He also enlisted late night chat show host, Jay Leno, who cracked that Windows 95 was "so powerful that it can keep track of all of OJ's alibis at once".
Once his alibi had crumbled, he named the other two, John Duddy, who was caught on the run in Glasgow, and Roberts, who became the subject of one of the biggest manhunts ever mounted in Britain.
A high-strung woman who killed her disabled sister many years ago carries on an uneasy flirtation with the man who once provided her with an alibi.
But petitioner would have had only a Pyrrhic victory, since once having given the State his alibi information, he could not have retracted it.
As police focus more on responding to crime rather than preventing it, private detectives and security firms are often taking on the roles that police once did, investigating robberies, checking out alibis, looking into threats.
Now, as Alex once wrote, "It's your turn to find an alibi for the imagination".
"Once you understood the cellphone records — that killed any alibi defense that Syed had.
'Once you understood the cellphone records — that killed any alibi defense that Syed had.'.
The nominee's most ardent supporters resist this "etch-a-sketchism," which the cowboy comedian Will Rogers once dismissed as "go in on promises, go out on alibis".
Once defeat is acknowledged, Putin will take himself out of the Syrian picture, using the alibi he has already put forward: It wasn't Assad who used the chemical weapons in the first place, he will say.
