[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 160 (Tuesday, October 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10122]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         O.J. SIMPSON IS GUILTY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I said earlier during someone else's 5-
minute special order that I was going to discuss the O.J. Simpson case. 
I used to represent, for 6 years, the precinct in Los Angeles, the real 
estate name is Brentwood, CA, where Nicole Simpson had her throat 
slashed to her spine, and where young Ron Goldman, doing a simple act 
of kindness, bringing over a pair of reading glasses belonging to 
Nicole Simpson's mother, then stumbled on to a situation where he 
yelled either hey, hey, hey or hey, O.J.
  The word on the streets of Brentwood, in Los Angeles, from the lawyer 
of the Goldman family is that one of the defense witnesses lied on the 
stand.

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  That he actually told all of his friends that, ``O.J. is going to 
kiss me if he beats this,'' and that he actually physically saw O.J. 
Whether that is true remains to be seen. This is somebody who should be 
polygraphed, should be arrested for perjury, if in fact he told all of 
his friends that he heard Goldman say, ``Hey, O.J.'', which means he 
gave his life beyond common courtesy as a Good Samaritan in trying to 
interfere into what he thought was a beating, until he saw the flash of 
the knife in the moonlight. I believe that Ron Goldman, at age 25, did 
die as a hero.
  Mr. Speaker, in these short few minutes I want to discuss what I 
would like to do in an hour special order. If this truly was the double 
murder or the trial of the century, then it should be discussed on the 
floor of this, the world's most important legislative body, this 
Knesset, this House of Commons, this Duma. This House should discuss 
this issue.
  Last night I watched an hour on the murder of Stanford White, the New 
York architect, on the roof garden of Madison Square Garden which he 
designed. If that was the trial of the century, and it was only 6 years 
into the century, or the Lindburgh trial, when I was an infant, was the 
trial of a century, and this has eclipsed all of that; if more people 
were aware of the O.J. murder than the atrocity of the bombing in 
Oklahoma City, or just about anything other than the assassination of 
President Kennedy or Pearl Harbor, for those of us old enough to 
remember that, then it should be discussed on this floor.

  In this brief, 5-minute introduction to what I intend to do here for 
an hour, let me say three things. One, of course, O.J. Simpson did it. 
Of course he did it. Of course the jury did not hear Nicole's 
statements, because it was hearsay, to several friends. ``He will kill 
me and he will get away with it. He will O.J. his way out of it. He 
thinks he is above the law.''
  O.J. Simpson is now called the butcher of Brentwood, my former area 
that I raised five of my children in. Two of my children came home from 
the hospital to a little house on Chenault three short blocks from the 
murder scene. Of course he did it.
  No. 2, Mr. Speaker, I am going to, with my last breath, defend 
cameras in the courtroom, because about 50 million people in this 
country became the 13th juror. They knew more than the alternates did. 
We must never sequester human beings like this again. They feel they 
are locked up with less contact with the outside world than Simpson, so 
of course they felt they were angry with the State. But we must keep 
the cameras in the courtroom or we would not have know more evidence 
than the jury itself knows.
  No. 3, we must reopen this case. I said this to Mr. Garcetti. I said 
this to my friend, Sheriff Sherwin Block. And I have said it to the 
detectives, the prime detectives, one of the trio of detectives that 
handled most of the evidence. And he said to me on the phone last week, 
``Congressman, we had gobs of evidence we did not use.''
  How can Garcetti stamp his foot like a petulant child, when a third 
of this country believes O.J. Simpson was not just not found guilty, 
not that he was acquitted, but that he is innocent. You cannot leave a 
third of this country in a fog that a murderer or double killers, maybe 
more than one, Colombian necklacing drug lords are out there going to 
terrorize some other family.
  We must put this to rest. And here is what I told the detectives and 
in 4 short minutes, they bought my case. Reopen it. Take Johnny Cochran 
and Simpson at his word and go look for the killer or killers. Let us 
reinterview everybody that was interviewed in this case and then a 
second and a third tier of potential witnesses.
  Go over every speck of evidence. It is locked up. Play one lab in 
this country off against the other. And then come out with a paper or 
report 6 months or a year from now. And those of us who were the 13th 
jurors who followed this trial know what the verdict will be. It was 
the butcher of Brentwood. Mr. Simpson, who if he had any decency, would 
not ruin his children's lives. He slaughtered their mother. He would go 
to Mexico, or some foreign country, and get out of our face.
  He is shocked that we are not groveling and accepting him back. He 
told the gentleman from California [Mr. Dreier], on the Tuesday before 
the murder, that he voted for Bush and that he told that to Clinton's 
face when they played golf.
  I will do this in a 60-minute special order, Mr. Speaker. But let me 
close on this line. As I told the Presidential candidates in New 
Hampshire, that Republican millionaires who voted for Bush are more a 
jury of his peers and they would have found him guilty.
  These poor, emotionally distraught jurors were not his peers. Not his 
peers. He did it. He simply did it, and he has not gotten away with it 
yet; not in the court of public opinion.

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