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Prosecutors Play Simpson Exercise Tape, Seeking to Show His Physical AbilityBy DAVID MARGOLICK
July 18, 1995
Prosecutors today began playing portions of an exercise video O. J. Simpson made two weeks before Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman were slain, seeking to show that anyone lithe enough to perform exercises akin, as Mr. Simpson can be heard to say on the sound track, to \"doing the Watusi\" was also capable of killing.
As outtakes from the video were played, Mr. Simpson\'s voice, breathless but jocular and resolute, resonated throughout Judge Lance A. Ito\'s courtroom for the first time in five months, when a very different Mr. Simpson could be heard on the tape of a 911 call made by his former wife. The jurors watched raptly as Mr. Simpson, an exercise coach and others went through their cardiovascular paces, running in place and doing pushups and body bends.
Mr. Simpson looked on from the defense table, smiling, shaking his head, chatting with his lawyers as the tape played from three separate angles. Asked in the tape how he was doing as he stretched his legs and arms, bent over like a running back in the \"O. J. stance\" and did shoulder presses, Mr. Simpson replied \"not bad.\" But he complained repeatedly about what he at one point called his \"damn knees,\" and seemed unable to do several exercises properly.
Just what the exercises -- aimed, Mr. Simpson said on the tape, for \"weekend athletes and couch potatoes\" -- show is sure to be hotly debated by the two sides. Prosecutors will surely argue that the tape proves how agile and physically fit Mr. Simpson was, notwithstanding his long list of football injuries and two kinds of arthritis. Defense lawyers will counter that the tape proves just how infirm Mr. Simpson was, however fit he looked.
One of Mr. Simpson\'s lawyers, Robert L. Shapiro, today described the exercises as \"more of a geriatric type of maintenance that Mr. Simpson endorsed, and does not perform very well in.\" He insisted that the footage be played in its entirety so that the jurors \"can see all the rest periods, all the breaks that had to be taken, all the reshooting that had to be done.\"
The finished videotape, called \"O. J. Simpson Minimum Maintenance Fitness for Men,\" was only the most dramatic device prosecutors used today to argue that, for all his physical infirmities, Mr. Simpson was physically capable of killing two people. They argued, in fact, that far from inhibiting him, Mr. Simpson\'s playing days left him uniquely able to surmount his handicaps -- or, as one prosecutor put it, to \"play through pain.\"
In cross-examining Dr. Robert Huizenga, who treated Mr. Simpson twice in the days after the murders, Deputy District Attorney Brian Kelberg hinted that another legacy of the gridiron could have helped Mr. Simpson overcome his physical limitations. He suggested that an \"adrenaline rush,\" which enables athletes to perform extraordinary feats at crucial moments, might have enhanced Mr. Simpson\'s capabilities at 875 South Bundy Drive, where Mrs. Simpson and her friend were stabbed and slashed to death on the night of June 12, 1994.
\"Doctor, if Mr. Simpson murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman after being enraged, you would expect that he would be in the throes of an adrenaline rush?\" Mr. Kelberg asked. Dr. Huizenga conceded that Mr. Simpson would have been.
Throughout his cross-examination, Mr. Kelberg also accused Dr. Huizenga of being an advocate as much as a doctor, as determined to offer medical ammunition to the defense as he was to ascertain Mr. Simpson\'s condition. He implied that the doctor\'s loyalty ran to Mr. Shapiro, who brought Mr. Simpson to him.
Dr. Huizenga repeatedly denied the contention. \"I would not in any way lie,\" he said. \"My job is to be his doctor and take care of his health.\" But he made things more difficult for himself when he described the man he examined on June 15 and June 17 as someone suffering from \"incredible, incredible stress that maybe no human being short of Job has endured.\"
Mr. Kelberg greeted the Biblical comparison with disbelief. \"If he had murdered two human beings, would that be the kind of thing that would cause a great weight to be on a man\'s shoulders?\" he asked. \"Would that be a great weight for anyone to bear?\"
\"If someone, hypothetically, killed someone, they would certainly have a great weight on their shoulders,\" the doctor replied.
In response to another question, Dr. Huizenga acknowledged that Mr. Simpson was physically able to have held a knife in either hand. \"Would he also be able, in your opinion, to grab the hair of Nicole Brown Simpson and yank her head back to hyperextend her neck prior to taking a knife and slashing at her throat area? Did he have strength in his left hand to do that?\" Mr. Kelberg asked.
Were he in a stationary position, the doctor replied, Mr. Simpson would have had that strength. \"And when you say \'stationary,\' I want you to assume she is collapsed on the walkway in front of her condominium; that\'s the kind of condition you\'re talking about, right?\" Dr. Kelberg asked.
\"That\'s correct,\" replied Dr. Huizenga, an internist who practices in Beverly Hills and a former team physician for the Los Angeles Raiders football team.
While physically capable of murder, Dr. Huizenga said, Mr. Simpson was significantly impaired, particularly if he had to throw a punch or bend or move his lower body.
The doctor testified last week that while Mr. Simpson might look like Tarzan, he walked like \"Tarzan\'s grandfather,\" with a pronounced limp. Today Mr. Kelberg implied that the man Mr. Simpson resembled was not Tarzan but Johnny Weissmuller, the actor who portrayed him. None of those who saw Mr. Simpson travel to and from Chicago after the killings said that they saw him limping.
\"Perhaps Mr. Simpson was faking a limp in your office,\" the prosecutor suggested.
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