Sep
25
LAS VEGAS - One of the alleged victims in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping trial testified Thursday that he didn’t want to be on the witness stand as he provided key evidence undermining the prosecution case.
Memorabilia peddler and convicted felon Alfred Beardsley testified that he and Simpson were “set up” by Thomas Riccio, the collectibles broker who arranged their meeting in a casino hotel room, and that “chunks” of dialogue were missing from secret recordings Riccio made of the confrontation.
“I do not want to be here,” Beardsley said. “I’ve made that clear for the past year.”
Under cross-examination by Simpson lawyer Yale Galanter, Beardsley called Riccio’s recordings a “work of art” and suggested that Riccio had time to edit them before selling them to a celebrity Web site and later turning them over to police.
“He took the recording of the so-called incident or the crime and withheld it from the police — took it back to Los Angeles for a period of time,” Beardsley said.
After leading Beardsley through a description of the confrontation, Clark County District Attorney David Roger played a 911 tape in which Beardsley demands that police arrive immediately at the Palace Station hotel and casino to find and arrest Simpson.
“We were just robbed at gunpoint by O.J. Simpson and a bunch of other men!” Beardsley exclaims. “And I want ‘em arrested!”
After an objection from Roger, Judge Jackie Glass stopped Galanter from asking Beardsley whether he wanted charges dropped. She also stopped Galanter from asking whether Beardsley believed a crime had been committed against him.
Beardsley, 46, of Burbank, Calif., is serving time on a parole violation after being convicted of stalking a California woman. He has been held since April on allegations that he threatened Riccio.
Glass struggled most of the day to keep jurors from being reminded of Simpson’s infamous Los Angeles murder case, ruling that a witness could not mention the former football star’s troubled past.
Mike Gilbert, a mem
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