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MS. CLARK: AS OF JUNE THE 12TH, 1994, YOU WERE EMPLOYED WHERE?
MR. PARK: FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY LIMOUSINE.
MS. CLARK: AS WHAT, SIR?
MR. PARK: AS A LIMOUSINE DRIVER.
MS. CLARK: AND HOW LONG AS OF JUNE THE 12TH HAD YOU BEEN WORKING THERE?
MR. PARK: UH, IT WAS ABOUT TWO AND A HALF, THREE MONTHS.
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MS. CLARK: ON THE DATE OF JUNE THE 12TH, 1994, DID YOU HAVE AN ORDER FOR A PICK UP ON THAT DATE FOR THE EVENING TO GO TO THE AIRPORT?
MR. PARK: UH, YES, I DID.
MS. CLARK: WHAT WAS YOUR ORDER?
MR. PARK: UH, MY ORDER WAS TO PICK UP MR. SIMPSON AT 360 ROCKINGHAM.
MS. CLARK: AT WHAT TIME?
MR. PARK: UH, 10:45.
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MS. CLARK: AND DID YOU -- WERE YOU MADE AWARE OF WHAT FLIGHT YOU HAD TO GET HIM TO?
MR. PARK: UH, NOT A FLIGHT NUMBER, BUT JUST TO GET HIM TO LAX, UH, FOR AN 11:45 FLIGHT OUT FROM AMERICAN AIRLINES.
MS. CLARK: AND WERE YOU AWARE OF WHERE THAT FLIGHT WAS GOING TO?
MR. PARK: UH, I BELIEVE CHICAGO.
MS. CLARK: HAD YOU EVER DRIVEN MR. SIMPSON TO THE AIRPORT BEFORE?
MR. PARK: NO, I HAVEN'T.
MS. CLARK: OR HAVE YOU EVER DRIVEN -- HAD YOU EVER DRIVEN MR. SIMPSON ANYWHERE BEFORE?
MR. PARK: NO.
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MS. CLARK: SO WHAT TIME WERE YOU TRYING TO ARRIVE AT THE DEFENDANT'S HOUSE IN BRENTWOOD?
MR. PARK: 10:35.
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MS. CLARK: ALL RIGHT. DO YOU RECALL WHAT TIME IT WAS WHEN YOU DROVE -- WHEN YOU INDICATED TO US JUST NOW, YOU TURNED RIGHT UP ONTO ROCKINGHAM AND DROVE UP ROCKINGHAM, DO YOU RECALL WHAT TIME IT WAS WHEN YOU GOT TO THE LOCATION ON ROCKINGHAM WHERE THE DEFENDANT'S HOUSE WAS?
MR. PARK: UH, IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN AROUND 9:22, 9:23.
MS. CLARK: 9:22?
MR. PARK: NO. EXCUSE ME. 10:22, 10:23. I'M SORRY.
MS. CLARK: NOW, HOW WAS IT THAT YOU -- YOU KNEW WHAT THE ADDRESS WAS; IS THAT CORRECT?
MR. PARK: YES.
MS. CLARK: 360 NORTH ROCKINGHAM?
MR. PARK: YES.
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MS. CLARK: SO AT THE TIME THAT YOU WERE LOOKING AT THAT LOCATION, THE ADDRESS ON THE CURB, DID YOU SEE A CAR PARKED IN THAT LOCATION?
MR. PARK: NO, I DIDN'T.
MS. CLARK: YOU SEE THAT WHITE BRONCO IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH, SIR?
MR. PARK: YES.
MS. CLARK: WAS THAT WHITE BRONCO THERE AT THE TIME YOU DROVE BY AT ABOUT 10:22?
MR. PARK: I DIDN'T SEE IT.
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MS. CLARK: WHERE IN RELATION TO WHERE THAT CAR IS IN THAT PHOTOGRAPH DID YOU PARK?
MR. PARK: SAME SPOT.
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MS. CLARK: AND THEN WHAT DID YOU DO?
MR. PARK: UH, I GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND WALKED TOWARDS THE BACK AND HAD A CIGARETTE, AND WHEN I WAS DONE, I GOT BACK IN THE CAR AND LISTENED TO THE RADIO A LITTLE BIT.
MS. CLARK: OKAY. WHAT TIME WAS IT WHEN YOU PARKED ON ASHFORD?
MR. PARK: WHEN I PARKED ON ASHFORD?
MS. CLARK: YES.
MR. PARK: IT WAS 10:25
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MS. CLARK: AND HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?
