OJ may have gotten away with murder, but he is going through the ultimate life sentence. He tried so hard to not be Black until 1994, and now for the rest of his life he will be seen as an icon of the Black community
Michael N-igg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3]
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because N-igg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
Simpson, who has consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after N-igg’s death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that N-igg’s was as well; N-igg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he, too, had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] N-igg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6]
Brett Ross Cantor (November 5, 1967[1] – July 30, 1993) was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner. He was born in New York to Rhonda and Paul Cantor, who managed acts such as B. J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. In the early 1970s, he and his family moved to the Los Angeles area. In the early 1990s, he served as an A&R executive for the Chrysalis Music Group.
After signing Rage Against the Machine, Cantor left Chrysalis to work briefly as an agent and then a promoter, putting together some of the largest concert and dance events in the city at that time.[2] He also entered the nightclub business, taking a 10 percent stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights. At that time he was involved romantically with actress Rose McGowan.[3]
Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30, 1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body. No suspect has ever been identified and the investigation remains open. His death was the subject of renewed interest a year later, when, during preliminary motions in the trial of O. J. Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case. The defense had argued that the similarity of the three killings suggested the same person or persons had committed them.[4] It has also been argued in books on the case that Cantor knew both Goldman and Nicole, and thus they may have been killed over mutual involvement in possibly illegal business activities.[5][6]
Transcripts from the OJ trial with a few of the several witnesses who interacted with him at the airport, on the airplane ride to Chicago, or before he resided in his Chicago hotel room. All of these witnesses testified to not seeing a cut or bandage on his finger. A broken glass was also found in his hotel room.
https://simpson.walraven.org/jul13.htmlhttp://famous-trials.com/simpson/1882-parktestimony
THE COURT: Overruled. Ask him what happened next.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. Okay, your Honor, I will do that.
MR. COCHRAN: What happened next?
MR. VALERIE: He proceeded to read that, sipped on his water, and it was pretty uneventful really. I mean, we were just flying on a redeye flight. He again, because of my position--
MR. DARDEN: Object as nonresponsive, your Honor.
THE COURT: All right. Next question.
MR. COCHRAN: All right, certainly. Mr. Valerie, as you watched Mr. Simpson from this vantage point, did you have occasion to look at his face?
MR. VALERIE: I sure did.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any bruises or cuts or abrasions on his face at that point?
MR. VALERIE: None whatsoever.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you have occasion from this vantage point you have described for us to look at Mr. Simpson's hands?
MR. VALERIE: I did.
MR. COCHRAN: And what, if anything, did you see with regard to his hands?
MR. VALERIE: Umm, I viewed Mr. Simpson's hands at that time looking for championship ring. Given he is a famous professional player, that was the motivation for my looking at his hands. I didn't see anything unusual, no Band-Aids, no large abrasions or anything to that effect.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any cuts at all?
MR. VALERIE: I didn't see any.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any blood on his hands?
MR. VALERIE: No blood.
MR. COCHRAN: By the way, you said you were looking for a championship ring. Is that like a Superbowl ring?
MR. VALERIE: Yes.
MR. COCHRAN: Something of that nature? Did you see one at that time?
MR. VALERIE: No, I did not.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. And so you had a pretty clear unobstructed view of Mr. Simpson as you were looking and making these observations; is that correct?
MR. VALERIE: That's correct. His left hand would have been the hand I saw closest and best view of.
————————————————
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. ———————————————————
MR. DOUGLAS: Now, there were several occasions when you were with Mr. Simpson as he was interacting with others?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign auto--would he sign autographs by holding something in his hand?
MR. MERRILL: Well, he would have to hold a piece of paper in his hand obviously to write it.
MR. DOUGLAS: So there would be the opportunity for you to watch the act of him signing the autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there ever an occasion when you consciously averted your eyes from watching his hands as he was signing autographs?
MR. MERRILL: I was watching a lot of things.
MR. DOUGLAS: You didn't ignore his hands, did you?
MR. MERRILL: No, I did not.
MR. DOUGLAS: But there was nothing about his hands that drew any attention to you?
MS. CLARK: Well, objection. That's leading.
THE COURT: Rephrase the question.
MR. DOUGLAS: Sure.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there anything about his hands that drew your attention?
MR. MERRILL: Just the fact that they're big.
MR. DOUGLAS: You did notice that he has pretty large hands?
According to transcripts of interviews conducted by investigators from the LAPD’s Internal Affairs Division, Coleman and another deputy district attorney said they were told by Detective Mark Arneson of the LAPD’s 77th Division that he had talked with two officers to whom Fuhrman had confided that he had had an intimate relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson and to whom he described her breast augmentation.
