At this point the Court will give you an instruction with regards to what's going to happen now.
In this case, the plaintiff served on the defendant, a written request to admit the truth to certain facts. All facts which were expressly admitted by the defendant or which defendant failed to deny, must be accepted as conclusively proved.
Mr. Lambert is going to read a series of these requests for admission and admissions or whatever responses he's going to read to you. It will have the affect that I just read to you insofar as the legal affect is concerned, and how you will be using that in your deliberations.
Okay. You may proceed.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Pursuant to section 2033 of the California Code of Civil Procedure, Plaintiff Fredrick Goldman requests that the defendant Orenthal James Simpson admit the following specified matters of fact.
-- This portion that you're reading, Mr. Lambert, you're going to reiterate the qualifier.
Yes. It applies to several of them as it goes, and I'll read it again at the end and I will indicate.
Yes. (Reading:)
Request Number 183: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 117 matched your blood's DNA banding pattern at the genetic marker known as D5S110.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 184: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 117 matched your blood's DNA banding pattern at the genetic marker known as D10S28.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 185: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 117 matched your blood's DNA banding pattern at the genetic marker known as D17S79?
Response: Admit.
Oh. The response is "admit." (Reading:)
Request Number 343: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 6 had an HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.2.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 350: Admit that the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 6, dash, control tested negative for DNA when tested by DOJ.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 343: -- I'll skip that.
Request Number 354: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 7 had an HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.2.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 365: Admit that the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 7, dash, control tested negative for DNA when tested by Cellmark.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 369: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 12 had an HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.2.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 380: Admit that the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 12, dash, control tested negative for DNA when tested by Cellmark.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 387: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 12 matched your blood's DNA banding pattern at all of the five single-locus probes known at as MS1, MS31, MS43, G3 and YNH24 when subjected to an RFLP test by Cellmark.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 232: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 24 had an HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.2.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 239: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 24, dash, control tested negative for DNA when tested by DOJ.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 269: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 25 contained DNA segment which matched your DNA segment.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 280: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 26 contained DNA segment which matched your DNA segment.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 285: Admit that the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 26, dash, control tested negative for DNA when tested by DOJ.
Request Number 248: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 30, contained DNA segment which matched your DNA segment.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 253: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 30, dash, control tested negative for DNA when tested by DOJ.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 257: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 34 had an HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.2.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 264: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 34, dash, control tested negative for DNA when tested by DOJ.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 291: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 293 had an HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.1.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 305: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 303 contained DNA segment which matched your DNA segment.
Response: Admit.
Request 306: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 303 contained DNA segment which matched the DNA segment of Ronald Goldman.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 307: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 303 contained DNA segments which matched the DNA segment of Nicole Brown Simpson.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 308: Admit that the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 303, dash, control tested negative for DNA when tested by DOJ.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 325: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 304 contained DNA segment which matched your DNA segment.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 326: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 304 contained DNA segment which matched the DNA segment of Ronald Goldman.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 327: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 304 contained DNA segments which matched the DNA segment of Nicole Brown Simpson.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 338: Admit that the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 304 tested negative for DNA when tested by DOJ.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 396: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 13 matched Nicole Brown Simpson -- Nicole Brown Simpson's DNA banding pattern and all of the five single-locus probes known as MS1, MS31, MS43, G3 and YNH24 when subjected to an RFLP test by Cellmark.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 399: Admit that the blood DNA banding pattern contained in the item identified at the crime trial as LAPD evidence item 13 matched the DNA banding pattern of the blood of Nicole Brown Simpson at 11 separate loci as tested by DOJ.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 405: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 13A had an HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.2.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 416: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 13B had an HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.1.
Response: Admit.
Request Number 426: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 9 included HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.2.
Request Number 427: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 9 included HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.1, comma, 1.1. Admit --
Response: Admit. I forgot to read that item.
Request Number 428: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 9 included HLA DQ Alpha blood type 1.3, comma, 4.
Response: Admit.
Admitting these requests for admissions the defense adopts the plaintiffs' definition as communicated to the defendant as that point in time when an item was tested by an outside laboratory as opposed to the time of collection or any other point in time and the term matched is used in this and all other request for admissions means cannot be excluded as a contributor to the evidence fragment.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'll resume Monday. Schedules might be a little bit up in the air, but hopefully we'll get it ironed out.
So I'll order you back at 8:30. Don't talk about the case. Don't form or express my opinions. Don't read any newspaper or other print material on the subject. Don't watch anything on television or listen to anything on the radio about this matter.
Don't let anybody talk to you about this case and don't let anybody attempt to ask you questions about this case. And if anybody makes any effort to inquire of you or to impose their opinions on you, regarding this case, please let me know. Okay?
Have a nice weekend. We will see you Monday at 8:30.
All facts which were expressly admitted by the defendant or which defendant failed to deny, must be accepted as conclusively proved.
Request Number 306: Admit that the blood contained in the item identified at the criminal trial as LAPD evidence item 303 contained DNA segment which matched the DNA segment of Ronald Goldman. Response: Admit.
Admitting these requests for admissions the defense adopts the plaintiffs' definition... the term matched is used in this and all other request for admissions means cannot be excluded as a contributor to the evidence fragment.