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kato kaelin. >> the moments and mistakes. >> it was like a slow motion disaster movie for the prosecution. two decades later -- >> it makes no sense. it doesn't fit. if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> two decades later, "the o.j. trial: drama of the century." it is minutes after midnight. june 13th, 1994. los angeles police arrived to a crime scene at bundy drive at upscale brentwood. they find no witnesses, no murder weapon, just two victims. >> slashed, stabbed, nicole was nearly decapitated. it was a very bloody scene. >> nicole is nicole brown

simpson. lying dead beside her is 25-year-old ron goldman. the prime suspect, nicole's ex-husband. football ledge o.j. simpson. he promises to surrender and then he disappears. >> the los angeles police department right now is actively searching for mr. simpson. >> simpson is soon spotted inside of a white suv. >> yeah, i think i just saw o.j. simpson on the 5 freeway. he is heading north. >> the famous low speed chase covered live for hours rivets the nation. and ends with simpson's giving

up at his home. >> it was the perfect soap opera. the o.j. simpson car chase was the first real reality show for the country. it was the first wall to wall televised trial. >> july 22nd, 1994, a month after the murders. the legal proceedings against o.j. simpson begins when he enters this defiant plea. >> absolutely 100% not guilty. >> to help him prove that he assembles a legal dream team. >> each one of them was famous. >> jeffrey tubin covered the trial for "the new yorker." >> there has never been more prominent lawyers in one trial

than the o.j. simpson case. there is alan dershowitz. famed criminal attorney f. lee bailey. >> the person you go to when you're in really a lot of trouble and can afford it. >> and of course, johnnie cochran who would take the lead. >> outgoing, fun, and having considerable mastery of the details of the case. >> and known for defending celebrities like child actor todd bridges, football legend jim brown, and assumer star michael jackson. but would the all-star strategy work? >> it was not a dream team. it was a nightmare team. most lawyers don't get along with each other. there was a lot of competition

for the limelight. but despite all of that competition, simpson's team comes up with this. they allegation that l.a.p.d. detective mark fuhrman was a racist who planted evidence. >> this is the l.a.p.d. >> the racist allegations simmering under the surface come to a boil just days before the trial begins when the defense wants permission to ask fuhrman if he has ever used the n-word. >> i will use the world because i am quoting him -- >> but prosecutor chris dardin wants to part of it. >> it is the nastiest word in the english language.

it will offend the black jurors. it will be are you on the side of the white prosecutors and policeman, or the black defendant and his lawyer. >> cochran immediately fires back. >> not every american feels that way. to say that african-americans cannot here these offensive words -- >> the battle lines are drawn and race will help define the trial's outcome. it is january 24th, 1995. the trial of orenthal james simpson has gun. >> there was a forest of satellite trucks and satellite dishes all built so this trial could go out to the world. >> walking into the courtroom

every day was like the red carpet on an arrival's line. how are you feeling today, o.j.? marcia, how are you doing. what are you wearing? it was crazy. outside of the courthouse, it's a circus. inside, a real life drama unfolding. with millions of people watching. the simpson case combined everything that obsesses the american public. it had violence, sex, race, sports, and the only eyewitness was a dog. >> the prosecution's opening statement tells a story of love, lust, and loss of control. >> he killed her because he could not have her. >> that trail of blood from

bundy, to his bronco, to his house in rockingham is proof of his gill. >> johnnie cochran's story is completely different. >> basically poorly trained personnel collected the samples from the l.a.p.d. they compromised the evidence in this case. >> coming up, behind the scenes. >> it's the first time i have ever really seen a hooisz meism trophy. >> and in court with a juror. >> did you believe kato kaelin's testimony at all? turn, if it can't turn heads?

