Events Associated with Prosecution
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| June | 13 | 12:30 AM -- Officer Vasquez takes the Simpson children to West LA Station. She will stay with them for the next five hours, and later provide the prosecution with a detailed report of everything they said, or did. Excerpts from that report -- the children's words -- will later appear in Simpson related books, including that of Marcia Clark. |
| 13 | The Families Learn of the deaths
Larry King Live, June 1 1997
BROWN: I was at Sydney's dance recital and we had dinner at Mezzaluna Restaurant, and then we were on our way home. And it was really kind of a bizarre event because I can still remember it, how my mother was so quiet in the car. And it was really a very bizarre situation, and we were at home. And the next morning, I woke up and 6:15 in the morning, and we got a phone call.
My mother (took the call), and she heard -- all of a sudden I was in the kitchen because I was supposed to go -- I don't know why I was up early that day, but all of a sudden I hear a scream and I run back there and she says Nicole has been killed, Nicole has been murdered. And I think everybody just went screaming through the house. It was just -- probably the worst thing that could possibly happen to a family. It was an absolute nightmare.
It was just that she was very quiet. I don't know, my mother sometimes I feel like she knows what's going to happen or she senses something, and she was just very quiet and I didn't understand why. I thought maybe she was mad at me. But I don't know, maybe she just knew that something was going to happen or something was wrong. I don't know it was just really sad.
I said (my brother-in-law did it) that morning when I was on the phone with Tom Lange.
FRED GOLDMAN: I got the news as I walked in the door on that 13th at 5:30 or so in the afternoon. Patti had just received a phone call from the coroner's office, telling her of Ron's death. And I walked in literally at that moment, and Patti screamed, and I ended up on the phone and heard the exact same thing.
KIM GOLDMAN: I found out at 6:40 on Monday, the 13th, after receiving a phone call from my father. They didn't hear until 5:20, and I wasn't home until 6:40. My dad and Patti called me and told me, and then I was on the next plane to Los Angeles.
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| 14 | 5:30 PM, Monday, Names of Victim's were released to Media.
Clark states {WaD, page 128}, "By the time Simpson was bound over for trial, F. Lee Bailey was being cited as a possible addition to the defendant's all-star team."
While Bailey states {LKL, June 13th, 1997}, "... the very next thing I knew I got a call from Robert Shapiro saying I have been hired and I need some guidance. And on the 14th day of June, I was in the case, from then on."
In revealing her lack of awareness -- her lack of knowledge about who was on the "Dream Team", at what point -- Clark reveals much about why she believed she could frame a case based upon repeated lies and misrepresentations.
{WaD, pp 31-32} "Whenever I had a case requiring DNA testing, I tried to circumvent the Special Investigations Division, ... I knew the crime lab was doing a relatively simple DNA test called DQ alpha. I could live with that."
Tuesday afternoon, SID calls Clark saying blood on Bundy pathway matches Simpson.
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| 14 | Lou Brown orders the locks at Bundy changed. Their attorney, JQ Kelly has theroized the missing fingerprint was removed at that time.
The police maintained security at Rickingham for a longer period than then did at the actual crime scene. As a result, the Brown's gained access which resulted in the destruction of evidence.
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| 15 | Wednesday, L.A. Times has the blood test results, but the DA has been frozen out by the LAPD and hasn't received {WaD, pp 32} "... so much as a single piece of paper. Even Gil (Garcetti) had realized it was time for a showdown, and he'd finally brokered a meeting with the cops for later tha afternoon."
