📄 Mezzaluna Restaurant Timeline
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Mezzaluna Restaurant Timeline

27 items · 27 documentary · 14 with detail pages

The catalog assembles Mezzaluna checks and credit-card receipts, telephone records, employee time cards, and testimony concerning the restaurant’s ordering and punch-clock systems. The records include a 9:37 p.m. call to the restaurant and time cards showing Ron Goldman clocking out at 9:33 p.m. and Tia Gavin at 9:58 p.m., while testimony and challenges addressed the reliability of several recorded times. Related materials include police interview reports, a witness itinerary and phone bill, route diagrams and timing exercises, and prosecution and defense timeline presentations.

Detailed entries (14)

Defense 1237 — Denise Pilnak Phone Bill
📄 Documentary

Denise Pilnak's phone bill covering June 10–15 and documenting a three-minute call listed as Gardena at 10:25 p.m. on June 12, 1994. Admitted as Defense 1237, it was described at trial as her bill and was cited by Johnnie Cochran as corroborating her timeline testimony.

1237Defendant's 1237Defense 1237
5 procs · 2 people
Ellen Aaronson's route printout (apartment to Mezzaluna)
📄 Documentary

Computer printout tracing the route from Ellen Aaronson's apartment to Mezzaluna restaurant and back; it was admitted without objection.

Defense 1233Defense 1233 / 1234
2 procs · 2 people
Juditha Brown phone records (9:37 PM call to Mezzaluna)
📄 Documentary

Phone records showing a call at 9:37 PM on June 12, 1994, to Mezzaluna restaurant's number (310-447-8667), placed by Juditha Brown; defense stipulated to the 9:37 PM time.

People's 35Plaintiff's 26
2 procs · 3 people
Plaintiffs' 2229 — Petee Driving-Instructions Fax
📄 Documentary

Copy of a November 27, 1996 fax from Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp containing written driving instructions for Randall Petee, marked for identification and later received in evidence as Plaintiffs' 2229.

Plaintiffs' 2229Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 2229
2 procs · 3 people
Defense 1232 — Danny Mandel's Mezzaluna Credit-Card Receipt
📄 Documentary

Danny Mandel's Mezzaluna credit-card receipt, admitted in copy as Defense 1232, showing a charge of approximately $47.40–$47.48 and a printed time of 8:55 p.m. Testimony described the register as one hour slow, while Mandel acknowledged that the receipt did not establish his exact departure time.

Defense 1232
8 procs · 5 people
Defense 1238 — Denise Pilnak's June 12 Itinerary
📄 Documentary

Two-page typed itinerary prepared by Denise Pilnak on January 25, 1995, and sent to Detective Vannatter, describing her activities and observations on June 12, 1994, including dog barking around 10:33–10:35 p.m. Marked Defense 1238, it was examined at trial concerning its timing, a location discrepancy, and a disputed second page.

Defense 1238
5 procs · 4 people
Defense 1235 — Kilcoyne's July 8 Aaronson Interview Report
📄 Documentary

Detective Kilcoyne's report of his July 8, 1994 telephonic interview with Ellen Aaronson, identified as her second interview and admitted as Defense 1235. The report recorded her corrected timeline after she learned that Mezzaluna's cash register was one hour behind and was cross-referenced during the admissibility hearing to People's Exhibit 495.

Defense 1235
3 procs · 2 people
Defense 1236 — Vannatter Report of Ellen Aaronson's September 12 Statement
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Detective Vannatter's report of Ellen Aaronson's September 12, 1994 interview, conducted with Marcia Clark and recording Aaronson's route and reported 10:25 p.m. passage of the crime scene.

Defense 1236
3 procs · 3 people
Mezzaluna credit card receipt signed by Nicole Brown Simpson
📄 Documentary

American Express credit card receipt bearing Nicole Brown Simpson's apparent signature for $179.95 plus a $34 gratuity totaling $213.95, dated June 12, 1994, with an inaccurate printed timestamp of 7:12 PM.

People's 34
3 procs · 4 people
Mezzaluna NCR restaurant check (Nicole Brown Simpson's party)
📄 Documentary

NCR-printed Mezzaluna restaurant check for Nicole Brown Simpson's table of ten, recorded as nine guests, totaling $179.95 and listing items including bolognese. Its printed timestamps were inaccurate.

