THANK YOU VERY MUCH, YOUR HONOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WANTED TO TRY AND PICK UP WHERE WE LEFT OFF. TO CONCLUDE THOSE REMARKS ABOUT THIS FRIEND, I THINK THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT MR. SIMPSON'S STABILITY, HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS EX-WIFE. I THINK THE EVIDENCE WILL ALSO SHOW THAT IN ABOUT MAY OF 1992 MISS NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON CAME OVER TO THE ROCKINGHAM HOUSE AND SAID SHE HAD FOUND A BOYFRIEND, SOMEBODY DIFFERENT THAN KEITH WHERE THE INCIDENT WAS APRIL OF 1992, AND ASKED MR. SIMPSON FOR SOME ADVICE. HE OF COURSE KNEW AT THAT POINT THAT IT WAS OVER AND HE WAS BACK WITH PAULA AND WENT ON WITH HIS LIFE, AS I SAID, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS IN 1993 SHE DECIDED SHE WANTED TO GET BACK TOGETHER AT THAT POINT. NOW, TO CLEAR UP -- I WANT TO ALWAYS KEEP THE FAITH WITH YOU ABOUT BEING AS ACCURATE AS I CAN. THE TWO INCIDENTS THAT THEY TALKED ABOUT, THE ONE INCIDENT INVOLVING THE MAN JOE STELLINI WAS AT MEZZALUNA AND THE OTHER INCIDENT WAS A RESTAURANT CALLED TRYST AND IN BOTH INCIDENTS THERE WAS NO PROBLEM, NO FIGHT, AND IN FACT AT THE TRYST INCIDENT I BELIEVE IT WAS -- MEZZALUNA INCIDENT -- MR. SIMPSON WENT HOME WITH HIS WIFE THAT NIGHT, SO THAT THIS WAS NOT ANY INCIDENT WHERE THEY WERE STALKING OR FIGHTING, ANYTHING LIKE THAT. THERE WAS NO OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR. I HOPE TO PUT THOSE IN SOME KIND OF PERSPECTIVE. MR. DARDEN TALKED IN HIS OPENING STATEMENT ABOUT APRIL, 1985, INCIDENT IN WHICH SOME DAMAGE WAS DONE TO A VEHICLE, AND AS I UNDERSTAND IT, THE TESTIMONY WILL BE THAT WAS NOT ANY INCIDENT IN 1985 BECAUSE MISS NICOLE WAS PREGNANT, HAD A C-SECTION LATER IN THAT YEAR AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY SITUATION LIKE THAT. THEY DID HAVE SOME DISCUSSION APPARENTLY MAYBE IN '86 OR IN '84, SOME DAMAGE DONE TO A CAR AND SHE WAS NOT IN THAT CAR. SHE WAS NOT STRUCK ON THAT OCCASION, SO I THINK YOU WILL FIND THAT INCIDENT OF NOT GREAT CONSEQUENCE. MR. DARDEN TALKED ABOUT THE 1993 911 TAPE THAT YOU'VE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT AND I THINK EVEN HE CONCEDED YESTERDAY THAT IN THAT SITUATION, ALTHOUGH YOU COULD HEAR MR. SIMPSON'S VOICE, HE WAS ANGRY, MR. SIMPSON NEVER LAID A HAND ON HIS WIFE, NEVER CALLED HER A NAME. AND I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING ABOUT A TRIAL IS THAT FINALLY YOU ARE GOING TO GET TO HEAR ALL OF THIS TAPE AND WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR, MR. DARDEN DIDN'T TELL YOU THIS YESTERDAY, IS THAT THERE WAS A DISCUSSION ON THIS 911 TAPE AND HE ALLUDED TO THE FACT THAT MR. SIMPSON COULDN'T GET OUT OF HIS MIND WHAT HE HAD SEEN BACK ON APRIL, 1992. WELL, NOW, FIRST OF ALL, MOST OF US MIGHT HAVE A PROBLEM GETTING THAT PICTURE OUT OF OUR MIND OF SEEING YOUR WIFE MAKING