Thank you, Your Honor. What I'd like to do now, ladies and gentlemen, is review for you the physical evidence found when the murders were investigated and then I would like to show you how we will prove that it links the defendant, Mr. Simpson, to the murders. Evidence was found, virtually all the evidence was found in three locations. Nicole's condominium, 875 South Bundy, Mr. Simpson's Bronco, and Mr. Simpson's home, 360 north Rockingham. Let me start with the physical evidence at Bundy. I'm not going to show you photographs now. I'm going to let the witnesses show you photographs. The bodies of the victims, of course, were found at 875 south Bundy. There's a walkway up to the steps and Nicole's body was found at the bottom of the first step in the pool of blood. She was still wearing the black dress she had worn for her recital. She was bear foot. She had a watch on and she had rings on her fingers. Ron was found slumped against a tree a few feet from Nicole's body in a small caged-in area. And I say caged, you'll see photos of it, it's caged because there's a fence that goes around this little dirt area and there's a big street in the middle which sort of bisects this area. And Mr. Goldman's body was found against the tree and it's a very small area. And it's next to the stairs where Nicole's body was found. Ron had a pager and the pager was found lying on the ground next to him. Ron's keys to the car were found lying on the ground next to him. The envelope with Judy Brown's glasses was found lying on the ground next to him, obviously indicating that Ron had never got past the stairs with the envelope. In between Ron and Nicole's body, -- bodies, there was a single leather glove on the ground. There was also a knit cap, a dark knit cap, starting from where Nicole's body was and leading to the back of the condominiums, a long walkway that goes to the back where there's a gate. There with shoe prints walking towards the back in blood, bloody shoe prints. There were also some shoe prints in between Nicole's body and Ron's body. All of these shoe prints are all of the same size, size 12. Next to the shoe prints going towards the back of the condominium were drops of blood. To the left of the shoe prints, as though somebody had cut themselves from the left hand or the left fingers, droplets of blood, four or five. At the end of the walkway, there's a gate that goes out to the back of the house, then there were three blood stains found on this gate. Later examination of some of this evidence showed that Ron's shirt had some fibers on it and had some hair on it. The knit cap was found to have some hair on it. There were also fibers found in the knit cap. That's kind of the general picture of what we saw at Bundy. By the way, while we're at Bundy, the door to Nicole's home, you go up the steps, you walk a little past and there's a door, front door to her condo. The door was open. The lights were on inside. There were candles. There was a bathroom upstairs that she used near her bedroom. It had water in it and her children were sleeping in the bed. None of Nicole's jewelry that she had on was taken. None of Ron's possessions was taken. Nothing inside the house was disturbed or removed. The house was not ransacked. The children were left unharmed in their bed. Expensive automobiles in the garage, one being a Ferrari, they were not taken. Everything was left intact. Obviously indicating that there was no robbery here. No breaking and entry, no burglary, no evidence of that will be presented in this case. Nor will there be any evidence presented that this was -- there was any sexual assault upon Nicole. Her clothes were not torn, nothing was ripped. There will be no evidence of that. We will prove from these facts that Nicole was the target of these murders. These murders did not occur in a convenience store or an ATM machine. They occurred at her home. We will prove that Ron Goldman -- nobody knew Ron Goldman was going to be at Nicole's home except Ron Goldman. Nicole and Karen Crawford at Mezzaluna, when Ron left at 9:50, he told Karen he was going to drop these glasses off and he got them from Karen. And then a half hour later or so, he's at Nicole's condo and he's killed. Nobody -- there's no evidence that will be presented that anybody knew Ron Goldman was going to Nicole's condominium. He went there at the last minute unexpectedly. Now, the physical evidence in the Bronco, let me talk about that. The Bronco was found parked on -- on Rockingham when the police arrived in the wee hours of the morning. It was locked and it was parked right near this curb where it said 360 and you'll see photos of that. Right where Alan Park drove by and did not see a Bronco. It had blood, little stain of blood on the outside of the door near the door handle, driver side door and it also had some stains of blood down at the bottom of the door. And officers will testify, detectives will testify, detective Lange, Detective Phillips, Detective Vannatter, Detective Gonzalez and others that they could see inside the Bronco through the windows and saw blood inside as well. When the Bronco was towed the next day to the LA print shed and then opened the following day, it had to be opened with a slim jim. Blood was found in various places inside on the steering wheel, on the instrument panel, on the seats, on the center console, and on the driver side door panel, in the area where there's a little well, where you open up the door to get out. The handle is as though one a left hand or left finger was bleeding when they tried to open up the handle to get out, right in that area, there was blood found. There was also blood found on the carpet of the driver side in the shape of a shoe print. Now, at Rockingham itself, 360 north Rockingham, there is evidence found both outside the house and inside the house. Outside the house, there were blood drops outside the Bronco on the ground and there were blood drops then up the driveway. There were blood drops found inside the foyer of Mr. Simpson's house. When you open up the front door, there's low a foyer there were blood drops found on that floor. There were blood drops found in Mr. Simpson's bathroom on the floor. There were socks found, a pair of dark socks on a rug next to Mr. Simpson's bed in his bedroom. Later examination of these socks showed there were blood stains, discoloration not easily visible to the naked eye. Outside the house, on the side of the house were Kato Kaelin heard the notices, there was a leather glove found for the right hand. The leather glove found at Bundy was for the left hand. This leather glove matched the glove at Bundy, one was right, one was left, both brown leather gloves. When this glove was examined, it was loaded with evidence. It had blood stains on it. It had strands of hair and it had fiber on it. Now, let me explain to you how this evidence that I just described briefly to you ties into Mr. Simpson, how it identifies him. First of all, I'd like to talk for a bit about