In the meantime, according to the transcripts of other Internal Affairs interviews, Burke told investigators she was told by Detective Daryl Maxwell of the Rampart Division that an officer he knew had overheard Fuhrman bragging that he had slept with Nicole Brown Simpson and that Fuhrman had described her “boob job.” (Arneson and Maxwell later denied to investigators that such conversations had occurred.)
According to an Internal Affairs transcript, Coleman subsequently told LAPD investigators: “Quite honestly, I agonized for about a week or two what I should do with the evidence because obviously if it was true, I felt ethically it had to be turned over to the defense.”
Coleman, sources say, decided that because she was a friend of Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark and respected William Hodgman, the other assistant district attorney on the case, she would go to them and report what she and her colleagues had heard.
Early in August, 1994, Coleman met with the prosecutors in Clark’s office and, according to the declaration, “told them what I had heard” about the locker and Nazi paraphernalia.
Michael Nigg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3]
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because Nigg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
Simpson, who has consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after Nigg's death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that Nigg's was as well; Nigg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he, too, had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] Nigg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6]
Brett Ross Cantor (November 5, 1967[1] – July 30, 1993) was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner. He was born in New York to Rhonda and Paul Cantor, who managed acts such as B. J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. In the early 1970s, he and his family moved to the Los Angeles area. In the early 1990s, he served as an A&R executive for the Chrysalis Music Group.
After signing Rage Against the Machine, Cantor left Chrysalis to work briefly as an agent and then a promoter, putting together some of the largest concert and dance events in the city at that time.[2] He also entered the nightclub business, taking a 10 percent stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights. At that time he was involved romantically with actress Rose McGowan.[3]
Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30, 1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body. No suspect has ever been identified and the investigation remains open. His death was the subject of renewed interest a year later, when, during preliminary motions in the trial of O. J. Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case. The defense had argued that the similarity of the three killings suggested the same person or persons had committed them.[4] It has also been argued in books on the case that Cantor knew both Goldman and Nicole, and thus they may have been killed over mutual involvement in possibly illegal business activities.[5][6]
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Michael N-igg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3]
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because N-igg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
Simpson, who has consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after N-igg’s death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that N-igg’s was as well; N-igg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he, too, had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] N-igg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6]
Brett Ross Cantor (November 5, 1967[1] – July 30, 1993) was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner. He was born in New York to Rhonda and Paul Cantor, who managed acts such as B. J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. In the early 1970s, he and his family moved to the Los Angeles area. In the early 1990s, he served as an A&R executive for the Chrysalis Music Group.
After signing Rage Against the Machine, Cantor left Chrysalis to work briefly as an agent and then a promoter, putting together some of the largest concert and dance events in the city at that time.[2] He also entered the nightclub business, taking a 10 percent stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights. At that time he was involved romantically with actress Rose McGowan.[3]
Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30, 1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body. No suspect has ever been identified and the investigation remains open. His death was the subject of renewed interest a year later, when, during preliminary motions in the trial of O. J. Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case. The defense had argued that the similarity of the three killings suggested the same person or persons had committed them.[4] It has also been argued in books on the case that Cantor knew both Goldman and Nicole, and thus they may have been killed over mutual involvement in possibly illegal business activities.[5][6]
In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien drew upon the language and themes found in the old Medieval hero-tales in order to construct a kind of new mythology. The brilliance of Tolkien was in his departure from the Pagan modes of conduct and morality of these old tales, his creation of a syncretistic fusion between Christian thought and Pagan language, and so his work achieved a deep resonance with all who read it.
We find this passage at the conclusion of The Return of the King:
>The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare.
Adversaries in the stories that Tolkien drew upon, Grendel, Mordred and the like, often served as obstacles that the heroes could overcome through feats of strength and cunning. Sauron is not like them. When Sauron is defeated, it is not because Aragorn is stronger than him or because Gandalf is wiser. They are not. It is only that his hubris was so great that it never occured to him that anyone would want to destroy the thing he held so dear. It is not until the final few seconds of his existence that he realises his mistake.
I think that I Am Jazz displays a similar moment. In the pictured scene, Jazz's journey to what he believes is womanhood is almost complete. He is resting after surgery, a triumphant smile on his face, his rotting groin held together by a labyrinthine patchwork of stitches and grafts. But as Eru Ilúvatar nudged Gollum over the Crack of Doom into the fires beneath, so too does the God of our world intervene in this.
>Pop!
In a second, the follies of men are undone and Jazz's crotch explodes, a meaty froth of blood and pus pouring out of the hole where his penis used to be.
Transcripts from the OJ trial with a few of the several witnesses who interacted with him at the airport, on the airplane ride to Chicago, or before he resided in his Chicago hotel room. All of these witnesses testified to not seeing a cut or bandage on his finger. A broken glass was also found in his hotel room.
https://simpson.walraven.org/jul13.htmlhttp://famous-trials.com/simpson/1882-parktestimony
THE COURT: Overruled. Ask him what happened next.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. Okay, your Honor, I will do that.