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. this is how we knew o.j. simpson, football star. celebrity pitchman. >> nobody does it better than hertz. >> and, movie star. but prosecutors say that dashing public persona hides a darker truth. that simpson is a violent man that beat his wife. and it didn't take long before a

police detective testifies about an incident in 1989. >> a woman came running out of the bushes to my left, across the driveway. she was a female, caucasian, blond hair. she was wearing a bra only as an opener garment. she had on dark lightweight sweat pants and she said he is going to kill me. and then jurors hear a chilling 911 from her less than a year before her murder. >> he broke the back door down. >> nicole simpson. >> is he the sportscaster or whatever? >> yeah. >> is he threatening you?

>> he is going nuts. >> juror number four remembers that moment vividly. >> when you hear someone pounding on the door like that. i think you know his record by now. >> nicole's sister, denise, tells prosecutors she has seen simpson beat nicole in person. >> he told her to get out of his house. wanted us all out of his house. he threw her against the wall. he picked her up and threw her out of the house. >> however defense attorney robert shapiro counters with a completely different image of o.j. simpson. here he is with the brown family just hours before nicole's murder. >> we played for the jury the june 12th videotape where you

saw him at 6:00 or 6:30 in the even pga tour. he is shaking hands with lou browne, he is picking his son up, he didn't look like a man who was bitter and raging. >> so is he a warm family man or a violent attacker. the jurors and simpson take a field trip to his house and the crime scene. >> it was very, very good for the juror i think to be able to see the relationship of each of those locations to each other as well as to get a much clearer idea of how very, very small the space was in which ron goldman was attacked and murdered by the defendant. so i think that this really assisted the jury in being able to understand the evidence better, the testimony better, and how the victims were forming an opinion. >> what do you remember about his house, going to a crime scene. >> it was the first time i saw a

heisman trophy. we could not ask questions, nothing was told us us. don't talk amongst yourselves. >> it is this visit that leads too the heart of the case. the physical evidence against o.j. simpson. >> can you describe the appearance of the glove? >> it was a dark leather glove. it was moist or sticky. i didn't touch it, but parts were sticking to other parts of the glove. >> they're eager to point out mark fuhrman's role in gathering the evidence. >> mark fuhrman told you he made some discovers, correct? and it was mark fuhrman that found the glove outside, correct? >> yes. >> and it was mark fuhrman that

allegedly found this spot on the outside of the bronco, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> mark fuhrman would play a starring roll as well as this man. >> i heard a thumping noise. >> kato kaelin. >> did you expect what would happen when you got up there and took the stand? >> no, it was my first time in a courtroom in my entire life and i think i was 35 at the time. >> kaelin's four days on the stand thrust him into the spotlight. >> never has a man done so lit toll be recognized by so many. >> o.j.'s maid never really liked him. >> why was he so memorable? >> he was an idiot. >> really?

>> he is so full of -- sorry. >> that is pretty harsh. >> when we were doing our deliberations, it was like a no brainer. the guy was an idiot, nothing he said we could go with or against it. >> i was call sod many things. i was called a celebrity, a trader, a dumby about freeloader. >> so you feel like you were misunderstood for a long time. >> yes, this is something i was taking so seriously, i made sure i answered everything correctly. if you pause, people go he is making something -- he is lying, he is doing this. it is the furthest thing from the truth. for me to make sure i answer this 100% honest. >> which brings us to the night of the murder. kaelin and simpson make a mcdonald's run.

>> what time did you get home? >> about 9:40. >> kaelin goes to his bedroom. prosecutors say that simpson disappea disappears. a crucial hour passes for kaelin hears a loud noise outside. >> where did that noise seem to be coming from? >> that is simpson hitting an exterior wall and dropping a bloody glove. >> a limo driver waiting to take simpson to the airport spots a black person, six foot tall, 200 pounds. >> i saw a figure come into the entrance. he says he was buzzing since 10:40 and receiving no response. proving they say that simpson had not been home.

>> this time there was an answer which was mr. simpson. he said he overslept, he just got out of the shower and he would be down in a minute. >> he came out and kato offered to go get the back. he said no, no, that's okay, i'll get it. >> so what was in the bag and what did simpson do with it? detective tom longstandiang has? >> you want to know what happened to the knife and the clothes? he had his arm buried in a trash container at the airport. next, with so much evidence, what went wrong?