MR. PARK: I LOOKED AT MY WATCH AND THERE'S ALSO A CLOCK ON THE RADIO.
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MS. CLARK: AND WHAT HAPPENED NEXT AFTER YOU PARKED? WHAT DID YOU DO?
MR. PARK: UH, I GOT OUTSIDE. I WALKED TOWARDS THE BACK OF THE CAR, UH, HAD A CIGARETTE. I GOT BACK INSIDE THE CAR, LISTENED TO THE RADIO FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN JUST AT ABOUT 10:39, I PROCEEDED TO DRIVE UP TO THE DRIVEWAY.
MS. CLARK: OKAY. SO YOU SMOKED A CIGARETTE, LISTENED TO THE RADIO AND THEN GOT BACK INSIDE?
MR. PARK: YES.
MS. CLARK: AFTER YOU GOT BACK INSIDE, DID YOU LOOK AT THE CLOCK AGAIN?
MR. PARK: YES, I DID. I WANTED TO -- I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I WAS RIGHT ON MY 10 MINUTES EARLY.
MS. CLARK: OKAY. AND YOU GOT BACK INTO THE CAR AT WHAT TIME?
MR. PARK: IT WAS AROUND 10:39.
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MS. CLARK: AND HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?
MR. PARK: FROM LOOKING AT THE CLOCKS.
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MS. CLARK: OKAY. AND AS YOU PULLED DOWN ROCKINGHAM THIS TIME GOING SOUTHBOUND ON ROCKINGHAM AND LOOKED INTO THE ROCKINGHAM GATE, DID YOU SEE ANY CAR, WHITE BRONCO, PARKED TO THE LEFT OF THE GATE AS YOU FACED IT?
MR. PARK: NO, I DIDN'T.
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MS. CLARK: WHEN YOU PULLED UP TO THE ASHFORD GATE, SIR, THE LOCATION SHOWN BY THE GREEN ARROW, CAN YOU TELL US WHAT TIME IT WAS?
MR. PARK: THAT WAS AT 10:40.
MS. CLARK: AND HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?
MR. PARK: BECAUSE I LOOKED AT THE CLOCKS AGAIN.
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MS. CLARK: YOU LOOKED AT YOUR CLOCK AND YOUR WATCH A LOT THAT NIGHT.
MR. PARK: A LOT.
MS. CLARK: WHY IS THAT?
MR. PARK: BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE A LIMO DRIVER, YOU'RE SET PRETTY MUCH ON SCHEDULES. SO YOU'RE LOOKING TO SEE IF YOU'RE ON TIME, HOW LONG YOU HAVE TO GET TO THE AIRPORT, THINGS LIKE THAT.
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MS. CLARK: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
MR. PARK: THAT IS WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE CAR. AND THERE IS AN INTERCOM AT THE GATE, AND I WAS USING THAT INTERCOM TO BUZZ THE HOUSE. AND I BUZZED IT AND THERE WAS NO ANSWER. I PROCEEDED TO BUZZ IT A FEW MORE TIMES. THERE WAS STILL NO ANSWER. SO I, UH -- THAT'S WHEN I DECIDED TO GET BACK IN THE CAR AND, UH, CALL MY BOSS' VOICE MAIL.
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MS. CLARK: OKAY. NOW, DIRECTING YOUR ATTENTION --
OKAY. ALL RIGHT. AFTER YOU PLACED THE CALL TO DALE ST. JOHN'S PAGER, WHAT DID YOU DO NEXT?
MR. PARK: UH, I MADE THE CALL AND, UH, I LEFT THE NUMBER THAT, UH -- TO CALL ME BACK, AND AFTER THAT, I GOT BACK OUT OF THE CAR AND PROCEEDED TO RING THE INTERCOM A FEW MORE TIMES.
MS. CLARK: ALL RIGHT.AND THAT WAS AT 10:43, WAS IT, P.M.?
MR. PARK: YES, IT WAS.
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MS. CLARK: DID YOU CALL YOUR BOSS AGAIN WHEN YOU GOT BACK IN THE CAR?
MR. PARK: NOT HIM, NO.
MS. CLARK: WHO DID YOU CALL?
MR. PARK: I CALLED MY MOM.
MS. CLARK: WHY?
MR. PARK: TO GET A PHONE NUMBER FROM HER.
MS. CLARK: AND WHY DID YOU DO THAT?
