black football player that killed his wife

",[130] were Steve Futterman of CBS News, Linda Deutsch and Michael Fleeman of the Associated Press, Dan Whitcomb of Reuters, Janet Gilmore of the Los Angeles Daily News, Andrea Ford of the Los Angeles Times, Michelle Caruso of the New York Daily News, Dan Abrams of Court TV, Harvey Levin of KCBS, and David Margolick of The New York Times. [330], On June 15, 1995, Christopher Darden surprised Marcia Clark by asking Simpson to try on the gloves found at the crime scene and his home. [128] After the verdict was read, juror number nine, 44-year-old Lionel Cryer, gave Simpson a black power raised fist salute. However, the prosecution never introduced it as evidence during the trial. Former American football star O.J. [454], The suit Simpson wore when he was acquitted on October 3, 1995, was donated by Simpson's former agent Mike Gilbert to the Newseum in 2010. Simpson case", "Excerpts From the Ruling on the Fuhrman Tapes", "Fuhrman tapes take center stage; Goldman family is incensed", "Co-Workers Paint Different Portrait of Mark Fuhrman: LAPD: In contrast to racist boasts on tapes, black, Latino colleagues describe a hard-working, unbiased cop", "O.J. [94] McKay reiterated on radio his pleas to Simpson to turn himself in instead of committing suicide:[101] "My God, we love you, Juice. Could Have Made Murder Scene Shoe Prints", "The True Story Behind O.J. [344][345][346] After the trial, researchers reported increased reporting, arrests, and harsher sentences for those convicted of domestic violence. The prosecution stated that the probability of error was 1-in-21 billion. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It, which was adapted into the BBC documentary O.J. . Simpson Murder Trial: Prosecutors Say Simpson Trick Thwarted Glove Test", "Los Angeles California; Friday, June 23, 1995 9:00 am", "Gloves May Have Shrunk, Expert Says at O.J. [1], Opening statements were made on January 24, 1995. : Made in America, juror Carrie Bess said she believed "90% of the jury actually decided to acquit Simpson as payback for Rodney King". Pictures of Brown's face from that night were then shown to the jury to confirm his testimony. The final wound inflicted ran deep into her neck, severing her carotid artery. [326][327][328][329] Defense attorney Uelmen asked Fuhrman if it was his intention to plead the Fifth to all questions, and Fuhrman's attorney instructed him to reply "yes". Park said the "shadowy figure" initially approached the front door before heading down the southern walkway which leads to where the glove was found by Fuhrman. [63][304][305] Officer Robert Riske was the first officer to the crime scene and the one who pointed out the blood on the back gate to Fuhrman, who documented it in his notes that night. Simpson Facts and Fictions News Rituals in the Construction of Reality, p. 41, O.J. Christopher Darden later confirmed that to be true. [145] The media described this incident as a "Jury Revolt" and the protesters wearing all black as resembling a "funeral procession". Several jurors together published Madame Foreman in 1995 to respond to allegations the verdict was racially motivated. Simpson: American Crime Story, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, National Football League player conduct policy, "12 Simpson Jurors Are Sworn In: Trial: The eight-woman, four-man panel is predominantly black. [297] Martz stated that it was impossible to ascertain with certainty the presence of EDTA, as while the presumptive test for EDTA was positive, the identification test for EDTA was inconclusive. [411] The plaintiffs were represented by Daniel Petrocelli and Simpson by Robert Baker. The three sealed letters Simpson had written were left behind. Mark Fuhrman published Murder in Brentwood in 1998, defending himself against fraud claims. [126], Participants in the case received much media coverage. But it gives the defense another area to attack", "Forensic Chemist Testifies in O.J. Steve McNair was a good quarterback, and he was extremely liked by his teammates and by football fans in Nashville. SALT LAKE CITY A former professional football player sliced his wife's neck and then crawled on the ground outside their rented Utah condominium before flagging down a police officer,. Measuring the distance between the prints indicated that the assailant walked rather than ran away from the scene. Clark called the tapes "the biggest red herring there ever was". On June 27, 1994, Time published a cover story, "An American Tragedy", with a photo of Simpson on the cover. [21] The Goldman family was awarded compensatory and punitive damages totaling $33.5 million ($56.5million in 2021 dollars), but have received only a small portion of that figure. Among the reporters who covered the trial daily from the courtroom, and a media-area that was dubbed "Camp O. Simpson Case Shaped Reporting of Domestic Violence in the News Media", "CNN Races disagree on Simpson verdict Oct. 6, 1995", "Poll: Only 27% of Americans think O.J. [86][89][90], At 5 pm, Kardashian and