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the team prosecuting o.j. simpson for murder has no weapons and no witnesses. what they do have is a wealth of forensic evidence. evidence that seems to prove o.j. simpson butchered ron goldman and nicole brown-simpson. >> it appeared to me to be overkill or a rage killing. >> there was blood everywhere. at the bundy crime scene.

at simpson's rockingham escape, and catered at the route in between. blood prosecutors say is simpsons. >> does that mean that these characteristics that mr. simpson has that are also found in the bundy walk blood state are found in proximately 1 out of 177 million caucasians and african-americans. >> yes. >> that's not all, blood consistent with both victims was found in simpson's bronco, on that glove discovered behind his house, and on these socks in his bedroom. >> you scribe that material as matching nicole brown, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> then there was bloody shoe

prints in the bronco and on nicole's address. those prints came from designer shoes in simpson's size 12. >> could you include him as a candidate for having worn those shoes and committing the crime in this case? >> yes, i could. >> the attention turns from socks and shoes to gloves. one found at the murder scene, the other behind simpson's house. together, prosecutors believe they have proof that simpson is caught red handed. >> that is people's 77. >> what were you thinking when you heard the prosecutor request that simpson try on those

gloves. >> i was sitting in the courtroom, i could not find a seat so i was kind of in the back. when he did that, f. lee bailey came up to me and he whispered in my ear why the hell did you let him do that. i didn't know he was going to do anything. chris is a good man, a good prosecutor, a bright man. he should have known better. >> i remember watching the gloves in the courtroom. and thinking to myself he is not going to ask o.j. to put on the glove. that is too much of a risk. you never ask a question in a courtroom, much less do a demonstration where you don't know what the outcome is. and it was like a slow motion disaster movie for the prosecution as o.j. milked the moment for all it was worth. and pretended to try on those

gloves. after the trial, christopher dardin would add min to larry king it was a mistake. >> when it happened in court did you know you were in trouble? >> i knew it had not gone as well as i hoped it would. >> did you regard it as earth shattering to the case? >> no, not necessarily, not particularly. not until i went upstairs and left the courtroom that people thought it was a monumental failure. a monumental mistake. >> was it chris darden that blew the case? >> he messed up, marcia clark helps. he didn't have to tep when he showed the jury that it didn't fit. it was a win win.

>> he appears to have pulled the gloves on. >> but to the juror david, it didn't seem like a big deal. >> he was about two feet away from me. >> what do you remember? >> people made a big deal about it, i wore truck drivers all of the time, i know that when my gloves get wet, they shrink up. >> after 92 exhausting days of testimony, 58 witnesses, and 488 exists -- >> we have seen all of the exhibits and the people rest. >> next -- >> the l.a.p.d.'s laboratory is a full of contamination. >> how about that? for fastidioun emily skinner,

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we think the evidence will show that he could not, would not, and did not commit thee crimes. >> johnnie cochran came roaring out of the gates on the attack and on the offensive. >> the l.a.p.d.'s laboratory is

a pool of contamination. >> some had gloves, some did not have gloves. >> even suggesting a conspiracy to frame o.j. simpson. >> the fact that blood suddenly appears on some evidence is something far more sinister. >> but the fire works really begin here. defense lawyer barry sheck grills witnesses about evidence collection. >> so what you said before

wasn't true? >> it was the best of my r recollection at the time. >> and the photos from the rear gait of nicole brown simpson's homes. as you can see, there is a bloodstain. however, a photo taken just hours after the murder is no bloodstain. >> maybe they didn't find it. >> i can't see it in the photograph. >> what do you remember the most about fung getting torn apart? >> oh,man -- >> does that refresh your recollection. >> he is one heck of an attorney, he just ripped him apart. >> he is trying to convince the jury that not only were investigators incompetent, but they tried to frame o.j. for the murders. >> do you truly believe that

