Thank you, Your Honor. On a June evening, the 12th of June, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson just finished putting her ten-year-old daughter, Sydney, and her six-year-old son, Justin, down to bed. She filled her bathtub with water. She lit some candles, began to get ready to take a bath and relax for the evening. The phone rang. It was 9:40 p.m. Nicole answered. And it was her mother, saying that she had left her glasses at the restaurant nearby in Brentwood, where the family had all celebrated Sydney's dance recital over dinner, just an hour before. Nicole's mother asked if Nicole could please pick up her glasses from the restaurant the next day. Nicole said, of course, good-bye, and hung up. Nicole then called the restaurant and asked to speak to a friendly young waiter there. Nicole asked this young waiter if he would be kind enough to drop her mother's glasses off. The young man obliged and said he would drop the glasses off shortly after work, on his way to meet his friend in Marina Del Rey. The young man's name was Ron Goldman. He was 25 year old. With the glasses in hand, Ron walked out of the restaurant, walked the few minutes to his apartment nearby, to change. He left the restaurant at 9:50 p.m. After Ron changed, he got into his girlfriend's car parked in his garage, and drove the short distance to Nicole Brown Simpson's home at 875 South Bundy Drive in Brentwood. Ron parked the car on the side street, walked to the front of Nicole's condominium, and turned up the walkway to the front gate. Just past the front gate were steps leading to Nicole's condominium. Ronald Goldman never made it past those steps. It was at that front gate that Ron spent the last few savage minutes of his life. It was there that his brutalized body was found next to Nicole Brown Simpson's slain body, with her mother's glasses lying next to him on the ground in an envelope. Ron Goldman's young life ended because he agreed to do a friend a favor, only to come upon her rageful killer and his. He might have run from danger, but he did not. Ron Goldman died, ladies and gentlemen, with his eyes open. And in the last furious moment of his life, Ron saw through those open eyes the person who killed his friend Nicole. And for that reason, he too had to die. And the last person Ron Goldman saw through his open eyes was the man who took his young life away: The man who now sits in this courtroom, the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson. Ladies and gentlemen, we will prove to you that Ronald Lyle Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson died at the hands of the defendant, Orenthal Simpson. Let me again introduce myself and my colleagues to you. My name is Daniel Petrocelli. With me are Edward Medvene, Peter Gelblum, Yvette Molinaro, Thomas Lambert. We all represent the Estate of Ronald Goldman and Ronald's father, Fred, in this, his last fight for justice for his son. Mr. Brewer represents Ronald's mother, Sharon Rufo, and Mr. Kelly represents the Estate of Nicole Brown Simpson. And they will each talk to you after me. In this trial, we will present to you an extraordinary amount of evidence undeniably pointing to O.J. Simpson as the person who killed Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson on the evening of June 12. This evidence includes: Mr. Simpson's blood leaving the scene of the murder at Nicole's condominium; His blood dripping to the ground from the fingers of his left hand; Mr. Simpson's blood on the glove he wore when he killed Ron and Nicole; Mr. Simpson's blood in his car that he used to drive from Bundy to his home at Rockingham, five minutes away; Mr. Simpson's blood on the driveway of his home; Mr. Simpson's blood inside his home; Ron's blood in Mr. Simpson's car; Nicole's blood in Mr. Simpson's car; Ron's blood on Mr. Simpson's glove; Nicole's blood on Mr. Simpson's glove; Nicole's blood on the socks in Mr. Simpson's bedroom; Mr. Simpson's own blood on his socks; Mr. Simpson's size 12 shoe prints in the blood of Nicole, leaving the scene of the murder, exiting towards the back of the condominium; Hair matching Mr. Simpson's hair in the knit cap he left behind at the scene of the murders; Hair matching Mr. Simpson's hair on Ronald Goldman's shirt; Strands of Nicole's hair and Ron's hair on the glove Mr. Simpson