Cochran closes his recross with a single pointed question: establishing that LAPD's commanders assumed the murder victim was Nicole Brown Simpson before ordering notification to OJ Simpson. Bushey confirms the assumption, which Cochran uses to cement that the notification order was not a random act but a deliberate decision based on a known victim identity.
# 1 MR. COCHRAN: Last question, your Honor,
FURTHER RECROSS-EXAMINATION BY Mr. COCHRAN
# 2 MR. COCHRAN: With regard to the fact that detectives were at Nicole Brown Simpson's house, her children were at the police department--is that correct?
# 3 COMMANDER BUSHEY: At some point.
# 4 MR. COCHRAN: Yes. They had been found at that scene and Detective Phillips told you that she was the victim; isn't that correct?
# 5 MS. CLARK: Objection, hearsay.
# 6 THE COURT: Overruled.
# 7 MS. CLARK: Asked and answered.
# 8 THE COURT: Overruled.
# 9 MR. COCHRAN: Isn't that correct?
# 10 COMMANDER BUSHEY: Our assumption was that it was Nicole Brown Simpson.
KEY QUOTE # 11 MR. COCHRAN: Otherwise you wouldn't tell him to go give notification? You wouldn't give a direct order as a commander of the Los Angeles Police Department, would you?
KEY QUOTE # 12 COMMANDER BUSHEY: That's correct.
# 13 MR. COCHRAN: Thank you, sir.
# 14 (Discussion held off the record between the Deputy District Attorneys.)