one of his defense lawyers read Simpson's public letter. At 6:45pm, police officer Ruth Dixon saw the Bronco heading north on Interstate 405; when she caught up to it, Cowlings yelled out that Simpson was in the back seat of the vehicle and was pointing a gun at his own head. The documentary primarily rehashes the contamination and blood planting claims from the trial and asserted that Simpson's elder son Jason is a possible suspect. Lange testified that 14 other officers were there when Fuhrman arrived and all said there was only one glove at the crime scene. Ito then ordered them to court and the 13 protesters responded by wearing all black and refusing to come out to the jury box upon arrival. [322] The public reaction to the tapes was explosive and compared to the video of the Rodney King beating from a year prior. The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court starting in 1994, in which O. J. Simpson, a former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster and actor, was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.The pair were stabbed to death outside Brown's . [41] Afterwards, Brown said she felt her life was in danger because Simpson had threatened to kill her if he ever found her with another man. [323] After the trial, Fuhrman said that he was not a racist and apologized for his previous language, saying he was play-acting for a screenplay when he made the tapes, and had been asked to be as dramatic as possible. 1985) and son Justin (b. Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, whose most noted drive was the final one of the 2000 Super Bowl, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Saturday afternoon in a downtown condominium.. [101] Simpson was booked at Parker Center and taken to Men's Central Jail; Cowlings was booked on suspicion of harboring a fugitive and held on $250,000 bail. He voluntarily gave some of his own blood for comparison with evidence collected at the crime scene and was released. [282], After McKinny was forced to hand over the tapes to the defense, Fuhrman says he asked the prosecution for a redirect to explain the context of those tapes but the prosecution and his fellow police officers abandoned him after Ito played the audiotapes in open court for the public to hear. Simpson Case in Terrain Hostile to Prosecution: It Wasn't Garcetti's Fault", "Who Was on the O.J. [290][293] The prosecution also had Dr. Rieders admit that EDTA is also found in food[294] and specifically the ingredients used in McDonald's Big Mac and French fries[289] that Simpson had eaten earlier that night with Kato Kaelin. Former NFL tight end Kevin Ware was indicted on murder and tampering charges in the death of his girlfriend in Texas last year, the Harris County district attorney said Thursday. He received "a fair amount of" military training including use of a knife for Frogmen, and holds a knife to the throat of a woman (playing the role of his daughter) in one scene. [232] The remaining three exhibits were planted by the police and thus "corrupted" by police fraud. All of the evidence not some or most of it points irresistibly to Simpson's guilt and his guilt alone". Robert Shapiro published The Search for Justice in 1996 about the case and he concluded there was reasonable doubt but criticized Bailey and Cochran for bringing race into the trial. [455], Cowlings's white Ford bronco that he drove in the police chase is on display at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. He replied that he believed Simpson was guilty and the documentary's intention was not to prove Rogers committed the crimes. [82] Fuhrman briefly interviewed Kaelin, who told the detective that the car belonged to Simpson and that earlier that night he had heard thumps on his wall. Kardashian and Shapiro told Simpson this but when the police arrived an hour later, Simpson and Al Cowlings had disappeared. so he instead dedicated his entire argument to attacking the LAPD, particularly Fuhrman, Lange and Vannatter. [42] She drafted a will. Clark also implied that it was not a coincidence that the three evidence items he initially said were valid were the same three the defense claimed were planted while the other 58 were all false positives and the 47 substrate controls, which are used to determine if contamination occurred, were all false negatives. Vannatter then drove back to Rockingham later that evening to hand deliver the reference vial for Simpson to Fung, which the defense alleged gave him opportunity to plant the blood. Simpson", "O.J. [39][40] She documented an incident in which he spied on her having sex with her new boyfriend. The prosecution implied that Gerdes was not a credible witness: he had no forensic experience and had only testified for criminal defendants in the past and always said the DNA evidence against them was not reliable due to contamination. Simpson's then girlfriend, Paula Barbieri, wanted to attend the recital with Simpson but he did not invite her. On June 12, 1994, his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death