MR. PARK: BECAUSE I WASN'T SURE IF THE PAGE WENT THROUGH SO I WANTED TO TRY HIS HOME PHONE BECAUSE SOMETIMES HE DOESN'T ANSWER HIS BUSINESS PHONE AFTER A CERTAIN -- CERTAIN TIME.
MS. CLARK: AND WHAT PHONE NUMBER WERE YOU TRYING TO GET FROM YOUR MOTHER?
MR. PARK: HIS HOME PHONE, HIS HOME PHONE NUMBER.
MS. CLARK: YOUR BOSS' HOME PHONE NUMBER?
MR. PARK: YES.
MS. CLARK: AND LOOK AT THE BILL IN FRONT OF YOU, IF YOU WOULD, SIR. DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION TO THE NEXT PHONE CALL IN TIME PLACED AT 10:46 AND THIRTY SECONDS. DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE PHONE NUMBER SHOWN HERE?
MR. PARK: YES, I DO.
MS. CLARK: AND WHOSE PHONE NUMBER IS THAT?
MR. PARK: THAT IS MY FATHER'S, WHICH MY MOM WAS AT.
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MS. CLARK: AND AFTER SHE GOT THE PHONE NUMBER FOR YOU, WHAT DID YOU DO?
MR. PARK: AT THAT TIME I DON'T REMEMBER IF I GOT OUT AND BUZZED ONE MORE TIME OR NOT, BUT I KNOW IT WAS JUST A FEW -- JUST A FEW SECONDS AFTER THAT I CALLED -- I CALLED HIS HOUSE.
MS. CLARK: WHEN YOU SAY "HIS HOUSE," WHO IS THAT?
MR. PARK: DALE ST. JOHN, MY BOSS.
MS. CLARK: IS THERE A PHONE CALL INDICATED ON THAT PARTICULAR PHONE BILL IN FRONT OF YOU, PEOPLE'S 148, THAT REFLECTS THE CALL MADE TO YOUR BOSS?
MR. PARK: YES.
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MS. CLARK: WAS THAT CALL PLACED AT 10:49:07?
MR. PARK: YES.
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MS. CLARK: AFTER YOU CALLED YOUR BOSS AT HOME AND GOT NO ANSWER, WHAT DID YOU DO NEXT?
MR. PARK: UMM, I STEPPED BACK OUT OF THE CAR AND PROCEEDED TO RING THE BUZZER SOME MORE TIMES, STILL GOT NO ANSWER.
MS. CLARK: OKAY. HOW MANY MORE TIMES DID YOU RING THE BUZZER AT THAT POINT, SIR?
MR. PARK: I DON'T KNOW. TWO OR THREE.
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MS. CLARK: ALL RIGHT. WHEN YOU RANG THE BUZZER AGAIN A COUPLE MORE TIMES AND GOT NO ANSWER, WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
MR. PARK: THE NEXT THING I REMEMBERED WAS HEARING THE CAR PHONE RING INSIDE THE CAR AND GOT BACK IN AND PICKED UP THE PHONE AND IT WAS DALE ST. JOHN.
MS. CLARK: OKAY. NOW, DO YOU SEE ON THE PHONE BILL IN FRONT OF YOU, SIR, A CALL AT 10:52 AND 17 SECONDS?
MR. PARK: YES, I DO.
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MS. CLARK: AND AT 10:52 AND 17 SECONDS IN THE EVENING, SIR, DID YOU SPEAK TO YOUR BOSS IN THE -- ON THE CAR PHONE IN THE STRETCH LIMO?
MR. PARK: YES, I DID.
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MS. CLARK: NOW, AS YOU WERE SEATED IN THE LIMOUSINE SPEAKING TO YOUR BOSS DID YOU -- DID YOU SAY SOMETHING TO YOUR BOSS?
MR. PARK: YEAH. I TOLD HIM THAT I THOUGHT NOBODY WAS HOME.
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MS. CLARK: OKAY. WHAT DID YOUR BOSS TELL YOU?
MR. PARK: WELL, FIRST HE TOLD ME, HE SAID -- HE SAID, "O.J.'S USUALLY RUNNING A LITTLE LATE SO HANG OUT UNTIL ABOUT 11:15. IF HE IS NOT THERE BY THEN, GO AHEAD AND COME ON HOME."
MS. CLARK: OKAY.
MR. PARK: HE ALSO ASKED -- BECAUSE I TOLD HIM THERE WAS NO LIGHTS ON DOWNSTAIRS -- HE ASKED ME TO LOOK AT THE PANTRY AREA, WHAT HE CALLED A PANTRY AREA WHERE THERE WAS WHAT RESEMBLED SOME SUNROOFS OR SKYLIGHTING TOWARD THE GARAGE AREA AND HE ASKED ME IF THERE WAS ANY LIGHTS ON IN THERE.
