All right. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Please be seated. All right. The record should reflect we've been rejoined by all the members of our jury panel. Dr. Robert Huizenga is on the witness stand undergoing direct examination by Mr. Shapiro. And, Mr. Shapiro, you may continue with your direct examination.
Thank you very much, your Honor. May we put on the elmo two additional photographs of the palms of Mr. Simpson's hands, please?
On his right palm, the distal tuft of his fourth finger, there was a very small, very fine, minuscule four to five millimeter paper cut appearing laceration.
KEY QUOTEUh, one sonometer, again, we were saying was half an inch. So, you know, three millimeters would be a third of a half of an inch. A sixth of an inch.
Would you point out with the laser to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury where this was?
You know, I can barely see it, but if you see right there, there's a very fine--really was a--exactly horizontal, as I said, paper cut like lesion right in this--it's the thumb side of the distal fourth finger, and this is kind of the tuft (Indicating).
Thank you. Now, in going through your examination of Mr. Simpson, do you have an opinion as to whether or not he could hold a knife?
Let me put these two photographs back on, the front and back torso of Mr. Simpson. And this appears to me as a layperson to be a man in pretty good shape. Would that be your evaluation?
Well, to look at him, you know, he really has the physique certainly, when I saw him, of Tarzan. I mean, he's extremely well muscular. He has by vision and also by, you know, feeling, you can feel a level at the waist and the thigh, your flank, your triceps there. You can estimate a man's and a woman's body fat, and he has a very, very low body fat and he really does appear to be Tarzan. Curiously, some people have these phenomenal builds and really aren't in all that great aerobic shape, and I think that based on my history, he hadn't really been doing much exercise if any. And there are some very lucky people that looks can be deceiving, and certainly in his case, although he looked like Tarzan, you know, he was walking more like Tarzan's grandfather.
What about his mobility on the 15th? Do you have an opinion as to his ability for lateral movement?
I think his ability for lateral movement would definitely be diminished based on his left knee and right angle problem the day I saw him on the 15th.
Now, are there certain types of activities somebody with the conditions that Mr. Simpson suffers from be capable of doing?
Well, relatively sedentary things since his cardio vascular shape wasn't really that good that really don't need, you know, quick movement on that knee and of course over the period of that time his ankle which was bothering him at that time.
What sports on the 15h do you believe that Mr. Simpson would be capable of engaging in?
He would be able to play a sport where he was--essentially didn't have to move much or certainly very quickly, something that he could stand. He would be able to shoot free throws for instance. He would be able to play golf. He would be able to arm wrestle if it wasn't the side involving possibly the injured wrist. He would be able to play billiards.
He would be excluded from any sort of running sports such as legitimate full-court basketball, any type of day after day running, jogging exercises or sports where he would have to legitimately run. Even something like baseball, he would have to essentially lope or walk although he probably would be able to stand at the plate and swing at a ball.
KEY QUOTEFor a recreational golfer, do you have an opinion as to what shape somebody would have to be in to play golf on a recreational level, not a professional level?
Well, recreational golf is quite a sedentary activity. If you take someone who is let's say swinging 90 or a hundred times a game and they're taking a few practice swings, they stand around a little bit and they get right back to the golf cart. Mr. Simpson gave me the history that he had to ride a golf cart. He could not walk a golf course. And even at golf courses, prestigious golf courses where it was prevented, prohibited, he would get special medical clearance to have a golf cart. Given those perimeters, if you take golf cart, stand briefly, swing, get back in the golf cart, that activity for a two- or three-hour golf game is roughly comparable to, you know, sitting and playing the flute at home for those several hours or sitting at home and painting a portrait. Those aerobic energy levels are roughly comparable.
Is there any type of physical--well, strike that. You did present a diagram to us regarding one of the hands of Mr. Simpson. Did you do a diagram of both hands?
After I did the initial history and physical, basically I took notes only very briefly on this piece of paper and immediately dictated my whole history and physical. Subsequently, I took this kind of rough copy and Xeroxed off a couple of hands from an anatomy book and was going to try to present something a little bit neater. And it turned out both were right hands. And on the left, the way that I copied it didn't come out since they were both right hands. But I had already sent you the history and physical on that picture. So I kept those in the charts, but I haven't really referred to them or used those pictures.
Is there anything that you--is there any--strike that. Based on your examination of Mr. Simpson on the 15th, did you see any evidence other than the cuts you've described on the left hand of any recent injury that was visible to Mr. Simpson?
Other than those on the 15th, there was no other evidence of any trauma except for several very small little also punctate abrasions that were also on the back of his left palm. But they were--appeared to be basically zigzag areas of maybe several sonometers, which were very superficial, irritation scrapes of some sort.
Do you have an opinion as to whether or not on June the 12th of 1994, Mr. Simpson had any injuries that you were not able to see on June the 15th?
Did you observe--do you have an opinion as to whether or not on June the 12th, 1994, Mr. Simpson had any injuries that you were not able to observe on June the 15th?
Certainly cuts or anything that would have occurred then, we would have seen then and any orthopedic injuries we would have seen. And so my suspicion would be that we would see all the injuries.
Although he looked like Tarzan, you know, he was walking more like Tarzan's grandfather.
If you take golf cart, stand briefly, swing, get back in the golf cart, that activity for a two- or three-hour golf game is roughly comparable to, you know, sitting and playing the flute at home for those several hours or sitting at home and painting a portrait.
On his right palm, the distal tuft of his fourth finger, there was a very small, very fine, minuscule four to five millimeter paper cut appearing laceration.
He would be excluded from any sort of running sports such as legitimate full-court basketball, any type of day after day running, jogging exercises or sports where he would have to legitimately run.