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The defense claimed that the glove found at Brown's condo did not fit Simpson's hand. In response, prosecutors theorized that Simpson had not been taking anti-inflammatory medications for his arthritis , which would make his hand swell if he tried to put on the glove during the trial.
June 15, 1995 - In court, Simpson tries on leather gloves connected to the case, and says they do not fit. July 6, 1995-The prosecution rests. September 27, ...
Christopher Darden said in Netflix's "American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson" that when he dies, he should be buried "with a pair of Isotoner gloves,” after his botched glove demonstration during the ...
'If it doesn't fit, you must acquit,' O.J. Simpson's lawyer Johnnie Cochran quipped on June 15th, 1995. Twenty years ago today, the infamous bloody glove incident took place and was forever ...
A total of ten DNA samples were collected from the glove found on Simpson's property with matches to Simpson, Brown, and Goldman. The victims blood on that glove wasn't incriminating but Simpson's blood on that glove was so the defense only disputed that sample. Gerdes claimed it was also due to cross-contamination from the reference vial.
Cochran in 2001. Cochran joined the Simpson defense team and later took over as its chair, during the trial. In his closing arguments, Cochran famously uttered the phrase, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," alluding to the fact that the glove the prosecutors alleged Simpson wore during the murder did not fit Simpson's hand.
Prosecutors committed a memorable blunder when they directed Simpson to try on a pair of blood-stained gloves found at the murder scene, confident they would fit perfectly and show he was the killer.
In 2006, one year after Cochran died, in an interview with Judith Regan for If I Did It, Simpson conceded that he "must have" dropped one glove at the crime scene because that was where the police found it, directly contradicting Cochran and Bailey's claims that a different killer had left two gloves at the crime scene and Fuhrman had planted ...