In attendance: Commander John White, chief of detectives; Lieutenant John Rogers, of Robbery/Homicide; Captain William Gartland, head of RHD; Phil Vannatter; Tom Lange; Bill Hodgeman; David Conn; Marcia Clark |
| 17 | Friday morning, DA and LAPD have results of DQ-Alpha tests. |
| | Grand Jury Hearing convenes with Brian "KATO" KAELIN as only scheduled witness. KATO invokes his FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS. The hearing is delayed until the 20th. |
| | 8:30 PM Lange calls Robert Shapiro: stating, LAPD has issued an arrest warrant for Simpson. Shapiro has until 11:00 AM to bring his client in. Shapiro mentions his concern about Simpson's mental state -- that OJ might be suicidal. Shipiro drives to Robert Kadashian's house {where Simpson is staying} in Encino. |
| 18 | 12:00 PM, police arrive at Kardashian's house. |
| | Fuhrman is in San Fenando Valley, having lunch with the attorney {John Wright} who defended him in the Joseph Britton shooting case.
A civil action associated with this case would be settled prior to the start of the Criminal Trial. |
| | 12:30 PM, Fuhrman arrives at West LA Station, meeting Phillips and Roberts in the parking lot -- the three men head to Rockingham. Fuhrman & Roberts station themselves on the property adjoining the tennis court. |
| | 1:55 PM, LAPD Commander David Gascon initiates Press Conference. |
| | 3:00 PM, District Attorney Gill Garcetti announces Simpson is a fugitive from justice. |
| | 5:00 Robert Shapiro press conference asking Simpson to surrender.
Ron Phillips tells Fuhrman & Roberts that Simpson might have killed himself. |
| | "Low Speed Car Chase" has Simpson pull trigger while talking to Kardashian -- gun misfires. Simpson talks to Lange, revealing they are headed back to Rockingham.
At Rockingham, Phillips orders Fuhrman & Roberts to clear the house. Everyone, except Jason, vacates premises immediately. Fuhrman & Roberts take up pistol positions -- SWAT officers are on the way, arriving just minutes before the Bronco. |
| | 8:53 PM, Orenthal James Simpson is in police custody. |
| 20 | Fuhrman scheduled to appear before Grand Jury -- but is never called.
Fuhrman writes {page 94}:
Before the preliminary hearing I already knew the importance of the glove I had fund at Rockingham, but I didn't yet realize how central it was to the case." |
| 24 | Grand Jury Hearing dismissed |
| -- | Marcia Clark, "Without a Doubt", page 91
"By now, of course, I had had an opportunity to read carefully through Phil's affidavit in support of the first warrant served on Rockingham the morning of June 13, and was distressed to find several glaring errors.
"Phil had written, for instance, that Simpson had left town unexpectedly, when in fact, his trip to Chicago had been planned in advance. ..."
"The most serious thing I saw in that warrant, however, was not an error, but an omission. For whatever reason, Phil had failed to put in the affidavit that they'd had to leap the wall that morning to unlock the gate. He certainly hadn't mentioned it to me when he'd called me for advice on the warrant. I was seriously annoyed by this."
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| Here Clark gets cagey -- demonstrating a pattern which begins on page 14 and continues routinely in association with Detective Vannatter. She tells her readers that Vannatter informed her the Warrant was signed, asserting, "Signed? ... Wasn't he going to read me the final draft? I found that a little odd, but decided not to make an issue of it." |
| Without a doubt, Clark has written a book designed to extracate herself from charges of prosecutorial misconduct. Slowly, systematically, she assigns guilt to others. The more she can pin on others, the less she can eventually be held culpible for. |
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| -- | {"WaD", page 86} Sturday mornin, June 25th fifteen deputies and brass met in the conference room next to Gil Garcetti's office for a briefing by Clark in which she informed them:
"The police lab did DNA testing on the blood drops at Bundy leading away from the victims--and they all come back to Simpson. The bloody shoe prints to the right of those drops are size twelve--Simpson's size. The blood on the Rockingham glove seems to be a mixture of Ron's and Nicole's blood, and possibly Simpson's. We'll send the samples to Cellmark for more sophisticated testing."
The determination to charge Simpson with first-degree murder. |
| So we have learned, the LAPD had tested the blood, and determined the shoe size. |
| EDITING NOTE: WHEN DID FBI GET INVOLVED? WHO FROM LAPD DETERMINED SIZE? |
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| 28 | Second Warrant, signed by Phil Vannatter -- but with phrasing, and syntex, distinctively different from that of first warrant -- is obtained.
