OJ Simpson and the Evidence That Acquited Him


             On June 17, 1994 when police charged Orenthal James Simpson, Brown's ex-husband, and after leading police on a 60 mile low speed chase down the highways of southern Los Angeles in his friend Al Cowling's white Bronco, was arrested and jailed with out bail, the story became even more complicated. This was when the police knew this would not be just any murder case. This was OJ Simpson, the famous football player, this would be complicated. Their only hope of conviction was the evidence that would place him as the murderer.
             Their first set of evidence, and possibly the best part of attaching the three to each other that night, was the blood. There were approximately 22 submissions of blood evidence found at the Bundy Condo (murder scene), Rockingham (Simpson's residence), and in the Bronco (Simpson's vehicle). All of which were a match to either Brown, Goldman, Simpson, or a mixture of the three. All figures of the blood samples were found in the testimonies of Dr. Robin Cotton, laboratory director at Cellmark Diagnostics Inc. and Gary Sims, senior criminalist with the California Department of Justice DNA laboratory (Toobin).
             At the Bundy crime scene police found the bodies, Brown's, amassed in a pool of blood bigger than her body, and Goldman's, his shirt pulled over his head as if to keep him from helping Brown. Of the nine blood samples found on the property six were a match to Simpson. Many found near the victims and others found on the walk, leading out to where the killer's car would have been parked. The matches automatically place Simpson at the scene that day. Although it does not place him as the murderer. Also found at the Bundy Condominium was a sample of nail scrapings that when tested matched a set of cuttings from Brown's hands. This leads to believe that Brown was able to try to pull herself away from the murderer, obviously much more powerful than her. Another, more accusational, blood sample was on...

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