Cross-examination of Allan Park (part 1)

📄 Cross-examination of Allan Park (part 1) — Tuesday, March 28, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 46 of 167

◀ Direct examination of Allan Park (part 5) Sidebar: prior testimony ▶

Witness: Allan Park
Examiner: Johnnie Cochran
Called by: Prosecution • Date: Tuesday, March 28, 1995 • Utterances: 206

Johnnie Cochran cross-examines limousine driver Allan Park, methodically establishing that Park saw no cuts, bleeding, or bandages on O.J. Simpson's hands during the entire pickup on the night of June 12th. Cochran also draws out that the street near Rockingham was very quiet that night and Park heard no car pull up, stop, or doors slam — a line of questioning apparently aimed at the Bronco timeline. The examination ends at a sidebar over Cochran's attempt to impeach Park with his preliminary hearing testimony about parked cars.

# 1 THE COURT:

MR. COCHRAN.

# 2 MR. COCHRAN:

THANK YOU, JUDGE.

# 3

CROSS-EXAMINATION

# 4

BY MR. COCHRAN:

# 5 Q:

GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. PARK.

# 6 A:

GOOD AFTERNOON, SIR.

# 7 MR. COCHRAN:

GOOD AFTERNOON, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

# 8 Q:

BY MR. COCHRAN: I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU A FEW QUESTIONS IF I MIGHT, SIR. HOW LONG HAD YOU WORKED FOR MR. DALE ST. JOHN PRIOR TO JUNE 12TH OF 1994?

# 9 A:

IT WAS AROUND TWO AND A HALF, THREE MONTHS. Q: AND HOW LONG HAD YOU BEEN A LIMOUSINE DRIVER AS OF JUNE 12TH, 1994?

# 10 A:

FOR ABOUT FIVE MONTHS.

# 11 Q:

AND DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG MR. O.J. SIMPSON HAD BEEN A CLIENT OF MR. DALE ST. JOHN'S?

# 12 A:

I KNOW IT WAS -- IT'S BEEN QUITE A WHILE. I DIDN'T KNOW THE EXACT MONTHS.

# 13 Q:

MORE THAN A YEAR WOULD YOU SAY?

# 14 A:

YES.

# 15 Q:

MORE THAN SEVERAL YEARS?

# 16 A:

YES.

# 17 Q:

AND WAS HE A VALUED CLIENT TO TOWN AND COUNTRY AT THAT POINT?

# 18 A:

YES, I'D SAY.

# 19 Q:

AND DID YOU FIND OUT ON JUNE 12TH OF 1994 THAT YOU WOULD BE TAKING OR PICKING UP MR. SIMPSON AND TAKING HIM TO THE AIRPORT?

# 20 A:

YES, I DID.

# 21 Q:

AND HOW DID YOU FIND THIS OUT?

# 22 A:

UH, FROM MY BOSS.

# 23 Q:

AND THAT WAS MR. DALE ST. JOHN?

# 24 A:

YES.

# 25 Q:

AND MR. ST. JOHN GAVE YOU SOME INSTRUCTIONS DID YOU ABOUT -- DID HE ABOUT PICKING UP MR. SIMPSON?

# 26 A:

YES. HE GAVE ME DIRECTIONS AND WHAT TIME AND --

# 27 Q:

HE TOLD YOU TO BE THERE, THAT YOU SHOULD PICK HIM UP SOMEWHERE AROUND 10:45 P.M.; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 28 A:

YES.

# 29 Q:

AND I THINK YOU TOLD US THAT YOU WERE AWARE THAT MR. SIMPSON WAS GOING TO BE LEAVING ON A FLIGHT AT OR AROUND 11:45 P.M. ON JUNE 12TH; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 30 A:

YES.

# 31 Q:

AND YOU KNEW IT WAS AN AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT?

# 32 A:

YES.

# 33 Q:

NOW, DID HE GIVE YOU ANY OTHER SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT MR. SIMPSON AND DEALING WITH MR. SIMPSON AT ALL WHEN YOU FIRST TALKED WITH HIM?

# 34 A:

NO, NOT THAT I REMEMBER.

# 35 Q:

ALL RIGHT. BUT YOU KNEW THIS WAS -- IT WAS IMPORTANT TO THE BUSINESS AND IMPORTANT TO MR. -- MR. ST. JOHN TO DO A GOOD JOB THAT NIGHT; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 36 A:

YES, OF COURSE. ALWAYS.

