From: Jasper
Date: 9/1/00
Time: 4:09:40 PM
Remote Name: 206.141.209.174
Anonymous
This is for the person who wrote me the nice letter a couple of weeks ago when the site was really a mess and asked about the woman who said she saw O.J. in his Bronco around the time of the murders.
The so-called witness was Jill Shively. I did not include her name in the Iago appendix because her testimony before the Grand Jury was thoroughly discredited during the Preliminary hearing. I am constantly surprised at the number of people who still think her testimony had substance.
Shively told TV news magazine Hard Copy that she was racing to beat the 11:00 closing time of a convenience store when she was nearly involve in an accident with O.J. Simpson. That's why she was positive of the 10:50 time that she saw O.J. in his Bronco with its lights out running a red light at the intersection of Bundy and San Vicente three blocks north of the murder scene. She was sure about the time because she had to check her watch to be sure she got to the store before it closed and because the incident was so dramatic and it involved a big celebrity. She said that he run through a read light and hollered at another driver to get out of his way. She said that she first thought that the man she saw was Marcus Allen but a closer look told her that it was Simpson.
Shively gave the police the license number of O.J.'s Bronco and told them that she took it down at the time of the incident. Neither of the other drivers who were supposedly involved in the incident ever came forward nor were they ever found.
One person who did come forward was an actor named Bryan Clark. After seeing Shively on Hard Copy he called the defense to tell them that Jill Shively was a liar. He had strong evidence in the form of a lawsuit he won against her in small claims court for 6,000.
Marcia Clark said that she scratched Shively from her witness list because she sold her story to Hard Copy then told prosecutors the very next day that she had told no one her story except her mother. However, if you read her testimony in the transcripts you will see that Shively was a liability to the prosecution case that Marcia was undoubtedly looking for an excuse to discredit. You'll notice that Marcia gets Shively to say that she saw O.J.'s bare arm. According to Marcia O.J. was wearing a long-sleeved sweatsuit when he killed Ron and Nicole on Bundy and when Allan Park saw him on Rockingham. Worst of all was the time she said she saw O.J. at the intersection and the reason she said she remembered the time. Marcia's entire case was built around a timeline for the killing that started and ended before 10:30. If Shively did see O.J. at 10:50, the rest of her case would have been in the toilet. Either it happened before 10:30 or after 10:30. The prosecution couldn't have it both ways. -Jasper