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onted them and who killed them,’’ attorney
laniel Petrocelli said in closing arguments in the
ftongful-death case against Simpson.
Again and again, Petrocelli raised images of
ilood, fiber and hair, a hat, gloves and shoes that
le said were indisputable proof that Simpson
filed ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her
riend Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994.
“Did Mr. Simpson explain why his blood
nd DNA were found next to the victims?”
etrocelli asked. “Did he explain why his glove
vas found ... why his knit cap was at the scene,
lid he explain any of that? Not one word.”
Petrocelli made it clear that his most prized
lew evidence — which he believes will turn the
ase around — is a collection of photos showing
impson wearing the same kind of Bruno Magli
ihoes the killer wore.
He said Simpson was quick
o talk about football, his Heis-
an trophy and golf, “but no
runo Magli shoes.... Can you
imagine? O.J. Simpson didn’t
ay a word about it.’’
As Petrocelli showed ju
rors bloody pictures of the
[victims, he declared: "These
pieces of evidence are the
voices of Ron and Nicole
speaking to us from their
graves, telling us, telling all of you, that there’s a
killer in this courtroom.”
Simpson’s attorneys were to give their closing
arguments after Petrocelli finished up Wednes
day, and the case could be in the hands of the
jury Thursday. The victims’ families are seeking
millions in damages from Simpson.
Behind Simpson sat his sister, Shirley Bak
er, and a niece. Across the courtroom, the fam
ilies of Ms. Simpson and Goldman wept quiet
ly as pictures of the victims’ bloody bodies were
again projected on a large screen.
Petrocelli spoke of the victims clawing at
their killer and leaving fingernail marks, forc
ing the killer to drop telltale evidence along
the way. And he said that while Ms. Simpson
was killed “up close and personal” by a man
in a rage, Goldman was slain to silence him
about what he saw.
“Had Ron lived, ladies and gentlemen, he
would have been on this witness stand,” Petro-
Simpson
celli said, tapping on the witness stand. “And he
would have told us what he saw.”
The lawyer retraced Simpson’s movements
the night of the slayings, using telephone records
and testimony, and he dismissed Simpson’s
claim that he was at home at the time.
“OJ. Simpson does not have an alibi between
10 and 10:45,” Petrocelli said. “But all the evi
dence in the case tells us he was not there. He
was lying.... He got caught.”
Petrocelli, a man with carefully groomed
graying hair, paced in front of the jury box more
somber even than Simpson, who sat across the
room scribbling notes and sometimes shaking
his head in disagreement.
As the day wore on, Petrocelli’s attacks be
came more personal. "If it isn’t Mr. Simpson, who
is it?” he asked.
He ridiculed Simpson’s explanation of the in
famous Bronco run as a race to commit suicide
and picked apart the note he left behind.
“What kind of a suicide note is that? There’s
not one word of sorrow in that note expressed
for Nicole. Who signs a suicide note with a hap
py face? Have you seen that note — O. J. with a
smiling ‘O?’”
Simpson, who chose not to take the stand at
the criminal trial that ended in his acquittal, tes
tified for four days during the civil trial.
In a rapid-fire barrage, Petrocelli launched
into a sneering attack on Simpson’s testimony
and his character.
“What kind of man takes a baseball bat to his
wife’s car right in front of her and says she was
not upset even though she called police for help?
“What kind of man kicks in a door and says it
was just a reflex?
“What kind of man says his wife was lying
on that tape when she says she was afraid and
he was going — in her words — to beat the s—
- out of her?
“What kind of man says cheating on your
wife isn’t a lie?
“What kind of man when shown 30 pho
tographs of him wearing Bruno Magli shoes says,
‘That’s me... that’s my head ... that’s my pants ...
no, not my shoes’?
“What kind of man says drat with a straight face?”
Petrocelli answered his own questions: “A
guilty man. ... A man with no remorse. A man
with no conscience. This man is so obsessed
with trying to salvage his image ... that he’ll
come into this court and will smear the name
and reputation of the mother of his children
while she rests in her grave. This man has lied
and lied and lied.”
Pan-Hellenic
Continued from Page 1
“Our fraternity is built on brotherhood,”
Gardner said. “We feel we can better display that
)y having less members.”
Brewer said the Pan-Hellenic organizations
ire small because their founders believed as long
> they were productive and worked as a team,
he organization’s size was irrelevant.
“They don’t strive on numbers because of the
|uality that their founders set forth,” Brewer said.
He said most of the black Greek memberships
Itarted with small classes ranging from three to
12 members.
“A lot of it (small memberships) deals with it
not branching out to where brotherhood and sis
terhood is lost,” Brewer said.
The Pan-Hellenic sororities and fraternities
help with several community-oriented pro
jects on and off campus. Alpha Phi Alpha
members act as mentors at Southwood Valley
Elementary School in College Station and par
ticipate in A&M-sponsored activities such as
Big Event.
Gardner said he was attracted to Alpha Phi Al
pha as a freshman because of the leadership
roles the fraternity portrayed.
“We strive to be leaders on campus, to show
the community who we are and the students
who we are,” Gardner said.
Expert gives
knife testimony
in Routier trial
KERRVILLE (AP) — The bloody knife
found in Darlie Routier’s home could have
made one of the wounds to her son’s chest,
an expert testified Tuesday, while another
witness said she didn’t find the boy’s blood
on the weapon.
Robert A. Poole with the Southwest Insti
tute of Forensic Sciences said markings to the
lower wound in Devon Routier’s chest could
have been made by the so-called murder
weapon. He could not make the same conclu
sion in the upper incision.
