Back on the record in the Simpson matter. Mr. Simpson is again present before the Court with his counsel, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Blasier, Mr. Neufeld, Mr. Bailey. The People are represented by Miss Clark and Mr. Darden. The jury is not present. Counsel, what is our status at this point?
Good morning, your Honor. Your Honor, you will recall that yesterday after the jury had been recessed for the day, we had to ask your Honor to order Mr. Deedrick, the FBI agent, to turn over this notebook, and we now know why he didn't want to turn over that notebook because contained in that notebook is a five-page single-spaced report which makes the discovery violations that we talked about yesterday seem like child's play. And given that, we want--I would ask the Court to allow us about ten or fifteen minutes now to mobilize our discussion, and we just uncovered some additional things we wanted to bring to the Court's attention. And we would like to have until about 9:15 and come back and argue these matters to the Court as to the appropriate remedies.
We can give your Honor a copy of it. Here, let me give him that. The nature of this report is entitled "The search for the source--carpet fibers found on the leather glove and the knit hat in the O.J. Simpson case." It was inside that book that you ordered him to turn over that we had so much trouble getting. There is a litany of events that took place before we got it. They gave us a little single-spaced first. This agent was questioned. He kept putting off and not answering. It was only after you made the order and then he wanted to talk with you, as you recall, when you gave him the order, in which Miss Clark concurred in, and it was only after that we discovered this, but we found even additional things that we are now aware of this morning we did not know about. We just need a little bit of time to discuss with our client the appropriate way to address this and we have--I am ready to argue except I need to discuss it with my co-counsel and with the Defendant and then we may proceed. In the meantime, I have no objection, I will be glad to give the Court a copy of this report.
All right. Any comment from the People before--with regard to the request for some additional time this morning to confer amongst each other?
We have no objection. But just so the Court will know, what Mr. Cochran is referring to is simply that Mr. Deedrick called--what do you call them--the automotive industry's carpet manufacturers to ask them about the production of the carpet fibers in question and what cars they were placed in, and that is what we are talking about, which is a source available to the Defense as well. He made the call. That is the report they are referring to.
If I might, your Honor, that is a nice spin, but I would like for you to see the report and I would like for you to hear arguments on this. This is not what this report is about. It is discoverable and we did not get it. We only got it after you made that order, questioning about it at this stage of the trial and it is very, very disturbing. So I would like to give to it your Honor's clerk.
KEY QUOTEwe now know why he didn't want to turn over that notebook because contained in that notebook is a five-page single-spaced report which makes the discovery violations that we talked about yesterday seem like child's play.
what Mr. Cochran is referring to is simply that Mr. Deedrick called — what do you call them — the automotive industry's carpet manufacturers to ask them about the production of the carpet fibers in question and what cars they were placed in, and that is what we are talking about, which is a source available to the Defense as well.
If I might, your Honor, that is a nice spin, but I would like for you to see the report and I would like for you to hear arguments on this. This is not what this report is about.