dropped on the side of his house, trying to get onto his property so no one would see him; Carpet fibers, rare carpet fibers from Mr. Simpson's Bronco found in the knit cap that he left at the scene of the murders; Matching blue-black cotton fibers found on Ronald Goldman's shirt; The glove at Rockingham and Mr. Simpson's socks in the bedroom, tying all three together. Cuts and bruises to Mr. Simpson's left hand during his brief but violent attacks on Ron and Nicole; Cuts to this day that Mr. Simpson cannot and will not explain. We will prove to you that Mr. Simpson has no alibi during the time when the murders were committed. He cannot identify a single person who can account for his whereabouts during the time of the murders. Not one person will take this stand and testify that he or she was with Mr. Simpson or spoke to Mr. Simpson during the time of these murders. We will prove how Ron and Nicole were killed quickly and savagely. They were defenseless against a man so large, powerful, strong, armed with a six-inch knife, and in a total state of rage. Nicole had no chance to fight, and died within moments of the gaping cut to her throat. Ron tried to fight, but trapped in a small, caged area, he was cut down swiftly. We will prove to you that Mr. Simpson committed the murders and sped back home, just in time to drive to the airport and catch a plane that he desperately needed to catch to have any hope of an alibi. In his extreme panic and hurry, Mr. Simpson left behind a trail of incriminating evidence, starting right at the murder scene and leading right into his bedroom. We will prove to you that Mr. Simpson was embroiled in a deeply emotional conflict with Nicole Brown Simpson after she had just ended any last attempt at reconciliation between the two. We will describe to you the rejection and pain this caused Mr. Simpson in detail, the build-up of tension, emotion, and anger between Mr. Simpson and Nicole in the last weeks and days leading up to her murder. We will prove that Mr. Simpson killed Ronald Goldman because he would have been a witness to the rageful attack and murder of Nicole, a witness who would have testified in this trial, a young man who simply, and frankly, happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. We will prove to you how Mr. Simpson's own words and actions following the murders revealed then, and still reveal today, his guilt for these deaths. You will hear Mr. Simpson on tape, just hours after the murder, unable to explain his actions the night before, during the time of the murders. You will hear him make very incriminating statements, statements that he will now try to contradict or vary. We will tell you about Mr. Simpson's flight from the police when they came to arrest him and his apparent thoughts of taking his life, thoughts that are consistent, ladies and gentlemen, only with a person who had killed, and that are totally inconsistent with a man whose children had just lost their mother at the hands of a stranger.
Thank you. You will hear how this man came back to Los Angeles on the day after the murders and huddled with lawyers, rather than huddle with his children.
We will reveal to you lies and deceptions in the sworn testimony of Mr. Simpson when questioned under oath for the first time.
We will reveal to you lies and deceptions in the sworn testimony of Mr. Simpson when questioned under oath for the first time about his involvement in these murders. We will prove to you that when asked all the important questions about his involvement in these murders, O.J. Simpson could not, would not, and did not tell the truth.
And finally, ladies and gentlemen, we will show that when faced with the truth of his blood, his hair, his clothing, his gloves, his shoes, his Bronco, his rage, his motive, his words, and his actions, you will see how Mr. Simpson in this trial will resort to theories of police conspiracies, frame-ups, cover-ups and incompetence, to try to explain away all of the incriminating evidence. And we will show you that there is not one ounce of evidence, not one ounce of proof, and not one ounce of truth to any of these things. We will demonstrate to you that far from these theories born out of desperation, there is only one.
I object. Again, this is simply argument theory. "Born out of desperation" is argument.
