Reichardt said Simpson called him about 9 p.m. Simpson's lawyers had wanted Reichardt to testify about Resnick's drug problems to bolster their theory that the murders were drug-related, but Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said there was no evidence to support that claim.
He described himself as a close friend of both O.J. Reichardt is a chiropractor and an ex-boyfriend of Faye Resnick, a recovering drug addict and close friend of Nicole Simpson who stayed with her until about a week before the murders. "It was a very friendly, very open, happy conversation," Christian Reichardt said. and Nicole Simpson made several failed attempts to repair their broken marriage that often left both of them upset and depressed.īut on the evening of the murders, the friend said, the football hall-of-famer was in good spirits, sounding relaxed and even jovial. Lee is chief criminalist for the state of Connecticut and director of the State Police Forensic Science Laboratory there.Įarlier in the day a friend of the couple testified that in the months before the murders, O.J.
Prosecutor Cheri Lewis shook her head and returned to her seat after looking at the photo exhibits. The jurors listened carefully, many leaning forward in their seats.
The prosecution was unable to establish that Simpson owned such a pair of shoes.Īsked by defense lawyer Barry Scheck if the print could have come from Goldman's boot, Lee said, "No, I studied the boot." Lee said the second set of prints had a parallel-line pattern different from the grid-like pattern on the Bruno Magli prints identified by an FBI expert who testified earlier for the prosecution. In testimony that held the jury and spectators transfixed, Lee told the jury that the imprints were on the walkway, on the envelope that contained Juditha Brown's eyeglasses and on a piece of white paper near Goldman's body that appeared in a crime-scene photograph but was not collected by police. LOS ANGELES - Henry Lee, one of the most prominent criminalists in the world, testified yesterday that he detected a second set of footprints outside Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium on Bundy Drive, where she and Ronald Goldman were slashed and stabbed to death, that could not have come from Bruno Magli shoes.