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From: Jasper
Date: 4/8/02
Time: 10:23:23 PM
Jean,
I know what you're talking about.
When I designed the Shoe Prints animation I made only one of the 12 characters black and the other character's Causation. I did that so that the one pigeon-toed character would be readily identified as O.J. and I could instantly differentiate between the other men by hair color and hairstyle without confusing the issue of race with the different ways people walk.
With black people, you can do the same thing with skin color because there is such a wide spread of colors in "black" people. It's the same principle.
Shively, on the other hand, said that she heard the man in the Bronco speak (O.J. has a very distinctive voice) and she got a clear look at his face. She said that she first thought it was Marcus Allen (all famous ex-football players who are close personal friends of O.J. Simpson and drive white Bronco's look alike). Then when the man started yelling (after honking his horn) she realized her mistake because she recognized his voice and his face. She had seen him in the neighborhood and she wrote down his license plate number (3/CZW788) as he sped away.
We're not talking a quick impression of a generic black guy or a first impression of a famous one (Marcus Allen). We're talking about a witness long on details with long exposure to a famous man she knew by sight and sound close up and personal. Shively swore to the time and place that she saw him (at 10:50 heading NORTH on Bundy at the intersection of San Vicente, about three short blocks northwest of Bundy and Dorothy).
The issue, therefore, is not whether she might have mistaken O.J. for someone else. The issue is whether or not she saw O.J. Simpson.
You know some of the reasons I say, no, she didn't. Here are some more. They have to do with time…
Shively bracketed the time she swore by before the grand jury so closely that she couldn't have been off by more than a minute if she adjusted for the time she now says the stick-on clock she used in her car was off. If she didn't adjust for the amount of time she knew the clock was off she doesn't have a leg to stand on with any of her Bronco testimony.
Shively talked to a detective (maybe Rovaan or Dock Wagner can get Jill to tell us his name?) on the 14th of June. That gave her two days to make the time adjustment. She appeared on Hard Copy on June 20. That gave her a week to make the adjustment. She talked to Marcia Clark on the 21st to answer the grand jury subpoena that was served to her on June 18. So, between the 18th and the 21st when she was scheduled to testify, she still hadn't made the adjustment for the time.
If she is as far off in time as she has to be to put O.J. on Bundy and Rockingham where he had to be and when he had to be there to have left Bundy after the murder and slipped past Park in time to make the thumps. This is not a story that can be salvaged with a little tweaking here and there. It's one that has to be accepted or reject it. Frankly, I don't see how anyone can accept it. --Jasper