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From: Jasper
Date: 5/10/03
Time: 8:27:16 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.56.136
Rose,
It took me seven hours to answer your previous post because of the way the questions about Park’s sighting of Kato were asked and the way he answered them in the preliminary hearing and in the criminal trial.
There is no straight line of questions and answers about the sighting that take you from the time and place that Park first saw Kato on the north path and the next time he saw him at the Ashford gates. In the criminal trial more than 120 questions separate the two events. By the time Marcia gets around to Kato opening the gates for Park you have to go back to the first time he mentions him and then scroll down to the part about the gate to get any sense of continuity. But it’s incomplete. It looks like Park stood on the north path and didn’t move until Park got out of his car, range the buzzer again and waited for Kato open the gates.
Later you discover that Park had no idea where Kato was during this interval and you have to go back to his testimony in the preliminary hearing to find what he says about waiting for Kato to open the gates: “he was just standing there” (he doesn’t say where) AND “I kind of recognized him.” He would not have said that if Kato hadn’t seen Kato briefly and he hadn’t been out of his sight for a while. Then you have to go to Kato’s testimony and O.J.’s (same hassle) and see where they come together and where they don’t. Yes, there is much more to it than that. It took me months to get all of it straight in Iago and weeks to recheck the essential facts for the animation.
The only way you can fully appreciate the level of difficulty involved is to do it yourself from scratch. You don’t have to make an animation but you do have to layout the grounds, make some tokens for the vehicles and people and match all of the relevant testimony to your movements of the tokens and the second hand on a clock. You will find very early that you can’t cheat even if you are tempted to. Some things will work and some won’t. In some cases you have to make a choice between a range of possibilities but the right answer WILL be in that range because it HAS TO be.
Questions like Kato’s irrational decision to check out the thumps are anther mater. You can’t prove anything here. You can only look at all of the events that might have contributed to what he did and choose the one that makes the most sense to you. If you are convinced that he is the killer or part of some other nefarious undertaking, you will invariably arrive at a conclusion that fits that conviction. If you are convinced that he is innocent you will invariably arrive at a conclusion that fits that conclusion. But if you consider him a possible suspect you have a chance of getting it right.
I can only tell you on my word of honor that I considered him a possible suspect when I was first trying to figure out the real story on Rockingham. You will find most of my reasons on John Jount’s website. But once Kato was off of my suspect list it seemed clear to me, as I’ve stated in several previous posts, that he was playing hero to make up for the screw-ups he made with O.J. earlier in the day. He didn’t want to screw up again by bother him about a prowler if it was “only” an earthquake. –Jasper