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From: Kate
T1:
Category 3: Category 1
Date: 05 Aug 1999
Time: 15:01:37
Remote Name: pm413.isomedia.com
Jasper:
I have been working on this issue all day, I have to take my son to golf camp and hockey camp so it will take me more time to get all it together.
It has been very difficult to find out what Lange knows about this because of the way he is wording his answers and he is constantly confusing who did what.
However, here is a sidebar about this issue:
This is going on over a period of time, someone who has no gainful means of paying for these drugs, and those are absolutely the facts. You take that--and that is why--one of the reasons that we--let me state again for the record, we don't plan or want to call Sydney Simpson to the stand.
>>>>All we have asked is to talk to her along with Miss Clark in an effort to try and ascertain and to do a stipulation why Sydney Simpson says that night Mommy's best friend calls and Mommy was crying thereafter.<<<<
The Court will recall that. And then further, your Honor, the situation we have here is there is testimony from several witnesses that once these horrible crimes occurred, friends of all parties, Faye Resnick, Nicole Brown Simpson, everyone indicated and everyone said, and the Prosecution is aware of this, if OJ isn't guilty of this, then we are all in trouble. And there is testimony, for instance, with Dr. Reichardt, that he slept with a gun for several weeks or ten days after this happened. There was great fright and concern at exodus where Faye Resnick was when Christian Reichardt went to see her at the drug treatment facility. They thought this was a drug-related situation and that this was a pay back for not paying for these drugs.
MR. COCHRAN: Your Honor, the other thing is--and so there is no confusion regarding this, last week I indicated to the Court that the Defense would like to--one member of the Defense would like to, along with the Prosecution, speak to the minor Sydney Simpson. So the record is abundantly clear, the last thing in the world we want to do is to call Sydney Simpson to the stand. Mr. Simpson doesn't want it and neither do we. But we would have--we think we have an obligation to try and talk to her, and I just talked to Miss Clark about it who has she indicated she will do what she can to try and set up a meeting through the Brown family. If she and I or whom she designates or I designate to do, we will try to have a stipulation, as we did with Juditha Brown, hopefully next week. That is the other thing. The final thing, your Honor, with regard to your Honor's ruling yesterday regarding the Faye Resnick drug dealers issue, if I might, we wanted to indicate, and I'm not sure I indicated specifically, that the Court's ruling, it seems to us, violates Mr. Simpson's right to present a Defense and to due process of law under both the state and federal constitutions. And I wanted the Court to have that in mind with regard to your ruling as to our preclusion from doing--presenting a Defense in that regard by your ruling, because basically we are precluded from doing it at this point because of our absence of the showing of motive, as you have indicated, among other things.