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Thank you. Going to wrap up the chronology of how both Rockingham and Bundy were processed by the police officers. When we last left off, before the important break at Rockingham, Detective Fuhrman had come back with Detective Roberts to tell Detective Vannatter that the glove -- the Bundy glove, Detective Vannatter then went to get a search warrant so that additional evidence could be served inside Mr. Simpson's house. Dennis Fung and Andrea Mazzola, the criminalist, began picking up all the blood that they found on the driveway and on the Bronco and they finished up around 10 o'clock and they then drove over to Bundy to begin picking up all that evidence there. In the mean time, Detective Lange left Rockingham to leave that in charge of Detective Vannatter and he, Detective Lange, took charge of Bundy. That's how they split it up. Detective Lange went back to Bundy, which he had left about 5:00 in the morning thinking he would only be gone for a short time. He gets back closer to 7:00 now and he now takes control of the Bundy crime scene and begins the process of writing up his report, checking out all the evidence and getting everything processed. The coroner's office calls to send a coroner down to pick up the victim's bodies, called at 6:49. They're called again at 8:09 and they get down there a little after 9:00 in the morning, two coroner assistants, and they begin to prepare the two victims bodies to be removed and taken to the coroner's office. In the mean time, Dennis Fung and Andrea Mazzola got to Bundy at around 10:15 in the morning and they began picking up all the blood evidence, very careful procedure that they employ that you will hear about. A trail by which all the blood is collected. That's important. They pick out representative samples of blood and they take that and they put it in special containers and they take it back to the police lab for storing and then for testing. They finish their job around 3:00 in the morning, excuse me 3:00 in the afternoon. They were at Bundy from like 10:00 to 3:00, picking up all the evidence and carefully putting it in the evidence truck. Their day wasn't over yet. They then had to return to Rockingham because by this time a search warrant had been issued and more blood was found inside Mr. Simpson's house on the foyer, when you go in the front door and in the bathroom. And some other evidence was found. So Dennis Fung and Andrea Mazzola went back to Rockingham and they picked up the evidence on the inside of Mr. Simpson's house. And by the time they finish with all their work that day, it was about 5:30 and they were ready to go back to deliver the evidence to the lab at Parker Center. Now, around noon time that afternoon, 11:00 or noon, Mr. Simpson had arrived in the airport at Rockingham. He then went downtown to Parker center and he gave a statement to Detective Lange and Detective Vannatter and I've spoken about that. After he gave that statement, he then gave a blood sample. That was drawn by a nurse named Thano Peratis. I guess the time was around 2:30 p.m. or so in the presence of Detective Vannatter. Now, Mr. Peratis originally believed that he had drawn about 8 cc's of blood into the vial but when he recently testified in this case, he believes it was less than that. He didn't measure. By the way, he didn't measure the blood. He drew it, estimated it, thought it was 8 cc's. Now he thinks it was less than 8 cc's because as he now recalled he used a particular device, a different kind of device in drawing Mr. Simpson's blood from Mr. Simpson's arm which he uses on certain people who have larger more muscular arms. Instead of a single syringe vacutainer device, he used a separate syringe, drew the blood and put the blood from the syringe into a second vial. So his testimony will be that it was likely less than 8 cc's but he never measured it. The blood was then put, given to Detective Vannatter, Mr. Simpson's blood, in the vial with the top on it, sealed. Detective Vannatter put it in an evidence envelope. Detective Vannatter had a meeting with Detective Lange and others including Captain Gartland to decide what to do next in the case. And they talked about the investigation and what they would do and then a decision was made that the Detective Lange and Detective Vannatter would leave Parker center and go to Rockingham where Detective Vannatter would deliver the criminalist before he left the blood vial so that it would be with all the other evidence. And so that it would all be booked and policed at the same time. In addition, Detective Lange wanted to ask Mr. Simpson about shoes that he had worn the night before. So Detective Vannatter, Detective Lange left Parker Center around 4:00 in the afternoon after interviewing Mr. Simpson, after taking blood, other things that happened. There's a photograph of one of Mr. Simpson's cuts taken as well. Detective Vannatter and Lange had a meeting, as I said, and then