Simpson . There, he took off his blood stained clothes, put them in the knapsack (except his socks and the glove), put clean ones on, and left towards the limousine. 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". 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. ', "Time Responds to Criticism Over Simpson Cover", "Time Made O.J. A safety and special teams player from South Carolina State, he joined the 49ers in 2010 as a seventh-round draft pick. 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. Among the reporters who covered the trial daily from the courtroom, and a media-area that was dubbed "Camp O. Covering Phoenix, Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, Gilbert, the valley . After the trial, Goldman's father filed a civil suit against Simpson. A white athlete from Washington allegedly almost killed his Black girlfriend in a domestic violence incident on Friday and even expressed surprise that she made it out alive, according to. They concluded that Simpson probably was guilty but the prosecution failed to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. [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: The Key Players in His Murder Trial", "O.J. [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. Limo driver Park said the media offered him $100,000 but refused, as he would be removed as a witness. Fuhrman, facing a possible prosecution for perjury, was instructed by his attorney to invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination to two consecutive questions he was asked. Confess to Murder | Fox News", "15-Year-Old Girl Kalana Johnson Missing for over a Week After Traveling to Atlanta", "OJ Simpson Trial Juror Says Not Guilty Verdict was "Payback" for Rodney King", "O.J. Her husband died hours later at a Houston hospital. 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. 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. Simpson Trial News: The Victims", "Nicole Simpson was dominated by her husband since she was a teenager", "The Simpson Case: The Victim; Nicole Brown Simpson: Slain At the Dawn of a Better Life", "Simpson Case Changed How America Sees Spousal Abuse", "Review Of Records Shows Simpson Abused Wife", "Disorder in the Court: The Abuse: In Nicole Brown Simpson's Words", "Judge Allows Evidence of Domestic Violence in O.J. [185] Allan Park testified on March 28 that he arrived at Simpson's home at 10:25 pm on the night of the murders and stopped at the Rockingham entrance: Simpson's Bronco was not there. Most of the public, including Simpson's friend Al Michaels,[95] interpreted his actions as an admission of guilt yet thousands of people encouraged him to flee prosecution and were sympathetic to his feelings of guilt. The pair were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on the night of June 12, 1994. [403][404] In May 2008, Mike Gilbert released his book How I Helped O.J. [47], A few months before the murders, Simpson completed a film pilot for Frogmen, an adventure series similar to The A-Team. As both men wept, Simpson told McKay, "OK, Coach, I wont do anything stupid. 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. [105] The case was a seminal event in the history of reality television. 0:00. [60] The walkway leading to the stairs was covered in blood, but the soles of Brown's feet were clean; based on this evidence, investigators concluded that she was the first person to be killed and the intended target. In Cochran's summation to the jury, he was unable to refute any of the prosecution's claims,[original research?] I promise" off the air. [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. [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. A colleague hooked a tape recorder up to Lange's phone and captured a conversation between Lange and Simpson in which Lange repeatedly pleaded with Simpson to "throw the gun out [of] the window" for the sake of his mother and children. dailygossip. Simpson's Alibi", "Proving the Case: The Science of DNA: DNA Evidence in the O.J. [citation needed], On June 17, detectives recommended that Simpson be charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstance of multiple killings after the final DNA results came back. The Man Looked. The LAPD then notified Shapiro that Simpson would be arrested at Kardashian's home. [161], However, the prosecution dropped the domestic violence portion of their case on June 20, 1995. Trial", "Gary Younge: OJ Simpson and America, ten years after the trial", "Jury Clears Simpson in Double Murder; Spellbound Nation Divides on Verdict", "Simpson Acquitted, Freed, Vows to Hunt Down Killers", "O.J. I have had a great life, great friends. During cross-examination Bailey suggested the murderer deliberately wore shoes that were the wrong size, which Bodziak dismissed as "ridiculous". At his second