14 ore 12 min, 1 giug 1995 anni - List of defense witnesses

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List of Defense Witnesses

Arnelle Simpson: daughter

Carmelita Simpson-Durio: sister

Eunice Simpson: sister

Shirley Baker: sister

Carol Connors: witness

Mary Collins: Interior designer

Jack McKay: Golf Partner

Danny Mandel: witness

Ellen Aaronson: witness

Francesca Harman: witness

Denise Pilnak: witness

Judy Telander: witness

Robert Heidstra: witness

Wayne Stanfield: American Airlines pilot

Michael Norris: Employee of Network Courier

Michael Gladden: witness

Howard Bingham: witness

Stephen Valerie: witness

Jim Merrill: Hertz employee

Raymond Killduff: Hertz division

Mark Partridge: witness

Dr. Robert Huizenga: Simpson's physician

Juanita Moore: Simpson's barber

Donald Thompson: Police officer

John Meraz: Tow truck driver

Richard Walsh: Personal trainer

Willie Ford: LAPD photographer

Josephine "Gigi" Guarin: Simpson's housekeeper

Kelly Mulldorfer: detective

Bert Luper: detective

Dr. Fredrich Rieders: EDTA expert

Roger Martz: FBI expert on EDTA

Herbert MacDonell: defense expert

Thano Peratis: nurse

John Gerdes: Director of Denver Laboratory

Terence Speed: statistical expert

Michael Baden: medical examiner

Michele Kestler: crime lab

Gilbert Aguilar: fingerprint specialist

Larry Ragle: crime lab

Christian Reichardt: ex- fiancée of Faye Resnick

Kenneth Berris: detective

Dr. Henry Lee: forensic expert

Laura Hart McKinney: screenwriter

Kathleen Bell: witness

Natalie Singer: witness

William Blasini Jr.: witness

Rolf Rokahr: photographer

Roderic Hodge: witness

Mark Fuhrman: detective

Philip Vannatter: detective

Michael Wacks: FBI special agent

Larry Fialto: witness

Craig "Tony the Animal" Fialto: witness

Rebuttal Witnesses:
Herbert MacDonell: defense expert


SIMPSON TRIAL WITNESS LIST TRIMMED
By Nell Henderson June 21, 1995

"Prosecutors hoping to speed the pace of the O.J. Simpson murder trial while there are still enough jurors to render a verdict today dropped several planned witnesses in an effort to wrap up their case by next week.

The prosecution plans to scrap all the witnesses it had lined up to offer further testimony about Simpson's alleged physical and emotional abuse of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, during their stormy 17-year relationship, prosecutor Christopher Darden said.

They also will skip witnesses expected to testify about a blood preservative and the purchase of a pair of bloody socks found in O.J. Simpson's bedroom after the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, Ronald L. Goldman.

"We have already presented an extremely compelling case," lead prosecutor Marcia Clark told a news conference. "I've never had a case with so much evidence in my entire life, and it's come out so beautifully. . . . We really feel it's time to get this case to the jury."

"We'd like to get the case to the jury while we have the jury," added Darden.

But defense attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. belittled the prosecution's strategic decision, saying "their case is the shifting sands."

Cochran has predicted that his side will complete its case within eight weeks, which means jurors could begin deliberations by early September.

Both sides have appeared concerned about speeding up the trial since Judge Lance A. Ito dismissed two more jurors earlier this month, leaving just two alternates out of the original pool of 12. The trial is entering its sixth month.

The defense, which is eager to get a verdict, has been uncharacteristically brisk in recent cross-examinations. Today, both sides went through two witnesses in less than two hours, forcing an early end to the court day.

Legal analysts said the prosecution is concerned that it might be barred from retrying Simpson if the jury drops below 12 members, forcing a mistrial. Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, faces reelection next year and could enter the race seriously handicapped if he achieved no verdict in the case, which has already cost taxpayers more than $5 million.

As late as Monday, prosecutors still planned testimony about the blood preservative, the socks purchase and turmoil in the Simpson marriage, according to a sidebar transcript.

The biggest surprise was the decision not to call any more witnesses on domestic abuse, which the prosecution has offered as the central motive for the slayings. Prosecutors had opened their case with testimony about Simpson beating his wife, throwing her out of his house and breaking into her town house.

Prosecutors had planned to call the ex-boyfriend, restaurateur Keith Zlomsowitch, to testify that Simpson hid in the bushes outside her house and watched as the two engaged in sex. Other planned witnesses included two limousine drivers who claimed to have seen Simpson hit his wife and push her out of a moving vehicle.

Prosecutors may have decided that additional testimony about domestic violence would irritate jurors by dragging out the case, said University of Southern California law professor Erwin Chemerinsky. Other analysts noted that dismissed jurors have expressed skepticism that the abuse testimony had provided a sufficient motive for murder.

Darden said the prosecution also scrapped testimony that there were no traces of the preservative EDTA in blood found on the socks or on a back gate at the crime scene. Defense attorneys have suggested that the presence of EDTA, which is used in blood samples at the crime lab, would show that blood had been planted by police conspiring to frame the defendant. Darden said it was up to the defense to prove the allegations.

The prosecution case has been in apparent disarray for days. Prosecutors had planned to go straight to the topic of domestic violence after testimony about the bloody gloves found beside the victims and behind Simpson's house after the murders. But that plan was derailed after Simpson struggled to fit into the gloves during a courtroom demonstration -- a moment Darden derided today as "poor acting by the defendant" but that clearly backfired for the prosecution.

Instead, prosecutors followed with testimony about glove shrinkage, and then with testimony about the type of Italian men's shoes that left bloody shoe prints at the murder scene.

For about 20 minutes today, Bloomingdale's employee Samuel M. Poser testified that he recalled selling Simpson shoes on four or five occasions. But Poser could not remember whether the celebrity defendant purchased the style of shoe that matches the shoe prints. Poser did recall that Simpson always purchased size 12, the same size as the bloody shoe prints left at the crime scene. CAPTION: Attorneys F. Lee Bailey, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., defendant O.J. Simpson, attorney Robert L. Shapiro confer."


Sourced from:
The Washington Post

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