# 37 Q:

AND YOU WOULD WANT TO DO THAT FOR ANY -- ANY PARTICULAR CLIENT; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 38 A:

YES.

# 39 Q:

IN THIS INSTANCE, HOWEVER, THIS WOULD BE -- THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU HAD EVER PICKED UP MR. SIMPSON?

# 40 A:

YES.

# 41 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND AS YOU'VE DESCRIBED, COMING FROM THE SOUTH BAY, YOU DID NOT KNOW HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE YOU TO GET TO THE ROCKINGHAM LOCATION, DID YOU?

# 42 A:

CORRECT.

# 43 Q:

SO YOU STARTED OUT EARLY AND YOU GOT THERE A LITTLE BIT EARLY; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 44 A:

YES.

# 45 Q:

ALL RIGHT. HAD MR. ST. JOHN TOLD YOU THAT ON OCCASION, MR. SIMPSON RUNS LATE AND HE'S RUNNING AROUND LATE ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT?

# 46 A:

YES.

# 47 Q:

HE TOLD YOU THAT BEFORE YOU GOT THERE AND HE TOLD YOU THAT IN THAT PHONE CONVERSATION ALSO; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 48 A:

UH, I DON'T REMEMBER HIM TELLING ME BEFORE. I REMEMBER ON THE PHONE, YES.

# 49 Q:

BUT HE TOLD YOU THAT IN THAT PHONE CONVERSATION; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 50 A:

YES.

# 51 Q:

THAT'S WHEN HE TOLD YOU TO WAIT AT LEAST UNTIL 11:15 P.M.; IS THAT RIGHT?

# 52 A:

YES.

# 53 Q:

ALL RIGHT. NOW, PRIOR TO YOUR TESTIMONY HERE TODAY, YOU'VE HAD OCCASION, HAVE YOU NOT, TO MEET WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS IN THIS CASE?

# 54 A:

YES, I HAVE.

# 55 Q:

AND ON HOW MANY OCCASIONS WOULD YOU -- WELL, STRIKE THAT. TELL US WHEN DID YOU FIRST MEET MISS MARCIA CLARK, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AT THE FAR END OF THE TABLE?

# 56 A:

THE FIRST TIME? I -- I REALLY DON'T REMEMBER.

# 57 Q:

WAS IT BACK IN JUNE OF 1994?

# 58 A:

YES.

# 59 Q:

AND YOU TALKED TO HER PRIOR TO YOUR TESTIMONY AT THE GRAND JURY; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 60 A:

YES.

# 61 Q:

AND IT WOULD BE A FAIR STATEMENT TO SAY YOU TALKED TO HER PRIOR TO YOUR TESTIMONY AT THE PRELIMINARY HEARING; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 62 A:

YES.

# 63 Q:

AND IT WOULD BE A FAIR STATEMENT TO SAY YOU TALKED AND GAVE A STATEMENT TO POLICE OFFICERS TIPPIN AND CARR ON OR ABOUT JUNE 15TH, 1994; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 64 A:

YES.

# 65 Q:

AND THEN YOU HAD A SECOND INTERVIEW WITH TIPPIN AND CARR ALSO ON JUNE 15TH, 1994 BY TELEPHONE; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 66 A:

THAT'S CORRECT, YES.

# 67 Q:

AND PRIOR TO YOUR TESTIFYING HERE TODAY, YOU'VE HAD OCCASION IN THE RECENT PAST TO TALK TO MISS MARCIA CLARK, HAVE YOU?

# 68 A:

YES.

# 69 Q:

AND WHEN DID YOU LAST TALK TO HER PRIOR TO YOUR TESTIMONY HERE TODAY, SIR?

# 70 A:

UH, WOULD HAVE BEEN LAST FRIDAY.

# 71 Q:

AND WHERE DID YOU TALK TO HER AT THAT POINT?

# 72 A:

HERE.

# 73 Q:

AND HERE IN THIS BUILDING?

# 74 A:

YES.

# 75 Q:

IN HER OFFICE?

# 76 A:

YES.

# 77 Q:

AND HOW LONG DID YOU TALK TO HER AT THAT TIME?

# 78 A:

UH, IT WAS ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF, TWO HOURS.

# 79 Q:

AND WHAT TIME OF DAY WAS THAT?