LOVE TO SOMEONE ELSE, BUT AT ANY RATE, THIS WASN'T THE REASON FOR THE ARGUMENT. WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS, AND THE FACTS WILL BE, THAT WHEN THEY STARTED TRYING TO GET BACK TOGETHER AGAIN IN '93, THEY HAD AN AGREEMENT THAT THEY WOULD TAKE THE PICTURES OF THEIR BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS OUT OF -- PUT THEM AWAY, BASICALLY, WHICH SEEMED TO BE A REASONABLE REQUEST, AND THERE WAS A DISPUTE BECAUSE WHEN MISS BROWN SIMPSON WOULD EVER SEE PAULA BARBIERI'S PICTURE, SHE WAS VERY UPSET ABOUT THAT, AND MR. SIMPSON, ON THIS DATE, I BELIEVE, SAW A PICTURE OF SOMEBODY THAT SHE HAD DATED DURING THE TIME THEY HAD BEEN SEPARATED AND HE SAID, GEE, WHAT IS FAIR FOR ME WILL BE FAIR TO YOU AND THEY GOT INTO THIS CONVERSATION THAT WENT OVER A PERIOD OF TIME. AT SOME POINT THERE WAS JUST A VERBAL CONVERSATION, IT ESCALATED, AND TEMPERS FLARE AND THAT SOMETIMES HAPPENS WITH MARRIED COUPLES. THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT BUT SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS. HE CAME OVER TO HER HOUSE AND HE DID IN FACT KICK A FRENCH DOOR. THE EVIDENCE WILL BE THE DOOR WAS ALREADY BROKEN AND HE FIXED IT BUT HE NEVER AT ANY TIME STRUCK HIS WIFE DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME AND WHAT HE WAS SAYING -- AT SOME POINT SHE SAYS, "O.J., O.J., BE QUIET, WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS?" AND HE SAYS, ESSENTIALLY, "YOU WEREN'T THINKING ABOUT THE KIDS AND BEING QUIET WHEN YOU WERE ON THE COUCH WITH KEITH." I THINK YOU WILL HEAR THIS ON THE TAPE. SO YOU PUT IT THIS PERSPECTIVE. AND THE IMPORTANT POINT TO MAKE IS THAT NOBODY WAS EVER INJURED DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME AND IN FACT THERE IS A TAPE-RECORDING AND A TRANSCRIPT OF SOME POLICE OFFICERS WHO CAME OUT AND TALKED WITH THESE PARTIES AND IN THAT TAPE YOU WILL GET A CHANCE TO HEAR WHAT MISS BROWN SIMPSON THOUGHT ABOUT THAT INCIDENT AND THEY ALSO TALKED TO O.J. WHO WAITED THERE FOR THEM, HE AGREED TO FIX THIS DOOR, AND THEY WENT ON WITH THEIR LIVES AND WENT ON AND CONTINUED DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME TO GET ALONG. THIS WAS A TIME THEY WERE BACK TOGETHER. YOU SHOULD NOTE THAT MR. SIMPSON, BECAUSE OF HOW HE HAS CONDUCTED HIS LIFE AND THE THINGS HE HAS DONE IN HIS LIFE, HAS BEEN ABLE TO AMASS SOME ASSETS. NOT BAD FOR A YOUNG MAN, A SPINDLY LEG YOUTH FROM SAN FRANCISCO WHO SUFFERED WITH RICKETS, WHO HAD TROUBLE WALKING, WAS CARED FOR BY HIS MOTHER, WHO GREW UP TO BECOME THE GREATEST RUNNING BACK IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT AND HIS COMMERCIAL ENDORSEMENTS AND THINGS, HE IS ABLE TO HAVE SEVERAL HOMES. HE HAS A HOME IN NEW YORK, AND THE EVIDENCE WILL BE THAT IN AUGUST OF EACH YEAR, BECAUSE OF HIS COMMITMENTS WITH NBC, HE WOULD GO AND LIVE IN NEW YORK. HE WOULDN'T TRY TO CONTROL MISS NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON. SHE WOULD DO WHAT SHE WANTED HERE. EVEN DURING '93 HE WAS LIVING IN NEW YORK FROM AUGUST TO JANUARY, MAYBE AFTER THE SUPERBOWL, FROM AUGUST TO JANUARY HE WOULD BE BACK THERE AT HIS NEW YORK HOUSE. HE ALSO HAD A HOUSE IN LAGUNA BEACH IN ORANGE COUNTY AND THE ONE THING THAT I FORGOT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE CIRCLE OF BENEVOLENCE, HE ASSISTED HIS WIFE IN BUYING A CONDO IN LAGUNA FOR HERSELF SEPARATE FROM HER HOUSE, SO WHEN SHE WAS AT ROCKINGHAM SHE HAD TWO CONDOS IN HER OWN NAME, ONE IN LAGUNA, ONE IN SAN FRANCISCO SHE IS GETTING MONEY FROM AND LIVING IN ROCKINGHAM. THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU ABOUT THAT. HE ALSO HAD BOUGHT SOME PROPERTY IN CABO SAN LUCAS WHERE HE HAD PLANNED TO BUILD. ALL OF THE THINGS THAT HE WAS DOING WAS ABOUT THE FAMILY, KEEPING THE FAMILY TOGETHER, DOING THINGS WITH IN-LAWS AND WITH FRIENDS AND WITH THE CHILDREN, SO I THINK YOU WILL HEAR EVIDENCE ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE WAS AWAY GREAT PERIODS OF TIME. AND WHILE I'M ABOUT THAT, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE KIND OF SCHEDULE THIS MAN HAD. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE HIS CALENDAR YET, BUT AT SOME POINT HOPEFULLY WE WILL. IF YOU WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT MR. O.J. SIMPSON'S DAILY CALENDAR FROM JANUARY TO JUNE OF 1994, YOU WOULD FIND A MAN THAT IN JANUARY WAS OUT OF TOWN AND PROBABLY STILL LIVING IN NEW YORK ALMOST EVERY DAY, BUT HE WAS OUT OF NEW YORK BECAUSE HE WAS TRAVELING. SOME OF WHO KNOW THIS IS SUPERBOWL WEEK, YOU CAN IMAGINE HE WAS IN ATLANTA THAT WEEK BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE THE SUPERBOWL WAS LAST YEAR. THE EVIDENCE WILL BE THAT THIS WAS A TIME THAT HE AND HIS WIFE WERE TRYING TO MAKE IT, THAT HE TOOK SOME FAMILY MEMBERS, THE BROWNS FROM GERMANY, TO THE SUPERBOWL IN ATLANTA, PAID FOR ALL OF THEM, GOT THEM 50-YARD SEATS AND TOOK THEM TO ALL THE BIG PARTIES THAT WERE GOING ON THIS WEEK. HE WAS AGAIN OUT OF TOWN DURING ALL OF THAT PARTICULAR MONTH. IF YOU LOOK AT HIS CALENDAR, AND THERE WILL BE TESTIMONY, THAT IN FEBRUARY HE SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN CABO SAN LUCAS, HE WAS THIS NASHVILLE, IN ST. LOUIS, IN MIAMI, IN MIAMI AGAIN INVOLVED IN CHARITABLE WORK. FEW DAYS WILL YOU FIND HE WAS HE HERE IN LOS ANGELES. IF YOU LOOKED AT MARCH YOU WILL FIND THAT HE WAS IN NEW YORK, HE WAS DOING BRYANT GUMBLE'S CHARITABLE GOLF TOURNAMENT IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA. BACK IN NEW YORK AGAIN. HE WAS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY DOING VARIOUS AND SUNDRY THINGS. YOU GOT TO THE MONTH OF APRIL, HE WAS BACK IN CABO. FROM THERE HE CAME BACK TO LOS ANGELES. THEN HE WENT TO PUERTO RICO. THE EVIDENCE WILL BE THAT AS SOME YOU KNOW, HE IS AN ACTOR, A WOULD-BE ACTOR, AND THAT HE