From: Jasper
Date: 1/7/01
Time: 5:46:11 PM
John,
Read the transcripts -- and take another look at what I wrote in Iago.
I can write. You can post some of what I write. But before you say how screwed up it is, it would be a good idea to read it. You don't have a single thing right that I said about the glove or the timeline and you haven't checked your sources beyond what you've found that appears on the surface to support what you said. So much of what you said is just plain wrong, and there is so much of it that I can't even start. Moreover, you have adopted an approach to information gathering and analysis that relies on one source when many sources are available and you quick to cite it when telling your opponents that they don't have the facts. It is a whole like easier to cite one source that agrees with your conclusion than to cite fifty that all have to line up in order for any of them to be valid.
You have a timeline that discounts the testimony of every timeline witness with a good reason to know the time and with a way of cross-referencing their observations with phone records and independent witnesses. You have a suspect making phone calls and pretending to be a woman with no evidence that he did so and no way for him to know the calls would not be traced back to him. You have a killer with a nosebleed on the murder scene, who leaves a blood trail from there to Rockingham and a lucky coincidence that those drops are degraded and cross-contaminated with O.J.'s blood. But you have no evidence that your suspect was bleeding. You have your suspect steeling the Bronco and trusting to luck that no one will notice that it was missing with no evidence that it was moved. You have him stealing the Bronco, driving to Bundy, committing the murders and driving back while O.J. was in his front yard chipping golf balls. You have a suspect who goes out of his way to give the man he's trying to frame an ironclad alibi - but you are refusing to look at that evidence because it doesn't fit your timeline.
You are going to win every argument every time because there is nothing anyone can say that will counter a determined effort to discount it. Learning the truth is a different matter. If I make a general statement you can make a specific claim that seems to rebut it. If I address the specific claim you demand documentation. If I show you the documentation you challenge it. If you can't challenge it you dismiss its importance. If the bottom line isn't "Kato did it," you don't care what the facts are. You assume that I have done the same with Fuhrman in the face of a 700 page book that spends over half of those pages carefully documenting just the opposite.
John, it is a fact that blood in the cashmere lining of the Rockingham glove was identified as O.J.'s. It is also a fact that the accuracy of that identification was disputed. It was not a good sample. It had EDTA in it and the defense argued that it was a degraded sample of someone else's blood that was cross-contaminated with O.J.'s . I said that I thought they were wrong and the blood was planted.
The 10:04 time that O.J. took Chachi for a walk is established by the last call that O.J. made to Paula Barbiari just before he headed for the gate. It was the last thing he did before he took Chachi for a walk. That's in the civil trail transcripts. I spent several months on that testimony because it is very confusing and appears to be contradictory in places. At one point O.J. says he called Barbiari after he went to his Bronco. At another time he said he did it after he went to his Bentley. He then backtracked his movements and decided that he must have made the call when he was standing behind the Bentley.
O.J. did not testify to having the cell phone with him because he wasn't sure whether he had it with him or not. He talked about swinging a 3-wood. That, he was sure of, because he couldn't find the sand wedge he was looking for. He ended up using a pitching wedge he got from the trunk of the Bentley.
The blood drops that Fung collected at Rockingham corresponded to what he said he did at that time and to what he said he did when he was about to leave. We're talking about two sets of exculpatory blood trials leading to the Bronco at different times and into his front door. What you're missing here in your haste to say how incompetent I am, is the fact that O.J. made two trips to the Bronco after he cut himself. The first trip - the one that fits Dennis Fung's blood drop markers at the gate-was the trip he made when he took Chachi for a walk at 10:04 and he was looking for the golf club he wanted to us. The second trip was after 11:00 when he first noticed he was bleeding.
Once again, I urge everyone to go to your page and see what you have done for themselves. I urge them to pay close attention to your facts and your reasoning and to reserve judgment until they have given what you say every chance to work. It's the only way to learn the truth. -- Jasper