evidence was planted? yes, from this day to the day i die, i think it was planted. >> if it is a conspiracy, how do you get blood on socks -- >> how did we get that blood from simpson in chicago, to plant blood already at the and it. it made no sense. we didn't get his blood until he returned from chicago. none of it made any sense, but nobody cared. it was a great show. >> and the show continues. >> have you ever seen a defendant wear two pairs of shoes? >> that represents human dna that should not be there. that's what our definition of

con tame nation is. >> on the stand now, o.j.'s personal physician. he testifies that simpson was not capable of murders ron goldman and nicole brown-simpson. >> he looked like tar zzan, bute was walking like tarzan's grandfather. >> working up a little sweat here too. >> it was filmed just two weeks before the murder. simpson not only looks fit, but even cracks a joke about white beating. perhaps the most dramatic moment for the defense is still to come.

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it was mark fuhrman who allegedly found this spot on the outside of the bronco, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> at every opportunity. >> did mark fuhrman have a flashlight when he was at the bronco? >> o.j. simpson's team attacks mark fuhrman. >> did you have occasion to have a conversation with mark fuhrman. >> f. lee bailey says that fuhrman is not credible and may even be criminal. >> did you go back to the crime scene? >> no. >> did you do any more observation. >> bailey wants to know if he planted evidence at the scene. >> did you find a glove in the bronco, mr. fuhrman? >> no. >> you did not? >> no. >> some of the jurors like david l. donna believe that fuhrman was up to no good.

>> did you believe that the police wanted to frame o.j. simpson? >> frame him? i think that was in fuhrman's mind. >> why would fuhrman want to frame o.j. simpson? simping, says the defense team, fuhrman is a racist. >> why did it become so much about race? >> it's amazing because o.j. simpson was as white of a black person as you can imagine. he was living in a white neighborhood, married to a white woman, working for a mayor car company. he was not part of the african-american community to speak of, but i think that many african-americans could identify with police tampers with evidence and planting evidence. >> were you familiar with the language attributed to you by

mrs. belle? >> and to hammer home that he is a racist, bailey repeatedly asked if he used a certain racial slur. >> you say on your oath that you have not addressed any black person as a nigger or spoken about black people as niggers in the last ten years. >> so anyone that comes to this court and claimed you used that word in relation to african-americans would be a liar? >> i would focus on him, every twitch and eye movement and so forth. i just wanted one thing from him, denial. >> no, never. no. >> once he said never in ten years have i ever used the n-word, i knew we had him. when he was asked that question, everybody in the world knew he

was being set up but him. what i didn't know was we also had him on tape. >> four months after bailey versus fuhrman, the defense gets an unlikely tip. screen writer laura heart mckinney interviewed him for a fixal script she was writing and she still has the audio recordings. despite a court order to keep the tapes sealed, some of the startling contents were leaked. >> now we're going to look at fuhrman, and what a scum bag he is. >> and to ron goldman's father, fred, the tapes are a devastating distraction. >> this is not now the fuhrman trial. this is a trial about the man that murdered my son.

>> judge ito ruled that the jury will be able to hear portions of the tapes with l.a.p.d. detective mark fuhrman -- >> he says the n word dozens of times on the tapes. the excerpts are brief, but d disturbi disturbing. >> after the excerpt ended, you broke down and cried at that moment, why? >> i was worried of the ramifications. i watched the look of horror and disgust. and i watched them turn. they were like -- that's it. >> that's it. fuhrman had lied on the stand. and he used an abhorrent racial