MADE THIS MOVIE FROGMAN DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME IN PUERTO RICO, AGAIN VERY MUCH OUT OF CALIFORNIA. AND IN MAY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME THINGS THAT HE CAME TO DO FOR HIS CHILDREN -- AND BY THE WAY, AGAIN TALKING ABOUT THE KIND OF THINGS THAT HE WOULD DO AT ROCKINGHAM -- AND YOU WILL SEE THIS PLACE AT ROCKINGHAM -- ON MAY 22ND HE HAD A SCHOOL PICNIC AT ROCKINGHAM. HE HAD A NUMBER OF KIDS -- AND I THINK THAT IS FOR THE SUNSHINE PRESCHOOL. THAT IS WHERE HIS SON JUSTIN WENT. IT WAS A FUND-RAISER FOR THIS SCHOOL AND THEY HAVE ALL THESE KIDS AND ALL THE PEOPLE WOULD COME TO HIS HOUSE AT ROCKINGHAM TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE SCHOOL. ON MAY 22ND HE DID THAT AND NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON WAS THERE, AND EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD AGREED IN MAY, EARLIER THAT MONTH IN MAY AND HE WAS NOW BACK WITH PAULA, WHEN NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON GOT SICK THE WEEK OF MAY 15, 1994, SHE HAD PNEUMONIA, O.J. SIMPSON WAS THE ONE THAT TOOK HER SOUP AND TRIED TO NURSE HER BACK TO GET HER BACK ON HER FEET EVEN THOUGH THEY AGREED THEY WEREN'T GOING TO BE TOGETHER ANY MORE. YOU HEARD TESTIMONY WITH REGARD TO THAT AND HE CONTINUED OF COURSE BEING IN AND OUT OF TOWN. IN JUNE OF 1994 HE HAD HAD AND HAD TAKEN HIS TWO CHILDREN, SYDNEY AND JUSTIN -- AND LET ME SAY SOMETHING AT THIS POINT. MR. SIMPSON HAS TWO OTHER CHILDREN THAT HE'S EQUALLY PROUD OF. THE MINORS CANNOT BE HERE OBVIOUSLY FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, BUT HE HAS TWO OTHER CHILDREN THAT HE'S EQUALLY PROUD OF AND THEY ARE HERE IN COURT TODAY AND THERE IS ARNELLE SIMPSON OVER THERE AND JASON SIMPSON SITTING BETWEEN HIS TWO SISTERS, CARMEN DURIO AND MISS SHIRLEY BAKER, AND THE BALANCE OF THE FAMILY, AND YOU HAVE MET MISS EUNICE SIMPSON ALREADY.

SO HE ON MAY 5TH ATTENDED A PEDIATRICS AIDS AFFAIR, AGAIN HIS INTEREST IN CHILDREN AND AIDS AND CHARITABLE WORK, ALONG WITH PAULA AND HE TOOK THE TWO YOUNGER CHILDREN, A REAL FINE DAY, AND THAT WAS ON THAT SUNDAY. ON THAT TUESDAY HE LEFT TO GO TO WASHINGTON D.C. AGAIN HE LEFT TOWN, HE HAD TO WORK. ON WEDNESDAY HE WAS WORKING FOR HERTZ IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON THURSDAY HE IS IN CONNECTICUT WORKING AGAIN AT ONE OF HIS BOARD MEETINGS, HE IS ON THESE VARIOUS BOARDS, SOME CHARITABLE, SOME PROFITABLE, HOPEFULLY. HE WAS IN CONNECTICUT. ON FRIDAY -- THURSDAY NIGHT HE WAS IN NEW YORK WITH HIS FRIEND BENDER AND HE HAD WORKED AND HE WOULD TRY TO PLAY GOLF DURING THESE PERIODS OF TIME. YOU RECALL I MENTIONED THAT MR. BENDER SUGGESTED, "YOU ARE GOING TO BE IN CHICAGO ON TUESDAY OR MONDAY NIGHT, STAY OVER." HE CAME HOME FOR THE RECITAL. AND WHEN YOU SEE HIS CALENDAR, YOU WILL SEE, IT IS PLANNED ALL THE WAY OUT, FAR BEYOND JUNE, OF COURSE, OF 1994. BUT