Thank you. When we last left off before the noon hour, I was explaining to you the physical evidence that was found and how it tied in to Mr. Simpson. I'd like to resume. Kato Kaelin will testify that on the evening of June the 12th, when he saw Mr. Simpson and went to McDonald's, Mr. Simpson was wearing a dark sweat suit with a white zipper to it. Bear in mind also that the testimony of the hair and fiber expert, Douglas Deedrick, is that he found blue-black cotton fibers on various items. At his deposition, Mr. Simpson testified that he didn't recall owning any dark sweat suit. We've asked him to produce the dark sweat suit for us, and he has not been able to produce any dark sweat suit, even though you will hear the testimony of Kato Kaelin that he was wearing a dark sweat suit on the evening of June 12. Now, the physical evidence that I've described so far at Bundy will indicate that the killer had cuts or gouges on his left hand, evidenced by the blood drops that fell to the left of the bloody shoe print. Also, we know the left glove came off, because it was dropped there, and that's probably how the left hand got injured. Now, Mr. -- One other thing is, the Bronco had blood drops in the door, where you open up the door, on the driver's side interior panel, as I explained before. Where you would open up the door there was some blood drops in that little well there, also suggesting blood on the left fingers. So the evidence will show that the killer had blood coming from his left fingers or hand. When Mr. Simpson returned from Chicago on June 13, he had cuts on his left finger, two of his fingers. He went to the police that day and gave a statement, and one of those cuts was very noticeable and was photographed. And we have a picture of it, which we will show you. His friend who was at the police station with him and with him during that entire day will testify -- his name is Leroy Taft -- that he saw at least two cuts on Mr. Simpson's fingers, the middle finger and the fourth finger, on June 13. So we have Mr. Simpson coming back from Chicago with cuts on his left hand, left fingers. In his deposition in this case, we asked Mr. Simpson about his cuts on his left hand, and he was unable to explain exactly how he got them. His testimony in his deposition was that he cut himself in Chicago in his hotel room. After he claims to have heard the news of Nicole's death, he went into the bathroom and somehow cut himself on a glass, a drinking glass, but does not remember exactly how he did it, and cannot tell us how he cut himself in the bathroom in that Chicago hotel room. However, long before he gave his deposition in this case, on June 13, when he went to speak to the police at Parker Center, he told the police in a statement that he cut himself before going to Chicago. And we will present that testimony or those statements to you. So, we have his statement on June 13 admitting that he cut himself before he went to Chicago. Now we have his testimony in this case saying he cut him himself in the hotel room. Now, probably the most important evidence that we will present in this trial that identifies Mr. Simpson as the person who killed Ron and Nicole is the blood evidence, although there's lots of other evidence, as well, as you've heard me discuss. The blood evidence was tested mainly through DNA tests, highly reliable, scientific DNA tests. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about DNA. First, before I do so, I want to describe what the blood tests showed. Starting with Bundy, again, Nicole's condominium, the blood drops to the left of the shoe print were tested, and they matched Mr. Simpson's blood. The blood found on the back gate of Nicole's condominium was tested. They matched Mr. Simpson's blood. At Rockingham, the blood on the driveway was tested. That matched Mr. Simpson's blood. The blood in his foyer was tested; that matched his blood. The blood in the bathroom was tested; that matched his blood. There were three different kinds of blood stains on the glove found at Rockingham. One stain matched Mr. Simpson's blood. Another stain matched Nicole's blood, and another stain matched Ron Goldman's blood. The socks found in Mr. Simpson's bedroom were tested. Two different kinds of stains were found on the socks: One matched Mr. Simpson's blood; one matched Nicole's blood. The blood in the Bronco was tested. The blood on the door panel that I've been telling you about, where you open up the door, that matched Mr. Simpson's blood. There was blood found on the console that matched Mr. Simpson's blood, the center console between the passenger and driver's seat. There was blood found on the panel and on the console that also matched Nicole's blood, and there was blood found there that matched Ron's blood. So you have in these three places, where most of the evidence was found -- Bundy, Rockingham, in the Bronco -- only three types of blood: Ronald Goldman's, Nicole Brown Simpson's, and O.J. Simpson's. One other thing I'll mention about the Bronco: There was a carpet on the driver's side that had blood stains on it. The blood was tested and found to be Nicole's blood. The blood was located in an area on the carpet where one would step into the Bronco with your foot, if you're trying to enter into the car. And there were marks in Nicole's blood in the Bronco consistent with a shoe print. And FBI agent William Bodziak will say while there's not enough marks to make an absolute identification, that the marks that he does see on the carpet in Nicole's blood are consistent with the unique Bruno Magli sole that made the shoe print at the Bundy crime scene. Furthermore, Mr. Bodziak will explain that, because of the thickness of the carpet in the Bronco, if a person had blood on his shoes and he was walking on concrete, and the blood started to wear off and not leave anymore bloody shoe prints, once you step onto the rug, the carpet, because of the thickness of it, the blood will squeeze out of the sole and thereby leave an imprint. And that's what we will show you. Now, let me talk to you a little bit about the blood tests that I've just described which produced results matching the defendant's blood, as well as the victim's blood. Most of these tests were DNA tests. Just a little background about DNA that you will hear from our experts. DNA is the genetic blueprint of life. It is the nucleus of every cell in the human body; it's what makes us unique. No two persons except identical twins have the same DNA profile. Each of us has our own unique DNA. When we say DNA acts as the blueprint of life, this is