MS. CLARK: OKAY.
MR. PARK: HE SAID HE USUALLY WATCHES T.V. IN THERE.
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MS. CLARK: ALL RIGHT. AND DID YOU DO WHAT HE ASKED YOU TO DO? DID YOU LOOK?
MR. PARK: YES.
MS. CLARK: AND DID YOU SEE ANY LIGHTS ON IN THAT AREA?
MR. PARK: NO, I DIDN'T.
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MS. CLARK: AT SOME POINT DURING YOUR PHONE CONVERSATION WITH DALE ST. JOHN DID SOMETHING ATTRACT YOUR ATTENTION?
MR. PARK: YES. A WHITE MALE WALKED FROM BEHIND THE HOUSE AREA ON A PATHWAY AND HE HAD A FLASHLIGHT IN HIS HAND AND HE STOPPED -- HE STOPPED BEFORE HE GOT TO THE DRIVEWAY.
MS. CLARK: OKAY.
MR. PARK: SO I -- I TOLD DALE THAT, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY IS HOME.
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MS. CLARK: AND THAT PERSON THAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING, HAVE YOU SINCE LEARNED WHAT HIS NAME IS?
MR. PARK: YES.
MS. CLARK: AND WHAT IS HIS NAME?
MR. PARK: KATO.
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MS. CLARK: COULD YOU TELL WHERE HE WAS LOOKING OR WHAT HE WAS DOING?
MR. PARK: HE LOOKED AT ME AND THEN HE JUST -- HE STARTED TO LOOK, YOU KNOW, IN THE AREA OF THE ROCKINGHAM DRIVEWAY.
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MS. CLARK: HOW LONG -- NOW, AT THE SAME TIME THAT YOU SAW KATO KAELIN IN THE SIDE YARD, DID YOU SEE ANYTHING ELSE?
MR. PARK: YES. I SAW A FIGURE COME DOWN -- WELL, NOT COME DOWN, BUT I SAW A FIGURE COME INTO THE ENTRANCEWAY OF THE HOUSE JUST ABOUT WHERE THE -- WHERE THE DRIVEWAY STARTS.
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MS. CLARK: OKAY.
CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE, WHAT THAT PERSON LOOKED LIKE.
MR. COCHRAN: OBJECT TO THE FORM OF THAT QUESTION, YOUR HONOR.
THE COURT: OVERRULED.
MR. PARK: SIX FOOT, 200 POUNDS.
MS. CLARK: SIX FOOT, 200 POUNDS?
MR. PARK: ALL DARK CLOTHING.
MS. CLARK: AND COULD YOU TELL ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THIS PERSON?
MR. PARK: NO.
MS. CLARK: COULD YOU TELL WHETHER THE PERSON WAS CAUCASIAN OR AFRICAN AMERICAN?
MR. PARK: BLACK.
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MS. CLARK: AND THIS SIX-FOOT 200-POUND AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSON IN ALL DARK CLOTHING, WAS THIS PERSON MOVING QUICKLY OR SLOWLY?
MR. PARK: NOT QUICKLY, NOT SLOWLY, A GOOD PACE WALK IT SEEMED TO BE.
MS. CLARK: AND MOVING IN WHAT DIRECTION, SIR?
MR. PARK: INTO THE HOUSE OR TOWARD THE HOUSE
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MS. CLARK: DID YOU FORM AN OPINION AS TO WHETHER THIS WAS A MALE OR FEMALE?
MR. PARK: NO.
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MS. CLARK: HOW LONG AFTER YOU SAW THE SIX-FOOT 200-POUND PERSON IN ALL DARK CLOTHING GO INTO THE HOUSE DID YOU CONTINUE TO TALK TO DALE ST. JOHN?
MR. PARK: OH, IT WAS JUST ANYWHERE BETWEEN TEN TO THIRTY SECONDS. IT WASN'T VERY LONG.
MS. CLARK: OKAY. SO ON THE PHONE BILL IN FRONT OF YOU, SIR, ON THAT LAST CALL WHERE IT INDICATES 10:52 AND 17 SECONDS, DOES IT INDICATE HOW LONG THE PHONE CALL WAS FOR, THE DURATION OF THE CALL?
MR. PARK: UMM, YES, TWO MINUTES AND 55 SECONDS.