MR. COCHRAN: What happened next?
MR. VALERIE: He proceeded to read that, sipped on his water, and it was pretty uneventful really. I mean, we were just flying on a redeye flight. He again, because of my position--
MR. DARDEN: Object as nonresponsive, your Honor.
THE COURT: All right. Next question.
MR. COCHRAN: All right, certainly. Mr. Valerie, as you watched Mr. Simpson from this vantage point, did you have occasion to look at his face?
MR. VALERIE: I sure did.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any bruises or cuts or abrasions on his face at that point?
MR. VALERIE: None whatsoever.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you have occasion from this vantage point you have described for us to look at Mr. Simpson's hands?
MR. VALERIE: I did.
MR. COCHRAN: And what, if anything, did you see with regard to his hands?
MR. VALERIE: Umm, I viewed Mr. Simpson's hands at that time looking for championship ring. Given he is a famous professional player, that was the motivation for my looking at his hands. I didn't see anything unusual, no Band-Aids, no large abrasions or anything to that effect.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any cuts at all?
MR. VALERIE: I didn't see any.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any blood on his hands?
MR. VALERIE: No blood.
MR. COCHRAN: By the way, you said you were looking for a championship ring. Is that like a Superbowl ring?
MR. VALERIE: Yes.
MR. COCHRAN: Something of that nature? Did you see one at that time?
MR. VALERIE: No, I did not.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. And so you had a pretty clear unobstructed view of Mr. Simpson as you were looking and making these observations; is that correct?
MR. VALERIE: That's correct. His left hand would have been the hand I saw closest and best view of.
————————————————
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. ———————————————————
MR. DOUGLAS: Now, there were several occasions when you were with Mr. Simpson as he was interacting with others?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign auto--would he sign autographs by holding something in his hand?
MR. MERRILL: Well, he would have to hold a piece of paper in his hand obviously to write it.
MR. DOUGLAS: So there would be the opportunity for you to watch the act of him signing the autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there ever an occasion when you consciously averted your eyes from watching his hands as he was signing autographs?
MR. MERRILL: I was watching a lot of things.
MR. DOUGLAS: You didn't ignore his hands, did you?
MR. MERRILL: No, I did not.
MR. DOUGLAS: But there was nothing about his hands that drew any attention to you?
MS. CLARK: Well, objection. That's leading.
THE COURT: Rephrase the question.
MR. DOUGLAS: Sure.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there anything about his hands that drew your attention?
MR. MERRILL: Just the fact that they're big.
MR. DOUGLAS: You did notice that he has pretty large hands?
Transcripts from the OJ trial with a few of the several witnesses who interacted with him at the airport, on the airplane ride to Chicago, or before he resided in his Chicago hotel room. All of these witnesses testified to not seeing a cut or bandage on his finger. A broken glass was also found in his hotel room.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. Okay, your Honor, I will do that.
MR. COCHRAN: What happened next?
MR. VALERIE: He proceeded to read that, sipped on his water, and it was pretty uneventful really. I mean, we were just flying on a redeye flight. He again, because of my position--
MR. DARDEN: Object as nonresponsive, your Honor.
THE COURT: All right. Next question.
MR. COCHRAN: All right, certainly. Mr. Valerie, as you watched Mr. Simpson from this vantage point, did you have occasion to look at his face?
MR. VALERIE: I sure did.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any bruises or cuts or abrasions on his face at that point?
MR. VALERIE: None whatsoever.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you have occasion from this vantage point you have described for us to look at Mr. Simpson's hands?
MR. VALERIE: I did.
MR. COCHRAN: And what, if anything, did you see with regard to his hands?
MR. VALERIE: Umm, I viewed Mr. Simpson's hands at that time looking for championship ring. Given he is a famous professional player, that was the motivation for my looking at his hands. I didn't see anything unusual, no Band-Aids, no large abrasions or anything to that effect.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any cuts at all?
MR. VALERIE: I didn't see any.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any blood on his hands?
MR. VALERIE: No blood.
MR. COCHRAN: By the way, you said you were looking for a championship ring. Is that like a Superbowl ring?
MR. VALERIE: Yes.
MR. COCHRAN: Something of that nature? Did you see one at that time?
MR. VALERIE: No, I did not.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. And so you had a pretty clear unobstructed view of Mr. Simpson as you were looking and making these observations; is that correct?
MR. VALERIE: That's correct. His left hand would have been the hand I saw closest and best view of.
———————————————————
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. ———————————————————
MR. DOUGLAS: Now, there were several occasions when you were with Mr. Simpson as he was interacting with others?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign auto--would he sign autographs by holding something in his hand?