Tuesday -- Lange, Vannatter, Clark, Conn (Clark's boss & Head of the Special Trials Unit) & Hodgman -- go to Rockingham in a single car. Reporters are at the gates and media copters hover overhead. Inside the gates they meet John Stevens (D.A.'s office photographer) who Clark requested accompany them and video tape the grounds.
Arnelle Simpson is inside the house when they arrive.
Fuhrman was at the pool area -- having arrived in another vechile.
They seize a single black leather Aris glove with a "different lining from the pair found at Bundy and in the south walkway,..."
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What they say about the warrant
| FUHRMAN: Well, I sure think somebody should probably investigate just exactly who wrote that. Now I waited for Marcia Clark's book. She says on TV and I think she makes a statement in her book, "I wanted this second warrant done right so I supervised it and made sure." I think that's very interesting. There's other items in there. She talks about a glove -- a pair of gloves that was found in Simpson's chest of drawers that shows the quality and size and brand of gloves that he prefers. They were inadvertently left at the scene, is what the search warrant says. Brad Roberts found those gloves. He brought them downstairs -- I'm standing right there -- and he says, "You guys want these?" He says, "Go put them back where you found them." |
| To Clark, the ARIS glove seized represents evidence manufacturer preference -- factually, it represents a store preference. We know Nicole shopped at Bloomingdales; which is a distributor for Aris products. We also know -- from Denise Brown -- that Nicole wore Bruno Magli shoes. Thus, the two facts combine to tell us Nicole's taste in clothing styles ran to Brono Magli and Aris. To the extent that Nicole purchased clothing for the men in her life, we would expect that these two styles would appear in their wardrobes. |
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| 29 | {"WaD", page 97} the eve of the preliminary hearing, Marcia Clark began "to realize that no matter what happened in court, the sheer amplitude of media coverage would distort these proceedings like never before. It made me feel out of control, angry and helpless." |
| 30 | First Day of Witnesses in Preliminary Hearings. 9:10 AM, Jugde Kathleen Kennedy-Powell presiding.
Clark & Shapiro debate the number of hair samples to be collect from Simpson. |
| July | ?? | Prior to Trial, Detective Fuhrman is approached by Regnery Publishers and begins negociating a book deal. |
| 3 | Lange brings Fung back to Bundy to collect blood on rear gate -- prior to testing, authorities postitively identify it to media as belonging to Simpson.
Fuhrman {page 55 - Murders in Brentwood} wonders -- given this blood is still there -- why bloody fingerprint wasn't also collected. |
| 5 | ^:00 AM Fuhrman plays Basketball -- after shower he has "bad hair day". |
| | Around noon, Fuhrman told to appear in court at 1:30 PM.
Fuhrman arrives at Criminal Court Building just before 1:00 PM, where he meets Marcia Clark for second time. |
| 8 | Day Six of Preliminary Hearing:
Gregory Matheson, LAPD Supervising Criminalist testifies one in 200 people in LA match blood droplet found at Bundy. On cross examination he equates this as 40,000 to 80,000 people in the Los Angeles area alone.Dr. Irwin Golden, Deputy Medical Examiner, LA County Coroner's Offic testifies: based on defensive wounds, Ronald Goldman put up a fight. |
| 20 | COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES FOR WRONGFUL DEATH
Case No. SC031947. In the Calendar of events, twelve days after the Preliminary Hearing, Sharon Rufo determines there's MONEY in this. |
| 25 | The New Yorker publishes article by Jeffery Toobin, "Annals of Law an Incendiary Defense" -- detailing Shapiro's defense strategy focusing on Fuhrman. |
| -- | National Enquirer publishes "O.J. Prosecutor's Tragic Secret Life"
Clark decides {WaD, pp 178} "If I just concentrate on my job, I can get through this. They'll get tired of me. I can ride this out."
