Judge excludes Goldman lawyer testimony in O.J. trial

During a hearing last November, Simpson lawyer Yale Galanter got Alexander to concede he once offered to slant his testimony in Simpson's favor if he was paid.

Alexander is the fourth of nine men in the room at the time to testify about the night of Sept. 13, 2007, at the Palace Station casino hotel.

The judge's decision to exclude the lawyer for Goldman's estate came after she sent the jury home early Tuesday and heard more than two hours of arguments about whether he should appear.

Cook has pursued Simpson for more than a decade to obtain payment of a $33.5 million civil wrongful death judgment levied in March 1997 against Simpson by a California judge.

Goldman was slain with Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, in 1994. Simpson was acquitted in a criminal trial.

Cook said Glass "didn't want me to walk in there with a whole train of ghosts."

District Attorney David Roger said Cook could help show Simpson tried to hide memorabilia and avoid paying the Goldman judgment, and that anger at the Goldmans was a reason he organized the confrontation.

"It establishes his motive," Roger said.

Galanter told Glass the testimony would prejudice the jury.

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AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch contributed to this report.