When circumstances arose that we had to proceed to a preliminary hearing very early, the district attorney at the time, Gil Garcetti, asked me to work with [prosecutor] Marcia Clark to get through the prelim. [4] As a lieutenant commander, he received the Navy Cross for his exceptional command of USS Roe during World War I. And I felt they were wrong. His detective work at the Bundy crime scene [location of Nicole's condo] in particular was good work while he was still on the case. And during a break, a criminalist from the state of Colorado came up to me, and he said, "You know, O.J. And I have nothing against the public's right to know, but I question at what expense. William Adams Hodgman (January 31, 1884 – February 9, 1967) was a United States Navy captain and diplomat. That was a quirk of happenstance that is part of the case, but it certainly played into the strategy of the defense. Many a detective, many a criminalist looked at what was happening to [Detective] Phil Vannatter and Dennis Fung from the LAPD crime lab, and thought, there but for the grace of God go I. And it was not long thereafter that we received word that the jury had verdicts and that the verdicts were going to be taken the next day. It was just a refusal to either accept or to value that evidence of abuse, of Simpson beating Nicole and the evidence of O.J. So then you had some choice in deciding where the case would be tried? Simpson who committed these horrible crimes. Part of the reason I remain a public prosecutor, a deputy DA, to this day is to try and make it right and try and say, "You know, if we work a little harder and do it a little better, the system can work.". Fuhrman on the stand? All of these things were affected by the Simpson case. And again, it was Marcia Clark and I who selected the jury. And so they took steps to improve how they went about their business, to do it better. Wasn't it more of a "race deck" than a race card? There would have been a sense held by many -- I would say the majority -- that justice had been done. lodger] Kato Kaelin had provided the detectives who were there. Absolutely. And I looked at my watch, and I thought, they couldn't have deliberated. So in that sense, and I think in a systemic sense, [the case] changed rules here in California [from] attorney commentary during a trial to how judges now more rigorously enforce the jury service and compel people to come in and follow up with prospective jurors. I was certainly hopeful. phenomenon in terms of the trial of the case, the judicial oversight of the case. And you're accurate when you question whether this was a trial. And that's when I knew. And from all the people I talked to, the people he worked with, the people he interacted with, he was a different man than he was earlier, when he apparently was trying to obtain a stress disability off the LAPD. We were standing there in the parking lot, and all we could hear was, 'That was payback for Rodney King. And during one break in the jury-selection proceedings, they both ran to the different media spots in the courthouse to announce this to the entire country. It was the practical awareness that the case was going to be tried here, so let's not beat around the bush. Simpson case was tried. I think one thing that has happened as well is that judges are more reluctant to allow the gavel-to-gavel [TV] coverage. During World War I, he commanded USS Roe, for which he received the Navy Cross. And frankly, I have received more of that response than I have had in terms of a negative reaction, like "You guys were way out of line prosecuting O.J." And then, if the court wanted to move the case downtown or the defense wanted to move the case downtown, they could have brought their motion, and it would have been granted or denied, appealed or not. Husband of Patricia Curtis Hodgman I could not read the jury. But he perjured himself on the stand regarding his use of the "n" word. At the time, all long-cause cases in Los Angeles County were being tried on the very floor, in the very courthouse, here in downtown L.A. where the O.J. Everything seemed sensationalized. Do you think the system failed in the O.J. And quite frankly, I had seen, going into the Simpson [trial], an increasing trend towards more and more cameras in the courtroom, allowing the sort of gavel-to-gavel coverage. Simpson off that celebrated pedestal that we knew he enjoyed based upon his exploits as a college football player, as a professional football player, as a sportscaster, as an actor, if you will. Did the O.J. An integral part of that strategy was to first attempt to knock O.J. And he was the one who indeed found the bloody glove at Rockingham. Well, the blood evidence didn't evaporate. WGBH educational foundation. Why did you put Det. Why didn't the domestic violence strategy work? web site copyright 1995-2014 Well, I think the all too brief amount of time that the jurors spent with the case was indicative of the fact that there was no true deliberation. And the implicit message was somehow I was being racist. Simpson. And as a result, that attitude, that atmosphere, carried over into the case. Interestingly enough, for all of his tortured history with the LAPD in terms of trying to obtain a stress disability from LAPD at one point and everything that went along with that, I personally feel that by the time he was a detective out at the West L.A. division of the LAPD, he was a good cop; he was a good detective. And even though stylistically it could have been done better, I don't think the lessons would have been learned. And I have no idea if those jurors who voted that way felt that maybe O.J. did it, but that they simply were going to let him go -- a jury nullification -- or if they really carefully deliberated in their own minds and felt that somehow the evidence was inadequate. ... Was the testimony of Detective Mark Fuhrman really necessary to the prosecution's case? And that's all because of their impression, their perception of the Simpson case. And he told me in almost the exact same words what he had observed and saw with the jury panel when we were still in the midst of trying the case and before this juror had been excused. In Fight Against ISIS, a Lose-Lose Scenario Poses Challenge for West. https://www.geni.com/people/Bill-Hodgman/6000000027580473200 It had everything to do with the murder case, but the jury didn't get it. I had oversight over our Special Trials Division. My first reaction, quite frankly, was I went numb. case and said: "I learned a lesson from that. or had that sort of horsepower, I would have filed the case in Santa Monica. Well, ultimately, as far as the domestic violence evidence, it appeared that it was a situation of what they call cognitive dissonance. credits | tapes & transcript | press reaction | privacy policy We could have very well filed the case in Santa Monica. case, that is precisely what is done. 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Mark Fuhrman ... was problematic. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. How would you have handled things differently? And as I stood there in court, any trial attorney will tell you, time seems to stand still in that ritual as the verdicts come around and the judge reviews them and then ultimately the clerk reads them. Not all attorneys are good at coordinating an investigation. I've talked to groups of judges, prosecutors, detectives, civic leaders, cops, criminalists throughout the country, and all of them talk about the O.J. “The Most Risky … Job Ever.” Reporting on “ISIS in Afghanistan”. And it was Mark Fuhrman who took the initiative to go look and see what might have led to the strange noises that Kato Kaelin heard. And I don't think it escaped anyone's attention that it achieved some sort of balance perhaps, regarding Johnnie Cochran. We were the ones that went through the almost three months of jury selection on the case. It became more of a phenomenon -- to some degree a spectacle -- than a more sober, serious trial. Simpson experience. Borwin consequently challenged Hodgman to a duel, but Hodgman declined and returned to the United States shortly thereafter. There was certainly good that came out of it. Your heart stops as you listen to the first words: "We, the jury in the above entitled action, find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty."

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