From: Jasper
Date: 1/31/01
Time: 1:07:08 PM
John,
What you're trying to do is admirable, but I don't think it's necessary to answer the question of whether or not someone jumped the fence.
There is zero evidence that anyone did and only Fuhrman's testimony that his talk with Kato made him think that someone might have fallen against the house. That's where Marcia got her story of how Allan Park saw O.J. coming across the driveway from the south path.
Pure fiction.
The blood drops on the driveway do not support a story of O.J. parking his Bronco the way Mark Fuhrman described it and running to the south path where he dropped the glove so Marcia had to invent a story that did. Kato's description of what he heard did not fit that scenario, either. The sound he described was artificial and he seemed to be more impressed with the movement it caused in the wall.
Kato did not tell Fuhrman that the thumps he heard sounded like a body hitting the wall. He only answered Fuhrman's question about whether he noticed something unusual the night before after Fuhrman gave him an intoxication text, told him about the murders and the other detectives had left. That's when Kato told him about the thumping. He said he didn't know what it was, that he thought it might have been an earthquake. That's what he asked Park. That's what he asked O.J. and that's what he asked Rachel - "Did you feel an earthquake?" He allowed for the possibility that the three thumps might have been a prowler but he didn't do anything to suggest that he considered that a high probability until Rachel, Park and O.J. all told him that they did not feel an earthquake. Then he asked O.J. to help him look.
When I was putting together Iago I spent a considerable amount of time and effort trying to find out what you're looking for now. I hope you see the problem I had with any single person's testimony absent corroborating evidence. Both the prosecution and the defense offered slanted evidence in many cases. I'm afraid that Jason's testimony falls into that category as well. The root system of trees makes it highly unlikely that a row of them would be planted less than a foot apart. We don't have the pictures but Joe Bosco quotes Dr. Lee as ridiculing the idea that it could have happened.
The bottom line is O.J. couldn't have gone through his gate (where the blood drops were) and though the Salinger's front yard (where there was no gate) at the same time. He had to have done one or the other, and neither root goes form the Bronco to the glove. - Jasper