MR. MERRILL: Well, he would have to hold a piece of paper in his hand obviously to write it.
MR. DOUGLAS: So there would be the opportunity for you to watch the act of him signing the autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there ever an occasion when you consciously averted your eyes from watching his hands as he was signing autographs?
MR. MERRILL: I was watching a lot of things.
MR. DOUGLAS: You didn't ignore his hands, did you?
MR. MERRILL: No, I did not.
MR. DOUGLAS: But there was nothing about his hands that drew any attention to you?
MS. CLARK: Well, objection. That's leading.
THE COURT: Rephrase the question.
MR. DOUGLAS: Sure.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there anything about his hands that drew your attention?
MR. MERRILL: Just the fact that they're big.
MR. DOUGLAS: You did notice that he has pretty large hands?
According to transcripts of interviews conducted by investigators from the LAPD’s Internal Affairs Division, Coleman and another deputy district attorney said they were told by Detective Mark Arneson of the LAPD’s 77th Division that he had talked with two officers to whom Fuhrman had confided that he had had an intimate relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson and to whom he described her breast augmentation.
In the meantime, according to the transcripts of other Internal Affairs interviews, Burke told investigators she was told by Detective Daryl Maxwell of the Rampart Division that an officer he knew had overheard Fuhrman bragging that he had slept with Nicole Brown Simpson and that Fuhrman had described her “boob job.” (Arneson and Maxwell later denied to investigators that such conversations had occurred.)
According to an Internal Affairs transcript, Coleman subsequently told LAPD investigators: “Quite honestly, I agonized for about a week or two what I should do with the evidence because obviously if it was true, I felt ethically it had to be turned over to the defense.”
Coleman, sources say, decided that because she was a friend of Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark and respected William Hodgman, the other assistant district attorney on the case, she would go to them and report what she and her colleagues had heard.
Early in August, 1994, Coleman met with the prosecutors in Clark’s office and, according to the declaration, “told them what I had heard” about the locker and Nazi paraphernalia.
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Michael N-igg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3]
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because N-igg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
Simpson, who has consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after N-igg’s death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that N-igg’s was as well; N-igg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he, too, had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] N-igg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6]
Brett Ross Cantor (November 5, 1967[1] – July 30, 1993) was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner. He was born in New York to Rhonda and Paul Cantor, who managed acts such as B. J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. In the early 1970s, he and his family moved to the Los Angeles area. In the early 1990s, he served as an A&R executive for the Chrysalis Music Group.
After signing Rage Against the Machine, Cantor left Chrysalis to work briefly as an agent and then a promoter, putting together some of the largest concert and dance events in the city at that time.[2] He also entered the nightclub business, taking a 10 percent stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights. At that time he was involved romantically with actress Rose McGowan.[3]
Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30, 1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body. No suspect has ever been identified and the investigation remains open. His death was the subject of renewed interest a year later, when, during preliminary motions in the trial of O. J. Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case. The defense had argued that the similarity of the three killings suggested the same person or persons had committed them.[4] It has also been argued in books on the case that Cantor knew both Goldman and Nicole, and thus they may have been killed over mutual involvement in possibly illegal business activities.[5][6]
27 comments
5 ramen_poodle_soup 2020-07-01
I’m surprised OJ didn’t jump on the blue lives matter bandwagon considering him and the cops have similar feelings about their wives
5 HodorLePortePorte 2020-07-01
Don’t think he’s a big fan of people who are paid to stop OJ from becoming his true form.
4 StrangeSorbet 2020-07-01
OJ may have gotten away with murder, but he is going through the ultimate life sentence. He tried so hard to not be Black until 1994, and now for the rest of his life he will be seen as an icon of the Black community
2 xingxhang 2020-07-01
Lmao karma is a bitch.
1 howlowcanyougooo 2020-07-01
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Michael_Nigg
Michael N-igg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3]
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because N-igg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
Simpson, who has consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after N-igg’s death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that N-igg’s was as well; N-igg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he, too, had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] N-igg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Cantor
Brett Ross Cantor (November 5, 1967[1] – July 30, 1993) was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner. He was born in New York to Rhonda and Paul Cantor, who managed acts such as B. J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. In the early 1970s, he and his family moved to the Los Angeles area. In the early 1990s, he served as an A&R executive for the Chrysalis Music Group.
