From: Jasper
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Date: 12 Mar 2005
Time: 07:16:57 PM -0500
Mario, …….I am not suggesting a sinister motive for Weitzman advising O.J. to plead no contest (guilty) on the domestic abuse charge. What I believed happened after I put the testimony and evidence of the ’89 incident in motion http://www.smartfellowspress.com/Animations/edwards.swf and what I believe now is a bit more complicated. ……...Nicole’s story had gaping holes that Weitzman was sharp enough to spot if the matter had been pursued. That’s why I think she dropped the charges. ……….Nobody could have guessed how well Nicole’s story was going to work after January 1, 1989. It wouldn’t have worked without Fuhrman’s February 18th letter to the city attorney because there was no pattern of violence. At worst you would have had ONE incident where a man and wife go into a fight and things went too far. Bad. Shameful. But it was forgivable if it hadn’t happened before, if the man apologized, and if it didn’t happen again. ………..This is the legal and public relations issue Weitzman was looking at if O.J. pled no contest. There would be no long, messy court fight and the incident would be quickly forgotten as Weitzman could keep the Star and the Enquirer out of it, which he could with Pellicano. I didn’t know about Weitzman’s association with Pellicano. I just figured that he must have had an in with the tabloids. ………When O.J. got back from Chicago Weitzman, who was actively working on the Michael Jackson case with Pellicano, didn’t know that Fuhrman was in the picture. According to Robert Shapiro’s The Search for Justice, Weitzman and Taft followed O.J. to Parker Center and did attempt to be present when Vannatter and Lange questioned. O.J. O.J. wanted to talk. Weitzman insisted that the interview be taped. He was right outside the door, which is probably why the interview lasted only a half hour and undoubtedly why Vannatter and Lange didn’t press O.J. the way Fuhrman claimed in his book that they should have. ……….Weitzman was on Rockingham when Vannatter had O.J. handcuffed. He is cropped out of the pictures of Vannatter and Roberts (yes, Brad Roberts) talking to O.J. in handcuffs. The Bronco had not been moved. If there had been anything suspicious about it everyone, including O.J., Kathy Randa, Shipp Taft and Howard Weitzman would have seen it. The fact that it was an issue clearly came as a surprise to O.J. When Roberts told O.J. AND Weitzman that there was a blood trail leading from Bundy to Rockingham he didn’t say anything about the Bronco. The story about the “suspicious” way the Bronco was parked didn’t come out at the handcuffing scene. It came out in the news. ...……I think Weitzman was as surprised as anyone to learn the Pellicano link to Fuhrman but Fuhrman knew the Weitzman link to O.J. I just haven’t figured out how he thought he could use it. –Jasper