what we mean: It is the DNA in our cells that causes us to have common characteristics of human beings, such as arms, legs, hearts and livers, et cetera. And it is also the DNA which causes us to have the characteristics that make us different from everyone else: Brown eyes, blue eyes, short, tall, right-handed, left-handed, et cetera. Each person gets half of his or her DNA from his mother and the other from his or her father. DNA can be found throughout a person's body. Blood, sperm, hair, saliva, bone, teeth, organ muscles, and other tissues all contain DNA that can be tested by scientists. And particularly important in forensic use that is using DNA to solve crimes is body fluids, such as saliva and blood, that can be tested for the presence of DNA. DNA obviously is not just used in forensic applications; it's used in a great variety of areas, including diagnosis of disease, development of new medicines, typing of tissues for organs and bone-marrow transplants, and the study and breeding of endangered species, increasing agricultural production, and others. For example, it was because of DNA research that the scientific community was able to determine that the disease known as sickle cell anemia was caused by a genetic defect. So it's a very powerful, powerful piece of science. Now, in terms of the forensic use of DNA, scientists are using it to solve crimes. DNA has been used to determine that people accused of crimes could not have been the killer, are excluded as the killer, because there is no DNA match. Sometimes people who have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to jail can be released years later because of DNA tests that are done. And, of course, it works the other way, as well. DNA can be an important indicator that a person is likely to be the person who committed the crime. Now, the DNA tests in this case, right from the beginning, there are going to -- they're going to be very important, because there was a lot of blood evidence. There was blood in the Bronco; there was blood at Rockingham; and there was blood at Bundy. Therefore, a decision was made to have DNA tests performed on the blood found, not just at the Los Angeles Police Department's lab, but also the State of California's Laboratory, Justice Department in Sacramento, and one of the largest privately owned forensic laboratories in the country, Cellmark Laboratories in Maryland. So all three labs were used to do the blood tests in this case, to make sure that there were no problems. Most of the time a piece of blood was tested, it was tested by at least two and sometimes three of the labs to see if the results would all be the same. There are two different kinds of DNA tests that you will be hearing about. One test is called the RFLP test. It's a very, very powerful DNA test that has the ability to establish a DNA profile to a very high degree of uniqueness. The other test is called the PCR test, and it is a test that's especially developed when you have a smaller quantity of blood. Blood comes in various sizes and stains. Sometimes there's more DNA in the blood that can be extracted, and sometimes there's less DNA. When there's a little bit of DNA, the PCR test is typically used. When there's more DNA, the RFLP test is used. The blood in this case that was tested was subjected to both forms of tests, the RFLP test and the PCR test. You will be hearing from our experts who did this and the other technicians what the results are, but let me summarize them for you. On the five Bundy blood drops that were along the walkway, all three labs tested those blood drops and came up with the same results, all three laboratories. The DNA profile of those Bundy blood drops matched Mr. Simpson's. On one of the blood drops, blood drop 52, which was outside past the back gate, they were able to do an RFLP test because there was enough DNA. And the results of that showed that only one out of 170 million people could have had that DNA profile. And that profile, of course, matched Mr. Simpson's. The blood found on the back gate was subject to DNA tests, both RFLP and PCR tests. Once again, it was determined that those blood drops had DNA profiles that matched Mr. Simpson's. One of those drops, number 117-- there's three drops on the back gate -- had enough DNA to allow scientists to do the RFLP test. That test established that the DNA profile in that blood drop matched that of Mr. Simpson, and was of such a high degree of a match, that only one out of every 57 billion people could have that same DNA profile. Of course, there's only about 6 billion people in that neighborhood on the face of the earth. Now, going to Rockingham, the trail of blood that was found leading up the driveway into Mr. Simpson's house, blood drops there were subjected to both the PCR and the RFLP blood drops, again, by the different laboratories. All the labs agreed results were the same: All the results showed DNA profile that matched Mr. Simpson's. The glove that was found at Rockingham was tested at the California Department of Justice Laboratory. The tests there on the glove found some of the blood contained a DNA profile that matched Mr. Simpson's; some of the blood contained a DNA profile that matched Ron Goldman's; and some contained the DNA profile that matched Nicole Brown Simpson's. The socks were tested. DNA profile matched Mr. Simpson; another stain matched Nicole. And finally, in the Bronco, again, DNA test results established that the blood on the driver's-side door matched Mr. Simpson's DNA; the other stains matched Mr. Simpson, Ron Goldman, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Now, the only witnesses who will be testifying in this case about doing DNA tests of the blood in this case are witnesses that we will be presenting. You will hear no testimony from any witness by the defense who did a DNA test. If they did, they're not going to testify about it. The only witnesses who will testify about the DNA tests are the witnesses that we will call. There will be no evidence contradicting any of the findings of these DNA tests. Let me now turn to a different subject altogether. In addition to the blood evidence, in addition to the physical evidence that points directly to Mr. Simpson, we are going to put on other evidence to show his responsibility for the murders on June 12. Among this evidence will be evidence describing Mr. Simpson's activities and his behavior after the murders. And we will prove by this evidence that he did not act and behave like an innocent man; that his behavior and his actions indicated a consciousness of guilt.