the wound to the victims, and this is obviously a difficult area to discuss and you will be seeing some photographs, pictures during the course of the trial. Both victims died of knife wounds. We will call to the witness stand, one of the nation's most renowned pathologist. His name is Dr. Werner Spitz who we hired to independently examine the photographs, autopsy reports and make some conclusions about the autopsies done on Ron and Nicole in the nature of the wounds. I should say, the person who performed the autopsy, Dr. Irwin Golden, is on the witness list for this case. He is also available to testify if needed. Now, a quick word of Dr. Spitz, he is one of the -- you will here he is one of the most renowned pathologists, the author of numerous authoritative works. He served on various committees, including committees investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Junior. Now, Dr. Spitz, after reviewing the materials, he will testify when he's called that Nicole had some superficial defensive type wound, very superficial, not very many. She had stab wounds to the neck, and she had a gapping slash across her throat. This last wound was so deep in such -- and such a devastating cut that it almost, the blade almost hit her spinal cord. It was this last wound that caused her death, caused her to bleed out massively and she died moments later. Ronald Goldman, all of his wound were also knife wounds. He had one wound that bled out onto his pants, a wound to his leg. He had a wound to the neck that severed a vein. He had two wounds to his chest below his armpits, and he had a deep wound in the abdominal area. Those are the basic wounds that he had. Dr. Spitz will testify that all of the wounds to Ron and Nicole were consistent with one knife. And one assailant. The blood testing done in this case also shows that there is a drop of blood on Ron Goldman's boot, on the bottom of the boot which later testing revealed to be a mixture of Ron's blood and Nicole's blood. And this blood drop will show that one knife was used on both victims, hence transferring one blood to the other. As you will see from the photos of the crime scene, Nicole was kill at one area at the bottom of the stairs and Ron was killed at a separate area next to the stairs. And there are some bloody foot prints between Ron's body and Nicole's body and we will offer this evidence to prove Ron and Nicole were killed in sequence, meaning take they were not confronted and killed together at the same time. In addition, the evidence will show that there is only one set of foot prints throughout the whole crime scene, all size 12. There will be no evidence presented that anybody else that evening left any foot prints. And there will be no evidence presented that anybody else was involved that night in these murders. The evidence that we will present will show that both Ron and Nicole struggled very briefly before they were killed. There was no blood on Nicole's feet. She was found laying down in a pool of blood and there was no blood on her feet. None of her blood on her feet, meaning that she was already down when she was cut across the neck and she bled out. When she was cut on the neck, Dr. Spitz will testify that she lived no longer than about 15 seconds or so from that point. Dr. Spitz will explain that Ron Goldman did try to fight valiantly, but he too was killed quickly. He was pinned in this small caged area, taken by surprise and he did not have room to maneuver, to defend himself let alone fight back. His area is very small. And if you try to throw a punch or get your arms up, there's not much you could do except ward off the knife blows that were being delivered one after the other and that is why we see cuts on Ron's hands. One of the early wounds to Ron, as Dr. Spitz will testify, severed the aorta in the abdominal area, the abdominal cavity. This caused an instant loss of blood pressure, and an immense internal bleeding to the surrounding tissue. After this wound, Ron was rendered totally defenseless. And Dr. Spitz will testify that he could have struggled about 60 seconds before collapsing to his death. It was during this struggle with Ron most likely when the glove came off and the hat came off. Also, Mr. Simpson sustained injuries to his left hand in the nature of cuts and gouges. Dr. Spitz has examined photographs of these injuries and he will testify that these are very likely, gouges caused by the finger nails of either Ron or Nicole digging into Mr. Simpson's hand in order to try to get free. The evidence will also show that, as I said before, Nicole bled outward after she was already down on the ground incapacitated, and Ron bled largely internally. Therefore, the evidence does not suggest that Mr. Simpson would have been drenched with blood nor does it suggest that he would have bruises and marks all over his body. Now, let me tie in something that we talked about earlier. We were talking about the time. Okay. And Mr. Heidstra will testify that he heard a voice of a man say hey, hey, hey around 10:35 or so. Now, we will show that the struggle with Mr. Goldman was brief. The struggle with Nicole was even briefer. That in a matter of minutes, both were killed. Mr. Heidstra heard hey, hey, hey around 10:35 or so. Couple of minutes later, the killings were done at the latest and Mr. Simpson would have had plenty of time to leave the crime scene, get into his car, get back to Rockingham in time to have made the sounds that Kato Kaelin heard at 10:50 p.m. and to have been seen by Alan Parks at 10:55 p.m. The evidence will show that the person who did this left this crime scene in an extreme hurry. They left behind all kinds of incriminating evidence. Blood drops, bloody shoe prints, a single glove, a hat. This was a person in a big hurry. Now, the defense on this point, I'll just stick with it a few minutes longer, will try to convince you --.
The defense position, one of the defense says that Mr. Simpson did not have enough time to commit the murders. And the basis for the defense's position is that the struggle with Ron and Nicole lasted too long.
These murders did not occur in a convenience store or an ATM machine. They occurred at her home. We will prove from these facts that Nicole was the target of these murders.
Nobody -- there's no evidence that will be presented that anybody knew Ron Goldman was going to Nicole's condominium. He went there at the last minute unexpectedly.
Dr. Spitz will testify that all of the wounds to Ron and Nicole were consistent with one knife. And one assailant.
Dr. Spitz has examined photographs of these injuries and he will testify that these are very likely, gouges caused by the finger nails of either Ron or Nicole digging into Mr. Simpson's hand in order to try to get free.
The evidence will show that the person who did this left this crime scene in an extreme hurry. They left behind all kinds of incriminating evidence. Blood drops, bloody shoe prints, a single glove, a hat. This was a person in a big hurry.