# 80 A:

UH, WE MET AT 11:00 O'CLOCK.

# 81 Q:

11:00 O'CLOCK A.M.?

# 82 A:

YES.

# 83 Q:

AND IS YOUR BEST RECOLLECTION THAT YOU TALKED UNTIL PERHAPS ABOUT 12:30?

# 84 A:

UH, SOMEWHERE AROUND THERE. WE WERE HERE A LITTLE LONGER, BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF DISTRACTIONS IN-BETWEEN. SO --

# 85 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND AFTER THAT INTERVIEW WITH MISS CLARK ON FRIDAY AT ABOUT 11:00 O'CLOCK, DID YOU HAVE OCCASION TO TALK TO HER ALSO THIS MORNING BRIEFLY?

# 86 A:

UH, JUST HERE IN THE COURTROOM, YES.

# 87 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND YOU TALKED TO HER DURING THE BREAKS; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 88 A:

YES.

# 89 Q:

ALL RIGHT. HAVE YOU READ ANYTHING IN PREPARATION FOR YOUR TESTIMONY HERE TODAY, ANY OF THE TRANSCRIPTS FROM ANY OF THE EARLIER HEARINGS?

# 90 A:

OF MY OWN, YES.

# 91 Q:

YES. OF YOUR TESTIMONY?

# 92 A:

YES.

# 93 Q:

TELL US WHAT YOU'VE READ, SIR.

# 94 A:

UH, I'VE READ EVERYTHING THAT -- THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN BY THE COURT REPORTER.

# 95 Q:

ALL RIGHT. SO YOU READ EVERYTHING THAT -- YOU READ YOUR TESTIMONY AT THE GRAND JURY; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 96 A:

YES.

# 97 Q:

YOU READ YOUR TESTIMONY AT THE PRELIMINARY HEARING; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 98 A:

YEAH. I WOULDN'T SAY ALL OF IT, BUT --

# 99 Q:

BUT YOU WENT THROUGH IT?

# 100 A:

YES.

# 101 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND YOU READ YOUR TWO STATEMENTS TO OFFICERS TIPPIN AND CARR BACK ON JUNE 15TH; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 102 A:

YES.

# 103 Q:

AND AS WITH ALL OF US, I PRESUME THAT YOUR MEMORY WAS BETTER BACK IN JUNE OF 1994 FOR EVENTS THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE ON JUNE 12TH THAN IT IS NOW. IS THAT A FAIR STATEMENT?

# 104 A:

THAT WOULD BE FAIR TO SAY, YES.

KEY QUOTE

# 105 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND SO IN THE COURSE OF READING AND REVIEWING YOUR TESTIMONY, YOU TRIED AS BEST YOU COULD TO REFRESH YOUR RECOLLECTION; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 106 A:

YES.

# 107 Q:

ALL RIGHT. NOW, WITH REGARD TO THE EVENING OF JUNE 12TH, 1994, THAT WAS A SUNDAY EVENING; WAS IT NOT?

# 108 A:

YES, IT WAS.

# 109 Q:

AND AS I UNDERSTAND YOUR TESTIMONY, YOU ARRIVED AT THE SIMPSON RESIDENCE FAIRLY EARLY. YOU GOT THERE SOMEWHERE EARLIER THAN 10:45; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 110 A:

YES.

# 111 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND YOUR IDEA IN GETTING THERE EARLY WAS TO MAKE SURE YOU WERE ON TIME AND THAT YOU GOT HIM TO THE AIRPORT ON TIME; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 112 A:

YES.

# 113 Q:

AND ONE OF THE REASONS YOU WERE GOING TO LEAVE AT 10:45 OR WANTED TO LEAVE AT 10:45 WAS BECAUSE YOU KNEW YOU HAD AN 11:45 FLIGHT TO CATCH; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 114 A:

YES.

# 115 Q:

NOW, AS I UNDERSTAND YOUR TESTIMONY, EVEN THOUGH YOU HAD THOUGHT ABOUT LEAVING AT 10:45, YOU ACTUALLY DIDN'T LEAVE UNTIL SOME TIME AFTER 11:00 O'CLOCK; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 116 A:

YES.

# 117 Q:

AND SO IF I UNDERSTAND YOUR TESTIMONY AGAIN, YOU LEFT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 11:05 AND 11:15 OUT OF THE ROCKINGHAM GATE; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 118 A:

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN THERE, YES.

