argument had occurr
ed that night.
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN, Deputy District Attorney: What
did she tell
you?
Det. JOHN EDWARDS: She said that there were- there
was two other
women living in the house, and that Oliver Miller had sex with one of them prior
to going to bed that
night with her.
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN: Was that in your report?
Det. JOHN EDWARDS: No.
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN: Why not?
Det. JOHN EDWARDS: Because right after I finished
the report and
turned it in, I started getting phone calls
from the news media and newspapers,
and I didn't feel that
it was a relevant part of the report of the crime and it
w
ould just be a sensationalism thing.
JIM MORET: Court is once again in session outside
the presence o
f the jury. Apparently they're discussing the
next witness, LAPD- a retired LAPD
officer, Ron Shipp
[sp?].
As you see, the attorneys are once
again at sidebar. Vincent Baker, our lega
l analyst here
in Los Angeles, briefly, can you explain the reason for the
partie
s going to sidebar so many times? I'm sure many
members of the audience don't un
derstand what's going on.
VINCENT BAKER, Legal Analyst: Well, frankly, this
is somethin
g I don't understand. Usually they go to the
sidebar so the jury will not hear s
omething that may later
be deemed to be inadmissible. Why they're going to the
s
idebar now, I guess they don't even want the public to
hear. I don't know who's
listening to this feed, but the
jury's not in the room, and I don't understand wh
y they're
going to the sidebar. I was unable to hear why they went to
the sideba
r.
JIM MORET: Gary Payton in Washington, what's
your brief a
ssessment of the day's events as far as the
prosecution's case is concerned?
GARY PAYTON, Trial Attorney: I thought
Edwards was actual
ly a bad witness for the prosecution,
because I would be worried if I were the pr
osecutor that the
jury would wonder why this police officer, who stopped at
Oliver
Miller's house when Nicole was saying, ``He's going to
kill me. He's going to k
ill me. He's going to kill me,''
and then, what does the officer do at the end o
f the night?
He drops Nicole Simpson back at Oliver Mill's, back at
the b
atterer's house when the batterer isn't in custody.
And I would think that the j
urors would really wonder about
this police officer. He also didn't put in a rep
ort
something essential, which was the cause of this fight, and
so I think his cr
edibility may be sitting right in the
jury's mind. I don't think that's good for
the
prosecution.
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