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Sorry for piping in, but the last thing I have heard was that Mr. Simpson had been suffering from arthritis in his hands for considerable time before the process, maybe for years.

A evidentiary problem was that the prosecution was never able to prove that either O.J. or Nicole had ever purchased a pair of Aris Isotoner Light gloves, model No. 70263. The receipt that was found was for a different style number, 70268. The price was also wrong for the 70263.

MR. COCHRAN: 372-B your Honor. This is this famous purchase, December of 1990, wasn't it? The lot number or the style number is 70268. That is what it says. It doesn't say anything about 70263. Two items. It says $77.00. $77.00 is what it says for those two items. It doesn't say anything about $55.00. It says $77.00. And it doesn't say anything about color or size or anything of that nature and it doesn't say anything about any mufflers, but yet you have been treated and told, oh, these had to be Aris light gloves. That looks like a computer-generated receipt. I wonder how if it was incorrectly inputted it didn't spit it out. This transaction apparently went through and whatever was purchased was purchased. The point is it is part of again the weakness of the Prosecution's case in telling you one thing and the record shows something else. You don't have any receipt anywhere when you get back there that says anything about 70268. You don't have one witness who ever says that Nicole Brown ever bought any Aris lights and gave them to O.J. Simpson. There is no such witness because it didn't happen. And the rest of it is speculation and theory on their part. Cynical speculation I might add to try to rush to judgment and win at any cost. Now, you heard during Mr. Darden's effective argument last night a lot of statements. And just before I get to that part, let me say a couple other things about Mr. Rubin that might be appropriate. Remember, Mr. Rubin is an interesting witness. When he was brought back out here this last time he was asked, well, look, how many glove manufacturers are there in the world? He acknowledged there are over 100. Then Bob Blasier asked him a question, well, you know, how many did you check with? Two. He checked with two and then he stopped looking. Remember, he found out that this Brossier stitching can be made on singer sewing machines. Some of you may know more about that than I do, but they stopped making them after a period of time, but he stopped looking after a period of time and never called anybody else. And that is interesting. That is the way the Prosecution witnesses have conducted themselves throughout. Compare that he stopped looking with Agent Martz who finds three of the four things you need to find EDTA on the sock and the back gate. Rather than looking carefully for the characteristic, the fourth one, he stops searching and uses a far less discriminating test. Consider the EAP b found under Nicole Brown Simpson's fingernails where they try to come in and tell you it is a degraded BA and a cross-examination. Again Blasier got Matheson to admit there was no specific support in any of the literature for a BA degraded into a B, and this was by all accounts a double-banded B. The reason they didn't want to pursue that, because she may have scratched somebody with a b type, but they never pursued those things. The second hat at Bundy. The Bundy location inside, when the Defense investigator finds this hat, nobody wanted to collect it. They refused in fact to collect it. When we in this trial, before you, discovered that evidence had been moved at Bundy and that a key piece of evidence, the piece of paper, had disappeared, they didn't do anything to find out about it that we know of. I am concerned about those kind of things. But it is important--and when you look at Rubin--because you put him along with the other Prosecution witnesses and the things that they have had to say. I have told you about the Bloomingdales receipt. I told you about Brenda Vemich who came in. One other thing about Brenda Vemich. That was the day, I won't forget that day probably. She was a pretty tough witness. I was just trying to talk about receipts and things and she was pretty tough. And remember we asked her the question, well, who is the lady, who is the person, who is the salesperson for this? And that lady whose name was Hollings or something like that was in this building. They never called her on that receipt. They didn't have to call her, but we know she was here because Brenda Vemich told us. We also learned something else about these gloves, that even an extra large--there is probably three different sizes, the undersize, the standard and the oversize. And it depends what lot you get. That is what it boils down to, ladies and gentlemen. We know that. That makes sense, doesn't it? And so when you look at everything regarding these gloves--by the way, the lady's name was Olina Phipps, P-H-I-P-P-S. She was in the courthouse and of course was never called by the Prosecution. Shoe he was the actual sales clerk. But I think that the important thing about these gloves that Mr. Rubin was helping us with, in a couple of the pictures of the photographs of the gloves Mr. Simpson obviously had a heat pack on his hands inside the gloves. You could see the heat pack. If you live in cold weather, you know about that. Try though they will about shrinking--and they are going to show you, gee, it is raining out there and doing all those things. Isn't that preposterous? They will do anything to try to contort and distort the facts, try to get away from that tactical mistake showing you the gloves didn't fit. Spent all this time on that and the gloves still don't fit. Rubin can't help you. Rubin is biased. He can't find those gloves because O.J. Simpson has never had those gloves. For them to say otherwise is rank speculation.