# 119 Q:

BETWEEN THAT TIME FRAME; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 120 A:

YES.

# 121 Q:

NOW, MISS CLARK DIDN'T ASK YOU THIS, BUT YOU HAD OCCASION THAT --

# 122 MS. CLARK:

OBJECTION TO THE EDITORIALIZING.

# 123 THE COURT:

SUSTAINED.

# 124 MR. COCHRAN:

SHE'S RIGHT. AND LET ME JUST STRIKE THAT FROM THE RECORD, OKAY?

# 125 Q:

BY MR. COCHRAN: NOW, THAT NIGHT, YOU WERE -- YOU SAW MR. SIMPSON FOR AT LEAST THE PERIOD 10:55 OR THEREABOUTS UNTIL YOU DROPPED HIM OFF AT THE OR LEFT HIM AT THE AIRPORT THERE AT ABOUT 11:35; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 126 A:

YES.

# 127 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND THEN AS I UNDERSTAND IT, YOU LEFT HIM WITH THE SKYCAP OR LEFT HIM CHECKING HIS LUGGAGE AND THEN YOU WENT ON AND WENT BACK HOME; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 128 A:

YES.

# 129 Q:

ALL RIGHT. NOW, DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME, YOU HAD OCCASION, DID YOU NOT, TO SEE MR. SIMPSON'S HANDS, DIDN'T YOU?

# 130 A:

YES.

# 131 Q:

IN FACT, YOU DESCRIBED FOR US THAT AT ONE POINT, YOU SHOOK HIS HAND, HIS RIGHT HAND; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 132 A:

YES.

# 133 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND YOU SAW HIM, I THINK YOU'VE DESCRIBED FOR US, COMING DOWN THE STAIRS CARRYING SOME BAGS WITH HIS HANDS; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

# 134 A:

YES.

# 135 Q:

AND DID YOU EVER SEE ANY BAND AIDS ON HIS LEFT HAND, ON HIS LEFT KNUCKLE, MIDDLE FINGER HERE (INDICATING)?

# 136 A:

NO.

# 137 Q:

ALL RIGHT. YOU DIDN'T SEE ANY CUTS ON HIS HANDS THAT EVENING, DID YOU?

# 138 A:

NO.

# 139 Q:

AND YOU DIDN'T SEE MR. SIMPSON BLEEDING THAT EVENING, DID YOU?

# 140 A:

NO.

# 141 Q:

DIDN'T NOTICE ANYTHING UNUSUAL AT ALL REGARDING HIS HANDS, DID YOU?

# 142 A:

NO.

# 143 Q:

NOW, WITH REGARD TO THE EVENTS OF THAT EVENING, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, YOU DESCRIBED FOR US THAT YOU WOULD PUSH THIS BELL ON THE OUTSIDE. AND DID YOU FIND THAT IF YOU PUSHED THE BELL JUST ONCE, THAT IT CONTINUED TO RING FOR A PERIOD OF TIME? COULD YOU HEAR IT RINGING?

# 144 A:

I DON'T REMEMBER THAT. I -- I REMEMBER IT MADE A NOISE.

# 145 Q:

ALL RIGHT. YOU REMEMBER HEARING SOME NOISE IN THE DISTANCE, DID YOU?

# 146 A:

YEAH.

# 147 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND OF COURSE, YOU HAD NEVER PUSHED THAT BELL BEFORE; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 148 A:

NO, I HAVEN'T.

# 149 Q:

NOW, DID YOU EVER ON THAT DAY OR ANY TIME THAT EVENING HAVE ANY INSTRUCTIONS FROM MR. DALE ST. JOHN WITH REGARD TO HOW HE WOULD COME AND PICK UP MR. SIMPSON AND WHETHER OR NOT MR. SIMPSON WOULD OPEN THE GATE FOR HIM? DID YOU EVER TALK TO HIM ABOUT THAT?

# 150 A:

NO.

# 151 Q:

AND HE NEVER INSTRUCTED YOU ABOUT THAT AT ALL?

# 152 A:

NO.

# 153 Q:

IS THAT CORRECT? ALL RIGHT. BUT YOU WERE AWARE THAT MR. ST. JOHN HAD PICKED UP MR. SIMPSON ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS BEFORE JUNE 12TH?

