(7 Jun 1995) English/Nat
The evidence is getting gruesome at the O-J Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles, California.
During his testimony criminal pathologist Dr. Lakshmanan took jurors through a series of bloody autopsy photos of the slashed throat, neck and head of Nicole Brown Simpson.
The L-A County Coroner testified that the wounds caused massive blood loss and relatively quick, but not instantaneous death.
O-J Simpson remained sombre throughout Wednesday's gory testimony as the courtroom audience and television viewers were shielded from any offensive photos.
Step by step, wound by wound, the coroner in the O-J Simpson trial is recalling how Nicole Brown Simpson met her death.
SOUNDBITE:
"Brown had injuries which would also cause significant bleeding. She had four sharp-force injuries to the neck here, she had sharp force injuries which also had caused bleeding. And those in my opinion occurred before this one. And so accounting for some blood loss from those wounds and this. I would say she died within a few minutes. probably much less than a minute because she would have gone into massive shock with this injury."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr. Lakshmanan, LA County Coroner.
Simpson, himself, who through most of the day was shielded by lawyer Robert Kardashian appeared shaken as the gruesome fatal gash to his ex-wife's neck was discussed.
SOUNDBITE:
"The neck has got a lot of branches from the arteries and also a lot of venous channels. And the wound to this area of the neck which is one and a half to two inches deep would cause significant bleeding."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr. Lakshmanan, LA County Coroner.
Dr. Lakshmanan described all the wounds on Nicole Simpson's head, throat, and neck and said that although he believes the slashings were done with a single edged knife, he can't rule out the possibility that a double edged knife may have been used.
SOUNDBITE:
Upsound: So this is one of the sharp-force injuries that you are not able to distinguish by the appearance of the injury itself, whether it's a single edge or a double edge?
That is correct.
SUPERCAPTION: Dr. Lakshmanan. LA County Coroner
No cameras were allowed to record gruesome photos. Only diagrams were used.
There's already talk that if O-J Simpson has to be retried, L-A County Supervisors will try to ban television coverage.
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