts are attributed to defense lawyers.
189. 8/11/94 OJ undergoes surgery to remove swollen lymph nodes from
his armpits.
190. Shapiro on OJ's condition: "He's very, very nervous. He hasn't
seen his kids, and now there are these medical tests looming. That's
bothering him."
191. 8/19/94 Fox TV complies with a defense request to postpone airing
its docudrama, _The OJ Simpson Story,_ until after jury selection.
Slithery shyster Shapiro had pleaded with Fox to postpone appealing to
the network's "common sense and principles of fair play."
192. 8/22/94 Fuhrman issues a declaration in which he denies ever
making derogatory remarks about "any particular ethnic class."
193. 8/23/94 Ito threatens to sanction defense attorney Peter Neufeld
for asking questions that Ito has already deemed irrelevant 12 times.
194. 8/24/94 The defense announces that it is pulling the plug on its
toll-free tip line which offered a $500,000 reward for information
leading to the arrest of the "real killer or killers."
195. Shapiro admits that after receving over 250,000 calls in a few
days, "it's worn off some."
196. 8/29/94 Fuhrman attorney Rob Tourtelot: "The only people calling
Mark Fuhrman a racist are the attorneys for the defense. We're going to
fight back. By the end of the trial in this case, the entire wolrd will
know that Mark Fuhrman is not a racist."
197. 8/30/94 LAPD Spokesman David Gascon on Fuhrman: "He enjoys the
full respect, support and admiration of the chief of police and the
management staff of the [LAPD]."
198. 8/31/94 Shapiro apologizes to Hodgman for muttering "bullshit"
while Hodgman was talking.
199. 9/1/94 The results of a prosecution focus group are revealed: the
words used most to describe Clark: "pushy" and "aggressive"; to describe
Shapiro: "smooth," "sharp," and "chutzpah."
200. 9/16/94 Cochran announces: "The majority view on the defense team
is that Simpson should testify. He added that OJ, too, "wants to
testify."

[The General]

Robert C. Miller wrote:

>
> Jamie Lednik wrote:
> >
> > [From Spy mag.]
> >
> > 101-200 of 1001
> >
> > 101. Police concluded it would have been all but impossible for Fuhrman
> > to have taken a glove from the crime scene and plant it at OJ's house.
>

> [Absurd that anyone believes in the police conclusions? What about
> all the cops testifying that Fuhrman was never near the glove before
> he went to Rockingham when Rokhar's print sheets shows that he was
> there before he left. It was the only piece of evidence he or any
> other cop pointed out in a photo, and it was done before Fuhrman
> went to Rockingham. Why not point out the cap, or the envelope,
> or the keys or the beeper? Why did Fuhrman choose to point out the
> glove before they went to Rockingham and he "discovered the glove"?
> Why did the cops lie about Fuhrman not being near the glove before
> he went to Rockingham? What else did they lie about?
>
> [I'd address the other 1000 points, but my family misses me. -les t.]

Sounds like you are defending Fuhrman, Bob. You are
pointing out how absurd it was for Fuhrman to take a
picture pointing to the glove, but not to anything else,
before going over to Rockingham. That's because it
never happened.

[The General]

The General wrote:
>
> Thanks for posting this. Pretty good stuff
> except for two glaring errors: Fuhrman was alone
> for a short time at Bundy, according to testimony
> from the trial.
>
> Also, Nicole's breasts were not slashed. This
> was a rumor which circulated after one of the books
> about the crime mentioned it. However, according
> to the autopsy report, it was not true.

I am answering my own post because I forgot one
more error. O.J. did not go to the crime scene and
identify Nicole's body.

[The General]

[Swordfish]

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:17:04 -0700, "Robert C. Miller"
<robertcarlmi...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>Jamie Lednik wrote:
>>
>> [From Spy mag.]
>>
>> 101-200 of 1001
>>
>> 101. Police concluded it would have been all but impossible for Fuhrman
>> to have taken a glove from the crime scene and plant it at OJ's house.
>

>[Absurd that anyone believes in the police conclusions? What about
>all the cops testifying that Fuhrman was never near the glove before
>he went to Rockingham when Rokhar's print sheets shows that he was
>there before he left. It was the only piece of evidence he or any
>other cop pointed out in a photo, and it was done before Fuhrman
>went to Rockingham. Why not point out the cap, or the envelope,
>or the keys or the beeper? Why did Fuhrman choose to point out the
>glove before they went to Rockingham and he "discovered the glove"?
>Why did the cops lie about Fuhrman not being near the glove before
>he went to Rockingham? What else did they lie about?
>

Probably lots. It's interesting to note that ONLY 14 hours after the
murders, O.J. was the prime suspect by the police and media. LAPD felt
they had their man, and looked no-where else for any suspect.