# 154 A:

YES.

# 155 Q:

ALL RIGHT. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES HE HAD PICKED HIM UP?

# 156 A:

I KNOW IT'S NUMEROUS.

# 157 Q:

AND -- WELL, HOW MANY?

# 158 A:

I WOULDN'T KNOW.

# 159 Q:

BUT NUMEROUS OCCASIONS?

# 160 A:

YES.

# 161 Q:

AND HE WAS ONE -- HE WAS THE REGULAR DRIVER FOR MR. SIMPSON; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 162 A:

YES, HE WAS.

# 163 Q:

ALL RIGHT. NOW, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, WHEN YOU FIRST DROVE UP, YOU AT SOME POINT ENDED UP PARKING ACROSS FROM THE ASHFORD GATE AND GOT OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 164 A:

YES.

# 165 Q:

AND JUST KIND OF WAITED; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 166 A:

YES.

# 167 Q:

NOW, YOU DESCRIBED FOR US THIS WAS A SUNDAY EVENING; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 168 A:

YES.

# 169 Q:

AND THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT ON SUNDAY EVENING AFTER 10:30, BETWEEN 10:30 AND 11:00 O'CLOCK, WOULD YOU SAY THAT IT WAS FAIRLY QUIET OUT THERE ON THAT STREET THAT NIGHT?

# 170 A:

IT WAS VERY QUIET.

# 171 Q:

AND YOU COULD HEAR NOISES ATTENDANT TO THE STREET THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT FROM YOUR LOCATION; COULD YOU NOT?

# 172 A:

YES, YOU COULD.

# 173 Q:

AND I THINK YOU DESCRIBED FOR US THAT AT SOME POINT, YOU PARKED THE CAR THERE ON ASHFORD AND YOU GOT OUT OF YOUR CAR AND I THINK YOU HAD A CIGARETTE; IS THAT CORRECT?

# 174 A:

YES.

# 175 Q:

SO YOU WERE OUTSIDE?

# 176 A:

YES.

# 177 Q:

ALL RIGHT. AND AT ANY TIME WHILE YOU WERE OUT THERE THAT NIGHT, DID YOU EVER HAPPEN TO HEAR A CAR DRIVE UP OR HEAR THE SOUND OF A CAR DRIVE UP AND STOP ANYWHERE AROUND THERE?

# 178 MS. CLARK:

OBJECTION. VAGUE.

# 179 THE COURT:

OVERRULED.

# 180 ALLAN PARK:

NO. THERE -- I HEARD CARS. I HEARD CARS GO BY, BUT I NEVER HEARD A CAR PULL UP AND STOP, NO.

KEY QUOTE

# 181 Q:

BY MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. I UNDERSTAND. YOU HEARD AND YOU SAW CARS GO BY; DID YOU NOT?

# 182 A:

YES.

# 183 Q:

ALL RIGHT. BUT YOU NEVER SAW A CAR OR HEARD A CAR DRIVE UP AND COME TO A STOP, DID YOU?

# 184 A:

NO.

# 185 Q:

YOU DIDN'T HEAR --

# 186 MS. CLARK:

OBJECTION. VAGUE. WHERE?

# 187 THE COURT:

OVERRULED.

# 188 Q:

BY MR. COCHRAN: YOU DIDN'T HEAR ANY DOOR SLAM THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT, DID YOU?

# 189 A:

NO.

# 190 Q:

YOU DIDN'T SEE ANY LIGHTS ON THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN CAME TO A STOP AND WERE TURNED OFF THAT PARTICULAR EVENING, DID YOU?

# 191 A:

NO.

# 192 Q:

AND WOULD I BE CORRECT IN ASSUMING THAT WHAT YOU WERE MOST CONCERNED WITH THAT PARTICULAR EVENING WAS FINDING OUT IF MR. SIMPSON WAS AT HOME, GETTING HIM SO YOU COULD GET TO THE AIRPORT? WAS THAT YOUR CONCERN?

# 193 A:

YES.

# 194 Q:

AT THAT TIME, IT WASN'T SO IMPORTANT TO YOU I PRESUME AS TO WHAT CARS WERE PARKED WHERE ON THE STREET. THAT WASN'T IMPORTANT TO YOU, WAS IT?

# 195 A:

NO, NOT AT ALL.