We will prove to you, ladies and gentlemen, that there is only one real and true and honest answer why all the evidence in this case points to O.J. Simpson. And that is because he is the person who killed Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. Now, let me review this evidence with you in detail. I'd like to start with talking about the two victims in the case, Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. Your Honor, may I? (Indicating to photos)
Ron grew up in Illinois. His parents got divorced when he was a young boy. He and his little sister, Kimberly, went to live with their father, Fred. When Ron was 18, Ron, Kim, Fred, and Fred's new wife, Patty, all moved to Agoura, California. Ron took to southern California like a fish to water. He excelled at tennis; he loved to play softball. He got a job taking care of cerebral palsy patients. He was the only person at Pierce College who applied for a job taking care of -- helping to take care of inner-city kids and helping to turn their lives around. He was 20 years old when he moved out of his family's home, eventually winding up in Brentwood, where he loved the friendly atmosphere. He was a happy, outgoing, always smiling, handsome young man, who made friends quickly. He worked in odd jobs here and there to support himself. He did a little modeling, and he dreamed of opening up a restaurant. And in February of 1994, to pay the bills, he got a job at a trendy Italian restaurant called Mezzaluna, as a waiter. He was single. He had a girlfriend; he had lots of friends, he loved his family; he was one of those people who was always there for others, and ultimately died doing that. He was a young man, barely 25 years old, with his whole life ahead of him. Nicole Brown Simpson was 35 years old when she was killed. She was recently divorced from her ex-husband, O.J. Simpson. She had her two children living with her, Sydney and Justin. She was a full-time mother; she was a devoted mother. She lived in a condominium in Brentwood. She met Mr. Simpson at the age of 18, right after high school. And from that moment, they were together. They lived together; they were married in 1985, and they had two children. The evidence will show that they had a very tempestuous relationship, passionate at times, violent at other times, one of those relationships where they couldn't live with each other and they couldn't live without each other. Nicole left Mr. Simpson in January of 1992, filed for divorce, and moved into her own apartment with her children. A year or so later, the divorce was final. After the divorce was final, she and Mr. Simpson decided to make another go of it, and they decided they would try and reconcile, not living together, but they would start dating. This was about spring of 1993. They then spent the next year, till about three weeks before her death, trying to make this reconciliation work. Three weeks before she was killed, Nicole decided it was not working, and she ended it. One month later, she was dead. You will hear a lot more about the relationship and what was going on between Mr. Simpson and Nicole from Mr. Kelly. O.J. Simpson, the defendant, of course, was a celebrity football star, film actor, and sports caster, a man who grew up poor and became rich and famous, and charismatic and a charming man, but in the eyes of the law, a man no different from anyone else. Now, I'd like to begin the evidence proving the murders by talking about the time when Ron and Nicole were killed. And the reason for doing this is simple: After identifying when the murders occurred, we will show you that Mr. Simpson had the opportunity and the time to commit the murders. We will show you that during this time, he has no alibi. Nicole, as I said earlier, had gone to a dance recital for her daughter, went to dinner at Mezzaluna, left at around 8:30, got some ice cream with the kids, and got home before 9:00, and she put the kids to bed. She received a phone call from her mom at 9:40, asking about the glasses. Her mom asked Nicole to pick them up for her the next day. Instead of picking them up the next day, Nicole called Mezzaluna, spoke to the manager, Karen Crawford, then asked to speak to Ron Goldman, and asked Mr. Goldman to bring them over. Ron left Mezzaluna at 9:50 to go home first, change, and then deliver the glasses. Before Ron left, he spoke to his friend at the restaurant who worked there, who was tending bar that night, Stewart Tanner, and he made plans with Stewart Tanner and another person to meet together after work in Marina Del Rey, a place called Baja Cantina. Ron then left the restaurant, walked a few minutes to his home, went up to his apartment, and we know that he changed out of his waiter's clothes, and we know that he put on a different set