“My conclusion was that the characteris
tics of the damage on the cartilage were mi
croscopically similar to test stabs with the
knife,” he said of the lower wound.
Routier, 27, is charged with capital murder
in the June 6 fatal stabbings of her sons, 5-
year-old Damon and 6-year-old Devon. Pros
ecutors say she also slashed herself and staged
a crime scene to fool investigators.
She is first being tried in the death of Da
mon and could later be tried in Devon’s death.
The trial was moved to Kerrville because of
widespread notoriety the case has received in
North Texas.
Routier says an intruder dressed in dark
clothing and a baseball cap attacked her and
the boys before fleeing through the garage of
their Rowlett home.
Under cross-examination by defense at
torney Doug Mulder, Poole acknowledged he
could not determine whether the bloody knife
actually cut Devon, only that he was attacked
with a knife having similar characteristics.
Another prosecution witness offered po
tentially conflicting testimony.
Judith Floyd, the forensic lab supervisor at
GeneScreen Inc. of Dallas, a DNA testing lab,
said she studied four stains taken from the
knife. Two matched Routier, one matched Da
mon and one was a combination of Damon
and Routier.
When pressed by defense attorney
Richard Mosty about whether that meant
that the knife wasn’t used to kill Devon, she
replied: “It’s just consistent with his blood
not being on the four places that were re
moved for my testing.”
Poole also testified that the knives found in
a neighbor’s back yard “did not make at least
one of the cuts” in Devon’s chest.
Rowlett police Sgt. Thomas Ward testified
earlier that he spotted two muddy knives in
a yard across the alley from the sock. But he
said he thought the knives had been used
only for gardening.
Monika Morgan, the financial secretary of
Delta Sigma Theta and a senior finance major,
said she feels her sorority has become more
visible on campus by following the Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity’s lead in participating in non
minority events.
“We recently participated in Songfest,” Morgan
said. “As a result of that, a lot of other organizations
have asked us to participate in their functions that
normally would not have asked us to.”
Brewer said he thinks the historically black
Greeks are starting to inherit visibility by making
others aware of their positive attributes.
“I think that is one strong goal they have for
the new year, as well as to gain strong visibility
and recapturing their vision,” Brewer said.
OSBY
Continued from Page 1
Meanwhile, the man police had
oped might help them solve the
lurder case was released after being
Uestioned for eight hours. He had
een surrounded by officers in a park-
iglot in suburban Torrance Monday
fternoon because his car was similar
o a blue hatchback seen by a security
Hard near the crime scene.
The man, who was not identified
»y police, was “candid and coopera-
ive,” McBride said. He told police he
ad gone to the hilltop Mulholland
Mve area to look at the city’s lights.
Cosby’s 27-year-old son had pulled
iff Interstate 405 near Mulholland
Mve to change a flat tire early Thurs-
lay when he was shot to death. Police
lelieve robbery was the motive.
A $12,500 reward for the arrest
md conviction of the killer was ap-
toved Tuesday by the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors. The
National Enquirer and Globe
tabloids earlier posted a total of
$300,000 in rewards.
Across the country, the woman
allegedly claiming to be the illegiti
mate daughter of Bill Cosby was or
dered held without bail in New York.
Jackson, 22, of Los Angeles,
and Jose Medina, 51, of Bethesda,
Ohio, were arrested Saturday in
the New York office of a Cosby
lawyer, where they allegedly went
to discuss a payoff.
A federal complaint said the Cos
by family had given Ms. Jackson
money for education for several
years, as the family has done for nu
merous other young people in need
of tuition assistance.
Earlier this month, the com
plaint says, Jackson sent a facsimile
note demanding money. She
warned that if Cosby did not send
money, she would tell her story to
the press, the complaint says.
OnThursday, the day Ennis Cos
by was slain, Jackson allegedly sent
a fax to Bill Cosby’s representative
saying it was “urgent that you con
tact me to make certain arrange
ments,” the complaint says. “I need
monies and I need monies now.”
CBS said it also received a fax on
Thursday. The network said that one
stated that Cosby’s show one of the
network’s best properties and disclo
sure that Ms. Jackson was the enter
tainer’s illegitimate daughter would
undoubtedly affect its ratings.
Medina’s lawyer, Neil Check-
man, said his client says he is a
screenwriter and denies the
charges. “I don’t believe he neces
sarily knew that anything was go
ing on,” Checkman said.
Jackson’s lawyer, Robert
Baulm, could not be reached for
comment after business hours
Tuesday. A call to the Legal Aid
Society office where he works was
not immediately returned.
“Bill Cosby is quite content to let
jurisprudence take its course,” Cos
by publicist David Brokaw said of
the New York developments.
The publicist said he talked
Tuesday with Cosby, who is at his
estate in Massachusetts.
“He’s obviously grieving and I
know that it’s going to take a long
time for the family to recover from
this. But at the same time, every in
stance I’ve spoken to him, he has his
usual remarkable composure and
his focus and his brilliant thinking,
as well as his sense of humor,”
Brokaw said.
Cosby will return to work on his
show on Monday, CBS spokesman
Michael Silver said.
The show aired as scheduled
Monday night and drew the fourth-
highest rating of the season, the
network said.
CBS opened and closed Mon
day night’s episode with a tribute
to Ennis Cosby. At the end, a pic
ture of Bill Cosby’s son flashed on
the screen with the message, “my
hero, my son.”
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