After signing Rage Against the Machine, Cantor left Chrysalis to work briefly as an agent and then a promoter, putting together some of the largest concert and dance events in the city at that time.[2] He also entered the nightclub business, taking a 10 percent stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights. At that time he was involved romantically with actress Rose McGowan.[3]
Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30, 1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body. No suspect has ever been identified and the investigation remains open. His death was the subject of renewed interest a year later, when, during preliminary motions in the trial of O. J. Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case. The defense had argued that the similarity of the three killings suggested the same person or persons had committed them.[4] It has also been argued in books on the case that Cantor knew both Goldman and Nicole, and thus they may have been killed over mutual involvement in possibly illegal business activities.[5][6]
1 howlowcanyougooo 2020-07-01
OJ as a militant black man in The Klansman (1974)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PmsnIhftlSo
1 howlowcanyougooo 2020-07-01
Transcripts from the OJ trial with a few of the several witnesses who interacted with him at the airport, on the airplane ride to Chicago, or before he resided in his Chicago hotel room. All of these witnesses testified to not seeing a cut or bandage on his finger. A broken glass was also found in his hotel room. https://simpson.walraven.org/jul13.html http://famous-trials.com/simpson/1882-parktestimony
THE COURT: Overruled. Ask him what happened next.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. Okay, your Honor, I will do that.
MR. COCHRAN: What happened next?
MR. VALERIE: He proceeded to read that, sipped on his water, and it was pretty uneventful really. I mean, we were just flying on a redeye flight. He again, because of my position--
MR. DARDEN: Object as nonresponsive, your Honor.
THE COURT: All right. Next question.
MR. COCHRAN: All right, certainly. Mr. Valerie, as you watched Mr. Simpson from this vantage point, did you have occasion to look at his face?
MR. VALERIE: I sure did.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any bruises or cuts or abrasions on his face at that point?
MR. VALERIE: None whatsoever.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you have occasion from this vantage point you have described for us to look at Mr. Simpson's hands?
MR. VALERIE: I did.
MR. COCHRAN: And what, if anything, did you see with regard to his hands?
MR. VALERIE: Umm, I viewed Mr. Simpson's hands at that time looking for championship ring. Given he is a famous professional player, that was the motivation for my looking at his hands. I didn't see anything unusual, no Band-Aids, no large abrasions or anything to that effect.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any cuts at all?
MR. VALERIE: I didn't see any.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any blood on his hands?
MR. VALERIE: No blood.
MR. COCHRAN: By the way, you said you were looking for a championship ring. Is that like a Superbowl ring?
MR. VALERIE: Yes.
MR. COCHRAN: Something of that nature? Did you see one at that time?
MR. VALERIE: No, I did not.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. And so you had a pretty clear unobstructed view of Mr. Simpson as you were looking and making these observations; is that correct?
MR. VALERIE: That's correct. His left hand would have been the hand I saw closest and best view of. ———————————————— 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. ——————————————————— MR. DOUGLAS: Now, there were several occasions when you were with Mr. Simpson as he was interacting with others?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign auto--would he sign autographs by holding something in his hand?
MR. MERRILL: Well, he would have to hold a piece of paper in his hand obviously to write it.
MR. DOUGLAS: So there would be the opportunity for you to watch the act of him signing the autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there ever an occasion when you consciously averted your eyes from watching his hands as he was signing autographs?
MR. MERRILL: I was watching a lot of things.
MR. DOUGLAS: You didn't ignore his hands, did you?
MR. MERRILL: No, I did not.
MR. DOUGLAS: But there was nothing about his hands that drew any attention to you?
MS. CLARK: Well, objection. That's leading.
THE COURT: Rephrase the question.
MR. DOUGLAS: Sure.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there anything about his hands that drew your attention?
MR. MERRILL: Just the fact that they're big.
MR. DOUGLAS: You did notice that he has pretty large hands?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: You watched him shaking
hands? MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: You watched him signing?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: You saw no cuts?
MR. MERRILL: I saw no cuts.
1 howlowcanyougooo 2020-07-01
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-02-mn-41569-story.html?_amp=true
According to transcripts of interviews conducted by investigators from the LAPD’s Internal Affairs Division, Coleman and another deputy district attorney said they were told by Detective Mark Arneson of the LAPD’s 77th Division that he had talked with two officers to whom Fuhrman had confided that he had had an intimate relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson and to whom he described her breast augmentation.
In the meantime, according to the transcripts of other Internal Affairs interviews, Burke told investigators she was told by Detective Daryl Maxwell of the Rampart Division that an officer he knew had overheard Fuhrman bragging that he had slept with Nicole Brown Simpson and that Fuhrman had described her “boob job.” (Arneson and Maxwell later denied to investigators that such conversations had occurred.)
According to an Internal Affairs transcript, Coleman subsequently told LAPD investigators: “Quite honestly, I agonized for about a week or two what I should do with the evidence because obviously if it was true, I felt ethically it had to be turned over to the defense.”
Coleman, sources say, decided that because she was a friend of Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark and respected William Hodgman, the other assistant district attorney on the case, she would go to them and report what she and her colleagues had heard.