outside her home in Los Angeles. Simpson's Bronco chase and the call that 'saved his life', "The OJ Simpson White Ford Bronco Chase Map of Los Angeles", "O.J. [175] The public shock at the reason why Walker was dropped from the defense witness list is credited with transforming public opinion on spousal abuse from a private familial matter to a serious public health issue. More than nine news helicopters eventually joined the pursuit; Tur compared the fleet to Apocalypse Now, and the high degree of media participation caused camera signals to appear on incorrect television channels. [64], Knowing that Cowlings was listening to KNX-AM, sports announcer Pete Arbogast called Simpson's former USC football coach John McKay and connected him to Simpson. [456], In 2017, Adam Papagan curated a pop-up museum showcasing artifacts and ephemera from the trial at Coagula Curatorial gallery in Los Angeles. [citation needed], Phillips testified that when he called Simpson in Chicago to tell him of Brown's murder, Simpson sounded "very upset" but was oddly unconcerned about the circumstances of her death. [68], On the night of June 12, Simpson was scheduled to board a red-eye flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Chicago, where he was due to play golf the following day at a convention with representatives of Hertz rental car Corporation, for whom he was a spokesman. The then-owner of the vehicle estimated its value in excess of $1,000,000. But chief forensic chemist says amount is exaggerated", "Lead O.J. ', "The 10 worst albums of the 90s by 10 brilliant bands", "The Brown Foundation Cuts Back on Giving", "The 15 Most Messed-Up O.J. [90] Thousands of spectators and onlookers packed overpasses along the route of the chase, waiting for the white Bronco. On February 4, 1997, the jury unanimously found Simpson responsible for the deaths of both Goldman and Brown. In closing arguments, Cochran called Fuhrman and Vannatter "twins of deception"[283] and told the jury to remember Vannatter as "the man who carried the blood"[284] and Fuhrman as "the man who found the glove". : The True Untold Story (2000). Simpson", "Video 1996: Barbara Walters interviews Robert Kardashian, longtime friend of O.J. After his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman, are found murdered in 1994, O.J. Hip hop artist Magneto Dayo released a 2013 "diss track" song titled "OJ Simpson" in which he insults his ex-girlfriend/artist V-Nasty, by referencing the Simpson murder case. [171] Walker's colleagues were appalled by her decision to defend Simpson and accused her of betraying her advocacy for a $250,000 retainer. [10] TV stations interrupted coverage of the 1994 NBA Finals to broadcast live coverage of the pursuit, which was watched by an estimated 95 million people. [81], After learning that Brown was the female victim, LAPD commander Keith Bushey ordered detectives Tom Lange, Philip Vannatter, Ron Phillips, and Mark Fuhrman to notify Simpson of her death and to escort him to the police station to pick up the former couple's children, who were asleep in Brown's condominium at the time of the murders. HOUSTON - The 16-year-old son of Antonio Armstrong has been charged with murder in connection with a shooting that killed . [55][56] Meanwhile, Simpson ate takeout food from McDonald's with Kato Kaelin, a bit-part actor and family friend who had been given the use of a guest house on Simpson's estate. He plays in six Pro Bowls throughout his 10-year career. Phillip Adams, the former NFL player who in April shot to death six people and killed himself, suffered from the debilitating brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the . He described the fights with Brown and their decision not to reconcile their relationship, and asked the media "as a last wish" not to bother his children. [73], The limousine driver noted that on the way to the airport, Simpson complained about how hot it was, and was sweating and rolled down the window, despite it not being a warm night. [citation needed] Congressmen[who?] 1:59. Simpson civil trial", "Jack Walraven's Simpson Trial Transcripts December 17, 1996", "Forensic Pathologist Dr. Michael Baden: I Was Shunned For Being A Defense Witness In O.J. Ito ruled that the evidence was inadmissible as being protected because of clergy-penitent privilege. At Kardashian's press conference, Shapiro said that he and Simpson's psychiatrists agreed with the suicide note interpretation. Contents [57][58], Brown's neighbors testified that they heard profuse barking coming from outside throughout the night, beginning around 10:15pm. [64][90] After remaining in the Bronco for about 45 minutes,[101] Simpson exited at 8:50pm with a framed family photo and went inside for about an hour; a police spokesman stated that he spoke to his mother and drank a glass of orange juice, causing reporters to laugh. [139] Richard Gabriel, a jury consultant for Simpson, wrote that more educated jurors with higher incomes were more likely to accept the validity of DNA evidence and the argument that domestic