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MS. CLARK: AND SO YOU WOULD HAVE HUNG UP WITH HIM AT 10:55 AND 12 SECONDS?
MR. PARK: YES.
MS. CLARK: AND IT WAS WITHIN THE LAST TEN TO THIRTY SECONDS OF THAT CALL AT 10 -- OF ENDING THAT CALL AT 10:55 THAT YOU SAW THIS SIX-FOOT 200-POUND PERSON GO INTO THE ENTRANCE?
MR. PARK: YES.
MS. CLARK: AFTER YOU HUNG UP WITH DALE ST. JOHN YOU SAID YOU SAT FOR ANOTHER THIRTY SECONDS OR SO?
MR. PARK: YES.
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MS. CLARK: AND AFTER THIRTY SECONDS WHAT DID YOU DO?
MR. PARK: THAT IS WHEN I GOT BACK UP AND OUT OF THE CAR AND RANG THE INTERCOM. THIS TIME THERE WAS AN ANSWER, WHICH WAS MR. SIMPSON. HE TOLD ME THAT HE OVERSLEPT AND HE JUST GOT OUT OF THE SHOWER AND HE WOULD BE DOWN IN A MINUTE.
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MS. CLARK: COULD YOU TELL, WHEN YOU SAW THAT SIX-FOOT 200-POUND PERSON WALK INTO THE ENTRANCE, COULD YOU TELL WHETHER THAT PERSON WAS COMING FROM THE ROCKINGHAM DRIVEWAY OR FROM THE AREA OF THE GARAGE FROM THE SOUTH PATHWAY?
MR. PARK: NO, I COULDN'T.
MS. CLARK: COULD YOU TELL WHETHER THAT PERSON HAD ANYTHING IN HIS HAND -- IN THEIR HANDS?
MR. PARK: NO.
MS. CLARK: WHEN THAT PERSON WALKED INTO THE ENTRANCE OF THE HOUSE, DID YOU NOTICE WHETHER THERE WAS ANY CHANGE IN THE LIGHTING IN THE HOUSE?
MR. PARK: SOME LIGHTS CAME ON DOWNSTAIRS, YES.
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MS. CLARK: MS. CLARK: THAT PERSON THAT YOU SAW GO INTO THE HOUSE, DID HE LOOK LIKE SOMEONE YOU RECOGNIZED?
MR. PARK: NO.
MS. CLARK: DID HE LOOK LIKE MR. SIMPSON?
MR. COCHRAN: OBJECT TO THE FORM OF THAT QUESTION, YOUR HONOR. ASKED AND ANSWERED.
THE COURT: OVERRULED.
MR. PARK: I COULDN'T TELL WHO IT WAS.
MS. CLARK: DID IT APPEAR TO BE THE SAME SIZE AS MR. SIMPSON?
MR. PARK: YES.
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MS. CLARK: AFTER YOU SPOKE TO MR. SIMPSON -- STRIKE THAT.
HOW LONG AFTER YOU SAW THE SIX-FOOT 200-POUND PERSON GO INTO THE HOUSE DID YOU SPEAK TO MR. SIMPSON ON THE INTERCOM?
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MR. PARK: IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN ANYWHERE BETWEEN THIRTY SECONDS TO A MINUTE.
MS. CLARK: AND AFTER YOU SPOKE TO MR. SIMPSON ON THE INTERCOM, WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
MR. PARK: I GOT BACK INTO THE CAR AND WAITED ANOTHER TWENTY, THIRTY SECONDS AND BEFORE MR. KAELIN CAME OVER AND OPENED THE GATE.
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MS. CLARK: AND DID YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH MR. KAELIN ABOUT AN EARTHQUAKE?
MR. PARK: YES. HE ASKED ME IF I FELT ONE.
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MS. CLARK: CAN YOU REMEMBER WHAT HE WAS WEARING WHEN THE DEFENDANT CAME OUT OF THE HOUSE?
MR. PARK: WHEN HE CAME OUT OF THE HOUSE HE HAD SOME STONE WASHED JEANS AND A WHITE-COLLARED SHIRT AND HE HAD A BLACK COAT WITH HIM. I DON'T REMEMBER IF HE WAS WEARING IT OR CARRYING IT.
MS. CLARK: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
MR. PARK: HE CARRIED DOWN WHAT LOOKED LIKE A GUCCI BAG WITH HIM THAT FOLDED IN HALF, SEEMED TO BE SOME TYPE OF GARMENT BAG. HE CAME OUT AND SET THAT ON THE GROUND NEXT TO THE BAGS, FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, AND FROM THERE I PICKED IT UP AND PUT THAT INTO THE TRUNK. AT THAT TIME I SEEM TO REMEMBER HE WALKED OVER TO THE CARS.
