Posted on 09/09/2012 5:37:20 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Nearly seventeen years ago, former NFL star and actor O.J. Simpson was shockingly acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend.
But now a district attorney at the centre of the case has alleged that Simpson’s lead defence lawyer tampered with a crucial piece of evidence – one of the infamous gloves that prosecutors said linked Simpson to the grisly double-murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
After The Juice struggled to fit the gloves on his hands – in one of the defining moments of the racially charged trial that captivated the nation – Cochran famously admonished the jury: 'If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.'
Former Los Angeles deputy district attorney Christopher Darden on Thursday accused Simpson defence lawyer, the late Johnnie Cochran, of 'manipulating' the glove, Reuters reported.
New allegations: Prosecutor Christopher Darden, pictured at the 1995 trial, now alleges that Simpson's lead defence attorney tampered with the leather gloves
On Thursday, during a panel discussion about the trial at Pace Law School in New York City, Darden, a member of the prosecution team, declared: 'I think Johnnie tore the lining.
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Not to mention that Simpson also had "acting" as part of his resume. Remember his exasperated looks, his pointless gyrations with his hands as he "struggled" to get the glove on. Of course he wasn't going to make it look easy. He had a sympathetic jury and knew that he could manipulate it.
When OJ arrived in Chicago the morning after the crime, he had cuts on his hand he claimed came from a water glass. I’ll bet if they did a DNA test on the glove they would have found OJ’s DNA besides the victims.
Good points.
What was sad was that for all those previous years OJ was no part of the black community. White wife, white friends, the whole white life.
The “jury nullification” of the predominately black jury saved his black ass.
The verdict was disgusting and I became physically ill watching his face as he knew he got off and was evading justice.
Didn’t matter if the glove fit or not. That jury was not going to send their beloved OJ to prison.
OJ got off because he was rich, black and famous.
Take away any one of the three and he would have been convicted.
More likely Simpson did exercises to build up his hand muscles or gorged on salt to make his fingers swell. He certainly had enough time to exercise and make them bigger.
So Darden, is busy boffin’ Marcia Clarke....loses an important case and then blames someone who is dead and can’t defend himself....classy.
now dont get me wrong....OJ is guilty and the trial was badly mishandled from day one...
but dont make up BS. a glove covered in blood shrinks and hardens making it difficult to put on...and they should never have permitted the trying on the glove in court for that reason alone....
Jackie Chiles could have done a better job with a bra, than Darden and Clarke
Well, yeah...
Otherwise he would have had to come up with a different “poem”.
How ‘bout:
“If da glove done fit
he guilty as sh*t”
bad LTOS! Bad BAD! :-)
how judgmental of you
Matthew 7:1 “judge not lest you be judged”.
It was summer in LA,the detective was wearing light tan slacks and a light blue shirt. I suppose he transported a “bloody’ glove from one place to another, OJ’s Home, within an hour without having a mess of blood ‘on his hands”.. Did he wipe his hands on his pants or shirt? Did he previously know who’s glove it was? Did he consider that the blood may have been from an HIV person? OJ’s blood was in her house and her blood was in his house. I suppose the detective also transported some of each of theirs blood in a vile, all this while the crime scene was full of cops, uniform and detective, large lights lighting the scene and swarms of reporters around the area. Right, OJ was framed
I have tried to put a normal glove on over a rubber glove in situations where I needed both chemical protection and physical protection.
Guess what? The rubber glove makes it very difficult to put on the normal glove. Try for several minutes hard.
The real idiocy is that the prosecutor never tried this at home before suggesting the test.
That is the crux of the no fit scam. I was wondering why they thought a glove over a glove was any proof of fit. The whole scenario smacked of inexcusable stupidity or complicity.
Hmmm... F. Lee Bailey is still alive I think. According to the article they think he’s deceased.
Chris:
You have to be the dumbest prosecutor ever and dumber than a barely passing the bar public defender.
You allowed crap into the trial that should have never been in the trial or severley limited.
And now you have this, and I don’t “specious” claim is the right word, but you do have something that greater than that as your excuse for losing.
There are strict rules when handling evidence and no way, I say “No Effing Way” the defense handled the glove in a way that was inconsistent with handling of evidence and that it was very much observed by the chain of command to ensure there would be no tampering the evidence.
I am nearly tempted to post the “You have got to be the stoopitest person ever” post but, I reserve that for lame opus’ and irrefutable idiots who make me wonder how they got this far in life without drowning in the shower...as do you.
You are a hack bottom line and beyond incompetent.
Thankfully OJ is in a jail for his arrogance. Yeah, I get it was his stuff but whatever it took to have serve some jail time then fine.
Now, go skulk off to wherever losers try to get their lattes the right color and never let us hear from you again.
Chump.
Toast...Burnt Toast...
Even if the gloves had fit perfectly, it would be easy to hold your fingers in a way that would make it look like it didn’t fit. But handing a dried up leather glove to OJ was gross incompetence. My work gloves fit me fine after a few minutes, but the drying after getting sweaty means they are hard to put on. You can be darn sure that if I was on trial for murder, and I put latex gloves on first, I would make it look like it was impossible for me to wear them.
The OJ prosecutors were painfully stupid, and Dardin may have been the worst. And yes, I read his book...
I agree with #2, but would change #1 to read OJ’s son, not the juice. Do you know if OJ’s son’s chef knives which were carried ina sheath were ever tested? ... Thast’s right, they never were.
Maybe so but she was a chump to attempt a demonstration at trial.
Even the rookie litigators know bettter than that.
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