of clothes, a pair of jeans, a shirt, and some new shoes. It took Ron about five minutes to get to his apartment. Ron apparently did not shave, from the autopsy pictures that we will show. We do not know if he showered. He left his home and drove his girlfriend's car a short distance to Nicole's condominium. He parked on Dorothy Street, around the corner. He walked up to Nicole's front gate. The time was sometime after ten o'clock p.m. Now, let's fast-forward. At 10:50 p.m., 50 minutes later or so, at the very latest, a man named Louis Karpf, who lived right next door to Nicole's condominium, walked out to his mailbox on Bundy to pick up his mail, having just gotten back from the airport. He saw Nicole's dog, a very large Japanese attack dog called an Akita, out in the street, barking. In fact, the dog frightened Mr. Karpf, so he retreated back up onto his property. Then, when the dog moved away, Mr. Karpf continued to his mailbox an got his mail. The time was about 10:50 p.m., no later than that. A few minutes later, another man is walking his dog from his apartment up the street and around the corner. His name is Steven Schwab. You will hear these folks testify. They're just citizens living in Brentwood. They have no axe to grind. Mr. Schwab came by and saw the dog, Nicole's Akita, out in the middle of street on Bundy and Gorham I'll show you in a few minutes, you can see the geography. And he saw that the dog had blood had blood on his paws, on his legs. The time was 10:55 p.m. Mr. Schwab, with his own dog, saw the dog was wandering aimlessly and barking in a very agitated way. And he decided to take the dog and go home, try to find the owner, call up the animal shelter. He got home, wasn't having any luck, and he asked a neighbor who lived in the same complex, a fellow by the name of Sukru Boztepe, who will also come here and testify, if he could take care of the dog. Mr. Boztepe said sure, and he and his wife started to tend to the dog. And then they decided to take the dog out for a walk because the dog was agitated, and maybe they could find the dog's owner. They then took the dog for a walk, and the dog pulled Mr. Boztepe on a leash which Mr. Schwab gave Mr. Boztepe. The dog pulled Mr. Boztepe in the direction of Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium. In fact, right to the sidewalk where the walkway led up to her body. And the dog stopped at that point, and the dog looked down the walkway. And Mr. Boztepe saw that the dog was staring. And he then looked, and it was extremely dark, even though he was right in front of the sidewalk there. He will testify that he did not see anything until the dog turned his head toward the bodies, and then Mr. Boztepe looked and saw Nicole's body laying at the bottom of the stairs in a pool of blood. Mr. Boztepe then quickly raced across the street and knocked on neighbors' doors to get somebody to call the police. And eventually, the police were summoned. And they arrived at around 12:00, a little after midnight. So we know that these murders occurred, from the evidence that we will present, sometime after 10:00, when Ron left his apartment, and sometime before 10:, 50 when Mr. Karpf saw Nicole's dog out in the street. And five minutes later, Mr. Schwab saw it with blood. Between 10:00 and 10:50 -- we can even narrow it further than that, ladies and gentlemen. There's another man who will come here and testify. His name is Robert Heidstra. Mr. Heidstra is a dog lover. He has a couple of dogs. He walks them several times a day, takes the same route, knows every inch of the way. He walked his dog on this evening, two of his dogs, and they were older. He Left his house sometime after ten o'clock, closer to 10:15, and he walked around the corner at this point. I think I will show you a map.
Here's Nicole's condominium; here's 875 South Bundy right here. Mr. Heidstra lived on Dorothy.
Your Honor, pardon me. Can you put it up next to those pictures so that we can all see it?
Could you just put it up the next level; then everybody, even in the back, can see it.