There are a couple of -- I'm not going to go through all the evidence here; time doesn't permit it. And you will be hearing it in the course of the trial. I'd like to highlight a few things that we will present to you. First of all, when Mr. Simpson packed that limousine, with Alan Park, driving to the airport, Kato Kaelin was present, together with Alan Park and Mr. Simpson. It was about 11:10 p.m. on June 12, and Mr. Simpson had to get to a flight. There will be testimony by Alan Park and separate testimony by Kato Kaelin that after packing some pieces of luggage, there was a bag, smaller dark bag, out near the Bentley that Mr. Simpson insisted on picking up himself, not allowing Kaelin, who offered to pick it up and put it in the car, insisted on picking it up himself and bringing it into the car. After Mr. Simpson returned, brought his luggage back, after all of the legal proceedings, after all of the attempts to obtain all the discovery in this case, that bag has never been seen again. There will be no witness who will bring that bag into this court. Mr. Simpson has produced some luggage that he claims he brought with him to Chicago that night, including one he claims was this bag. Kato Kaelin will testify that is not the bag he saw. Alan Park will testify that is not the bag he saw. There is a bag that has never been seen since June 12. Mr. Simpson went to Chicago on a red-eye. There will be evidence that despite the fact that almost everybody in first class slept, he did not sleep. He arrived in Chicago and was driven to a hotel a short distance away, the Chicago O'Hare. He checked in. He was driven to the hotel by a Hertz employee, a man named James Merrill, whose testimony you will hear. He's a guy who works for Hertz in Chicago, and when there are celebrities who come in -- Mr. Simpson was a Hertz paid celebrity -- this guy Merrill's job is to help out. And he picked Mr. Simpson up at the airport early in the morning and brought him to the hotel, packed up the luggage in Mr. Merrill's car -- Mr. Merrill lived 45 minutes, in the suburbs, away from the hotel, away from the airport. Mr. Simpson left his golf bag in Mr. Merrill's car. Mr. Merrill went off and went to bed. The next morning, Mr. Simpson received a phone call from Officer -- from Detective Ron Phillips, in which Detective Phillips informed Mr. Simpson of Nicole's death. Now, Mr. Simpson is in his hotel room in Chicago. We will present evidence showing that Mr. Simpson made a series of phone calls -- at least three that we know about, and we have phone records to prove them -- to this fellow, James Merrill, who lived 45 minutes away, in order to have him come back to the hotel and take Mr. Simpson to the airport, even though there was cab and ground transportation right downstairs, five minutes to the airport. Mr. Merrill will testify that Mr. Simpson was frantic about Merrill's picking him up. And Merrill jumped out of his house, got in his car, tried to get to the airport -- tried to get to the hotel. Mr. Simpson had an early flight. As it turned out, Merrill did not get to the hotel in time, and Mr. Simpson had to get other transportation to the airport, and flew to Los Angeles. Merrill left the golf clubs with American Airlines. And they put them on the next flight, and they were shipped back to L.A. Now, on June 14, which is a Tuesday -- Mr. Simpson arrived in Los Angeles on Monday, June 13, around eleven o'clock or so. On Tuesday, Mr. Simpson got up and drove to his office in Brentwood with his friend, Robert Kardashian, and they went up to Mr. Simpson office. And Mr. Simpson had his assistant secretary, Cathy Randa, call Mr. Merrill on the phone. And in that conversation, Mr. Simpson found out what happened to his golf clubs. And he then requested Mr. Kardashian to take him to the airport to get his golf clubs on Tuesday, June 14, at around -- I guess before noon or so. When questioned about this in his deposition, Mr. Simpson claimed he did not ask to be taken to the airport to get his golf clubs; he just happened to be riding around with Mr. Kardashian near the airport, and decided he'd stop in and get his golf clubs. We will present the testimony of not only Robert Kardashian, but Mr. Simpson's other friend, Mr. Taft, who will testify that Mr. Simpson specifically said, "Take me to the airport; I need to get my golf clubs." Mr. Simpson, on Monday, when he came back, June 13, got to Rockingham and then went down to the police station, where he gave a statement to detectives Tom Lange and Phil Vannatter. He spoke on a tape for about 30 minutes or so. And this was the first time, hours after Nicole's murder, that Mr. Simpson had been questioned about what he did the night before, what his whereabouts were, and so forth. Now, you'll hear that tape, or you'll have the statement read in. You will see that Mr. Simpson is unable to provide any clear explanation for what he was doing the night before. All he could say was, he was rushing and packing, and he was not able to describe with any detail what he was doing, particularly in that hour and 20 minutes. And again, as I mentioned before, when he was told that blood was found at Rockingham, he said he cut his finger -- he must have cut his finger before going to Chicago, even though now he says he cut his finger in Chicago in the hotel room. We will also present to you further deposition testimony of Mr. Simpson about that cut when we pressed him whether or not he saw any blood before he went to Chicago, as he told the police. And all he said in his deposition is that there was a tiny dab of blood that he saw on a pinky one time before he got in the limousine, which he dabbed, and threw the napkin away. So we will present to you direct inconsistencies in his deposition, in his police statement, about crucial