How much she and Simpson must have in common. for she continues:
"But the tabs didn't get tired of me. In September I picked up new rumblings: the National Enquirer was working on a story that I had been a battered wife.They'd apparently turned up a pair of backgammon promoters who were claiming that once, during a tournament-organizing event, Gaby got angry and threw a cahir at me. They'd also found some dingbat who'd been a neighbor of Gaby's and mine. She was claiming that I walked around in long sleved dresses all the time so that no one would see the bruises from Gaby's beatings."
To play the dingbat neighbor, Clark found Faye Resnick. She dismissed Nicole's own words and promoted Domestic Violence to the media -- though she shyed away from it in court. She played National Enquirer to manufacture her Simpson case. Petrocelli would later edit it -- introduce parking lot witnesses to Simpson hitting Nicole -- and represent it in place of factual evidence. Listen to Clark's response -- the use of the word "wrestled". To Daniel Petrocelli, "wrestled", is an obvious lie. Can we say it's true when used by Clark?
"The news threw me into a state of near panic. Of course I knew what the truth was. Gaby never threw anything at me in public. His pride would never have allowed him to let people see that we fought. We did all that in private. But even during those arguments behind closed doors he never beat me. Never. He pushed, I shoved, we wrestled. That's as far as it ever went."
We know Nicole was the one who threw things; she was the one to hit people -- she hit O.J.'s maid. O.J. said they "wrestled", but he didn't hit Nicole. Every credible witness, who knew Nicole & O.J., has painted Nicole as the more violent one in the relationship. The one exception? Denise Brown, Nicole's sister, who the Nicole Brown Simpson Fund. Form the beginning, Denise pocketed the donations -- until she was caught by a member of the media and quickly filed the documents to make it a legal charity. Even then, the Fund's first financial report showed no distributions; one paid employee, a secretary; claimed no salary to Denise, or other officers; yet had "expenses" in excess of $130,000. Must be a very well paid secretary.
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| Aug. | 1 | Captain Garland, Robbery/Homicide Division, calls Ron Philips: At Bundy, Ron Fischman apparently noticed a blood drop on the step of the north walkway -- previously unnoticed, thus uncollected. Philips & Fuhrman check it out. Fuhrman discovers a piece of gum with clear impressions of adult molars -- gum is booked but never introduced into evidence. |
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| -- | Prosecution calls in crime reconstructionist, Rod Angler who (1997 Discovery Channel) goes on record with regard to the socks: The blood stops where shoe top would be -- if it were a regular street type shoe -- and under where the pants cuff would be.
What's so interesting about this remark? It deals with the socks, but provides information about the shoe which had to be worn with those socks ... a regular street type shoe. But the Brono Magli Lorenzo is NOT a regular street type shoe, it is a three-quarter shoe which extends above the ankle bone. A regular street type shoe stops BELOW the ankle. The blood was where it could not be. It could not be a "splatter" and still be inside the shoe. The prosecution's expert establishes the basis for planting.
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| Sept | -- | Marcia Clark "engages" Mark Fleischer, an entertainment lawyer, who tells her he'll work pro bono {free}: "I'm going to help you out as a favor to the D.A.'s office."
Clark decides, "The man was a freaking saint." She's sees no ethical conflict in having the D.A.'s office owe Fleischer "a favor."
Fleischer tells Clark to purchase a microcassette recorder to a daily documentation of each tabloid article "and how it affected you." {pp 181}
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| 13 | Clark begins using the microcassette to document her "feelings." A month before jury selection, she has begun the process of writing, "Without a Doubt." |
| Oct | 2 | Clark summarizes the basic forensic evidence into her {"WaD", pp183}CAR TAPE. and and askes the question "... who wants to try a case against Yogi Bear?" |
| Nov. | ?? | Detective Fuhrman's attorney Darryl Mounger advises him to delay plans for a book -- negociations with Regnery are suspended. |
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