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From: Jasper
Date: 6/19/01
Time: 10:16:25 AM
Jolana,
I went through Karen Crawford's testimony about six times before I saw the subtle way it changed between the Grand Jury hearing and the criminal trial. The differences had to do with the assumption everyone made in the beginning that Nicole called Mezzaluna ABOUT the glasses BECAUSE JUDITHA CALLED NICOLE a minute or so earlier and spoke to her about the glasses. That's how Karen testified before the Grand Jury. In the Preliminary Hearing Marcia built that assumption into her questions to Karen about the glasses and Karen answered the questions she was asked. But, in the criminal trial, when Marcia tried to get Karen to say that Nicole called about the glasses at 9:40, Karen made a point of saying that Nicole only asked to speak to Ron (period).
When I learned that Faye Resnick had set up a three-way for Nicole, Ron and herself for the 12th, then committed herself to a rehab clinic a week before, it didn't take long to see that Ron was going to be with Nicole on Bundy that night whether or not Juditha had "lost" her glasses. My position is simply that Denise Brown stole her mother's glasses and dropped them next to the curb just before she got into the car. If that was her job, it was a big one, but she was not the most reliable person in the world to pull it off. Therefore the killer had to be sure she did her job (be sure the glasses were in the envelope) before the plan could go foreward to implicate O.J. the way it did. Without the glasses It would have been a lot harder to sell the idea that the killer didn't know Ron was coming. The only way the killer could have known is if he had a first-hand contact inside the triangel. That is, Faye, Ron or Nicole. The glasses shift attention away from the fact that Faye arranged the fatal meeting. At any rate, she told Cora Fischman that she set up the meeting a week before she checked into rehabe (two weeks before the murders).
As far as the phone record is concned, I noticed that it was the prosceution that was trying to get the time record straight in the Grand Jury hearing and in the Preliminary, while the defense (particularly Robert Shapero) did everything piossible to confuse the issue. The more the correct time began to work in O.J.'s favor, the more the defence bgan to accept it. But it was clear that they didn't wan't to get pinned down, either. They cherry-picked what seemed to work best for them and give them the most room to maneuver. When I saw the 10:17 -10:28 time that the defense stipulated to as being the last time Juditha talked to Nicole, my impression was that the defense wanted to sandbag it in case they needed to appeal a conviction. That is, it looks to me as if the defense saw the prosecuiton make a fatal error and tricked them into arguing what they knew and could prove was factually incorrect IF necessary. Had the prosecuiton argued its case the way the plaintiffs argued theirs in the Civil Trial (they argued that the killings began after 10:30), the defense's timeline witnesses would have been muted. That, by the way is what Fuhrman argued the prosecution should have done to "keep the timeline as flexible as possible." --Jasper