arraignment on July 22, when asked how he pleaded to the murders, Simpson firmly stated: "Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty. [355][373][374] Simpson said he felt vindicated[375] by the Rampart Scandal which proved that fraud was happening in the C.R.A.S.H anti-gang unit. He had received both blood reference vials from the victims earlier that day from the coroner and booked them immediately into evidence. [125] According to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, the acquittal was "the most dramatic courtroom verdict in the history of Western civilization". [309] The socks were found by Fuhrman, but the defense suggested Vannatter planted the blood. He also admitted the defense played the "race card", "from the bottom of the deck". Simpson's 'lost confession': 'Everything was covered in blood', "O.J. 's Ex-Agent Makes A Big Claim About The Gloves", "The O.J. [86][89][90], At 5 pm, Kardashian and one of his defense lawyers read Simpson's public letter. [69], The prosecution planned to present 62 separate incidents of domestic violence, including three previously unknown incidents Brown had documented in several letters she had written and placed in a bank safety deposit box. Marcia Clark published Without a Doubt in 1998 about the case. Henry Lee published Blood Evidence: How DNA Is Revolutionizing The Way We Solve Crimes in 2003 and wrote that both of the defense's forensic DNA experts, Lee and Edward Blake, had rejected Scheck's contamination claim. [335], After the trial, Cochran revealed that Bailey had goaded Darden into asking Simpson to try on the gloves[336] and that Shapiro had told Simpson in advance how to give the appearance that they did not fit. [80] A broken glass, a note with a telephone number on it, and bedsheets with blood on them were all recovered from Simpson's room at the O'Hare Plaza Hotel. A jailhouse guard, Jeff Stuart, testified to Judge Ito that at one point Simpson yelled to Grier that he "didn't mean to do it", after which Grier had urged Simpson to come clean. There is a well documented history of football players suffering from CTE taking similar action. Simpson: American Crime Story", "What's Worth Watching: 'The Real Story' about O.J., 'Fuller House' and more for Friday, Feb. 26 and Saturday, Feb. 27", "Two Astonishing Views of O.J. Simpson: Week-by-week: Week 4", "CourtTV.com Trials O.J. 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 . Simpson", "O.J. [357][358][359] A historic drop in diversity in the University of California followed which led to a similar lack of diversity seen in the state's White-collar job market, particularly the High tech area of Silicon Valley. [2] Though prosecutors argued that Simpson was implicated by a significant amount of forensic evidence, Simpson was ultimately acquitted of both counts of murder on October 3 of the same year. Lange noticed that Simpson had a cut on a finger on his left hand that was consistent with where the killer was bleeding from, and asked Simpson how he got the cut. Simpson the night of the killings had a quieter life in Paso after the trial", "Testimony of limo driver Allan Park in the O.J. [275], The defense initially only claimed that three exhibits were planted by the police[276] but eventually argued that virtually all of the blood evidence against Simpson was planted in a police conspiracy. Dr. Robert Lesslie is seen in Rock Hill in March 2009. verdict: interviews: Peter arenella, "Judge Fujisaki was able to keep trial in control", "Hungry for a Change of Scene, NBC's Brokaw Bolts 'Camp O.J. [412] Presiding Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki did not allow the trial to be televised, did not sequester the jury, and prohibited the defense from alleging racism by the LAPD and from condemning the crime lab. Simpson", "Yes, Robert Kardashian Really Suspected O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions News Rituals in the Construction of Reality; pp. Simpson Trial", "Why You Might Not Want to Believe Michael Baden on Jeffrey Epstein's Death", "Jack Walraven's Simpson Trial Transcripts August 4, 1995", "Column: Barry Scheck on the O.J. Nicole Brown met O.J. Park conceded that he did not notice any cuts on Simpson's left hand but added "I shook his right hand, not his left". [187] At approximately 10:50 pm he saw a "tall African American shadowy figure resembling Simpson" approach the front door before aborting towards the southern walkway that leads to Kaelin's bungalow. Simpson Minimum Maintenance: Fitness for Men, which demonstrated that Simpson was anything but frail. Authorities say on April 7, Adams went to the home of Dr. Robert Lesslie and shot him, his wife and two of their grandchildren, aged 9 and 5. In the days since, the Seattle Seahawks have dropped Wheeler from the . [93][90] At 5:51pm, Simpson reportedly called 9-1-1; the call was traced to the Santa Ana Freeway, near Lake Forest. 