they left Parker center and with traffic they got to Mr. Simpson's house around 5:15 p.m. on Monday. Now, we were still on June 13. At that time the criminalist, Dennis Fung and Andrea Mazzola have just finished up all the work that I described they had been doing and they were getting ready to leave. Detective Vannatter handed Dennis Fung the Simpson blood vial again sealed and in an envelope. That was then put by Fung into a black plastic bag. He then gave it to Mazzola, walked out to the truck. Everything was put in the truck and then Fung and Mazzola drive to the laboratory downtown where they then unloaded the evidence, put it in what they call the evidence process room and began laying out the blood evidence to dry, which is what their normal procedure is. Now, this is the point I want to make that we will establish here, the blood evidence at Bundy had been collected by Dennis Fung between 10 o'clock and 2:00 Or 3:00 in the afternoon. The blood evidence at Rockingham had been collected early in the morning on the outside and later in the afternoon on the inside. All of this blood was collected before Mr. Simpson ever gave his blood to the place. Mr. Simpson did not give his blood to the police until Thano Peratis drew it out of his arm 2:30 p.m. downtown LA and then gave that, Mr. Peratis gave the blood sealed in an envelope, was put and given to Mr. Vannatter. All the blood had been picked up by this time. By the time Detective Vannatter arrives back to Rockingham and gives the blood sample to Dennis Fung, all the blood is picked up. All the blood at Bundy and all the blood at Rockingham, with one exception at Bundy which I'll get to in a minute. The blood in the Bronco was seen on the outside and on the inside. The Bronco blood was not collected by Dennis Fung and Andrea Mazzola at Rockingham because the car was locked. So what they did is they got a tow truck who towed it down to the police station or to the print shed actually. And the next morning, the next morning with a slim jim, several people, including diagnosis Fung, opened up the car and then they were able to get into the blood on the inside and collect it. But the Bronco blood had been seen before Mr. Simpson gave his blood and the blood had been collected at Rockingham and Bundy before Mr. Simpson gave his blood. This proves that none of that blood could have ever been planted. Now, on the back gate, we will show the back gate blood was not planted because as I pointed out previously, a number of officers, including the very first ones that got there, saw the blood on the back gate that night long before Mr. Simpson had come back and long before he had given his blood to the police. That blood wasn't collected by the criminalist because they simply neglected to collect it. They were, as I told you, started at 7:00 in the morning at Rockingham, went to Bundy, went back to Rockingham. It was a long day. They didn't collect three stains on the back gate. But those stains were seen by officers and written down in their notes. Now, that blood was collected three weeks later on July 3, the three stains on the back gate. And the way that happened was one of the members of the District Attorney's office was walking the scene in connection with the criminal case with some of the detectives and he noticed it. And he said, well, why hasn't this blood been collected? This is July 3 now. And then a decision was made to send Dennis Fung out to Bundy right away to collect the blood and it was collected and then brought back to the lab with all the other blood. So that's the story on the back gate. Now, on the socks, we will prove to you that there was no planting of the socks and there was no planting of blood on the socks. These are the socks that showed Mr. Simpson's blood and Nicole's blood that were found on the rug from Simpson's bedroom. Those socks were photographed by a police photographer at Rockingham named Michael Wilson at 12:30 p.m. on Monday once the search warrant had issued and the officers were allowed to go in and search and start to collect evidence. 12:30 p.m. the socks were photographed. There will be no witness who will testify that anybody took those socks out of Mr. Simpson's trunk and drawer and put them down on the rug. And nobody will refute what Mr. Wilson saw at 12:30, one of the first people to see the socks and took a pictures of it. Now, those socks -- photographers job, by the way, is not to pick anything up. He just takes pictures. Later on that afternoon when Dennis Fung and Andrea Mazzola came back from Bundy, they began to check the evidence inside the house and they then picked up the socks and they collected them right around 4:00 4:30 in the afternoon. One of the last items that they checked, been lying on the rug all day. They put it with all the other evidence in the truck and brought it -- brought it to the lab. And again, there will be no witness who will testify that anybody pulled those socks out or did anything else