One of the most dramatic courtroom scenes that I can recall was O.J. trying to put on a glove that was clearly too small. 20 years ago, that would have been enough for an aquittal. Do we believe in DNA and the L.A. police that strongly that we can just ignore the glove? It seems to me that no-one in history has ever been believed by so many to be guilty despite a jury aquittal.
That “trying on the glove” event was just about the stupidest mistake made by the prosecutor in the entire trial. Without knowing what’ll happen, she opted to allow O.J. to try on the glove as he saw fit (that is, he put the glove on himself, rather than someone else putting the glove on him), while wearing another protective glove that thickened his hand, in front of the jury. Dumb, Madam Prosecutor, very dumb.
HBO had an interesting special a while back called “Juror Number Five”, which consisted almost entirely of Juror #5 from the civil trial talking about her experiences. See if you can track it down.
Does OJ have a web site? I wonder what it is. Probably something like: http: slash slash OJ.com
That scene looked a lot like anyone putting on a tight fitting riding glove, except you don’t want the glove to go on.
I didn’t follow the OJ trial closely, and I understand how odd things can look to the non-professional, but that stunt with the glove struck me as extremely stupid. I know that I can make it look difficult to put on a glove that I don’t want to. And OJ had plenty of incentive to make it not fit. On top of which, as pointed out, he had a rubber glove on underneath it. That would make it hard to put on if I WANTED to! From all accounts, Marcia Clark wanted the jury to see OJ with the guilty gloves on – purely a dramatic scene. She must not have considered how badly that could backfire.
I just finished reading the account written by the two policemen in charge, and they certainly had no doubt about OJ’s guilt. Their description of the actions make it hard to believe it was a set-up.
I just loved :rolleyes: the expression on his face as he looked at the jury. It kinda made me laugh because it was almost like he was astonished that he’d made it look like it was sooooo hard to put on. I’m no trial lawyer, but Ms. Clark and Mr. Darden f***ed that up bad!
ACtually, I read that Clark wanted to wait until they got the replica gloves in, but Darden insisted on going with the original, because of the timing in the testimony, or something, and it just fucked up royally.
Handy, I was told during the trial that it’s slash slash slash slash backslash backslash backslash backslash escape.
One can wear a glove which is a size too small and it might have been interesting if they had a neutral party put the gloves on him.
Currently, he’s the richest bankrupt guy around, having disposed of his millions into family and friends hands prior to the civil suite. He can’t pay the damages levied against him by Goldmans folks, but he’s been shopping in Florida for million dollar homes.
He tried to settle in Vero Beach, right down the road from an exclusive place called ‘Johns Island,’ where super rich live and the general public plus the rich were so against it that the seller took the house off of the market. After OJ shuffled off to West Palm Beach to be among other super rich, or try to, the house was placed on the market again.
How does one buy a million dollar pad when one has no money?
Besides the rubber glove, you could clearly see that he was keeping his fingers spread out while trying on the glove. You couldn’t even get a baseball glove on like that.
And the reason why most people think he’s guilty is because he turned two people into Pez dispensers and left a trail of blood. Allegedly. :rolleyes:
Do I believe in DNA strongly enough that I can ignore a guy pretending to struggle to put on a glove that he doesn’t want to put on?
The answer: a resounding YES
Hey! If he’d been convicted and sent to prison his website would have be called:
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-LabRat