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. Simpson Trial: Where Are They Now? In a festival-like atmosphere, many had signs urging Simpson to flee. [312][313] Jeffrey Toobin published an article in The New Yorker months before the trial began, which cited a source in Simpson's defense team that they intended to accuse Fuhrman of planting the glove with the motive being racism. [415] Results from a polygraph test that Simpson denied taking showed "extreme deception" when he denied committing the murders. 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. Detectives determined that Goldman came to Nicole's house during her killing and that the killer killed him to silence Goldman and remove any witnesses. The detectives buzzed the intercom at Simpson's estate for over 30 minutes but received no response. Following his attorney's instruction, Fuhrman replied, "I choose to assert my Fifth Amendment privilege". 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 Trial", "Exercise Video Shows O.J. The jury was absent but the exchange was televised. With no witnesses to the crime, the prosecution was dependent on DNA as the only physical evidence linking Simpson to the crime. [271][272][262][273], Barry Scheck's eight-day cross-examination of Dennis Fung was lauded in the media. Simpson trial", "Famous Court Cases: People Vs. OJ Simpson Case", "Dr. Robert Huizenga: Testimony in the O.J. [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. Posted Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 1:52 pm CT. HOUSTON, TX Antonio Armstrong and his wife Dawn were gunned down in their two-story home early on the morning of Friday, July 29. Talk of Race Relations? [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. [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. Afterwards, the prosecution said that Simpson walked to his Bronco and drove home, where he parked it and walked into his house. [290] Dr. Rieders then claimed it was a "typo"[291][292] but the prosecution produced a direct copy from the EPA confirming the normal amounts of EDTA found in unpreserved blood. The jury dismissed Shipp's claims after defense attorney Carl E. Douglas accused him of being an alcoholic who was testifying against Simpson because he wanted to promote his acting career. Contents 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. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It | William C. Dear", "Rose McGowan Tells All in New Memoir 'Brave': 14 Shocking Allegations", "Simpson's Attempt to Bar Evidence is Turned Down", "Goldman Friend is Slain Resisting Robbery", "Families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman enraged by Discovery documentary; O.J. Cochran responded to Fuhrman's pleading the Fifth by accusing the other officers of being involved in a "cover-up" to protect Fuhrman and asked Judge Ito to suppress all of the evidence that Fuhrman found. [350] In 2016, 20 years after the verdict, polling showed the gap had narrowed with a majority of both now believing he was guilty: 83% of white Americans and 57% of black Americans. Johnnie Cochran published Journey to Justice in 1996 about the trial and denied he played the "race card" and maintains the LAPD tried to frame Simpson. Simpson confess maybe", "How Did Faye Resnick Get Famous? Lange, who had interviewed Simpson about the murders on June 13, realized that he had Simpson's cell phone number and called him repeatedly. [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. [171] Walker's colleagues were appalled by her decision to defend Simpson and accused her of betraying her advocacy for a $250,000 retainer. Daniel M. Petrocelli published Triumph of Justice: The final judgement of the Simpson Saga in 1998 and compares the criminal and civil trials. [citation needed]. Lange testified that 14 other officers were there when Fuhrman arrived and all said there was only one glove at the crime scene. [416], The jury found Simpson liable for the murders and awarded the victims' families $33.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Simpson Was Guilty", "What OJ Simpson's Relationship with Robert Kardashian Was Really Like", "Videos Of Robert Kardashian Talking About The O.J. Simpson Trial Wasn't The Only Thing That Put Her On The Map", "Faye Resnick Videos Addressing The Drug Cartel Theory On 'The People V. O.J. He attributes the acquittal to poor stewardship by a "starstruck" Judge Ito and a "dysfunctional and uneducated" jury. Goldman then came upon the scene to return some eyeglasses and was murdered as well in order to silence him and remove any witnesses. For the 200708 robbery case involving Simpson, see, Selected key locations of the Bronco chase, sfn error: no target: CITEREFBaileyRabe2008 (, O.J. Published Dec 01, 2015 Last . 