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If it is him, it wouldn't be the first time a mistake was made by cops, nor will it be the last time.

I have always had an "agnostic" position on the OJ case. I have no problem believing that OJ did it. I also have no problem believing that the LAPD planted evidence to improve the case. I mean, everybody on the LAPD knew that OJ was guilty, so what is the problem with helping the evidence along, to guarantee that a murderer gets convicted. In golf it is called "improving your lie", meaning moving your ball out of a divot or up onto the top of the grass. Many golfers don't consider this cheating. I think that many Policeman don't consider manufacturing evidence against an obviously guilty suspect cheating, since the perpetrators of crime have so many legal advantages and the Police's "hands are tied".

The question to me always was, has enough evidence been fabricated to point to an innocent man? That is the problem. From a jury's point of view, once any piece of evidence has been shown to be manufactured, the all evidence must be viewed with suspicion.

To be specific, the chain-of-custody and timeline problems with the OJ blood samples always struck me as being suspicious. Also, finding one blood soaked glove at the crime scene, and another at the house, especially when both gloves were found by the same Police Officer, always struck me as just too cute.

I was always very suspicious of the blood evidence for one reason. A continent away, in NYS, NY State Troopers were being, charged, tried and convicted, left and right for manufacturing evidence.

The most nototrious case involved the Christmas slaughter of a family in Dryden NY. It was a heart breaker. From one of my previous posts :

The most infamous case was the horrific murders of the Harris family in Dryden NY during the Christman Season in 1989. Shirley Kinge was convicted on the basis of a fingerprint on a gas can. She had helped her son after the fact destroying eveidence, using the Harris family's credit cards while they were laying dead in their homes & other charges. Guess what? The fingerprint had been planted and Kinge was released from prison. She is free, living in Atlanta now because the State Troopers planted evidence instead of taking their time to develop it. That is the ultimate insult to the Harris family. Shirley Kinge should never have seen the light of day as a free woman again, but because the troopers "knew" she was guilty and manufactured the evidence, Shirley is free and playing the victim role. So when the the rest of the country found the charges of evidence planting by the LAPD outrageous, I thought "not in New York."

Unfortunately, when things such as this happens, it makes it difficult for the rest of us, who only want to see the guilty punished.