events. After he came back from the police statement, later that night, Mr. Simpson had friends over to his house and family members. Kato Kaelin had gone to stay with a friend. He was asked to come back to Mr. Simpson's house. He got there, and he ended up in the kitchen alone with Mr. Simpson for a few moments. This is about eight or nine o'clock on the evening of June 13. Mr. Simpson then said to Mr. Kaelin, alone in the kitchen, words to this effect: You saw me go in the house after McDonald's, didn't you? And Kato Kaelin said no, I did not. Kato Kaelin's testimony, as I mentioned previously -- maybe I didn't, actually -- Kato Kaelin's testimony is that when he came back from McDonald's, he did not see Mr. Simpson walk back into the house. Mr. Kaelin walked into the house while Mr. Simpson stayed at the Bentley in the driveway, and never moved from it. We will present this testimony to, once again, show Mr. Simpson's attempt to build an alibi. And finally -- and I will let Mr. Brewer talk to you more about this -- on Friday, June 17 of that week, the police made a decision to arrest Mr. Simpson for the murders of Ron and Nicole. And Mr. Simpson was notified of this while he was staying at his friend's house, Robert Kardashian. We will present to you evidence, including the testimony of Mr. Simpson, that when he found out that he was going to be arrested, he and his friend, boyhood friend, Allen Cowlings, got into Mr. Cowling's car and left the Kardashian home. And they took off. And in that car was not only Mr. Simpson's personal effects, including his passport, but he also had, between Cowlings and him, over $8,000 in cash, changes of clothing, of underwear, windbreaker, and other items of clothing. There was a disguise: fake goatee, and there was a loaded gun. Now, Mr. Simpson will testify that he was suicidal because of the loss of Nicole. We will present to you evidence and prove that Mr. Simpson fled the police with Mr. Cowlings and contemplated suicide because he knew he was responsible for these murders. We will show that there is no other explanation. Mr. Brewer will discuss this with you in greater detail when he speaks. Now, people always ask when there's a killing, what's the motive. And that's a good, important question. Technically, the lawsuit does not require us to prove a motive. But when there is a motive, it's important to bring out, because it helps to explain why something happened, why a person would kill another person. In this case, O.J. Simpson had a motive to kill Nicole, which I will describe to you very briefly, and I will let Mr. Kelly recount to you in greater detail. He had a motive to kill Ron Goldman for the simple reason that Ron would have been and eyewitness, or was and eyewitness to the murder of his friend, Nicole. Nicole was killed for a different reason. We will present evidence showing that in this relationship between Nicole Brown Simpson and O.J. Simpson, there was severe conflict, tension, anger, that had been building up. There had been a recent estrangement, recent rejection of Mr. Simpson. There was a history of abuse, and there was a history of rage. And after the divorce in 1992, Mr. Simpson and Nicole tried again to make their relationship work. In a month before the murders, Nicole ended it for the final time. And we will show that Mr. Simpson could not accept this, was frustrated, was confused, was angry, and he retaliated. He also tried to get her back, buying her expensive gifts when she returned. And in the end, there was a build-up of a lot of anger and a build-up of a lot of hostility, to the point where we will present to you a letter that Mr. Simpson sent to Nicole just six days before she was killed, threatening -- putting her on notice about possible IRS violations, knowing the impact that it would have on Nicole, and knowing that it would cause her to have to sell her house because of possible tax problems, and she would have to move with her two children. And, in fact, one day before her murder, on Saturday, June 11, Nicole hired a realtor and had found a place in Malibu that she was going to move to. On the date of the murders, June 12 -- and again, the details will be laid out for you by Mr. Kelly -- I will just mention this: Mr. Simpson had flown all the way back from the east coast. He was tired he was exhausted. He wanted to go to his daughter's recital on Sunday with the family. He was not invited to sit with the family. By "the family," I mean his wife and her mother and father and sisters. He was not invited to a celebration dinner after the recital, and he was pretty much alone, maybe for the first time in his life. The defendant claims that he tried calling the house at 9:00 p.m. that evening, just to speak to Sydney, whom he had just seen at the recital. He said he did not say anything to Nicole. We don't know what happened in that call. But what we do know and what we can prove, is that an hour later, Mr. Simpson went over there in dark clothing, dark shoes, dark hat, dark gloves, with a knife, in a rage, and killed Nicole and Ron. Now, I've laid out for you the basic elements of our case. And Mr. Kelly and Mr. Brewer will fill in. We have the evidence in this case, ladies and gentlemen, that will show that Mr. Simpson had time and opportunity to kill Nicole, that there were severe problems in his relationship with Nicole at that time. In fact, the relationship was over. That all of the physical evidence of the case points only to him and no one else. All the evidence collectively points to him and nobody else. We submit to you that establishes to a certainty that Mr. Simpson killed Ron and killed Nicole. Now, what I'd like to do now is talk a little bit about what the defense will contend in response to -- or does contend in response to all this evidence.
