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O. J. Simpson: The Trial Of The Century
The Trial of the Century Famous football star and actor O.J Simpson was charged and arrested to stand trial after his ex-wife and her friend Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman were found murdered outside Nicole’s apartment. MAny would say it was a clean cut case. But with a systemic rasicism problem with the L.A.P.D. Many believed the beloved football star with over 3,000 many loved may or may not have been guilty. The gloves found at the scene have been the most controversial part of the trial. Because they did not fit him supposedly. Yet if someone did not want them to fit they will not fit. Not to mention that those gloves had to be heated and frozen for forensic testing. So they were not the same size they were when they were found. Nicole’s credit card history also shows she bought them for O.J. in 1991. So he was the owner of the gloves and there are pictures of him wearing them.
One other thing that troubled
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The blood found outside the house was O.J,’s most likely from his hand wound. Once investigators were able to get inside of his Bronco the next day they found the blood inside was a mixture of Ron and Nicole’s blood. The missing glove was also found at his house along with a bloody sock containing Nicole’s blood. The forensic evidence puts O.J. at the scene and shows that he was the murderer. O.J. Simpson had rage issues and had previous incidents with the police for beating Nicole. O.J. used to also stalk her after they were divorced. O.J, was clearly jealous of not having Nicole and believed that if he couldn’t have her nobody could and his only option was murder. All of the evidence points directly to him. How is there all of this evidence and investigators and detectives and it only points to one person, and there is no other suspect. He has motive, records, the aggression to prove it. Nobody else could’ve been capable of doing what he did except for

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