realized i should go there and see it for myself. reporter: also an aspiring photographer, he made sure to bring his camera to the scene. he took these photos, capturing the riveting spectacle. it was about 6:00 p.m. on the palms overpass and people were just meeting in droves on the overpass. there were people holding signs up, go o.j. signs and other people were spraypainting signs on the highway itself. it was a frenzy. it was a circus-like atmosphere. reporter: but those brief moments would soon change as the bronco passes them by. people were jumping up and down, they were all shouting, screaming and then all of a sudden it got quiet and i noticed some people were actually crying at the time. i think just the gravity of the whole event hit them, that this is a guy charged with a double
looked and he had been posting things on facebook about this very case. so we know at least one of them was not particularly honest because the judge said, you re out of here, you re dismissed, because you weren t, as you know, don, transparent. right? isn t that one of our great words. name of your sghook so you need to tell the truth. you need to just put it out there and the idea is not that you don t have to know anything about it, but given what you do know, can you still be fair? can you base your ver on what comes out in the courtroom and not what you ve heard in the press. they believe this will take two to four weeks. selection of the scott peterson trial took four weeks. o o.j. simpson took over a month. i think we may get our jury by the end of the week. two cases you just mentioned are distinguishable. scott peterson was a death penalty case an not only was the alleged murder of his wife, but
was trying to figure out what was bogey to happen next. nobody new the outcome, nobody knew what was going to happen and that s what made it so can t straighting. the reason it was high drama, because oj s friend was driving and he was claiming that oj was sitting in the back with a gun to his head, right? absolutely. that came out later. we did not have that information so we were trying to figure out one step ahead and trying to figure out where he was going, what they were doing. i see. we were getting reports, you know, various reports of things. once it went to the airways, the general public came out in mass. that was another bizarre feature of the whole event. overpasses were lined with people with signs saying go oj. the support for oj at that time was immense, so it became very,