I'm now going to spend my remaining time dealing with their defense of contamination and conspiracy, which is at the core of their case. Mr. Baker has said to the jury over and over again, if you're to find Mr. Simpson innocent, basically, you would have to conclude that evidence was planted or was contaminated. This is their contention; it's in their interrogatories. And I'm going to go through the lack of evidence of any conspiracy and any contamination, any planting of evidence. This is, in effect, their affirmative defense. And I have the right to detail what evidence that we will show that demonstrates that these positions are not accurate. Now I'm not going to say what evidence they're going to put on; I'm simply going to say that this is their defense: Contamination and conspiracy or planting of evidence. That's right out of their interrogatory answers. Then I'm going to proceed to detail the evidence that we will present to defeat those claims.
It's in the contention to interrogatories that the evidence was planted and the evidence was contaminated.
Your Honor, we want to lay out the evidence that we're going to present, to show in this case that there was no planting and there was no contamination. I want to go through the way the crime scene --
I don't intend to lay out his theory at all, except to identify their defense is conspiracy and planting of evidence and contamination; that's what their defense is.
I'm not going to permit to you identify their defense as their defense. And if you want to say this is our effort to show there was no contamination, that there was no conspiracy, fine, go ahead. But you can't speak for Mr. Baker.
In the last part of my remarks, I would like to spend some time detailing the evidence: How the crime scenes were processed, how the evidence was collected, so that you will see, based on the evidence that we present, that there was no planting of evidence, and there was no contamination of evidence, and that all of the evidence that was collected was put there by the defendant, not by members of the LAPD. And none of the evidence was contaminated and none of the evidence mistakenly identified Mr. Simpson, in particular, blood evidence. First of all, on the subject of conspiracy, we will put on evidence showing that members of the Los Angeles Police Department, if anything, had a favorable impression of Mr. Simpson, and none of the persons involved in this case had any axe to grind whatsoever. There are a couple of insurance agents that point this out that we will present. One time in 1984, Mr. Simpson took a baseball bat to Nicole's windshield, and the police were called out, and the office that came out to the to the house was Mark Fuhrman. And Mr. Simpson himself will testify that Mark Fuhrman did not arrest him; Mark Fuhrman did not frisk him, did not search him, did not harass him. There was no mistreatment of him in connection with that incident in 1984. Three or four years later, in 1989, there was another incident in which the police came out to Rockingham on the morning of January 1, 1989, because Nicole had been beaten. And you will hear evidence about that incident. The police arrived -- Fuhrman, by the way, was not -- was not involved in that incident at all. There were other officers involved, including Officer Edwards. Police arrived and they told Mr. Simpson to get on his clothes, get dressed; they were going to take him in, after seeing Nicole and hearing from Nicole. Mr. Simpson got dressed, got in his car and drove out the other way, and fled the scene. Okay. We will prove by the officers who were there, that Mr. Simpson was never arrested for what he did for fleeing. Charges were never filed against him; nothing happened to him for leaving the scene. Just eight months before Nicole's death in October of 1993, once again, the police were called out to Nicole's house, this time at her own apartment in Brentwood on Gretna Green, where she lived right before she went to Bundy. There was another incident in which Mr. Simpson was upset, broke part of a door down, and the police were called out. We will present to you evidence of that incident, showing that the police did everything in their power to keep it quiet so there wouldn't be any problem for Mr. Simpson. There will be no evidence presented that anybody had any motive to do anything wrong to O.J. Simpson, let alone frame him for a double murder. Furthermore, we will show to you that most of the officers involved in investigating this case didn't even know one another. People like Phil Vannatter and Lange did not know Mark Fuhrman, for example, and they will so testify. We will prove to you that there were a large number of people involved in this investigation; it wasn't one or two persons who found all the evidence. Lots of people were involved. And I'm going to go through some of those people in a minute. There were lab technicians; there were criminalists; there were scientists; there were coroner's assistants; there were people who drive cars to and from; there were police officers who secure crime scenes, people who put up crime-scene tape; officers who take care of traffic; detectives, lead detectives, watch commanders, lots and lots of people involved in this investigation collecting the evidence and storing it and testing it and investigating the case. And there will be no evidence that any of them did anything wrong to harm Mr. Simpson, to prejudice Mr. Simpson, let alone to frame Mr. Simpson. The first officer who arrived