LAS VEGAS (AP) - The man who told a jury that O.J. Simpson asked him to bring guns and “look menacing” during a hotel room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers acknowledged Monday he didn’t tell police that last October.

“You have a whole conversation with police and you never say ‘O.J. said to bring guns?’” Simpson defense lawyer Gabriel Grasso asked the witness, Michael McClinton, during a lengthy cross-examination.

“It may have slipped my mind,” McClinton responded. “But Mr. Simpson knew I had a gun. He read my concealed weapons permit.”

McClinton, 50, a Las Vegas resident who worked as a security guard, was the last of four former co-defendants to testify against Simpson in the trial. After he finished two days of testimony, prosecutors rested their case against the former football star and co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart.

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