violence is a prelude to murder. ", "Fight over money may follow court battle", "Dollars and Sense of the Simpson Trial Accountant Rick Vandenberg has become an unlikely media star, giving monthly figures on the costs of the O.J. [351][352], Scholarly consensus is that the trial damaged race relations in America[353] and point to polling which shows that belief in Simpson's guilt depended on the race of the individual and not on the evidence against him. [4] Following his summation, Cochran received numerous death threats, and hired bodyguards from Louis Farrakhan. On the other hand, the defense's research suggested that black women would not be sympathetic to Brown, who was white, because of tensions about interracial marriages. Simpson criminal trial, The People v. O.J. Bodziak also testified that, despite two sets of footprints at the crime scene, only one attacker was present because they were all made by the same shoes. [144] On April 21, thirteen of the eighteen jurors refused to come to court until they spoke with Ito about it. At around 6:20pm, a motorist in Orange County notified California Highway Patrol after seeing someone believed to be Simpson riding in a Bronco on the I-5 freeway heading north. He wrote to his then-girlfriend Paula Barbieri, "I'm sorry we're not going to have, our chance As I leave, you'll be in my thoughts". They are among those killed as protests have roiled American cities in the week since the death of George Floyd . Carruth, 44, was found. Simpson will regain celebrity status", "Most Black People Now Think O.J. Simpson Lyrics". Simpson in 1977[22] when she was 18 and working as a waitress at the Daisy (a Beverly Hills private club). Clark added that Fuhrman did not know whether Simpson had an alibi, if there were any witnesses to the murders, whose blood was on the glove, that the Bronco belonged to Simpson, or whether Kaelin had already searched the area where the glove was found. Bodziak admitted that he was not able to confirm that the shoeprint in the car definitely came from a Bruno Magli shoe, but dismissed Scheck's claim because none of the shoeprints at the crime scene were made by Fuhrman's shoes, making it unlikely he could have made a bloody shoeprint in the Bronco. [381] The interview was interpreted as being a form of implied confession because Simpson used first person language ("Obviously I must have [removed the glove]" [382]) in explaining how he committed the murders. Yet another was a man known as "Mr Indianapolis", a former star football player. [74] The driver also testified that he loaded four luggage bags into the car that night, one of them being a knapsack that Simpson would not let him touch, insisting he load it himself. Simpson and His Trial", "Nothing Can Stay Hidden Forever: The True Crime Legacy of, "OJ Simpson 20 years later: 5 memorable pop-culture references", "20 Things Saturday Night Live Tried To Sweep Under The Rug (And Failed)", "Did O.J. He emphasized that Fuhrman was proved to have repeatedly referred to black people as "niggers" and also to have boasted of beating young black men in his role as a police officer. The following days, preliminary results from DNA testing came back with matches to Simpson but the District Attorney delayed filing charges until all the results had come back. Because in the early morning hours of Sept. 15, 1980, he woke up, fumbled for the loaded gun he kept in his bedroom, and shot his wife, Martha, before killing himself. [301] The volume of DNA on that blood was significantly higher than the other blood evidence collected on June 13. [410], In 1996, Fred Goldman and Sharon Rufo, the parents of Ron Goldman, and Lou Brown, father of Nicole Brown filed a civil suit against Simpson for wrongful death. [93] Walter Payton, Vince Evans,[92] and others from around the country also pleaded with Simpson over radio to surrender. In the Bronco, police found "$8,000 in cash, a change of clothing, a loaded .357 Magnum, a United States passport, family pictures, and a disguise kit with a fake goatee and mustache". [173][174] In it, she opines that the statistic from Dershowitz that of the two million incidents of abuse per year, only 2,000 victims are actually murdered by their spouses as being misleading because Brown was already dead. Simpson", "Yes, Robert Kardashian Really Suspected O.J. Steve McNair: Killed by his his 20-year-old Mistress, Sahel Kazemi. [137], In October 1994, Judge Lance Ito started interviewing 304 prospective jurors, each of whom had to fill out a 75-page questionnaire. In 1979, the St. Louis Cardinals drafted a young Robert Rozier from the University of California. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Kalabrya, and his entire family during this. Simpson Jurors Reflect on the Trial in Oxygen's 'The Jury Speaks', "Judge allows new shoe photo in Simpson trial CNN", "Thanks to O.J., Bruno Maglis are really big shoes CNN", "Court: Simpson Still Liable For $33.5M Judgment News Story WMAQ | Chicago", "O.J. On March 11, 2018, Fox broadcast Simpson's previously unaired interview in a special titled O.J. [286] The defense alleged that the drop of blood on the back gate at the Bundy crime scene, which matched Simpson, and the blood found on a pair of socks in Simpson's bedroom, which matched Brown, were planted by the police. In an interview regarding Vincent Bugliosi's analysis on the case, Vannatter claimed that he was so infuriated at Cochran's claims about him that he felt a desire to strangle him in the courtroom. [274] However, Howard Coleman, president of Seattle-based forensic DNA laboratory GeneLex, criticized Scheck's cross-examination as "smoke and mirrors" and stated "Everything we get in the lab is contaminated to some degree. The police tracked calls placed by Simpson on his cell phone. In July 2019, his ex-wife, Sherra . The police agreed to delay Simpson's surrender until noon to allow him to be seen by a mental health specialist, as he was showing signs of suicidal depression he had updated his will, called his mother and children, and written three sealed letters: one to his children, one to his mother, and one to the public. [43] Brown telephoned Sojourn, a women's shelter, on June 8, 1994. [143][144][145][146][254] This, they argued, would allow bacteria to degrade all of the "real killer(s)" DNA and thus make the samples more susceptible to cross-contamination in the LAPD crime lab. They noted that several officers had already combed over the crime scene for almost two hours before Fuhrman arrived and none had noticed a second glove at the scene. [48] It was reported that among the skills of the character of "Bullfrog Burke" was night killings[49] and the "silent kill" technique of slashing the throat,[50] and that SEALs regularly wear knit "watch caps" like the one found at the scene. The prosecution presented exhibits showing the position next to the house number on the curb in which Simpson's Ford Bronco was found the next morning, implying that the limousine driver would surely have noticed the Bronco if it had been there when he arrived to pick Simpson up. Christopher Darden published In Contempt in 1998 about the trial. [189] He panicked and made the sounds that Kaelin heard when he realized that the security system would not let him enter through the rear entrance. [95][86] Shapiro arrived, and Simpson surrendered to authorities a few minutes later. The volume of DNA was so high that the defense conceded that it could not be explained by contamination in the lab, yet noted that it was unusual for that blood to have more DNA on it than the other samples collected at the crime scene, especially since it had been left exposed to the elements for several weeks and after the crime scene had supposedly been washed over. Her Testimony In The O.J. [317] Lt. Frank Spangler also testified that he was with Fuhrman for the duration of his time there and stated he would have seen Fuhrman purloin the glove if he had in fact done so. Former NFL star quarterback Steve McNair was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in a Nashville condominium Saturday - and authorities hinted he was murdered by a girlfriend who then turned the. Assisting Cochran were Carl E. Douglas and Shawn Holley. Trice died due to injuries suffered during a college football game against the University of Minnesota on October 6, 1923. [289] This demonstrated that he misread it and that the levels found in the evidence samples were consistent with those found in blood that was not preserved in a police reference vial. [64] While NBC continued coverage of Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets at Madison Square Garden, the game appeared in a small box in the corner while Tom Brokaw covered the chase. [23][24] They began dating although Simpson was already married. In Cochran's summation to the jury, he was unable to refute any of the prosecution's claims,[original research?] They concluded that Simpson probably was guilty but the prosecution failed to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. I have had a great life, great friends. Over the course of the trial, ten were dismissed for a wide variety of reasons. Darden produced a new pair of the same type of gloves, which fit Simpson when he tried them on. Fifteen alternates will be added in coming months ", "The O.J. J. Confidential | News | Dallas Observer", "How the OJ Simpson Case Helped Fight Domestic Violence", "Nicole Simpson, in Death, Lifting Domestic Violence to the Forefront as National Issue", "Covering Domestic Violence: How the O.J. The jury was absent but the exchange was televised. Following questioning by police detectives, Simpson was formally charged with the murders on June 17 after investigators found a blood-stained glove on his property. The latest Arizona headlines, breaking news, in-depth investigations, politics, and local community stories that matter to you. The keys were later found on Simpson when he was arrested for the murders of Brown and Ron Goldman. [146][147][148][149], The two lead prosecutors were Deputy District Attorneys Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden. Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter published Evidence Dismissed: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O.J. Fuhrman did not testify but Simpson did on his own behalf and lied several times. Simpson: The Interview (Video 1996)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_trial_of_O._J._Simpson&oldid=1141373617, Civil lawsuit filed by the Brown and Goldman families; Simpson was found responsible by a, Kathleen Kennedy-Powell (Preliminary Hearing). Authorities in South Carolina have confirmed that former NFL player Phillip Adams was the person who killed five people, including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren in South . Dershowitz said that he believed that Ito, along with others related to the case such as Clark, Fuhrman and Kaelin, was influenced to some degree by the media presence and related publicity. Simpson Trial", "Exercise Video Shows O.J. Former NFL player, wife shot to death by 16-year-old son, police say. Yet only after a judge rules hanging is in order but if a judge says hanging is the . Simpson's DNA found on blood drops next to the bloody footprints near the victims at the Bundy crime scene. I am truly heartbroken. "There is no doubt in my mind that McKay stopped O.J. After the recital, Simpson returned home to a voicemail from Barbieri ending their relationship. [422][423][424], Alternative theories of the murders have suggested they were related to the Los Angeles drug trade and the murders of Michael Nigg and Brett Cantor. Simpson' Shows Just How Complicated The Case Was", "Ito Bars Simpson Team's Attempt To Link Drug Dealers To Killings", "Simpson Prosecutor Incurs Ito's Wrath Over Tirade", "Simpson Judge Bars Use Of Drug-Killing Theory", "CourtTV.com Trials O.J. [224][225], Simpson hired a team of high-profile defense lawyers, initially led by Robert Shapiro, who was previously a civil lawyer known for settling, and then subsequently by Johnnie Cochran, who at that point was known for police brutality and civil rights cases. A porter at the airport testified that Simpson checked only three bags that night,[75] and the police determined that the missing luggage was the same knapsack the limousine driver had mentioned earlier. Boxers are another sport which results in High CTE cases. Is Innocent' is 'Hideous', "BBC News | Americas| New clues in OJ Simpson murder mystery", "O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality And wrote that the racial gap in polling is a manufactured product of selective reporting of facts by the media due to them treating the trial as a form of entertainment and not as a legal proceeding. Cochran also presented a piece of paper to the jury with the title "Vannatter's Big Lies", and claimed, without any evidence or proof, that Vannatter had returned to the crime scene with Simpson's blood to plant it there, despite Vannatter having previously testified that he had given it to Dennis Fung in order to avoid the exhibits from getting mixed up. Darnell Hunt published O.J. In response, Fred Goldman, who was himself Jewish, referred to Cochran himself as "the worst kind of racist ever" and a "sick man" for comparing Fuhrman to Hitler while associating himself with Farrakhan, who was widely considered a black supremacist and anti-Semite, while Robert Shapiro, also Jewish, expressed that he was particularly offended by Cochran comparing Fuhrman's claims to the Holocaust, claiming that no comparison would ever be possible. Martz also tested his own unpreserved blood and got the same results for EDTA levels as the evidence samples, which he said conclusively disproved the claim the evidence blood came from the reference vials. 54: Coping With Race Distinctions", "PROPOSITION 54: IMPACTS ON HEALTH, LAW ENFORCEMENT, EDUCATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIANS", "The Defeat of Prop 54 Against the Current", "African Americans are very concerned about what's happening in Ferguson. [226] The team included noted defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, Robert Kardashian, Harvard appeals lawyer Alan Dershowitz, his student Robert Blasier, and Dean of Santa Clara University School of Law Gerald Uelmen. trial, DNA evidence and the Innocence Project", "Prosecutors share lunch with victims' families", "Simpson Defense Witness Belittles Forensic Testing", "John Gerdes: DNA specialist; testified he's being paid $100", "DNA Witness Concedes a Lack of Expertise", "Prosecution Makes Bid to Recoup, Paints DNA Expert as a Hired Gun", "O.J. Police were called to the scene and found Goldman's body near Brown's. [186] He then drove over to the Ashford entrance and rang the intercom three times, getting no answer, starting at 10:40pm. And onlookers packed overpasses along the route of the trial Simpson did on his cell phone during trial. This but when the police arrived an hour later, Simpson and Al Cowlings had disappeared the O.J was. In Cochran 's summation to the scene and was released by police fraud higher the... 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