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From: Jasper
Date: 5/10/03
Time: 11:20:50 AM
Remote Name: 68.73.56.136
Rose,
The point of having a clock in the animation with a second hand is to show what was possible and what wasn’t in various accounts of what happened, when it happened and where it happened.
The reason the spotlight in the Kato’s Walk animation doesn’t show Park seeing O.J. “Almost Simultaneously” after he saw Kato is because it simply could not have happened without Kato seeing O.J., too, wherever he came from. Park was looking for O.J. at the time along the stretch of the driveway between the walkway and the big tree north of the garage. If he had seen Kato and O.J. “almost” simultaneously, he would not have had time to see Kato pause for a moment and then see O.J. He would have seen O.J. first.
The spot that Park marked on the diagram does not have O.J. crossing the driveway at all. It has him exactly where O.J. said he was when he dropped off some bags in his bathrobe and went right back into the house. That’s what the Kato’s Walk animation shows.
In Park’s recall of events his sense of time had to be off from 15 to 20 seconds. Any earlier than that O.J. would have seen Kato. He didn’t. Furthermore, Park’s testimony in the preliminary hearing shifted a bit in the criminal trial to conform better to the prosecution’s claim that he saw O.J. coming from the south path and that he didn’t see the Bronco when he arrived because it wasn’t there, yet (Maria’s Story 1 and 2).
The big thing to the jury was whether the Bronco pulled up to Rockingham while Park was ringing the buzzer or it was there all the time and he didn’t recall seeing it. If he recalled seeing a vehicle that wasn’t there, how could they be sure that he didn’t see a vehicle that was there?
Park’s later testimony showed that he didn’t see the Bronco when he left for the airport with O.J. although he checked to his left and right at the Rockingham gate for traffic before he pulled into the street. He did see a car on his left but the closest he came to saying that he saw the Bronco on his right was to say that he saw an “obstruction.”
Getting the sequence right is a bear, mostly because of the way the lawyers skipped around when asking about specific segments of that sequence and statements like the one you quoted from Park that run too separate events together. Kato did the same thing.
First you have to get the proportions of the area in question right. Then you have to construct a clock set to the approximate time that Park was talking to his boss when he first saw Kato. After that you have to put the participants in place somewhere that will allow them to match the second hand on the clock (relative time) to their testimony when you set them in motion. You then have to pace their movements in sync with the clock so that they are neither crawling nor running at breakneck speed. You have to check and recheck the transcripts on specific points in the preliminary hearing and the criminal trial to see what fits and what doesn’t. Park’s TIMING of when he first saw Kato and O.J. does not fit. There is no way to show it because it is physically impossible. –Jasper