MS. CLARK: OKAY. LET ME BACK YOU UP FOR A MINUTE.
CAN YOU TELL US, SIR, APPROXIMATELY HOW LONG IT WAS BETWEEN THE TIME YOU SAW THE SIX-FOOT 200-POUND PERSON DRESSED IN ALL DARK CLOTHING GO INTO THE HOUSE AND THE TIME YOU SAW MR. SIMPSON COME OUT THE FRONT ENTRANCE?
MR. PARK: IT WAS SOMEWHERE AROUND FIVE OR SIX MINUTES.
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MS. CLARK: THEN WHAT HAPPENED?
MR. PARK: AFTER THAT MR. SIMPSON WENT INTO THE HOUSE A FEW TIMES, TWO OR THREE TIMES HE WAS COMING IN AND OUT.
MS. CLARK: DID YOU EVER SEE HIM BRING ANY MORE BAGS OUT?
MR. PARK: OF THE HOUSE?
MS. CLARK: YES.
MR. PARK: NO.
MS. CLARK: WAS THE GARMENT BAG THE ONLY BAG THAT HE BROUGHT OUT?
MR. PARK: FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, YES.
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MS. CLARK: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
MR. PARK: UMM, SOMEWHERE IN THERE, ONE OF THOSE TIMES THERE WAS A -- THERE WAS ANOTHER BAG ON THE DRIVEWAY.
MS. CLARK: WHAT KIND OF BAG WAS THAT?
MR. PARK: IT WAS ANOTHER -- SEEMED TO BE SMALL DUFFEL BAG.
MS. CLARK: CAN YOU SHOW US WITH YOUR HANDS HOW BIG THAT BAG WAS?
MR. PARK: FROM WHAT I CAN REMEMBER -- I SAW IT AT A DISTANCE. FROM WHAT I CAN REMEMBER, IT WAS SMALLER THAN THE OTHER TWO. IT WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, A FOOT AND A HALF -- ABOUT A FOOT A HALF. A FOOT AND A HALF BY A HALF A FOOT. IT WASN'T VERY BIG, (INDICATING).
MS. CLARK: COULD YOU TELL WHAT COLOR IT WAS?
MR. PARK: IT SEEMED TO BE DARK.
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MS. CLARK: ALL RIGHT. AND WHAT DREW YOUR ATTENTION TO THAT BAG?
MR. PARK: WHAT -- WHEN -- I THINK IT WAS WHEN -- WHEN MR. SIMPSON GAVE KATO THE GOLF BAGS, I WAS KIND OF LOOKING IN THAT AREA. I SAW IT ON THE GROUND.
MS. CLARK: OKAY. NOW, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT BAG?
MR. PARK: UMM, IT WAS SOMETIME WHEN -- WHEN KATO WAS ASKING ME FOR A FLASHLIGHT, WE WERE STANDING AROUND THE CAR AND MR. SIMPSON CAME BACK OUT.
MS. CLARK: OUT OF WHERE?
MR. PARK: I COULDN'T REMEMBER. HE JUST CAME TOWARD THE CAR. WE WERE TOWARD THE BACK OF THE TRUNK.
MS. CLARK: HE CAME TOWARD THE CAR. COULD YOU TELL IF HE CAME FROM THE ROCKINGHAM GATE LOCATION OR FROM THE HOUSE?
MR. PARK: I DON'T REMEMBER.
MS. CLARK: OKAY.
MR. PARK: HE CAME OUT AND KATO OFFERED TO GO GET THE BAG AND HE SAID, "NO, NO, THAT IS OKAY. I'LL GET IT, I'LL GET IT.
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MS. CLARK: OKAY. AND THEN THE DEFENDANT -- AFTER THE DEFENDANT SAID, "WE GOT TO GO," WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
MR. PARK: WE BOTH WENT TO THE CAR. I OPENED THE DOOR FOR HIM, LET HIM IN, AND GOT IN THE FRONT AND WE DROVE OFF.
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MS. CLARK: ALL RIGHT. ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT DID THE DEFENDANT SAY ANYTHING TO YOU?
MR. PARK: A FEW TIMES HE REPEATED HOW HOT HE WAS. TWO OR THREE TIMES HE SAID, "YOU KNOW, MAN, IT IS HOT."
