Resnick’s Testimony Called ‘Devastating’ Simpson’s Top Attorney May Be Considering Withdrawing

O.J. Simpson’s nemesis - Faye Resnick - testified on Monday that “kicking was O.J.’s favorite” method of spousal abuse as she detailed shocking secondhand allegations of domestic violence.

Completing the third and final day of her deposition in the athlete’s civil case, the author also said that death threats Simpson allegedly made against his ex-wife helped drive Resnick to drugs.

“O.J. told her he was going to kill Nicole, (and) she was frightened with that,” said Resnick’s attorney, Leonard Marks, who added that a broken engagement also fueled her drug use.

Noting that Resnick has been sober for 20 months, Marks said, “Her testimony is devastating.”

Resnick was in drug rehab on June 12, 1994, when Nicole Brown Simpson and her pal Ron Goldman were slain.

Simpson’s lawyers have argued that Resnick, 37, who wrote a best seller about her friendship with Nicole, was the killer’s real target.

Meanwhile, sources said that Simpson’s top lawyer has been considering stepping down since December, but hasn’t yet made a move to withdraw from the case.

Sources said that attorney Robert Baker has refused to tell opposing lawyers whether he’ll bow out.

Baker has concerns that Simpson, 48, won’t be able to pay him - and was annoyed by the athlete’s recent media blitz, sources said.

Baker’s wife and some of his clients are pressuring him to leave, sources said, because of the controversy dogging Simpson, whose October acquittal met with a sharply divided public response.

Baker did not return phone calls. But Dream Team member F. Lee Bailey, who joined Simpson’s civil squad last month, told The Daily News that he believes Baker will remain the lead attorney.

Bailey, who is in New York representing reputed mobster Joseph Watts, added, “I’ll do whatever O.J. needs me to do, if I can do it. I won’t let Mr. Simpson down.”

Baker wasn’t in New York on Monday as Resnick was grilled for three hours by Simpson attorney Dan Leonard - Bailey’s law partner.

Daniel Petrocelli, a lawyer for Goldman’s father, called Resnick’s testimony “extremely credible.”

Echoing her book, Resnick said Nicole had claimed that Simpson variously beat her with a wine bottle, locked her in a closet, kicked her when she was pregnant, and threw her, half-naked, into a hotel hallway after a beating.