to them. Now, I'd like to talk a bit about this EDTA which we're going to hear about. We will -- let me tell you what EDTA is. First, it is a chemical preservative that appears in a lot of things that we eat and even appears in detergent and things like that. It's also used in storing blood samples. When it's used in food stuffs, it's used in very, very tiny quantities. When it's used for purposes of storing blood, it 's used in larger quantity and larger concentrations. When it's used for purposes of storing blood, it acts as an anticoagulant. It prevents the blood from coagulating. So if you were to draw blood out of somebody's arm and put it in a test tube with no EDTA in it, the blood will begin clotting and coagulating and you can't use it to conduct tests. But if you put EDTA in a -- that vial, it mixes with the blood and it keeps it loose and viscous and you can test it. That's the idea. That's why they use EDTA. And in fact, when you draw blood, you usually draw it right into a tube that already is treated with EDTA. It already has the EDTA in it. So that the blood won't clot at all and then it can be used for testing, for storing and so forth. Now, we will prove that the blood on the back gate and the blood on the socks was not planted. Because if it had been planted from Mr. Simpson's reference sample, if somebody, even though there's no witness to any of this, if anybody had taken Mr. Simpson reference sample and sprinkled blood around, it would have high concentrations of EDTA in it. A man by the name of Rodger Martz a scientist who works for the FBI, and he has there a machine called a mastspectrometer which he can use to test blood samples to see if it has EDTA in it or not. And we will call Mr. Martz and he will testify that he examined the blood taken from the socks and the blood taken from the back gate to see if there was EDTA in there that could have come from a reference sample that had EDTA in it. That is if there were high dosages or high concentrations of EDTA. And Mr. Martz conducted these tests on his machine and he determined conclusively, he will so testify, that the blood in the back gate and on the socks could not have come from an EDTA treated test tube and could therefore not have been planted. There will be no evidence, in other words, that EDTA was present in such sufficient quantities that it could have come from an EDTA tested test tube. If there is evidence of a tiny trace amount of EDTA, that doesn't mean it comes from a test tube with EDTA in it that was used to store blood because EDTA would have to be in much larger quantities. And Martz will testify that none of the blood he found in the socks and none of the blood he found on the back gate had any large quantities of EDTA. In fact, he didn't think he saw any EDTA in it at all. If he did see any EDTA, it would be the most tiny residual trace and you would have to have a pronounced amount of EDTA in the blood for it to have come from a test tube with EDTA in it. That will establish that there was no planting of any blood. Now, I think I've talked about the planting issue and given you some of the evidence that we will present to show that no evidence in this case was planted or could have been planted. None. I'd like to now deal with the final subject of contamination. And what we -- what do we mean by contamination? What did that mean? Well, it means this: It means that could all these test results showing Mr. Simpson's blood could have come out as a result of mistakes by which his blood mistakenly got onto the blood samples and swatches that were tested as opposed to deliberately planted. Could they have been contaminated somehow onto the swatches and when the swatches were tested, that's why they showed up in Mr. Simpson's blood. What -- but we will call witnesses to the witness stand who will testify that there is no conceivable way that any contamination could have occurred such that Mr. Simpson's DNA tests could have come out, the tests on Mr. Simpson's blood could have matched his blood, could have matched the evidence blood under any kind of contamination scenario. There will be no evidence of that. Our witnesses will testify that it could not have happened. One of those witnesses we'll be calling, Collin Yamauchi, the fellow who works at the lab and did some of the tests in the LAPD lab and did some of the tests on the blood was one of the first persons to start working with the blood and process the blood. And he will explain how he carefully conducted himself in working with first Mr. Simpson's blood sample and then with all the other samples that had been checked from the crime scene. Now, for this contamination theory to work, somehow Mr. Simpson's blood has got to get on all these blood swatches that were picked up from the crime scene and Mr. Yamauchi was the fellow who was working with all of this, so he would have had to have somehow spilled Mr. Simpson's blood