at Bundy was Officer Robert Riske. He came with his partner, officer Michael Terrazas, at 12:13 a.m., wee hours of the morning, June 13. The bodies had been discovered by Mr. Boztepe, with Nicole's dog, right after midnight, a couple of hours after the police were summoned, and the first two officers who arrived are Officers Riske and Terrazas. And you will hear them testify they arrived at the scene; they saw what had happened; they saw two people had been killed. And they immediately got on the phone and called more officers to the scene. And officers started arriving in units, in teams. And lots of them came. And let me just pick a point: One o'clock in the morning, okay? By one o'clock in the morning, there were about a dozen officers, or at least six to a dozen officers, in that range, were coming or on their way there. And you'll hear some of the these names as the officers testify. The crime scene was immediately secured. An officer was sent to secure the back, so nobody would come in through the back and damage any evidence. Officers were put on the front; officers were put around the corner; crime-scene tape was put on this; it's what officers do when they arrive at a crime scene. Now, it's not the job of the police officers to start doing the detective work, the investigators are. What they do is, they call and get detectives assigned to the case. At this time, it was a West L.A. case because it occurred in West L.A. We will hear evidence that the West L.A. detective was summoned, and his name was Ronald Phillips. He was asked to send a team of detectives out to Bundy. And Detective Phillips called two people up: Detective Roberts and Detective Fuhrman. It was about one o'clock
A.m. when he called them to say, "You better get here to the police station; we have to go out to a crime scene." 1:00 a.m. Mark Fuhrman is in bed 1:00 a.m. Detective Roberts is in bed 1:00 a.m. Detective Tom Lange, who later got involved, he's in bed. Detective Phil Vannatter, he's in bed. Dennis Fung, the criminalist who got involved later on, he's in bed. His assistant, Andrea Mazzola, he's in bed -- she's in bed. Excuse me. The lab technician who did a lot of lab work, Collin Yamauchi, he's in bed. His boss, Greg Matheson, he's in bed. The head of the lab, Michele Kestler, she's in bed. So you get the picture. Now, while all these people are in bed, the first officers on the scene see the all the basic evidence that I've just described to you. They see the two bodies; they see fresh blood drops on the walkway. They see the blood on the back gate. We will prove to you from these officers' observations and their notes, that that blood was not planted on the back gate and could not have been planted, because the officers saw it at 12:30 in the morning. Riske saw it; Terrazas saw it. They showed it to other officers who came. And there's even a photograph that picks up at least one stain of the three. So with this evidence, not only the officers' observations, not only their notes but a photograph. We will demonstrate that there is no conceivable way that any blood on the back gate was planted. The first officers on the scene saw it. In addition, these officers saw the other evidence that had been left behind. They saw the knit cap lying on the ground, and they saw a single leather glove. When the other teams of officers came and finally the detectives arrived, everybody was pointing out the basic evidence so they wouldn't touch it or interfere with it, just look at it. Now, Detective Phillips, who called Fuhrman out of bed and called Roberts out of bed, Detective Phillips got over to Bundy at around ten after 2:00 with Mark Fuhrman, and they were going to be the initial detectives who would handle the case. After they surveyed the crime scene, detective Fuhrman sat down to make out his report, and then was told -- and you will hear this from the testimony of Detective Phillips -- that a decision had been made, because it was probably going to be a big case, high-profile case and so forth, that it was going to be transferred downtown, from West L.A. to downtown, to the robbery/homicide division, and that new detectives would be coming and taking over. And Phillips finds that out around, I don't know, 20 to 3:00, quarter to 3:00 in the morning. He then waited around with Fuhrman, with Roberts, with 14, 15 other people who are there by that time, for the detectives to come over, just making sure the crime scene is secure. Now, let's first focus on the time period before Detective Fuhrman got there at ten after 2:00. Everybody who looked at the evidence at the crime scene saw only one glove. And they saw the knit hat; they saw the blood drops and the victims' bodies, of course, Nobody who was there before Detective Fuhrman arrived or Detective Phillips, ever saw a second glove. Nobody ever saw a second glove there. After Detective Phillips arrived with Fuhrman, other detectives and people who came were shown the crime scene. And those people didn't see a second glove. In other words, the point I'm making here is, there is no evidence that there was ever a second glove at Bundy. And we will present evidence to you that there was only a single glove at Bundy; that everybody who was there, saw only one glove. And I don't mean right at the walkway or right in the dirt area where Ron's body was found; I mean anywhere around the area, including in the back and in the front, wherever the officers went to secure the scene to keep out people, to look around. No one ever