I TOLD HIM HE COULD TURN THE AIR CONDITIONING ON.
MS. CLARK: AND DID HE?
MR. PARK: I REMEMBER HEARING IT COME ON, YES. HE ALSO HAD THE SEAT THAT HE WAS SITTING IN, HE ALSO HAD THE WINDOW DOWN. A COUPLE TIMES, YOU KNOW, HE REPEATED, "IT DOESN'T PAY TO GET DRESSED IN A HURRY" OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT OR "I KNOW I FORGOT SOMETHING." I SAID, "THAT USUALLY HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE GOING ON A TRIP."
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MS. CLARK: AFTER -- DID HE REMARK ON BEING HOT AGAIN AFTER THE AIR CONDITIONING WAS ON AND THE WINDOW WAS DOWN?
MR. PARK: DID HE REMARK?
MS. CLARK: DID HE SAY IT AGAIN?
MR. PARK: NO.
MS. CLARK: DO YOU RECALL WHAT THE WEATHER WAS LIKE THAT NIGHT?
MR. PARK: FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, IT WAS MILD, HAVING OUR NORMAL JUNE GLOOM FOGGY NIGHTS.
MS. CLARK: ABOUT WHAT? WHAT ABOUT WAS THE TEMPERATURE, IF YOU RECALL?
MR. PARK: 68, 70 DEGREES. I DON'T KNOW.
MS. CLARK: WERE YOU SWEATING?
MR. PARK: NO, I WASN'T.
MS. CLARK: WERE YOU HOT?
MR. PARK: NO.
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MS. CLARK: OKAY. ABOUT WHAT TIME DID YOU GET TO THE AIRPORT?
MR. PARK: IT WAS ABOUT 11:35.
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MS. CLARK: WHEN THE DEFENDANT GOT OUT OF THE LIMOUSINE, SIR, COULD YOU OBSERVE HIM? WAS THERE LIGHTING THERE THAT YOU COULD SEE HIM?
MR. PARK: YES.
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MS. CLARK: COULD YOU TELL US HOW HE LOOKED? HOW DID HE APPEAR?
MR. PARK: HE SEEMED TO BE HOT.
MS. CLARK: AND WHAT DID YOU SEE THAT MADE YOU BELIEVE THAT?
MR. PARK: HE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF SWEAT ON HIS FOREHEAD.
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CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. COCHRAN:
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MR. COCHRAN: NOW, THAT NIGHT, YOU WERE -- YOU SAW MR. SIMPSON FOR AT LEAST THE PERIOD 10:55 OR THEREABOUTS UNTIL YOU DROPPED HIM OFF AT THE OR LEFT HIM AT THE AIRPORT THERE AT ABOUT 11:35; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
MR. PARK: YES.
MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. AND THEN AS I UNDERSTAND IT, YOU LEFT HIM WITH THE SKYCAP OR LEFT HIM CHECKING HIS LUGGAGE AND THEN YOU WENT ON AND WENT BACK HOME; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
MR. PARK: YES.
MR. COCHRAN:ALL RIGHT. NOW, DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME, YOU HAD OCCASION, DID YOU NOT, TO SEE MR. SIMPSON'S HANDS, DIDN'T YOU?
MR. PARK: YES.
MR. COCHRAN: IN FACT, YOU DESCRIBED FOR US THAT AT ONE POINT, YOU SHOOK HIS HAND, HIS RIGHT HAND; IS THAT CORRECT?
MR. PARK: YES.
MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. AND YOU SAW HIM, I THINK YOU'VE DESCRIBED FOR US, COMING DOWN THE STAIRS CARRYING SOME BAGS WITH HIS HANDS; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
MR. PARK: YES.
MR. COCHRAN: AND DID YOU EVER SEE ANY BAND AIDS ON HIS LEFT HAND, ON HIS LEFT KNUCKLE, MIDDLE FINGER HERE (INDICATING)?
MR. PARK: NO.
MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. YOU DIDN'T SEE ANY CUTS ON HIS HANDS THAT EVENING, DID YOU?
MR. PARK: NO.
MR. COCHRAN: AND YOU DIDN'T SEE MR. SIMPSON BLEEDING THAT EVENING, DID YOU?
MR. PARK: NO.
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MR. COCHRAN: AND THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT ON SUNDAY EVENING AFTER 10:30, BETWEEN 10:30 AND 11:00 O'CLOCK, WOULD YOU SAY THAT IT WAS FAIRLY QUIET OUT THERE ON THAT STREET THAT NIGHT?
