THE O.J. SIMPSON MURDER TRIAL : Trial Highlights

Some of the key events Tuesday in the O.J. Simpson murder trial:

* SUMMARY: Prosecutors were allowed to reopen their opening statement, and Deputy Dist. Atty. Marcia Clark briefly addressed the jury. They then began calling witnesses, putting on the stand three LAPD employees who testified about a 1989 incident in which they said Simpson slapped and punched his wife after an argument.

* WITNESSES: Sharyn Gilbert, a 911 operator, testified that she heard a woman yelling and being hit during an emergency call from Simpson’s house during the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 1989. Detective John Edwards testified that he responded to that emergency call and found a battered Nicole Simpson as well as a raging O.J. Simpson. Edwards said that when he tried to arrest Simpson, the former football star fled in his Bentley. Detective Mike Farrell was the day’s last witness, and he testified that Simpson admitted striking his wife. Farrell also said he asked senior officers at the West Los Angeles Division of the LAPD whether they knew of previous domestic violence incidents involving Simpson; the only one he was told of came from Detective Mark Fuhrman, who later surfaced as a potentially important witness in the Simpson case.

* COMING UP: Prosecutors hope to call Ronald Shipp, a former Los Angeles police officer and friend of both O.J. and Nicole Simpson. According to sources, Simpson allegedly confided to Shipp that he had dreamed of killing Nicole Simpson and that he worried that the dream would cause him to fail a polygraph test if he were asked to take one.

“She was weak. She was shivering. She was cold. I could feel her bones. She was cold. And she was beat up.”

--LAPD Detective John Edwards, describing Nicole Simpson on Jan. 1, 1989