answered everything correctly. so i was in deep thought going, okay, answer this right, kato and that was it. if you pause, people go, he s making something he s lying, he s doing this. furthest thing from the truth. it s for me to become even more honest. for me to make sure i answer this thing 100% honest. which brings us to the night of the murder. kaelin and simpson make a mcdonald s run. about what time was it when you got home? it was about 9:40. kaelin goes to his bedroom and prosecutors say simpson disappears. a crucial hour passes before kaelin hears a loud noise outside. [ pounds ] where did the noise seem to be coming from? from the back of the wall. that, prosecutors say, is simpson hitting an exterior wall and dropping a bloody glove. at 10:55, a limo driver waiting to take simpson to the airport
back in court, o.j. simpson cites the juror s fatigue as one reason he s not going to testify. i m mindful of the mood and stamina of this jury, a jury i have confidence, a lot more than it seems miss clark has, of their integrity and that they will find, as the record stands now, that i did not, could not and would not have committed this crime. four days later, the end is finally in sight. you have heard all of the evidence. no more witnesses, no more delays. just closing arguments. first up, lead prosecutor, marsha clark. let me go back to mark furhman, just to be clear. did he lie when he said he did not use racial epitets in the last ten years? yes.
testimony, hundreds of exhibits, more than 260 days isolated in a hotel, jurors are finally sent to determine o.j. simpson s fate. thanks for joining us on a day that many of you probably thought would never arrive. and everybody had an opinion. i think it s going to be a conviction. i would say probably a hung jury. i believe absolutely there s sufficient evidence to acquit. why were you so confident he was going to be found guilty? i just couldn t possibly
but despite all that competition, consensus doesn t emerge. the key defense strategy racism. this is not just any city where an allegation of a racist cop is being made. this is the lapd. and simpson s attorneys know they can strike a cord. with secret knowledge of scathing recordings about to surface, they seek permission to ask lapd detective mark fuhrman if he s ever used the n word. i ll use the word because i m quoting him, all of the niggers put them together into a big group and burn them. but prosecutor chris darden wants no part of it. it s the filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in the english language. it will upset the black jurors. it will issue them a test, and the test will be, who s side are you on? the side of the white
when o.j. was able to walk in front of the jury and say, it s too small, he didn t have to testify. because he had testified in front of the jury and he wasn t crossexamined. so for us, it was a winwin. he appears to have pulled the gloves on, counsel. but to juror david aldana, it didn t seem like a big deal. o.j. simpson was in front of you when he put on the glove. he was maybe about two feet away from me. what do you remember from that moment? you know, a lot of people make a big deal about it, but i was a truck driver. i wear gloves all the time. i know that when my gloves get wet, they shrink up. after 92 exhausting days of testimony, 58 witnesses and 488 exhibits we ask the court to receive all the people s exhibits and the people rest. next the lapd s laboratory is a