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From: Jasper
Date: 9/17/00
Time: 8:34:40 PM
John,
I have a lot of work to do. The last time I spent hours finding the references you demanded you posted them and then went on to comment as thought they weren't there. You obviously didn't pay any attention to them or check for yourself. I have a feeling that you will do the same thing with the Lopez testimony if I take the trouble of posting it for you. Even if you post what I do, you will ignore it and you won't look for yourself. So, for now, I going to confine my response to what you said about the "small army" and the baggage that is attached to ANYONE sneaking around the Rockingham grounds."
You wrote: "I'm not sure I understand you, Jasper. If you just named three, why do you need me to name two?"
My answer: A small army implies a great number of people. If I miscounted the number I actually used you should be able to name two that I missed. It's all in the book but you haven't read the book.
You wrote: "BTW, I was being slight sarcastic in using that phrase, and perhaps should not have used it. The point I was really trying to make is that ANY theory that has ANYONE sneaking around the Rockingham grounds has all kind of 'baggage' attached to it. Where were those people hdiding? And, while hiding, how could they keep track of the people they were supposed to be keeping track of? And so forth.
My answer: These kinds of questions are proof positive that you don't know what I wrote in Iago about the surveillance of Rockingham. You haven't even studied the pictures in the book or checked out the available reference to the times and locations I described. O.J.'s plans for the night of June 12, 1994 could have been available to anyone with a police scanner in the area of his business office or his home two weeks earlier. We did this before, remember, when you accused me of being stupid because I didn't know the difference between a cell phone and a cordless phone and use the terms interchangeably. My point was - and still is - both phones use radio waves to transmit information. A police scanner could be set to receive phone conversions conducted on any cell phone or cordless phone within range. No extraordinary methods or exotic, hard-to-get equipment was necessary. A telephoto lens or just good pair of binoculars is all that would have been necessary to keep an eye on the Bronco from a block away.
O.J. had a date in Chicago that he talked about on his cell phone with his secretary Cathy Randa. He was also scheduled to attend Sydney's dance recital at Paul Reverie. They talked about that, too. The limo driver was scheduled to pick him up on Rockingham at 10:45. That was something else they had to discuss. All of which means that an eavesdropper would have been able to plan a June 12th surveillance of O.J. well in advance with critical times and dates he could use to set it up. O.J. normally parked his Bronco on Ashford, west of the Ashford gate. The fact that he parked it north of the gate on Rockingham on the evening of the 12th simply meant that the observer had to station himself somewhere else - no problem at all for an expert in covert surveillance. Ron Shipp was an expert in covert surveillance. He knew the layout and the security system of O.J.'s property and frequently entered without permission to impress his cop friends until O.J. put a stop to it.
O.J.'s gate opener was missing, but an intruder could have gone between the houses by way of the Sallenger's property. When Rosa Lopez described the footsteps she herd after O.J. left for McDonalds with Kato (it's in the transcripts, John) she couldn't say which side of the fence he was on.
Like I said, John, I have some work to do. If you're serious about Rosa's testimony, it seems to me that you do, too. -- Jasper