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. 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. [190] He then discarded the glove, came back and went through the front door. We have no mercy, we jail every single person linked to the mRNA technology and Lipid-nano particle (LNP) technology and gene injection vaccine, every one of them. Simpson's then girlfriend, Paula Barbieri, wanted to attend the recital with Simpson but he did not invite her. [237], Dr. Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist, testified that the murders[238] happened closer to 11:00pm, which is when Simpson has an alibi[239][240] and stated that Brown was still conscious, standing, and took a step after her throat was cut[241] and that Goldman was standing and fighting his assailant for ten minutes with a lacerated jugular vein. [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. [63][253][258] Marcia Clark called Scheck and Neufeld's claims a "smoke-screen". But then what happened was the people who liked soap operas got addicted to the Simpson trial. [448], R&B group H-Town dedicated their album Ladies Edition, Woman's World (1997) to Brown, to help victims of domestic violence.[449]. The infamous glove also appears on the single's cover. [29][30][31] Brown signed a prenuptial agreement and was prohibited from working while married. As a result, all Los Angeles police officers were put on 12-hour shifts. Simpson's Defense", "Former Manager Of Chicago Hotel Recalls Bloody Bedsheets, A Rude Simpson With", "Simpson Dreamed of Killing, Witness Says: Courts: Ex-officer says he is a longtime friend of the defendant. The three sealed letters Simpson had written were left behind. 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. [354] Analysis of the "racial gap" in polling shows that it did not cross the political spectrum. This supported the prosecution's theory that the assailant killed Brown first, then Goldman, and afterwards returned to Brown to cut her throat. Around midnight, as they reached the area where the Akita had been found, the dog stopped outside Brown's home and the couple saw Brown's body lying outside the house. 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. Simpson's DNA found on a trail of blood drops leading away from the victims, towards and on the back gate at Bundy. Ito ruled that the evidence was inadmissible as being protected because of clergy-penitent privilege. [159] Although a home videotape taken immediately after the dance recital showed a cheerful Simpson being given a kiss by Brown's sister,[160] Kato Kaelin corroborated Brown's sister claim that Simpson was "upset" with Brown because of the black dress she wore, which he said was "tight". Simpson Keystone Criminal Defense", "F.B.I. Kaelin let the limousine in, and Simpson finally came out through the front door a few minutes later, claiming he had overslept. [175][176] The relevant statistic was "of the murdered spouses who were also victims of abuse, what percentage of them were murdered by their current or ex-husband?" Expert Says", "Expert: Shoe Prints Found At Crime Scene Were Rare from Rare Brand", "Simpson Jury Hears Details on Shoe Prints", "FBI: O.J. Simpson's Lawyer, Robert Sharpiro, Tells Barbara Walters About The One Mistake That Could've Convicted His Client", "Video of Robert Shapiro Talking About Johnnie Cochran Reveals a Lot About the Real 'American Crime Story', "Robert Kardashian: Keeping up with the man who stood by O.J. Afterwards, Brown and her family went to eat at Mezzaluna restaurant; they did not invite Simpson to join them. ', "Meet the O.J. [152] The volume of DNA evidence in this case was unique and the prosecution believed they could reconstruct how the crime was committed with enough accuracy to resemble an eyewitness account. Garcetti didn't have to try it Downtown, many insist", https://nypost.com/2016/04/10/former-da-gil-garcetti-i-never-wanted-marcia-clark-on-oj-trial/, "Trying the O.J. The latest Arizona headlines, breaking news, in-depth investigations, politics, and local community stories that matter to you. Since all of the samples the consulting labs received were testable, while Scheck and Neufeld's theory predicted that they should have been inconclusive after being "100% degraded", the claim that all the DNA was lost to bacterial degradation was not credible. Simpson's white Bronco, and the chase was on", "June 17, 1994: O.J. Squatting, Lunging, Joking", "Jack Walraven's Simpson Trial Transcripts August 10, 1995", "Pathologist in Simpson Trial Says Victims Struggled Long and Hard", "Pathologist for Defense Rebuts Work by Coroner: Simpson trial: Baden questions procedures and findings about timing and method of murders", "Contentious Cross-Examination for Simpson Pathologist", "Victims Put Up Long Fight, A Witness for Simpson