People's 33
3 procs · 4 people
Ron Goldman's Mezzaluna time card (week ending June 12, 1994)
📄 Documentary

Ron Goldman's employee time card for the week ending June 12, 1994, showing he clocked in at 4:30 PM and clocked out at 9:33 PM; includes a handwritten notation by Karen Crawford of a totaled figure of $26.50 at the bottom left. Defense challenged the accuracy of the time-punch machine.

People's 36
3 procs · 3 people
Tia Gavin's Mezzaluna time card (week ending June 12, 1994)
📄 Documentary

Tia Gavin's Mezzaluna employee time card for the week ending June 12, 1994, showing clock-in at 5:02 PM and clock-out at 9:58 PM; the original was substituted for a previously used Xerox copy with defense consent during trial.

People's 28
3 procs · 3 people
Plaintiffs' 2228 — Petee Route Time-and-Mileage Notes
📄 Documentary

Typed notes prepared by Randall Petee recording time and mileage data for each route, introduced and later received in evidence as Plaintiffs' 2228.

Plaintiffs' 2228
2 procs · 2 people
Credit card company letter accompanying Mandel's Mezzaluna receipt
📄 Documentary

Letter from Danny Mandel's credit card company accompanying a copy of his Mezzaluna restaurant receipt dated June 12, 1994.

Defense 1231
1 proc · 2 people

Additional references (13)

Brief references from transcripts that don't warrant an individual page. Each has a single source or is mentioned only in passing.

  • Defense area diagram (Mezzaluna to Bundy) — Area diagram showing the relationship between Mezzaluna restaurant and Bundy, requested during the defense examination but still being retrieved and not yet introduced when the examination closed.
  • Defense Preview of Anticipated Tom Lang Testimony — Johnnie Cochran's opening-statement preview that anticipated witness Tom Lang would describe seeing Nicole Brown Simpson embracing someone at a curb, with an angry Hispanic or Caucasian man nearby, at approximately 10:00 p.m. on June 12.
  • Faxed Copy Resembling a Mezzaluna Receipt — Faxed document shown to Ellen Aaronson that she said looked like a receipt Mezzaluna would issue; identification was halted when a foundation objection was sustained.
  • June 12 Events Timeline Board — Timeline board displayed during closing argument to show the asserted sequence of events on the night of June 12.
  • LAPD interview report by Investigators Carr and Tippin — LAPD interview report by Investigators Carr and Tippin from the Monday after the murders, noting that Ron volunteered to take the glasses to her house.
  • Mezzaluna employee punch-clock reference — Reference from Tia Gavin's redirect examination to the employee punch-in time clock, which was confirmed as accurate in connection with Gavin's prior time-card testimony.
  • Mezzaluna NCR ordering-machine timestamp reference — Reference from Tia Gavin's redirect examination to the NCR restaurant ordering computer, which printed customer checks with timestamps and was discussed as having an unreliable or inaccurate time clock.
  • Petee Route-Exercise Instruction Memorandum — Memorandum from Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp instructing Randall Petee how to conduct the exercise; Petee did not have it when requested, and the judge ordered its production.
  • Petee Sunday Route-Timing Exercise — Sunday evening timing and route exercise conducted by Randall Petee between two addresses; Mr. Baker questioned the route choice and whether the exercise was designed to produce a particular result.
  • Petee Three-Route Timing Report — Petee's notes or report documenting elapsed times for three routes from 875 South Bundy to 360 North Rockingham, discussed and challenged during cross-examination.
  • Prosecution “Triggering Events” Board — Prosecution argument board listing Paula Barbieri's rejection, a Nicole phone call, and Mezzaluna exclusion as asserted triggering events.
  • Ron Goldman's work notebook (menu specials, June 12, 1994) — Ron Goldman's work notebook containing menu specials from the night of June 12, 1994; no receipts or tabs were found inside.
  • Trial transcript excerpt — Tia Gavin testimony on Nicole's meal — Trial transcript pages 13568–13569 containing Tia Gavin's testimony that Nicole Brown Simpson had rigatoni, read into the record during Dr. Michael Baden's cross-examination to anchor a gastric-emptying timeline.
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