Oj simpson trial alibi

During his deposition, Simpson said he did not sleep, and would not have slept, because he had planned on sleeping during his red-eye flight to Chicago. Simpson repeated what he said publicly during a call into "Larry King Live" after he was acquitted -- that he was the shadowy figure Park saw in the entryway.

The source close to the civil case told CNN the largest discrepancy between Simpson's deposition and Park's testimony could be the order in which Simpson was seen by Park and responded to Park's call on the intercom. During his deposition, Simpson gives two different accounts of when he first talked to Park the night of the murders.

At one point in his deposition Simpson says he spoke to limo driver Park just before taking his garment bag outside. Park, however, testified he saw the shadowy figure go into the entryway of the house at p. Later in Simpson's deposition, Simpson said he had indeed answered Park on the intercom after taking his bags outside. Park testified the figure was wearing dark clothes. During his deposition, the source told CNN, Simpson said he was wearing a bathrobe when he first went outside.

Later, as Park sped Simpson to the airport for a red-eye flight to Chicago, he said, the former football star complained repeatedly of the heat - turning on the air conditioner and rolling down a window - though Park described the weather as mild, about 70 degrees.

Although Park said he could not identify Simpson as the shadowy figure he had seen on the driveway that night, prosecutor Marcia Clark had Simpson stand at the defense table. Late in the day, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. Goldman was stabbed multiple times in his chest, abdomen and thigh. To this day, no one knows what was in the bag, but it could have contained the murder weapon, which was never found.

Speaking of the murder weapon, the National Enquirer ran a story in that OJ Simpson actually kept the murder weapon, which is believed to have been a six-inch German stiletto knife. The most shocking moment of the trial was when defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran put the gloves worn by the killer on OJ and they did not fit. Simpson recorded a tape where he threatened to kill himself before he took off in his white Bronco. According to portions of the tape which were shared with the media, Simpson said:.

Please, please, please, please leave my kids at peace. I love everybody. Once Cochran gained control of Simpson's defense strategy and pushed Shapiro to the side, he wooed the courtroom and media. Using his "Black preacher" style approach, he controversially used the race card to curry sympathy for Simpson.

After prosecutor Darden made the mistake of demanding Simpson try on the ill-fitted bloody gloves, Cochran uttered the famous phrase: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. Before Lance Ito was appointed to the bench in , he was an attorney for the L. A fan of media attention, Ito was arguably too lax about different aspects of the Simpson trial, giving interviews and inviting celebrities and journalists into his chambers. Judge Ito was further criticized on his decision to allow cameras in the courtroom and letting attorneys stall and have too many sidebars.

His willingness to include Detective Mark Fuhrman's old taped interviews, in which he denigrated Black people, was also a huge source of contention for the prosecution. In a strange twist, the tapes also revealed Fuhrman had made disparaging remarks about Ito's wife, Margaret York, who was Fuhrman's department superior at the time.

When those comments were exposed, the prosecution asked for Ito to recuse himself due to his possible bias against Fuhrman, but later the request was withdrawn. Among the most controversial figures of the Simpson trial was L. Although Fuhrman denied ever having racist tendencies or using the n-word, a taped interview he had chosen to do 10 years earlier revealed otherwise. In the recording, he was quoted as saying to incarcerated Black people: "You do what you're told, understand, n—r?

A wave of backlash hit Fuhrman, but he continued denying being a racist and also pushed back against the defense's theory that he planted the bloody glove to frame Simpson. As the prosecution's witness, Dennis Fung — the LAPD criminologist who collected evidence at the murder scene — ended up spending the longest time testifying on the stand.

For nine days, Fung recalled how he collected samples of blood, albeit admittedly overlooking some important areas where blood drops were identified and not always using gloves. The defense ate up Fung's inefficient and careless actions and implicated him as a liar who was part of a larger LAPD conspiracy against Simpson.