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late september, 1995. for nine long months, the trial of the century has been a national obsession. >> a casualty of the constant hype is the freedom of 14 member and women. the jury has been sequestered since before the trial started. >> we were told it would be about three months. then the third month came, then four, then five, and it just

went on and on and on. >> but, says david l. donna, there was bright spots like several secret field trips. >> i got to fly the good year blimp. we went to a dodger game and i caught a foul ball. there was even a barbecue. >> my friends came to visit me and brought alcohol and we got plastered. >> they sight juror fatigue as one reason he's not going to testify. >> i am confident of a lot more it seems than miss clark has. i think the record stands that i did not, could not, and would not have committed this crime. >> four days later the end is in sight. >> you have heard all of the evidence. >> no more witnesses, no more

delays. just cloedsing statements. first up, lead prosecutor marcia clark. >> let me come back to mark fuhrman for a minute. did he lie when he testified here in this courtroom saying he did not use racial epithets in the last ten years? yes.cl yes.is he is a racist? yes. >> there is no doubt that fuhrman is a liar. and a genocidal racist. no doubt about that. but if that can happen, that's a reasonable end to this case.

period, end of sentence, end of case. >> finishing for the defense, jo johnnie cochran with the most memorable quote of the trial. >> he didn't invent the phrase. it was the dean of the law school who was the most unknown person in our defense team. >> 20 years later he is getting the proper credit. >> however regardless of their source, the words "it doesn't fit" hammered cochran's message home. and after nine months of testimony, hundreds of exhibits, more than 260 days isolated in a hotel, jurors are finally sent to determine o.j. simpson's fate. >> we walked into that room.

we said what do you want to do first? let's have just see where everybody stands. we went around the room guilty, not guilty. >> it is two votes guilty, ten not guilty. after reviewing testimony, they prepared to vote again. >> you were sequestered for nine months. you had not seen for family or friends, you want today get out of there. were the majority of you working hard to get them on board? >> no, there was no arguing or yelling or anything like that. we just came to it. we took another vote, and the other two came on board, and they said not guilty. and it wasn't because they thought that he was innocent. it was because the prosecution just didn't prove it. >> and he also believed that the defense argument that the police

framed o.j. >> how is it that with all of this evidence against o.j., that he is set free? >> some of that stuff was planted. when some of it was planted, what was and what wasn't? >> how did mark fuhrman play a part in your decision when it came down to the verdict? >> quite a bit. everything that he had anything to do with pretty much got thrown out. i knew he was dirty. after awhile, you get a sense of people. >> do you truly believe that the police, the detectives, the criminologist were as incompetent as the defense made them out to be? >> yes. i think so. >> would you please stand and face the jury. >> deliberations take less than four hours.

>> we, the jury, find the defendant not guilty of the crime of murder in violation with penal code section 187. >> they read it, we heard that, and i just fell apart. >> fred and kim goldman were devastated. >> it was as if your insides got yanked out of you. everything that we knew to be certain, that he killed ron and nicole, suddenly wasn't happening and how was that possible? our side was in shock, and you here the cheers and the jubilee on the other side. >> that division became what was seen across the tvs for several days. and with blacks cheers and

whites crying. >> when you think of the verdict now, what are your thoughts? >> i feel betrayed. i feel let down. i feel confused. emotionally, i don't get why they chose to acquit him. logically, i get it, it was because it was a racial thing, the messenger, and i'm sad that we as a country could not rise above it and make a decision. >> and realize that two people were murdered, slaughtered, and to do the right thing in that mome moment. >> as for simpson? he returns to his home in brentwood vowing to spend his time looking for the real killer. first he has a phone call to

make to cnn. >> with us on the phone now is o.j. simpson. how are you? >> i'm doing fine, and i want to thank you -- >> could you believe he called in? >> he calls in, we put him on, johnnie cochran is there. >> most of all i want to thank that man, mr. johnnie cochran for believing from the beginning, listening, putting his heart and soul on the line to send me home. >> i'll give you the whole story, larry. >> do you believe o.j. simpson is innocent 20 years later? >> i found him innocent, and i believe he is innocent. >> you still believe that 20 years later? >> yep. >> with all of your heart? >> all of my heart. there is nothing -- if i was given that same evidence again, i would find him not guilty

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