Actually, the gloves did fit...

[garybeck]

looks like they fit to me....

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Yup, I thought the same thing

It was the weird way he was holding his hands and all the stupid people on the jury.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. One of the all time dumb juries. I recall one of them when asked about the dna evidence replied

“Everybody’s got blood!”

[Johonny]

6. This is pre CSI era, though

Today juries expect almost magical amounts of data like this. Back then it was easier to snow the jury on DNA evidence.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. And snow they did!

[ChoppinBroccoli]

9. There Is No Doubt In My Mind That The Jury Went Into The Trial With The Verdict Already Decided........

.........but that doesn't excuse the fact that the Prosecutors did a piss-poor job proving their case. I believe to my very core that OJ was guilty, but also that the jury got the verdict RIGHT. The Prosecutor didn't prove her case. And it's her own damn fault. Procedural/tactical mistake after mistake.

I heard in a seminar years ago that the Prosecutor's office tried this case to a mock jury 3 different times and lost all 3 times. And the main reason why (among many reasons) was that the juries ALL said they didn't believe her timeline. Yet she went into the trial and insisted on going forward with that exact same timeline. Making him try on the gloves was another huge mistake. The jury didn't need to see him try on those gloves. It was unnecessary, and it backfired.

The other big blunders she made were allowing him to change the venue of the trial to get a more favorable jury, and NOT asking for the death penalty. The reason for asking for the death penalty is tactical. He was a major celebrity. There's no way in hell that any jury would ever sentence him to death. But once you ask for the death penalty, you are required to seat a "death penalty qualified" jury. That means every juror seated has to state that if convicted, they would be willing to sentence the defendant to death. That gives you a much more prosecution-slanted jury.

That's why I tell people to this day, OJ is guilty, but the jury actually got the verdict right.

[PCIntern]

13. Exactly correct in my opinion

The most blu thing I would add, and this pure conjecture, is that I always thought his elder son was somehow involved. He was named in fact as a suspect, but he was not prosecuted and to my recollection was never or almost never at the trial.

No one ever mentioned him again.

[LiberalFighter]

12. I missed that.

[CanonRay]

29. One of the all time idiot judges too.

[mobeau69]

2. It's tough putting snow boots on a kid that's uncooperative. Same deal.

[niyad]

3. and don't forget that the dried blood shrank the glove.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Indeed. I found it incredibly disturbing the way he mugged to the jury wearing the gloves that were

worn by his wife’s killer.

[niyad]

22. ex-wife.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. I stand corrected! 😬

[Butterflylady]

15. I can testify to that.

Because everyone that owns real leather when it comes wet shrinks. Owned enough of leather gloves to know how to take care around anything wet.

[mopinko]

17. u just have to wear them til they dry.

they’ll fit better after.

[NanaCat]

23. One of the secrets for why shoes fit mannequins so well

In stores is that we used to mist them with water and let them 'mold' to the mannequin for a couple of days before displaying them. I used to do the same thing with new shoes--spray a fine mist over them, and wear them until they dried.

I haven't worn those kind of shoes in ages, though. Sneakers or sandals are all I wear now, LOL.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

5. Anyone Who Played Baseball Knows..........

.............that when your batting gloves get wet, they harden and SHRINK. That's what leather does. I said the day this happened that the gloves wouldn't fit.

That's what water does. It shrinks things. SIGNIFICANT SHRINKAGE!!!

[H2O Man]

11. Base ball or

skinny dipping.

[Brother Buzz]

14. DUzy worthy

[H2O Man]

10. It was a terrible

mistake by Chris Darden, one he later said just popped into his head. He had not spoken to Ms. Clark about making such a request. An attorney should not ask a question that she/he does not already know the answer to.

[Cha]

28. Exactly.. even I know that from Tv Law.

[H2O Man]

30. I'm not sure

that jury would have convicted him, even if the murders were filmed.

[captain queeg]

16. Maybe if they get tfg to testify he'll come up with something equally assinine

I hope he testifies. You know he wants to, but his lawyers aren’t that stupid to let him.

[crud]

18. the latex gloves were too small

and prevented him from pulling them all the way on.
The latex gloves didn't pull all the way on between his fingers.
my 2 cents

[Silent Type]

19. Exactly what I thought back then, the latex gloves made it more difficult.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

20. Having worked with leather...

Leather shrinks when it has gotten wet and then dried. Leather is a skin. So of course, it shrinks.

[keep_left]

21. I remember that Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins), the political cartoonist...

...of This Modern World fame, got a hell of a lot of mileage from the OJ Simpson trial and its assorted characters. (Perkins was especially savage in his satirical depictions of Johnnie Cochran and Mark Fuhrman). I still recall Cochran's quip from one of the cartoons: "if the glove's too tight...then this case BITES!".

[niyad]

24. I was just looking ar the wiki page on Nicole Brown Simpson, and I

wanted to scream. According to the lead, she was stabbed to death, even though further in, describing the horrifying injuries, she was nearly decapitated. I will never forget how the fucking, football hero-worshiping cops failed her. She called to tell them her ex-had violated the restraining order, they asked for his autograph.

[mchill]

26. Johnnie Cochran--from someone

Who worked directly for him, felt OJ was innocent (for the record, I don’t). As a white person, I have no place in second guessing how a 11 out of 12 Black jury saw life living in La County while black. Add celebrity into the mix. That alone is a steep hill to climb.

[kimbutgar]

27. He was so guilty but his lawyers were able to prove the benefit of doubt.