Early in August, 1994, Coleman met with the prosecutors in Clark’s office and, according to the declaration, “told them what I had heard” about the locker and Nazi paraphernalia.
1 howlowcanyougooo 2020-07-01
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Michael_Nigg
Michael Nigg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3]
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because Nigg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
Simpson, who has consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after Nigg's death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that Nigg's was as well; Nigg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he, too, had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] Nigg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Cantor
Brett Ross Cantor (November 5, 1967[1] – July 30, 1993) was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner. He was born in New York to Rhonda and Paul Cantor, who managed acts such as B. J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. In the early 1970s, he and his family moved to the Los Angeles area. In the early 1990s, he served as an A&R executive for the Chrysalis Music Group.
After signing Rage Against the Machine, Cantor left Chrysalis to work briefly as an agent and then a promoter, putting together some of the largest concert and dance events in the city at that time.[2] He also entered the nightclub business, taking a 10 percent stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights. At that time he was involved romantically with actress Rose McGowan.[3]
Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30, 1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body. No suspect has ever been identified and the investigation remains open. His death was the subject of renewed interest a year later, when, during preliminary motions in the trial of O. J. Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case. The defense had argued that the similarity of the three killings suggested the same person or persons had committed them.[4] It has also been argued in books on the case that Cantor knew both Goldman and Nicole, and thus they may have been killed over mutual involvement in possibly illegal business activities.[5][6]
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1 howlowcanyougooo 2020-07-01
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Michael_Nigg
Michael N-igg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3]
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because N-igg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
Simpson, who has consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after N-igg’s death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that N-igg’s was as well; N-igg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he, too, had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] N-igg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Cantor
Brett Ross Cantor (November 5, 1967[1] – July 30, 1993) was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner. He was born in New York to Rhonda and Paul Cantor, who managed acts such as B. J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. In the early 1970s, he and his family moved to the Los Angeles area. In the early 1990s, he served as an A&R executive for the Chrysalis Music Group.
After signing Rage Against the Machine, Cantor left Chrysalis to work briefly as an agent and then a promoter, putting together some of the largest concert and dance events in the city at that time.[2] He also entered the nightclub business, taking a 10 percent stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights. At that time he was involved romantically with actress Rose McGowan.[3]
Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30, 1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body. No suspect has ever been identified and the investigation remains open. His death was the subject of renewed interest a year later, when, during preliminary motions in the trial of O. J. Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case. The defense had argued that the similarity of the three killings suggested the same person or persons had committed them.[4] It has also been argued in books on the case that Cantor knew both Goldman and Nicole, and thus they may have been killed over mutual involvement in possibly illegal business activities.[5][6]
2 SnapshillBot 2020-07-01
In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien drew upon the language and themes found in the old Medieval hero-tales in order to construct a kind of new mythology. The brilliance of Tolkien was in his departure from the Pagan modes of conduct and morality of these old tales, his creation of a syncretistic fusion between Christian thought and Pagan language, and so his work achieved a deep resonance with all who read it.
We find this passage at the conclusion of The Return of the King:
>The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare.
Adversaries in the stories that Tolkien drew upon, Grendel, Mordred and the like, often served as obstacles that the heroes could overcome through feats of strength and cunning. Sauron is not like them. When Sauron is defeated, it is not because Aragorn is stronger than him or because Gandalf is wiser. They are not. It is only that his hubris was so great that it never occured to him that anyone would want to destroy the thing he held so dear. It is not until the final few seconds of his existence that he realises his mistake.
I think that I Am Jazz displays a similar moment. In the pictured scene, Jazz's journey to what he believes is womanhood is almost complete. He is resting after surgery, a triumphant smile on his face, his rotting groin held together by a labyrinthine patchwork of stitches and grafts. But as Eru Ilúvatar nudged Gollum over the Crack of Doom into the fires beneath, so too does the God of our world intervene in this.
>Pop!
In a second, the follies of men are undone and Jazz's crotch explodes, a meaty froth of blood and pus pouring out of the hole where his penis used to be.
In that moment of blind panic and terror, Jazz is Sauron. All triumph and victory is gone. Only the Void remains.
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2 xingxhang 2020-07-01
Bonus: OJ calls out Mark Fuhrman.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRealOJ32/status/1266563759503339520
1 howlowcanyougooo 2020-07-01
Transcripts from the OJ trial with a few of the several witnesses who interacted with him at the airport, on the airplane ride to Chicago, or before he resided in his Chicago hotel room. All of these witnesses testified to not seeing a cut or bandage on his finger. A broken glass was also found in his hotel room. https://simpson.walraven.org/jul13.html http://famous-trials.com/simpson/1882-parktestimony
THE COURT: Overruled. Ask him what happened next.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. Okay, your Honor, I will do that.