saw a second glove at Bundy. If there is no second glove at Bundy, there can be no planting of a glove. Detective Lange and Detective Vannatter arrived at the Bundy crime scene a little after 4:00 in the morning. They were the robbery/homicide detectives who were asked to come down and take over the case. Detective Fuhrman was waiting with Detective Phillips and others, after stopping writing his report, and was told he was not going to be working on the case any longer. He stopped writing his report, and for about and hour or so, he's with Fuhrman; that is, with Phillips and others waiting for Vannatter and Lange to arrive. Now, during that hour, we will present testimony of the officers that Mark Fuhrman was never alone with any crucial piece of evidence; that he was always with other people, or didn't really have the ability to take evidence, even if he wanted to; that he was generally with other people and wasn't alone with crucial evidence, assuming there ever was a second glove. And you'll hear those officers testify. Now, when Vannatter and Lange arrived -- these are seasoned detectives, been on the force many years: Lange over 20 years, 25 years or so, and Detective Vannatter about 26, 27 years. They surveyed the situation and then they decided, with collaboration with others up the chain of command, that Mr. Simpson ought to be given personal notification of what had happened to Nicole. Now, when the initial officers arrived, the initial instructions were given out. Sydney and Justin were still sleeping in their beds. And the officers awakened them, took them in a separate car to the West L.A. Police Station, and one or two officers sat there with Sydney and Justin, entertained them, and fed them and played with them and so forth. So the children were at the police station. The officers determined that detectives -- determined that Detectives Lange and Vannatter ought to go over and give personal notification to Mr. Simpson because he was a VIP and an important person; he was a celebrity. Frankly, they were going to go out of their way to give him a little extra preferential treatment in the case. They brought with them -- Lange and Vannatter, they brought with them Phillips and Fuhrman for a reason. And that is, they were going to ask Phillips and Fuhrman -- you'll hear Phillips testify about that -- they were going to have Phillips and Fuhrman stay with Mr. Simpson and have them help him with his children, help make arrangements to get his children, and see if he had any needs that needed to be tended to. Detective Tom Lange and Phil Vannatter wanted to meet Mr. Simpson. They wanted to establish the beginning of a relationship with him, so that they can start talking to him and getting leads from him, to investigate who killed his ex-wife. And that is why you have all four of those people going over to Rockingham. When Tom Lange and Phil Vannatter went to Rockingham, they believed -- and they will testify that they're going to return shortly; they're not going to be gone long -- they're going to introduce themselves to Mr. Simpson, make sure that his needs are met, and return, because it had gotten light out, because it's now 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning, to start processing the evidence, to pick it up, collect it, put it in the evidence truck, and start to get the crime scene, you know, analyzed and broken down. They only expected to be at Rockingham for a short time. When Detectives Vannatter and Lange and Phillips and Fuhrman got to Rockingham around 5:00 in the morning from Bundy -- and by the way, Bundy was left secure, with lots of other officers there to make sure everything was kept intact -- when they got to Rockingham, they tried to call in to the house, but nobody was home. They saw a car parked on Rockingham. They were trying to figure out if anybody was home. Eventually, Detective Fuhrman, looking at the car, saw a blood spot on the side of the door, and also saw some blood at the bottom of the door. He informed the other detectives of this. They took a look at it. Meantime, even some other detectives, including a fellow named Daniel Gonzalez, had come over, and he saw the blood outside the Bronco, as well. So you have more than just the four of them. And now you have additional people coming to Rockingham, unable to get in touch with anybody in the house. An attempt was made to contact Westec Security, who was responsible for doing security for the house, and see if they can find out some information through Westec. Eventually, a decision was made to go onto the property to see if what was going on, if everything was okay, given the fact that blood was found on the Bronco on the outside door and at the bottom, and given the fact that nobody was answering. They went out -- they went onto the property, Detectives Fuhrman, Phillips, Vannatter, and Lange, then went to see if anybody was home. They found the guest house around the back. They knocked on the door and they awakened Kato Kaelin. And they spoke to Kaelin briefly about where Mr. Simpson was, if everything was okay, and even checked Mr. Kaelin out to see if -- what his situation was. They checked his boots; they gave him a drug test by putting a light in his eye. They wanted to make sure that perhaps he didn't have anything to do with any of this. Then they went and woke up Mr. Simpson's daughter, Arnelle, who was living in the guest room next to Mr. Kaelin, and then they went inside the house. Arnelle Simpson brought them all inside