Okay. Mr. Heidstra lived right here. He left his apartment around 10:15 and took this route, walking his dogs. This is Nicole's condominium; this is Bundy. This is an alleyway going from Bundy to Dorothy. About 10:30, 10:35, Mr. Heidstra reached this point with his two dogs, and he heard a very loud barking. He immediately recognized the dog to be Nicole's dog, because he was familiar with Nicole's dog, having walked by her condominium many times and seen the dog. The dog was barking in a very agitated way, and Mr. Heidstra was frightened that his animals might confront Nicole's dog, so he decided not to walk in front of Nicole's condominium, but to take a detour. And he went this way down the alleyway. So instead of going this way, he cut down this alleyway so he wouldn't have to go by the dog. When he got to this point of the alleyway, directly opposite Nicole's condominium, Mr. Heidstra will testify that he heard a man, young male voice, yell, "Hey, Hey, Hey." Then he heard a deeper voice respond. Then he heard the other man yell, "Hey, Hey." And then he heard a clanging of a gate. When he heard those sounds, he will testify that it was approximately 10:35 to 10:40 right here. He then continued his walk across the alleyway until he reached Dorothy, and he stopped and paused. There's a big streetlight illuminating Dorothy and Bundy right here. He looked down the street while his dogs were doing their business, and he then saw a car pull up to this light, or to this stop sign, I should say, and make a right turn, and he got a crystal clear view of that car as it approached and turned right. That car, he will testify, was a white utility-type or jeep-like automobile with tinted windows, like a Ford Bronco. The time was 10:40 to 10:45. At the latest, 1045. We will prove through Mr. Heidstra testimony and other testimony, that Mr. Hide take heard Ronald Goldman being confronted and attacked by the defendant. The time was 10:35 to 10:40, in that range, approximately. Now, where was Mr. Simpson at that time? That's the next question. Here's what we know: Mr. Simpson had driven alone to his daughter's dance recital earlier on Sunday, about five o'clock. He was not invited to dinner with the Brown family and his children. And he went home alone after the recital. They all went out to dinner at Mezzaluna Restaurant. Mr. Simpson got to his house on Rockingham about 6:30 or seven o'clock. He was home alone that evening, ladies and gentlemen. Nobody else was in the house. His daughter, Arnel, was out for the evening, and she would not return until about 1:00, 1:30 in the morning. Mr. Simpson had a house guest living in a guest room on the side of the house. His name was Kato Kaelin. He was there in the room passing time at 9:11 p.m., and we know this time exactly because there's a phone record. Mr. Kaelin is on the phone long-distance to San Diego to a friend, when Mr. Simpson comes to his door and knocks on it. Mr. Kaelin gets off the phone. We know it's 9:11 p.m. from the phone record. Mr. Simpson told Mr. Kaelin that he needed change to go to the airport, to tip the skycap. He said he was going to the airport and needed change to tip the skycap. Mr. Kaelin said all he had was a 20, and he gave it to Mr. Simpson. Mr. Simpson then said that he was going out to eat, to get a burger. Mr. Kaelin then asked Mr. Simpson if he could go along, and Mr. Simpson mumbled, "okay." They then got in the car. Mr. Simpson had two automobiles: He had a Ford Bronco and he had a Bentley. He got into the Bentley that was parked in his driveway, and they drove to McDonald's. It was sometime after 9:11 p.m. They got to McDonald's, ordered the food. Mr. Simpson ate his hamburger in the car very quickly, and drove back. He got back to the house around 9:30, 9:35 at the very latest. How do we know that? Mr. Kaelin was not invited to eat his food with Mr. Simpson; Mr. Simpson already ate his food in the car. Mr. Kaelin got his food and walked around to the back of the house and went into his room and picked up the phone and made another long-distance phone call to the same guy in San Diego. And that call is at 9:37 p.m. So we know that Mr. Simpson and Mr. Kaelin are back by then. So we can estimate it took a couple of minutes to get to the room from where he got out of the car. So basically, Mr. Simpson is back at Rockingham by 9:35 p.m. Now, at 9:35 p.m. until 10:55 p.m., Mr. Simpson's whereabouts cannot be corroborated by anybody. 9:35 p.m. to 10:55 p.m., Mr. Kaelin is the last person to see Mr. Simpson at 9:35. Mr. Simpson was not seen by anybody alive, anybody who will testify, until 10:55. One hour and 20 minutes unaccounted for. It was during this one hour and 20 minutes that the murders occurred. Now, what happened at 10:55? Allan Park is a limousine driver who will come here and he will testify. He had never driven before for Mr. Simpson. Mr. Simpson's regular driver was not available on this evening to take Mr. Simpson to the airport for a red-eye flight. Normally the driver would be there around quarter to 11:00 to get Mr. Simpson to the airport. Mr. Simpson had no idea that his normal driver was not going to show up, and that this new person was going to show up. Well Mr. Park had never picked up Mr. Simpson before, and he was a bit nervous, and he wanted to be on time. He left his home at Torrance at 9:45 p.m. to get to Brentwood -- to Rockingham, 360 North Rockingham, where Mr. Simpson lives, in plenty of time to get Mr. Simpson to the airport.