MR. COCHRAN: What happened next?
MR. VALERIE: He proceeded to read that, sipped on his water, and it was pretty uneventful really. I mean, we were just flying on a redeye flight. He again, because of my position--
MR. DARDEN: Object as nonresponsive, your Honor.
THE COURT: All right. Next question.
MR. COCHRAN: All right, certainly. Mr. Valerie, as you watched Mr. Simpson from this vantage point, did you have occasion to look at his face?
MR. VALERIE: I sure did.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any bruises or cuts or abrasions on his face at that point?
MR. VALERIE: None whatsoever.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you have occasion from this vantage point you have described for us to look at Mr. Simpson's hands?
MR. VALERIE: I did.
MR. COCHRAN: And what, if anything, did you see with regard to his hands?
MR. VALERIE: Umm, I viewed Mr. Simpson's hands at that time looking for championship ring. Given he is a famous professional player, that was the motivation for my looking at his hands. I didn't see anything unusual, no Band-Aids, no large abrasions or anything to that effect.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any cuts at all?
MR. VALERIE: I didn't see any.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any blood on his hands?
MR. VALERIE: No blood.
MR. COCHRAN: By the way, you said you were looking for a championship ring. Is that like a Superbowl ring?
MR. VALERIE: Yes.
MR. COCHRAN: Something of that nature? Did you see one at that time?
MR. VALERIE: No, I did not.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. And so you had a pretty clear unobstructed view of Mr. Simpson as you were looking and making these observations; is that correct?
MR. VALERIE: That's correct. His left hand would have been the hand I saw closest and best view of. ———————————————— 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. ——————————————————— MR. DOUGLAS: Now, there were several occasions when you were with Mr. Simpson as he was interacting with others?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign auto--would he sign autographs by holding something in his hand?
MR. MERRILL: Well, he would have to hold a piece of paper in his hand obviously to write it.
MR. DOUGLAS: So there would be the opportunity for you to watch the act of him signing the autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there ever an occasion when you consciously averted your eyes from watching his hands as he was signing autographs?
MR. MERRILL: I was watching a lot of things.
MR. DOUGLAS: You didn't ignore his hands, did you?
MR. MERRILL: No, I did not.
MR. DOUGLAS: But there was nothing about his hands that drew any attention to you?
MS. CLARK: Well, objection. That's leading.
THE COURT: Rephrase the question.
MR. DOUGLAS: Sure.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there anything about his hands that drew your attention?
MR. MERRILL: Just the fact that they're big.
MR. DOUGLAS: You did notice that he has pretty large hands?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: You watched him shaking
hands? MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: You watched him signing?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: You saw no cuts?
MR. MERRILL: I saw no cuts.
1 howlowcanyougooo 2020-07-01
Transcripts from the OJ trial with a few of the several witnesses who interacted with him at the airport, on the airplane ride to Chicago, or before he resided in his Chicago hotel room. All of these witnesses testified to not seeing a cut or bandage on his finger. A broken glass was also found in his hotel room.
https://simpson.walraven.org/jul13.html http://famous-trials.com/simpson/1882-parktestimony
THE COURT: Overruled. Ask him what happened next.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. Okay, your Honor, I will do that.
MR. COCHRAN: What happened next?
MR. VALERIE: He proceeded to read that, sipped on his water, and it was pretty uneventful really. I mean, we were just flying on a redeye flight. He again, because of my position--
MR. DARDEN: Object as nonresponsive, your Honor.
THE COURT: All right. Next question.
MR. COCHRAN: All right, certainly. Mr. Valerie, as you watched Mr. Simpson from this vantage point, did you have occasion to look at his face?
MR. VALERIE: I sure did.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any bruises or cuts or abrasions on his face at that point?
MR. VALERIE: None whatsoever.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you have occasion from this vantage point you have described for us to look at Mr. Simpson's hands?
MR. VALERIE: I did.
MR. COCHRAN: And what, if anything, did you see with regard to his hands?
MR. VALERIE: Umm, I viewed Mr. Simpson's hands at that time looking for championship ring. Given he is a famous professional player, that was the motivation for my looking at his hands. I didn't see anything unusual, no Band-Aids, no large abrasions or anything to that effect.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any cuts at all?
MR. VALERIE: I didn't see any.
MR. COCHRAN: Did you see any blood on his hands?
MR. VALERIE: No blood.
MR. COCHRAN: By the way, you said you were looking for a championship ring. Is that like a Superbowl ring?
MR. VALERIE: Yes.
MR. COCHRAN: Something of that nature? Did you see one at that time?
MR. VALERIE: No, I did not.
