![]() Fung's testimony also is apparently contradicted by the videotape, which includes a time counter. although he was not exactly sure of the time. ![]() Luper said he believes Fung collected the socks between 3:30 and 3:45 p.m., while Fung said he believed he picked up the socks collected the socks between 4:30 and 4:40 p.m. Faced with Luper's testimony that he was 'positive' the socks were in plain view before Ford arrived, Cochran pointed out contradictions in his testimony and that of Fung in April. Simpson, 48, is standing trial in Superior Court on two counts of first-degree murder for the Jstabbing and slashing deaths of Nicole Simpson and Goldman outside her Brentwood condominium. Simpson's defense team claims that blood was sprinkled on the socks later to frame Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman, and had promised the jury the socks would be among the most hotly contested pieces of evidence. The bloodstained socks - one of the most important pieces of evidence against the football legend - contain DNA matching that of Simpson and his slain ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, prosecution scientists have testified. Another witness called by the defense, police detective Bert Luper, helped the prosecution's case by testifying that he saw criminalist Dennis Fung collect the socks before the photographer videotaped the room's contents. ![]() Photographer Willie Ford acknowledged that his video did not show the socks on Simpson's bedroom floor, but he said police criminalists had already collected evidence before he entered the room to videotape it. Simpson's bedroom the day after the murders - but he and others had a solid explanation that clearly benefited the prosecution. LOS ANGELES, July 20 - Trying to support their claim that evidence was planted, the defense called a police photographerto the stand Thursday to testify he did not see a crucial pair of bloodstained socks in O.J.
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