Says", "Tuesday's witnesses at O.J. [380], In November 2006, ReganBooks announced a book ghostwritten by Pablo Fenjves based on interviews with Simpson titled If I Did It, an account which the publisher said was a hypothetical confession. Simpson Pop-Up Museum Hits L.A.'s Chinatown", "Selena Murder Trial: Interview With Maria Celeste Arrars", Famous American Trials: The O.J. Boxers are another sport which results in High CTE cases. A 2021 article in Metal Hammer described the song as "jaw-droppingly offensive". He noted the house was dark and nobody appeared to be home as he smoked a cigarette and made several calls to his boss to get Simpson's home phone number. [69] The flight was due to leave at 11:45pm, and a limousine arrived early at Simpson's Rockingham estate to pick him up at around 10:25pm. [70][71] The limousine driver drove around the estate to make sure he could navigate the area with the stretch limousine properly and to see which driveway would have the best access for the limousine. [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. I really don't know about taking that thing". Simpson's, Says FBI Expert Witness", "SUSAN BROCKBANK, police criminalist: Measured evidence glove", "Hairs Resembling Simpson's Are Identified by an Expert", "Hair and Fiber Used to Tie Simpson to Scene of Killings", "Prosecutor Portrays Simpson as Killer in a Dark Sweat Suit", "Prosecutors Contend Hair Evidence Leads to Simpson", "Judge Rebukes O.J. Pictures of Brown's face from that night were then shown to the jury to confirm his testimony. One of the waiters at the restaurant was Ron Goldman, who had become close friends with Brown in recent weeks,[52] but was not assigned to the Brown family's table. 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. Fibers that were only used in the 1993-1994 model year. Paul Sakuma/AP/Shutterstock. [229], The defense team's reasonable doubt theory was summarized as "compromised, contaminated, corrupted" in opening statements. At 1:50pm, Commander Dave Gascon, LAPD's chief spokesman, publicly declared Simpson a fugitive; the police issued an all-points bulletin for him and an arrest warrant for Cowlings. 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 was represented by a high-profile defense team, referred to as the "Dream Team", which was initially led by Robert Shapiro[12][13] and subsequently directed by Johnnie Cochran. 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. He Evoked The Fifth Amendment In Court", "Lawyers Clash Over F. Lee Bailey's 'Marine to Marine' Comment", "Bailey's Questioning Of Fuhrman Ends Minus Fireworks", "Some who helped shape the O.J. [230][158] They argued that the DNA evidence against Simpson was "compromised" by the mishandling of criminalists Dennis Fung and Andrea Mazzola during the collection phase of evidence gathering, and that 100% of the "real killer(s)" DNA had vanished from the evidence samples. Yet another was a man known as "Mr Indianapolis", a former star football player. Hair consistent with Goldman was found on Brown and clothing fibers consistent with Brown was found on Goldman. [83] The police contacted Simpson at his home on June 13 and took him to Parker Center for questioning. His remaining assets were seized and auctioned off with most being purchased by critics of the verdict of the criminal trial to help the plaintiffs recoup the costs of litigation. from killing himself in the back of that Bronco", Arbogast said. He also shot and killed two air conditioning. So much work stopped that the verdict cost an estimated $480million in lost productivity. 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. Despite this, the prosecution had witnesses for 44 separate incidents they planned to present to the jury. [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. 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. He replied that he believed Simpson was guilty and the documentary's intention was not to prove Rogers committed the crimes. Fung testified he could not see blood on the socks he collected from Simpson's bedroom[144] but the prosecution later demonstrated that those blood stains are only visible underneath a microscope. Killed were Lesslie, 70, his wife Barbara Lesslie, 69, two of their grandchildren, 9-year-old Adah Lesslie and 5-year-old Noah Lesslie, and James Lewis, 38, an air conditioning technician. Evidence is Sealed with a Kiss", "Juror Explains Why She Denied Being Victim", "Marcia Clark Explains Domestic Violence Bias in OJ Simpson Trial", "Expert on Battered Women Criticized for Backing Simpson Defense", "Court.com Trials O.J. [340], African American LAPD Police Chief Willie Williams indicated that he had no plans to reopen the investigation, saying of the acquittals, "It doesn't mean there's another murderer". 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