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From: Jasper
Date: 2/18/02
Time: 1:00:33 AM
Rovaan,
I don't know how to comment on much of what you have written here. You say that you have met Jill and that she appears to be a trustworthy person. To be a successful con artist you have to come across as a trustworthy person. The "con" in con artist comes from "confidence," as in someone skilled in winning your confidence. It seems to me that she must be VERY good at it or you would not have posted some of the things you did as though they were reasonable explanations for what she said and didn't say to Hard Copy and Marcia Clark before the grand jury.
For example:
Somehow Shively convinced you that she didn't check the time before she left for the store. That's one hell of a trick. She said that she wanted to get to the store before 11:00 with enough time to spare to get something from the salad bar. She said that it took between three to five minutes to reach Bundy and San Vicente, depending on the traffic, and another minute to go from there to the store. How did she know that she wasn't already too late before she went to her car? If she knew the clock was fast and she know by how much it was fast, why didn't she give the adjusted time?
The point here was to establish the correct time, not to report the false time on her clock and hide her knowledge of the real time. I read the transcripts of this exchange from every aspect I could think of and no matter how Marcia framed the question, Jill had ample opportunity to make the correction. Besides, the "fast clock" explanation is just what Marcia needed to sew up her case against O.J. I got the impression that Marcia was preparing the groundwork to "fix" Shively's timeline with the car clock if she had to and Shively was late to catch on.
I have heard that the Nissan driver Shively described came forward but I do not know the source of that report. Do you?
Witnesses frequently misunderstand questions. If you look at the context in which the question was asked you can usually see why. The trouble with Jill Shively's "misunderstanding" of the question is that it doesn't fit the context. She was going before a grand jury and the instructions she got were not to talk to anyone. That was the context in which se was asked the question. Her answer allowed her to pocket $5,000 for her story, to get plenty of publicity for future endeavors, to avoid the rigors of a thorough cross examination and the charge of perjury if O.J. proved to have an alibi.
O.J. did have an alibi. He was in his house. He could not have been anywhere else from the time he left Kato at 9:40 or so to the time Allan Park saw him at 10:52 (check animations Kato 's Walk and Parked Cars). All you need is an imagination to put together a scenario that conforms to the rules of what might be possible. You need evidence to narrow the field. The evidence conforms to O.J.'s story. It says the Bronco didn't move since the last time O.J. drove it thought his compound and parked it on Rockingham. --Jasper