Mr. Park comes driving -- this is Mr. Simpson's property at 360 North Rockingham. You have Ashford Street and you have Rockingham Avenue. And there are two driveways to this property. You have this driveway on Ashford Street, and you have this driveway on Rockingham. And there are gates here where you can be buzzed in, and the gates open and come in. There's only one intercom, this one at Ashford Street. If you want to get into the house and you pull up to the gate on Ashford, you have to pick up this phone that's right outside the gate, and you call in and it rings on the telephone inside Mr. Simpson's house on any number of phones. And there's even a little light that lights up saying gate. So anybody inside knows it's the gate. They can then press a button and then the gate opens automatically; the person comes in, and the gate -- press another button, and the gate closes. And that's how people routinely are let into the property. And Mr. Park was given instructions by his boss, a man named Dale St. John, to come to the property this way at this certain time, and then buzz, and he'll be let in. Again to be early, he drove up Rockingham, and he wasn't quite sure, you know, which house was Mr. Simpson's, so he stopped and looked when he got to this area, and he saw on the curb here, the numbers 360. Now, that told him that this was Mr. Simpson's house, 360 North Rockingham. He stopped and paused, looking out of the driver's side window, and visibly saw the curb and the numbers. And he did not see, and he will so testify, any cars parked there at that time. He did not see the Bronco or any other automobile near the numbers or anywhere along this curb. No cars were parked. Now, what time was it when Allan Park drove up? According to him, it was 10:20 p.m. Now, understand something: Mr. Simpson will testify that he was home at 10:20 p.m., and he will further testify that his car was right here, where he claims he parked it earlier in the evening. But Allan Park will destroy that alibi.
Allan Park will testify that when he drove up at 10:20, there was no car there. Furthermore, Park pulls around the corner at Ashford -- it's about 10:25 -- stops the car right here, realizes it's too early to go inside and call Mr. Simpson, so he smokes a cigarette. He then gets ready to pull into that driveway and phone in. But instead of doing that, he decides just to be sure, he makes one more pass around to Rockingham, to make sure this is the right address, and he checks the curb again. And it's 10:40 at this point in time, and there's no Bronco there. And he sees the address, 360 North Rockingham. Again, it's 10:40 p.m. or so. He pulls back around, comes back in, pulls into the driveway, gets out of the car, and then picks up the phone and calls in. Okay. No one answers the phone. It rings and it rings, as he will testify, two, three, four times. Nobody answers the phone. It's 10:40 p.m. He then tried paging his boss, Dale St. John, to find out what -- you know, what's going on: What should I do? He didn't get an answer from his boss; he couldn't get through. It's now about 10:45 p.m. Finally, well, what he did here is, he got back out of the car, as he will testify and he rang the intercom again: Second time he rang, another two, three, four times it rings. No answer. Then gets back in the car, starts calling some people up. Finally gets ahold of this guy, Dale St. John, and he makes a call to him from the cell phone in the car, so there's a cell phone record that establishes definitively when Mr. Park got in touch with his boss. The time was 10:52. Okay. 10:52 and 17 seconds. That call lasted until 10:55 and 17 seconds. So we have that time, for sure, pinned down. So Park will testify he's in the car, is talking to St. John at 10:52: What should I do? He's not home. Near the end of that call, he sees a man approach. He -- you see, he's in the car. He has a -- he will testify that he has a clear view. These trees do not stick out in the driveway. And you'll see it in the photographs: He has a clear view here. Clear view. He's looking straight ahead. His front bumper is touching up against the gate. He's got his parking lights on, his headlights off, and he's looking straight ahead as he's talking to his boss, and he can see the front entrance way to Mr. Simpson's house. All of a sudden, he sees a man approach here, a younger man, a male with blond hair. He didn't know who this guy is. And he indicated to his boss that he saw somebody. Continues to talk to his boss. And then a moment later, he sees another person who he describes as large, wearing dark clothing, six feet, 200 pounds, walking in this direction, kind of at a brisk clip. Okay. Sees a guy -- first he sees this guy, then a moment later, he sees this other person. He then gets off the phone with his boss, he gets out of the car, and he rings Mr. Simpson's house again, figuring he's home. And then Mr. Simpson picks up for the first time, after he saw the figure heading towards the front door. He will also testify that once the figure headed towards the front door, he saw some lighting on. He gets out of the car, and a moment later, somebody answers the phone, and it's Mr. Simpson. And he recognized