MR. COCHRAN: All right. And so you had a pretty clear unobstructed view of Mr. Simpson as you were looking and making these observations; is that correct?
MR. VALERIE: That's correct. His left hand would have been the hand I saw closest and best view of. ———————————————————
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. ———————————————————
MR. DOUGLAS: Now, there were several occasions when you were with Mr. Simpson as he was interacting with others?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: He would sign auto--would he sign autographs by holding something in his hand?
MR. MERRILL: Well, he would have to hold a piece of paper in his hand obviously to write it.
MR. DOUGLAS: So there would be the opportunity for you to watch the act of him signing the autographs?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there ever an occasion when you consciously averted your eyes from watching his hands as he was signing autographs?
MR. MERRILL: I was watching a lot of things.
MR. DOUGLAS: You didn't ignore his hands, did you?
MR. MERRILL: No, I did not.
MR. DOUGLAS: But there was nothing about his hands that drew any attention to you?
MS. CLARK: Well, objection. That's leading.
THE COURT: Rephrase the question.
MR. DOUGLAS: Sure.
MR. DOUGLAS: Was there anything about his hands that drew your attention?
MR. MERRILL: Just the fact that they're big.
MR. DOUGLAS: You did notice that he has pretty large hands?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: You watched him shaking
hands? MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: You watched him signing?
MR. MERRILL: Yes.
MR. DOUGLAS: You saw no cuts?
MR. MERRILL: I saw no cuts.
1 howlowcanyougooo 2020-07-01
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-02-mn-41569-story.html?_amp=true
According to transcripts of interviews conducted by investigators from the LAPD’s Internal Affairs Division, Coleman and another deputy district attorney said they were told by Detective Mark Arneson of the LAPD’s 77th Division that he had talked with two officers to whom Fuhrman had confided that he had had an intimate relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson and to whom he described her breast augmentation.
In the meantime, according to the transcripts of other Internal Affairs interviews, Burke told investigators she was told by Detective Daryl Maxwell of the Rampart Division that an officer he knew had overheard Fuhrman bragging that he had slept with Nicole Brown Simpson and that Fuhrman had described her “boob job.” (Arneson and Maxwell later denied to investigators that such conversations had occurred.)
According to an Internal Affairs transcript, Coleman subsequently told LAPD investigators: “Quite honestly, I agonized for about a week or two what I should do with the evidence because obviously if it was true, I felt ethically it had to be turned over to the defense.”
Coleman, sources say, decided that because she was a friend of Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark and respected William Hodgman, the other assistant district attorney on the case, she would go to them and report what she and her colleagues had heard.
Early in August, 1994, Coleman met with the prosecutors in Clark’s office and, according to the declaration, “told them what I had heard” about the locker and Nazi paraphernalia.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Michael_Nigg
Michael N-igg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995)[1] was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood.[2] The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.[3]
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because N-igg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star O. J. Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
Simpson, who has consistently professed his innocence in the Brown and Goldman killings, was acquitted of the murder charges almost a month after N-igg’s death.[a] Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to drug trafficking in the Los Angeles area,[4] and that N-igg’s was as well; N-igg apparently lived very well for a waiter,[5] and there were some allegations he, too, had been involved in the drug trade while working at the Mezzaluna branch in Colorado before.[6] N-igg and Goldman, it has also been noted, were not the only waiters at Mezzaluna to be the victims of criminal activity during the mid-1990s.[6]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Cantor
Brett Ross Cantor (November 5, 1967[1] – July 30, 1993) was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner. He was born in New York to Rhonda and Paul Cantor, who managed acts such as B. J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. In the early 1970s, he and his family moved to the Los Angeles area. In the early 1990s, he served as an A&R executive for the Chrysalis Music Group.
After signing Rage Against the Machine, Cantor left Chrysalis to work briefly as an agent and then a promoter, putting together some of the largest concert and dance events in the city at that time.[2] He also entered the nightclub business, taking a 10 percent stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights. At that time he was involved romantically with actress Rose McGowan.[3]
Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30, 1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body. No suspect has ever been identified and the investigation remains open. His death was the subject of renewed interest a year later, when, during preliminary motions in the trial of O. J. Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case. The defense had argued that the similarity of the three killings suggested the same person or persons had committed them.[4] It has also been argued in books on the case that Cantor knew both Goldman and Nicole, and thus they may have been killed over mutual involvement in possibly illegal business activities.[5][6]
2 Krillbill01 2020-07-01
Return to tradition, embrace the OJ
2 mrmarfanman 2020-07-01
So you can't call a fat bitch fat on Twitter without getting banned, but apparently decapitating your wife with a butcher's knife is a-ok
1 xingxhang 2020-07-01
The worst thing they'll do to OJ is not give him a blue check.
0 dehorser 2020-07-01