the house to find out where Mr. Simpson was. And Arnelle was able to track him down through Mr. Simpson's secretary, Cathy Randa, who knew Mr. Simpson was in Chicago at this hotel, and eventually, they found out where he was. And Detective Phillips called Mr. Simpson around a little after 6:00 in the morning LA time -- it's 8:00 in the morning Chicago time -- and advised Mr. Simpson of what had happened to Nicole. And Mr. Simpson told the police that he would come back. Now, when they got onto Mr. Simpson's property, they notified the police detectives that there was blood. They had asked a criminalist to come down and check out what the blood was on the Bronco door that they saw. That criminalist was Dennis Fung and Andrea Mazzola, who works for LAPD. They came out and -- they do crime scenes and they collect the evidence. When the police officers saw the blood on the Bronco door, they made a call to get some criminalists down here, let's see what this blood is about. The criminalists Fung and Mazzola, got to Rockingham at about 7:00 in the morning. By the time they got there, the officers had gotten on the property, and they also saw that there was blood on the driveway. The original plan was that the criminalist would just pick up the blood on the Bronco door and head over to Bundy. The officers had no idea that they were going to encounter, in effect, a second crime scene at Rockingham. So when they got there, and as events unfolded, they realized that this is a second crime scene, there's blood here, there, blood on the driveway. There's blood on the Bronco. So instead of sending Fung and Mazzola to Bundy, they kept Fung and Mazzola at Rockingham, to pick up the blood on the outside of the property only, and in the Bronco. And in the meantime, Detective Vannatter went downtown to get a search warrant to look inside the house, to see if there was anything inside the house that needed to be investigated. Now, while they were at Rockingham, Detective Fuhrman spoke to Kato Kaelin, as did Detective Vannatter, and Kato Kaelin told Mr. Fuhrman about the noises that he had heard from the side of his house the night before, around, you know, a little before eleven o'clock. Detective Fuhrman, with that information, was checking around and ultimately worked himself around the side of the house and found on the other side of the wall, where Kaelin heard those noises, found a glove, a leather glove, a dark brown leather glove, just sitting there on the ground. He didn't touch it; he immediately told the other people, the other detectives -- Lange and Vannatter were the two detectives in charge -- and Detective Vannatter said to Mr. Fuhrman, I want you and Mr. Phillips to go back to Bundy and see if that glove looked like the one at Bundy. And he didn't bring the glove with him. Take a look at it. Go back to Bundy and take a look at the glove at Bundy and see if it's the same glove. And following Detective Vannatter's instructions, Detective Phillips got in a car with Detective Fuhrman. They drove over to Bundy. They went and they looked at the glove that was still lying on the ground, exactly where it was found. And they took a picture of it. And it did, in fact, look to be the same glove that matched the glove at Rockingham. Detective Fuhrman then went back to Rockingham and told Detective Vannatter that the glove matched. Then Vannatter decided he would go get a search warrant. And then again, there will be no witnesses who will testify not Vannatter, not Lange, not Phillips, that Detective Fuhrman had --
None of these witnesses whom we will call will testify that Detective Fuhrman came to Rockingham with the second glove, that he had any ability or opportunity to plant a glove. The story that will be told by the witnesses is as I have just outlined it to you. There will be no evidence that that glove was planted there. None of the officers who went to Bundy who will testify in this case knew where O.J. Simpson was at the time of the murders. They didn't know if he had an airtight alibi or not. There will be no evidence that any officers at Bundy knew of Mr. Simpson's whereabouts the night before. Nobody knew. For all they knew, he could have been on national television. And they will so testify that they didn't know where he was the night before, and were in no position to frame him, assuming they were inclined to do such a thing.
That test established that the DNA profile in that blood drop matched that of Mr. Simpson, and was of such a high degree of a match, that only one out of every 57 billion people could have that same DNA profile. Of course, there's only about 6 billion people in that neighborhood on the face of the earth.
you have in these three places, where most of the evidence was found -- Bundy, Rockingham, in the Bronco -- only three types of blood: Ronald Goldman's, Nicole Brown Simpson's, and O.J. Simpson's.
what we can prove, is that an hour later, Mr. Simpson went over there in dark clothing, dark shoes, dark hat, dark gloves, with a knife, in a rage, and killed Nicole and Ron.
In that car was not only Mr. Simpson's personal effects, including his passport, but he also had, between Cowlings and him, over $8,000 in cash, changes of clothing, of underwear, windbreaker, and other items of clothing. There was a disguise: fake goatee, and there was a loaded gun.
Mr. Simpson then said to Mr. Kaelin, alone in the kitchen, words to this effect: You saw me go in the house after McDonald's, didn't you? And Kato Kaelin said no, I did not.