his voice. So we can tell from Allan Park's records, his phone records, that he saw this person entering the house at around 10:55 p.m. Mr. Simpson will admit that that was him entering the house at 10:55 p.m. So we know Mr. Simpson's whereabouts cannot be tracked, beginning at 10:55, back to 9:35. That's the hour and 20 minutes that he's not accounted for. Now, what will Mr. Simpson say about what he was doing during this time? You will -- you will hear him say that he was home the entire time. However, there's a cell phone record that shows a call that he made from his cell phone at 10:03 p.m. to his friend, Paula Barbieri, tying to track her down. We know he called her, but didn't make contact at 10:03 p.m. Mr. Simpson, the next day when he came back from Chicago, told the police when he gave a statement, that the very last thing he did before he went off to Chicago, when the limousine was waiting for him, was go out to the Bronco to get his cell phone. So Mr. Simpson admitted to the police that his cell phone was in the Bronco when he left for the airport, which was after eleven o'clock. So we know that Mr. Simpson had to have been in his Bronco at 10:03 when he made that call. Mr. Simpson will say that he was packing and rushing around during this time frame. We will show that his trip was for only one day. Mr. Simpson will say that he was lying on his bed, reading a book, starting to nod off. We will show you that he was taking a red-eye, where people usually sleep on the flight. Mr. Simpson will say that he was chipping golf balls. We will show you that it was nighttime. No one had seen him chip golf balls at nighttime. You will hear him say that he took his dog for a walk around the block during this one-hour-and-20-minute period. He can produce no witness who saw him taking that dog for a walk. You will hear that he was home, up in his room, but he did not answer two separate calls Alan Park, starting at 10:40, and then again at 10:45. Mr. Park said when Mr. Simpson picked up the phone, Mr. Simpson said he had overslept, but he was taking a red-eye. You will hear Mr. Simpson say a lot of other things about where he was during that time. And we will have a lot more to say when we cross-examine him. But the important thing to remember is this: About this one hour and 20 minutes, there isn't anybody who can account for his whereabouts. Nobody. Now, there's one other thing I'd like to mention before I move on to the next subject. Mr. Kaelin was seen, as I told you, walking out of his room, onto the property, was seen by Mr. Park around 10:45 p.m. The man with the blond hair that Mr. Park saw and did not recognize was Kato Kaelin. Now, why was Kaelin out there at 10:54 p.m., walking around about three or four minutes earlier? Around 10:50, Mr. Kaelin heard loud noises against the wall of his room. He was lying against the wall on his bed, talking on the telephone, and he heard some loud noises. And it shook the wall, and it even moved the picture; that's what he will testify. He thought there was an earthquake. He asked the person on the phone, was there an earthquake, talking to a woman named Rachel Ferrara who lived locally. And she said she didn't feel an earthquake. He was a little frightened. He got off the phone; he got a light, a little, small penlight, and he walked outside to go investigate where those sounds came from and what had happened. And I'll have to show you when we get another chart during the course of his testimony, but he walked out of his room, which is back here, came down this way, walks across here, and then went down to the side of the garage to this point here, where he heard the noise. You will hear Mr. Kaelin's testimony about going back to that side of the house and what he saw. What you will not hear, however, from the defense in this case will be one shred of evidence either from Mr. Simpson or from any other witness --
There will be no evidence in this case presented by the defense as to what caused that noise that Kato Kaelin heard. We will prove that was caused by Mr. Simpson returning to his property by going on the side of the house, to avoid being detected by Alan Park, who is waiting out on the street. But you won't hear any other evidence as to what caused those noises.
We'll take a ten-minute recess. Don't talk about the case; don't form or express any opinions, ladies and gentlemen.
Ronald Goldman never made it past those steps. It was at that front gate that Ron spent the last few savage minutes of his life.
Ron Goldman died, ladies and gentlemen, with his eyes open. And in the last furious moment of his life, Ron saw through those open eyes the person who killed his friend Nicole. And for that reason, he too had to die.
9:35 p.m. to 10:55 p.m., Mr. Kaelin is the last person to see Mr. Simpson at 9:35. Mr. Simpson was not seen by anybody alive, anybody who will testify, until 10:55. One hour and 20 minutes unaccounted for.
We will show you that far from these theories born out of desperation, there is only one real and true and honest answer why all the evidence in this case points to O.J. Simpson. And that is because he is the person who killed Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.