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From: Jasper
Date: 14 Jul 2000
Time: 10:05:03
John,
The reason you're uncertain about the hair in the glove may be because the evidence itself is contradictory. The hair could belong to Kailen because nobody that we know of tested it against his. It was identified only as being Caucasian…By the way, I found in the September 26 transcripts that it was a limb hair.
I'm pretty sure that the blond limb hairs you recall being found in the glove were actually Nicole's died blond head hair found on the outside of the glove. These hairs were found on the outside of both gloves.
This is where things get real confusing: In one part of the transcripts you will read that there was no limb hair of any kind on the cashmere lining of the glove. Then you will read where Marcia says there was one black (African) limb hair in the lining of the Rockingham glove. In another part she mentions several of those hairs being found in that glove. Barry Sheck comes back and says that the only hair found in the glove was a Caucasian hair and that the prosecution did not match it against Fuhrman's hair. He comes back after a break and corrects himself. But when he talks about the hair in the context of his error he makes it plural. He says "hairs." After that he admits that Fuhrman was eliminated as the donor of the Caucasian hair and questions how only one of O.J.'s limb hairs could have been left in the lining of gloves he'd had since 1990. But he wasn't as explicit as he should have been about which hairs he was talking about and makes it sound as though the Caucasion hair and the black person's hair was one and the same.
This is what he said:
MR. SCHECK: Thank you very much. I realize these have been long days and I really appreciate the patience and the way that you followed. I was inaccurate in a statement I made to you and I want to correct it immediately. That had to do with the hairs found on the Rockingham glove. Detective Fuhrman, in checking the transcript at 32493, was in fact eliminated as the donor of that Caucasian hair and that was an inaccuracy on my part. And I have tried very hard to key things to areas of the transcript, and obviously Miss Clark I'm sure will bring any inaccuracies to your attention, if there are any, and try very hard to do that, and you should have the testimony reread. I shouldn't misread things like I just did. Another thing I forgot to mention about the Rockingham gloves, however, both gloves, and that is they found a limb hair. This Caucasian hair is not accounted for to anybody, but there is a limb hair that was found inside the glove. Now, if Mr. Simpson had had these gloves for four years, as the Prosecution contends, then there should have been more limb hairs. One thing that you saw, and when you saw his hands, and that is, is that he has a lot of hair on this part of his fingers, (Indicating), and if these gloves had been worn for four years you would expect to find a lot more of these limb hairs inside the gloves, but you don't find that. So that is another point to consider that I left out.
Sounds to me like Barry was a tad confused at that momenet and ran two sets of facts together without realizing what he said. What do you think? --Jasper