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From: Jasper
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Category 3: Category 1
Date: 10 Aug 1999
Time: 17:16:10
Remote Name: dyn1-tnt7-58.detroit.mi.ameritech.net
Kate,
The thing I found most intriguing was Lee's non-answer to the question of whether he thought O.J. was guilty or not. Chapter 30 and 31 are based largely on Lee's "lessons" in the criminal case and I truly believe give the same answer he would have given to that question based on a close examination of the blood drops on ROCKINGHAM-particularly the blood drops around the Rockingham gate.
In writing those chapters (they took about four months each to work out) I started with that same assumptions everyone else did. But applying Lee's judgment that a properly preserved crime scene can be as good as a video tape of what happened, I learned why he is so adamant about not taking sides. If you think O.J. is guilty and the blood drops on Rockingham came from Bundy, that's what you will see. If you think the police planted the blood drops that is what you will see. But if you take what's there and try to make sense out of it from what the laws of science and reason tell you must be so ("If you eliminate the impossible ) a couple of things become clear. Firs of all, you understand why Dennis Fung picked up all the markers Brad Roberts put down and laid down his own. You understand why he didn't mark all of them he saw and you understand why Dr. Lee was given so little time to examine the evidence at Bundy and at Rockingham.
Robert Shapiro, among others, made the mistake of looking at the planted drops on Rockingham (Dmetre had the only close up of any of those drops I ever saw. They are horrible photos, so it's hard to make anything out of them. But it looks like a big blob that you might stretch out with the pint of a toothpick or something. A small faint shape that looks more like it has direction lies close by. Remember Fung was the one who gave the first explanation of how to determine whether the person who dripped the blood was walking or running and in which direction that person was going. He got a close look at the blood drops on both scenes. He looked bad to a lot of people only because he was trying to be honest without spilling the beans about the gloves and the envelope that were moved on Bundy and the blood that was planted on Rockingham. The essential fact was he saw one glove and an envelope on Bundy (not two gloves as the defense was trying to argue) and that he did see blood drops on O.J.'s driveway that were not planted.
What nobody asked Fung or Lee and I can't seem to get anybody to work out for themselves is this: Were O.J.'s blood dorps going in our coming out of the gate? That's one of the big questions I'm sure he wanted one of the attorneys to ask. The blood drops are O.J. alibi-proof beyond any doubt that he told the truth about what he did between 10:03 and 11:55. But he can say that only if somebody will ask the right question. And he can show them only if they will take a long, critical look at THE answer and do the necessary work to know that it can't be anything else.
I understand his frustration. --Jasper