Based on the severity of the wounds and the fact that Goldman still had the glasses in his hand when he was found, authorities believe the entire attack lasted no longer than five minutes from start to finish. Simpson had conveniently boarded a late flight to Chicago that night and was not home. Five days later, the police pursued Simpson down the L.
Simpson eventually surrendered and was brought to trial. Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, the jury reached a verdict on October 3, , and Simpson was found not guilty of both murders.
For more information about O. Simpson, click here. There were two pieces of physical evidence relied on by the prosecution:. The prosecution also argued that blood splatter transferred from the victims to OJ Simpson during the murders had been transferred to his car from his person and from the glove which was later found behind his house saturated blood. Evidence had been mishandled during the investigation. Racism in the Los Angeles police department had biased the investigation.
The first task for the defence was to explain the presence of blood belonging to OJ Simpson in his car and home. Their case was that OJ Simpson had simply cut himself at his home on the night of the murders and this explained the blood found in his car, driveway and foyer. The other evidence - the sample taken from the crime scene that produced a DNA profile consistent with OJ Simpson, the samples taken from the car that showed DNA belonging to victims and the sample taken from the glove that found DNA consistent with OJ Simpson - was more difficult for the defence to explain.
Their case sought to discount this evidence on the basis that it was improperly collected, tested and reported. Their job was made easier by the various mistakes and mishaps that occurred in the course of collecting and testing the evidence. The defence also argued that the samples taken from the blood drops were degraded and destroyed as a result of mishandling.
This was supported by evidence of the samples being packaged in plastic bags and then left in a hot truck for several hours before being transported to the testing facility. Expert evidence, including from the prosecution, agreed that DNA rapidly degrades in such conditions and crucially, all of the experts agreed that a degraded DNA sample would falsely produce a positive match if it is later contaminated.
This provided substantial support to the prosecution's core argument that the evidence was mishandled and contaminated making the results of the tests that linked OJ Simpson to the crime scene and the victims, unreliable. Furthermore, the defence argued that the small quantity of DNA that was found on the exhibits was consistent with inadvertent transfer leading to the contamination.
There was also substantial evidence of mishandling of the evidence by Los Angeles Police Department. His son Eric Garcetti is the current mayor of Los Angeles. Lee Bailey in the courtroom, and the feuding didn't stop with the O. After his own son Brent died from a drug overdose in , he founded the Brent Shapiro Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to raise drug awareness and also a rehabilitation facility.
He is now During the trial, Scheck was the unknown lawyer who introduced the still-new science of DNA to jurors. The project has helped overturn over convictions. Scheck, now 71, also teaches at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Resnick was one of Nicole Brown Simpson's closest friends, who gained notoriety for her cocaine addiction.
She checked into a rehab facility three days before Nicole was murdered, and infamously published a salacious tell-all book with a National Enquirer columnist during the trial.
Resnick, who is now 63, later wrote another book, and appeared in episodes of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. One of the most vilified figures in the trial was Detective Mark Fuhrman, who was one of the first members of the LAPD to arrive at the murder scene on the night of the crime.
Simpson's defense team argued that Fuhrman had tampered with and planted evidence—and when tapes emerged of Fuhrman using racial slurs against African-Americans, after testifying under oath that he did not use those words, his credibility became irrevocably damaged and he was widely condemned as a racist.
Fuhrman retired from the LAPD that year and later pleaded no contest to perjury for his false testimony. Since then, like many participants in the trial, the year-old Fuhrman has written true crime books.
He also appears on television and talk radio. One of the more unusual characters in the trial was Kato Kaelin, a struggling actor who lived in Simpson's guest house.
He was home during the night of the murders and was a minor witness for the prosecution. He was often dubbed "the most famous house guest in America. He also won a landmark case in the field of libel law, after the National Enquirer ran a shirtless photo of him with the headline "Cops think Kato did it! Live updates. Ad Microsoft.
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