MR. PARK: IT WAS VERY QUIET
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MR. COCHRAN: AND YOU COULD HEAR NOISES ATTENDANT TO THE STREET THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT FROM YOUR LOCATION; COULD YOU NOT?
MR. PARK: YES, YOU COULD.
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MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. AND AT ANY TIME WHILE YOU WERE OUT THERE THAT NIGHT, DID YOU EVER HAPPEN TO HEAR A CAR DRIVE UP OR HEAR THE SOUND OF A CAR DRIVE UP AND STOP ANYWHERE AROUND THERE?
MS. CLARK: OBJECTION. VAGUE.
THE COURT: OVERRULED.
MR. PARK: NO. THERE -- I HEARD CARS. I HEARD CARS GO BY, BUT I NEVER HEARD A CAR PULL UP AND STOP, NO.
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MR. COCHRAN: NOW, WITH REGARD TO THIS PERSON THAT YOU HAVE INDICATED THAT YOU SAW SOMEWHERE OUT THERE IN THE DRIVEWAY AREA -- AND YOU'VE DESCRIBED IT SOME -- WITH SOME PARTICULARITY, SO I WON'T GO INTO THAT IN DETAIL -- COULD THIS PERSON HAVE HAD A ROBE ON?
MR. PARK: COULD HAVE.
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MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. AND MR. SIMPSON SAID SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT THAT, "I WAS RUSHING AROUND TRYING TO GET PACKED, I'M SURE I'M FORGETTING SOMETHING," OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT; IS THAT CORRECT?
MR. PARK: YES. EVERYBODY SAYS THAT.
MR. COCHRAN: AND THAT DIDN'T SEEM OUT OF THE ORDINARY TO YOU, DID IT?
MR. PARK: NO.
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MR. COCHRAN: SO YOU DIDN'T THINK IT UNUSUAL THAT HE WAS SWEATING OCCASIONALLY, DID YOU? HAVING RUSHED AROUND AND TAKEN A SHOWER, IT WASN'T UNUSUAL THAT HE MIGHT BE SWEATING, WAS IT?
MR. PARK: NO.
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REDIRECT EXAMINATIONBY MS. CLARK:
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MS. CLARK: LET ME FIRST ASK YOU, WHEN YOU WERE AT THE DEFENDANT'S HOME ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE THE 12TH, WERE YOU IN A HURRY?
MR. PARK: UMM, I WAS -- IT DEPENDS ON WHAT POINT IN TIME.
MS. CLARK: WELL, WHEN YOU -- WHEN YOU FINALLY SAW -- LET ME ASK YOU. THAT IS GOOD -- THANK YOU. BY THE TIME THE DEFENDANT CAME DOWNSTAIRS TO THE LIMOUSINE WERE YOU IN A HURRY?
MR. PARK: I SEEM -- YES.
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MS. CLARK: HOW CAREFULLY WERE YOU TRYING TO OBSERVE THE DEFENDANT'S BODY AND HANDS WHEN HE CAME DOWNSTAIRS FINALLY TO THE LIMOUSINE?
MR. PARK: NOT AT ALL.
MS. CLARK: DID YOU PAY ANY ATTENTION TO HIS HAND AT ALL?
MR. PARK: NO.
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RECROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. COCHRAN:
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MR. COCHRAN: YOU RECALL MISS CLARK ASKED YOU SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU WERE LOOKING OR PAYING ATTENTION TO MR. SIMPSON'S BODY OR HIS HAND. DO YOU REMEMBER THOSE QUESTIONS?
MR. PARK: YES.
MR. COCHRAN: YOU WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED, WOULD YOU HAVE NOT, IF MR. SIMPSON HAD A BAND-AID, A LARGE BAND-AID ON THIS LEFT KNUCKLE HERE? IT WOULD STAND OUT? YOU WOULD REMEMBER THAT, WOULDN'T YOU?
MR. PARK: IF I SAW IT, YES.
MR. COCHRAN: YOU NEVER SAW THAT THAT NIGHT, DID YOU?
MS. CLARK: NO.
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FURTHER REDIRECT EXAMINATION
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MS. CLARK: MR. PARK, DURING THE TIME THAT YOU SPENT WITH MR. SIMPSON ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE THE 12TH, WERE YOU LOOKING AT HIS HANDS?
MR. PARK: NO, I WASN'T.
MS. CLARK: SO IF HE HAD BEEN WEARING A BAND-AID, WOULD YOU HAVE NOTICED IT THEN?
MR. PARK: NO.
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