📄 Direct examination of Mark Krueger — Wednesday, November 6, 1996
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Direct examination of Mark Krueger

Witness: Mark Krueger
Examiner: Peter Gelblum
Called by: Plaintiff • Date: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 • Utterances: 26
Prior trial testimony of Mark Krueger, an amateur photographer, was read into the civil trial record. Krueger photographed OJ Simpson at a Chicago Bears game at Soldier Field on December 29, 1990, capturing Simpson wearing a glove on his right hand. The photographs (Exhibits 642 and 643) were admitted into evidence without objection.
1 (Ms. Molinaro assumed the witness stand and reads the answers from the deposition of Mark Krueger.)
2 (Mr. Gelblum reads the questions and narrative portions of the deposition of Mark Krueger.)
3 (Criminal exhibit numbers have been replaced with the corresponding civil case exhibit numbers by the readers.)
4 MR. GELBLUM:

Your Honor, we would like to start with the witness Mark Krueger. Again, these are all witnesses who testified under oath at the criminal trial.

"Q. Can you state and spell your name.

"A. Mark Krueger, M-A-R-K, K-R-U-E-G-E-R.

"Q. Mr. Krueger, can you tell us, are you a professional photographer?

"A. No.

"Q. Directing your attention to the date of December 29, 1990, on that date, can you tell us where you were?

"A. Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.

"Q. And why were you in Soldier Field in Chicago?

"A. I was shooting photos for my stepfather's newspaper he's the editor of the newspaper and I went in and took shots for the paper.

"Q. And what kind of shots were you taking? What were you there for?

"A. Chicago Bears shots, just anything I could get that's interesting.

"Q. Was that -- that was a football game?

"A. Yes.

"Q. The Bears versus who?

"A. Kansas City Chiefs.

"Q. Where exactly were you?

"A. All over.

"Q. Where on the field?

"A. I was on the sidelines, in the end zone, probably every spot on the field."

5 MR. GELBLUM:

Put up 642, please.

6 (The instrument herein referred to as Photograph of O.J. Simpson with right gloved hand near brow area, taken by Mr. Krueger on December 29, 1990, at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, during a Chicago Bears versus Kansas City Chiefs football game, was marked for identification as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 642.)
7 MR. GELBLUM:

(Reading.)

"Q. Showing you People's 642 --

8 MR. GELBLUM:

Could we have the back lights.

9 (Bailiff complies.)
10 MR. GELBLUM:

Thank you very much. That's much better.

11 MR. GELBLUM:

(Reading.)

"Q. Showing you" --

12 MR. GELBLUM:

I'm sorry.

13 (Reading.)
14 (Continued reading as follows:)
15 (The instrument herein referred to as Enlargement of Exhibit 642 taken by Mr. Krueger on December 29, 1990, at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, during a Chicago Bears versus Kansas City Chiefs football game, was marked for identification as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 643.)
16 MR. GELBLUM:

(Reading.)

"A. Yes, they look like the same ones to me."

KEY QUOTE
17 (Continued reading as follows:)
18 (Continued reading as follows:)
19 MR. GELBLUM:

Nothing further, Your Honor.

20 THE COURT:

Cross?

21 MR. BAKER:

Nothing.

22 THE COURT:

Okay.

23 MR. GELBLUM:

I'd like to move in Exhibits 642 and 643, Your Honor.

24 THE COURT:

Received.

25 (The instrument herein referred to as Photograph of O.J. Simpson with right gloved hand touching brow area, taken by Mr. Krueger on December 29, 1990, at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, during a Chicago Bears versus Kansas City Chiefs football game, previously marked for identification as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 642, was received in evidence.)
26 (The instrument herein referred to as Enlargement of Exhibit 642, taken by Mr. Krueger on December 29, 1990, at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, during a Chicago Bears versus Kansas City Chiefs football game, previously marked for identification as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 643, was received in evidence.)

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (2)

Mark Krueger
I was shooting photos for my stepfather's newspaper he's the editor of the newspaper and I went in and took shots for the paper.
Establishes Krueger's presence and credibility — an ordinary person with no stake in the case who happened to photograph Simpson wearing gloves.
Mark Krueger
Yes, they look like the same ones to me.
Krueger identifies the gloves in the 1990 photograph as matching the gloves at issue — key to the plaintiffs' argument that Simpson owned and wore this style of glove.

Evidence (2)

Plaintiffs' 642
Photograph of O.J. Simpson with right gloved hand near/touching brow area, taken by Krueger at Soldier Field, December 29, 1990
introduced and admitted
Plaintiffs' 643
Enlargement of Exhibit 642
introduced and admitted

Notable Exchanges (1)

Peter GelblumRobert Baker
Baker declined to cross-examine Krueger's testimony, signaling the defense had no effective challenge to the glove photo evidence.
strategic

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 8176 • 26 utterances • Plaintiff witness
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