OJ Simpson preliminary hearing, day 4.
Today’s long video is a few minutes longer, no that doesn’t mean the post will be longer, depending on how much transcript I need to take, it might even be shorter, I’m not sure.
We’re continuing with the motion hearing, on the defense motion to suppress evidence. This is the first time I’ve actually walked through the prelim in full, eventually they will return to the main hearing. During excerpt transition, we end up going over some testimony twice, which is better than cutting it off in the middle, and I’m not sure why they didn’t just do this on a regular basis!
Second excerpt, 45 minutes.
During the second excerpt, the audio was a bit quiet, no, I don’t plan to insert the entire thing from the transcript! Although I will link to it!
Third excerpt, 54 minutes.
We also did the going over the same thing twice again, this time, it was a bit of argument and testimony, Perhaps they should’ve done this during the trial! What I mean by that, is the trial is edited differently, so I don’t remember seeing much of that.
Fourth excerpt, 56 minutes.
At 22 minutes into the fourth excerpt, the defense begins their case for the supression motion. The same detective, Philip Vannatter, who was testifying previously during the people’s case, was recalled by the defense.
After Vannatter’s testimony, we had a witness not show up! He didn’t realize he would have to be passed back and forth by lawyers that day, I guess!
Fifth excerpt, 44 minutes.
We didn’t have any gaps or fades during transition, everything looked fine while I was minding the testimony.
The defense called Cathy Randa during the supression hearing, she never testified during trial. Randa was Simpson’s administrative assistant.
During the excerpt transition, the testimony of Dennis Fung was cut off, so I will insert a portion of the transcript. It turns out, it’s just a very small portion that’s needed, one question was cut off, and nothing else.
07 Q Now, were you called on June 13 to come to the
08 premises at 360 north Rockingham?
Yeah, that’s it, that;s all! Although it did fade down quite a bit when transitioning, so we’ll see what happens.
Sixth excerpt, 59 minutes.
The seventh excerpt is 4 minutes long, and consists of the remainder of the arguments to the motion. Seventh excerpt, 4 minutes.
During the transition, there was a gap, so I’ll need to do some transcript fishing.
This is a bit more than what got cut off, but I didn’t want to end it midsentence, and have it be awkward.
09 MR. UELMEN: Very briefly, Your Honor.
10 Four very brief points.
11 First, if we simply take the officers at their
12 word, that their purpose in going to these premises was
13 to notify Mr. Simpson of the murder of his wife and to
14 arrange for the care of his children, we’re left with a
15 real mystery as to how that minute speck on the door of
16 the Bronco all of a sudden elevated their concern to the
17 magnitude that is being described by Ms. Clark.
18 There is nothing logical that we can seize on
19 that suggests that that kind of a speck, on the exterior
20 of an automobile, parked in front of a house, gives you
21 any reason for concern that there are victims, hostages,
22 or bleeding people inside the premises. It just
23 doesn’t connect.
24 It may elevate their motivation to want to
25 enter the premises and conduct a search, but that, we’re
26 told, is — wouldn’t in a million years have been their
27 purpose. They were not looking for a suspect, we’re
28 told.
Transcript for July 6th, 1994.
Full 5 hour, 19 minute video.