all over the place, sort of like the person falling on a banana peel and all the blood is spilling all over the place and getting on everything. And he will testify obviously that that did not happen and exactly how he did handle the evidence swatches that were taken from Rockingham and Bundy and Mr. Simpson's -- What he -- blood. What he did was work with Mr. Simpson's blood on one end of the table using plastic, latex blood, little Chem Wipe. He had opened Mr. Simpson's tube to get some blood out to make a sample. He's honest enough to admit that a little dab of blood got on his latex glove and the Chem Wipe actually got on the Chem wipe. When you pop open the tube, a little of Mr. Simpson's blood got on the Chem Wipe from the vial. What did he do when he finished closing up the tube? He threw away the Chem Wipe and threw away the plastic gloves and put on new latex gloves before he continued his work. Then when he was finished with Mr. Simpson's sample, he went down to the other end and worked with all the other evidence samples and he will testify that there's no way any of Mr. Simpson's blood got on any of the blood that was picked up from the crime scene. So there's no way it could have been accidentally transferred to the crime scene samples. Furthermore, our experts will testify that even if it did get accidentally transferred, even if Mr. Simpson's blood did spill all the over these samples taken from Bundy and Rockingham and the Bronco, that would not have caused any false reading. What you would have seen would be two persons' blood, the person who really did the killing if it wasn't Mr. Simpson's blood at the crime scene. His blood would have shown up on the swatches and Mr. Simpson's blood, if it somehow spilled on the swatches, would have shown up on the on the test. The test would have revealed a mixture of two person's blood. If Mr. Simpson's blood contaminates someone else's blood, it didn't turn it into Mr. Simpson's blood. You still have two People's blood on the swatch. So our experts will testify that even from this scenario, that never happened -- could have happened. It still would not have produced any false reading identifying Simpson's blood as a result of the DNA tests. Actually, I'll mention one other thing then I'm going conclude. On Wednesday, the autopsies of Ron and Nicole were performed. And as part of those autopsies, blood was taken and put in reference samples, one for Ron and one for Nicole. Detective Vannatter watched the autopsies the next day. He came over to pick up the blood samples of Ron and Nicole. He brought those blood samples directly to the lab and checked them in with the criminalist to be put with all the other evidence. We have the booking documents to show exactly when Ronald, Nicole's blood left the coroner's department and when it got to the lab five, ten minutes later. I think it's five minutes, something like that. So there's no evidence that Mr. Vannatter took anybody's blood anywhere and did anything with it. Now, I believe that the evidence that we have presented to you shows a compelling case to liability against Mr. Simpson. And if you find Mr. Simpson is liable for the murders of Ron and Nicole in -- this is a civil case and the jury, what you'll be asked to do is you'll be asked to award damages on account of his conduct. Let me talk for a minute or two about damages. As you know, Mr. Goldman lost his only son and that is something that can never be returned to him, can never be perfect justice or real justice cause that would mean Ron comes back and Nicole comes back. The only thing that you have in your power to do is to award damages to compensate Fred for the loss of his relationship with his son. The other plaintiffs will speak to issues of damages for their own clients, but speaking just on behalf of Fred, all that you can do is come up with some award in your heart that you think is just or appropriate --

Your Honor, I'm going to object. This is argument.

You may conclude.

-- To award damages. Now, how does one do that? In a case like this, what we are required to do and will do under the law is we will present evidence to you. You'll have Mr. Goldman take the stand and he will testify about his relationship with his son. And then your job will be to listen to that evidence, listen to the kind of relationship that he had, make a determination as to the nature and quality of that relationship and what that loss meant to Fred. And you will be asked to award damages in an amount that could compensate him. Of course, no amount could compensate him for losing his son, but that's what we do in cases like this. At the end of this trial, I will not stand before you and presume to give you any kind of a number. I will not give you any kind of an amount. You will hear Mr. Goldman talk about his son and the life they had together and the life that they will no longer have together and it will be up to you to do what is just. And that's about all you're going to hear about from me right now. Thank you very much.