# 196 Q:

AND YOU WEREN'T THINKING ABOUT THAT AT ALL; IS THAT RIGHT?

# 197 A:

NOT AT ALL.

# 198 Q:

IN FACT, YOU RECALL TESTIFYING AT THE PRELIMINARY HEARING WITH REGARD TO WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAD LOOKED FOR ANY PARKED CARS, DON'T YOU? REMEMBER SO TESTIFYING AND BEING ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT PARKED CARS ON THE STREET AT OR NEAR ROCKINGHAM THAT DAY?

# 199 A:

YES.

# 200 Q:

AND DO YOU RECALL --

# 201 MR. COCHRAN:

COUNSEL, PAGE 40, --

# 202 MS. CLARK:

OF?

# 203 MR. COCHRAN:

OF THE PRELIMINARY HEARING TRANSCRIPT. AND I'M LOOKING AT -- BEGINNING AT LINE 15. COUNSEL HAS IT NOW, YOUR HONOR.

# 204 Q:

BY MR. COCHRAN: DO YOU RECALL BEING ASKED THESE QUESTIONS AND GIVING THESE RESPONSES BACK AT THE PRELIMINARY HEARING IN THIS MATTER?

# 205 MS. CLARK:

OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR. THIS IS NOT INCONSISTENT HEARSAY.

# 206 THE COURT:

ALL RIGHT. LET ME SEE COUNSEL AT SIDEBAR WITH THE TRANSCRIPT.

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (4)

Allan Park

NO. THERE -- I HEARD CARS. I HEARD CARS GO BY, BUT I NEVER HEARD A CAR PULL UP AND STOP, NO.

Cochran uses this to suggest no car (the Bronco) returned to Rockingham during Park's watch, undermining the prosecution's timeline of Simpson returning from Bundy.

Allan Park

NO.

Park's repeated denial of seeing any cuts, bleeding, or band-aids on Simpson's hands directly contradicts the prosecution's theory that Simpson was visibly injured from the murders.

Allan Park

IT WAS VERY QUIET.

Establishes the favorable acoustic conditions that make Park's failure to hear any car stop or door slam more credible and more damaging to the prosecution's implied Bronco return scenario.

Allan Park

THAT WOULD BE FAIR TO SAY, YES.

Park concedes his memory was better in June 1994 than at trial — a foundation Cochran lays to then introduce prior testimony for impeachment.

Evidence (3)

Informal

Preliminary hearing transcript, page 40 line 15 — Park's prior testimony about parked cars near Rockingham

Cochran attempts to use for impeachment; Clark objects; sidebar called before ruling

Informal

Park's two June 15, 1994 statements to Officers Tippin and Carr

Referenced as part of establishing Park's prior statements and memory refreshment

Informal

Grand jury and preliminary hearing transcripts of Park's testimony

Park confirmed he read all of them in preparation for trial testimony

Notable Exchanges (4)

Johnnie Cochran•Allan Park

Cochran establishes Park saw Simpson's hands throughout the pickup — carrying bags, shaking hands — and observed zero cuts, bleeding, or band-aids on either hand.

strategic

Johnnie Cochran•Allan Park

Cochran walks Park through the quiet conditions on Rockingham that night, getting Park to confirm he heard no car pull up and stop, no doors slam — a foundation for arguing no Bronco returned during the window.

strategic

Johnnie Cochran•Marcia Clark•Lance A. Ito

Cochran attempts to read from the preliminary hearing transcript to impeach Park on parked cars; Clark objects it is 'not inconsistent hearsay'; Ito calls a sidebar. Transcript ends here.

procedural

Johnnie Cochran•Marcia Clark

Clark objects and Ito sustains when Cochran editorializes by saying 'Miss Clark didn't ask you this.' Cochran immediately backs off and moves on.

procedural

Credibility Attacks (2)

⚔ Allan Park

Prior inconsistent statement

Cochran attempts to impeach Park with his preliminary hearing testimony (page 40, line 15) regarding whether he observed parked cars near Rockingham — the proceeding cuts off at the sidebar before this is resolved.

⚔ Allan Park

Memory foundation

Cochran gets Park to concede his memory was better in June 1994, establishing that contemporaneous statements are more reliable than current trial testimony — setting up potential impeachment.

Objections

4 objections (1 sustained, 2 overruled)

Proceeding 5443 • 206 utterances • Prosecution witness

Criminal Trial

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