A June 13, 1994, file evidence photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows LAPD's Mark Fuhrman pointing to evidence near the body of Nicole Brown Simpson on the bloodstained walkway.

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. Simpson's bedroom the day after the murders -- but he and others had a solid explanation that clearly benefited the prosecution. 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. 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. 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. 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. Simpson, 48, is standing trial in Superior Court on two counts of first-degree murder for the June 12, 1994 stabbing and slashing deaths of Nicole Simpson and Goldman outside her Brentwood condominium. 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.

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1. Mr Fuhrman is the Los Angeles Police Department detective who discovered a bloody glove behind Simpson's guest house on the night of the Simpson- Goldman murders.
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3. With no witnesses to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, DNA evidence in the O. Simpson murder case was the key physical proof used by the prosecution to link O. Simpson to the crime. Over nine weeks of testimony, 108 exhibits of DNA evidence, including 61 drops of blood, were presented at trial.Testing was cross-referenced and validated at three separate labs using.

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. although he was not exactly sure of the time. Fung's testimony also is apparently contradicted by the videotape, which includes a time counter. The photographer said he had been told that the time shown on the videotape -- 3:13 -- was off by an hour, so he must have shot the footage in Simpson's bedroom at 4:13 p.m. Luper, a veteran police detective, said he first saw the socks about 12:30 or 12:40 that afternoon and noticed the socks were out of place in Simpson's neatly kept Brentwood mansion. He acknowledged that he did not get close enough to the socks to notice if they were stained with blood. Prosecution witnesses have testified that they did not notice bloodstains on the dark socks until several months after they were collected. The defense has said there is 'no question' the blood was smeared on the socks long after their collection. In an effort to imply that the socks had been planted, chief defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. called Simpson's housekeeper, Josephine 'GiGi' Guarin, to the stand to testify that Simpson never left clothes lying around his bedroom. 'He wants everything in order, he's neat in putting everything in place,' Guarin said, adding that she had never seen Simpson leave clothes strewn about his room even when he was in a hurry to catch a plane. The defense also used Guarin as another demeanor witness to try to establish that there was nothing unusual about Simpson's behavior the night of the murders. The housekeeper said she spoke with Simpson on the telephone about 8 p.m. that night and that he appeared to be 'the same O.J.' Prosecutors contend the murders took place about 10:15 p.m. and that Simpson rushed home to get ready for his red-eye flight to Chicago. In a day of testimony that appeared to largely benefit the prosecution, Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden also used his cross-examination of Ford to try to shoot down the defense's theory of a conspiracy that could have involved police and criminalists. The photographer said he did not see anyone plant any evidence or do anything wrong, and that he would tell the jury about it if he had seen anything of that sort. Ford also noted that he was at Simpson's mansion solely to videotape his belongings for liability purposes, not to videotape evidence linked to the murders. In other developments Thursday: --the football legend's lawyers said in court papers that Simpson has been stripped of 'key elements of his defense' and 'crippled in his effort' to rebut prosecution evidence suggesting he was the only one motivated to kill Nicole Simpson and Goldman. In a five-page motion, Simpson's defense attorneys asked Judge Lance Ito to reverse a July 13 ruling barring them from questioning a witness about drug use by one of Nicole Brown Simpson's friends, Faye Resnick. The judge's ruling had gutted a key defense strategy suggesting that drug dealers seeking retaliation for an unpaid drug debt may have killed Nicole Simpson, mistaking her for Resnick, who stayed at Nicole Simpson's condominium days before the murders. --Ito fined lead prosecutor Marcia Clark $250 for questioning the honesty of one of the defense's expert witnesses outside the jury's presence. Ito, who had warned Clark earlier about personal attacks and said he was in a 'bad mood,' told Clark to write a check before leaving for the day. --Ito limited the testimony of the defense's bloodstain expert, Herbert MacDonnell. The judge said MacDonnell cannot testify about an experiment he performed on how long it took a sock to dry, or about presumptive blood test results on a portion of the sock. The judge had earlier precluded the prosecution from using presumptive tests on other pieces of evidence because the tests are not conclusive. Simpson defense lawyer Peter Neufeld said outside the jury's presence Wednesday that Nicole Simpson's blood soaked through from one interior portion of the sock to the other interior portion, where a person's foot should have been if the socks were worn by the killer. --Defense attorney Robert Blasier said the defense intends to wrap up its case on Aug. 7. The defense, which began presenting its case on July 10, has presented 30 witnesses so far, about half what the prosecution called in the five months it spent presenting its case. --Simpson's defense team filed court papers calling the credibility of controversial police detective Mark Fuhrman 'the central issue' in the trial. They said they want to call four witness to 'directly impeach' Fuhrman's denial that he used a racial ephithet to describe blacks, while prosecutors are asking the judge to preclude testimony from those witnesses. Fuhrman has testified that he found a bloodstained glove at Simpson's estate that matched one found at the murder scene. The defense contends Fuhrman is a racist who may have planted the glove to frame the famous black football star with the beautiful white wife. --Prosecutors filed a motion asking Ito to limit the defense's questioning of the Police Department's crime lab director, Michelle Kestler. The motion asks the judge to preclude the defense from asking questions that imply she had a motive to plant blood evidence on a pair of socks because her husband is a homicide detective.

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