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From: Jasper
Date: 5/12/03
Time: 10:52:56 AM
Remote Name: 68.73.192.78
John,
You and Kari are both right. That’s what makes Park’s testimony so difficult to follow.
Two days after the murders officers Tippen and Carr noted that Park said he didn’t see any cars parked outside of the gate near or around the Rockingham estate but this was hearsay and it was not allowed into evidence. Park did not mention Kato’s car in the grand jury (July 5) or the preliminary hearing (March 28). His ability to identify parked cars in general was abysmal (thus the Parked Cars animation).
In the preliminary hearing Park said that he saw a car parked south of O.J.’s driveway on Rockingham. However, he couldn’t say if there was a vehicle parked on the north of the driveway when he tried to enter the Rockingham gate at around 10:40 or when he exited that gate at 11:15. He recalled that there were cars (plural) on the left side of the driveway (he was going south at this time, coming from Ashford) that caused him to believe that the turn was too tight for him to make with his stretched limo.
The only vehicle that could have conceivably caused him to believe he could not have made that turn would have been the Bronco parked outside of the gate. Marcia made a point of saying that his attempt to enter though the Rockingham gate meant that the Bronco wasn’t there because if it had been he would have seen it. However, in Shapiro’s cross-examination involving Park’s observation of a vehicle to his right as he was exiting the Rockingham driveway with O.J., Park couldn’t recall seeing the Bronco then, either.
By the time the criminal trial rolled around there was speculation in the press about what the defense would do with Park’s failure to mention Kato’s Nissan parked next to the Ashford gate. Prior to Park’s testimony a reporter or a pundit on one of the networks (I think it was E!) pointed this out. Park admitted in the criminal trial that he talked to his mother (an attorney) about his testimony in the grand jury and preliminary hearing. In the criminal trial he made a point of saying that he saw the Nissan. –Jasper