IT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF THIS MAN, THIS MAN'S LIFE, WHAT HE HAD BEEN ABLE TO DO WITH HIS LIFE AND WITH HIMSELF. I POINT OUT THESE THINGS TO YOU BECAUSE I THINK AS YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THE INCIDENTS THAT MR. DARDEN TALKED ABOUT, THAT PUTS THEM INTO PERSPECTIVE. THIS IS NOT A CASE ABOUT DOMESTIC ABUSE. THIS IS A MURDER CASE. THIS IS A MURDER CASE ABOUT WHO DID THESE HORRIBLE CRIMES. THAT IS GOING TO BE YOUR DECISION, NOT TO THINK THAT O.J. SIMPSON IS A BAD GUY OR A GOOD GUY FOR THAT MATTER, BUT TO GET A PICTURE OF HIM, I THINK THAT YOU WILL AGREE WITH ME THAT AFTER YOU HEAR THE FACT YOU WILL HAVE A CLEARER PICTURE. NOW, ABOUT THE 19 -- WE TALKED ABOUT THE 1993 INCIDENT, I THINK WE DID, AND I THINK THAT IS -- THOSE ARE THE MAIN INCIDENTS THAT MR. DARDEN TALKED ABOUT. ONE THING I WANTED TO POINT OUT TO YOU IS THAT THERE WILL BE, I BELIEVE, TESTIMONY THAT AS THESE PARTIES GOT A DIVORCE, AS SO OFTEN HAPPENS, MISS NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON HAD HER DEPOSITION TAKEN AND SHE HAD MADE A STATEMENT DURING THAT DEPOSITION WITH REGARD TO WHETHER HE EVER PHYSICALLY STRUCK HER AFTER THE '89 INCIDENT, AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO HEAR WHAT THAT IS. MARK FUHRMAN BECOMES EVEN MORE RELEVANT IN THIS CASE AS WE GO ALONG AND DISCUSS IT, BECAUSE HE WAS THE OFFICER WHO SUPPOSEDLY RESPONDED, HE SAYS, IN '85. THERE IS ANOTHER INCIDENT THAT -- THE INCIDENT INVOLVING THE BAT AND MERCEDES WAS NOT IN '85 BECAUSE SHE WAS PREGNANT, BUT HE WRITES A REPORT FOUR YEARS LATER IN '89 SAYING HE HAD AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION OF MR. O.J. SIMPSON, AND IN COMING TO THAT LOCATION, AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION, SO WE WILL HAVE TO PURSUE THAT INCIDENT AND WHETHER OR NOT THIS REPORT HE WROTE FOUR YEARS LATER AND WHETHER OR NOT IT IS ACCURATE AND IT WAS NOT DONE CONTEMPORANEOUSLY WITH THE INCIDENT. MR. DARDEN ALSO SAYS THAT THIS WAS NOT A TABLOID PROSECUTION. THAT IS INTERESTING. HE USED THOSE WORDS, DIDN'T HE? HE SAID, FIRST OF ALL, THIS WASN'T CHARACTERIZATION ASSASSINATION AND WHICH WE NOW KNOW IT WAS, AND HE SAYS THIS IS NOT A TABLOID PROSECUTION. WELL, I THINK THE EVIDENCE WILL BE THAT AFTER THIS BOOK THAT YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT FROM HIS SO-CALLED FRIEND, FAYE RESNICK, STARTED COMING OUT, THAT IS WHEN THE PEOPLE STARTED GETTING ALL THESE WITNESSES WHO WANTED TO COME FORWARD TO TALK ABOUT THESE INCIDENTS. SO WHETHER OR NOT IT IS A TABLOID PROSECUTION IS NOT FOR ME TO SAY; IT IS GOING TO BE FOR YOU TO SAY. LET ME SAY THIS ABOUT FAYE RESNICK --

YOUR HONOR, I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT MR. COCHRAN. YOUR HONOR, ONCE AGAIN, MY OBJECTION HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY NOTED.

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