OJ Simpson Documentaries Based On Civil Trial Deposition Tapes (1 Viewer)

[Bob Magaw]

LMN (253 DirecTV, related to Lifetime channel?) Wed 9/30

A&E (265 DirecTV) Thurs 10/1

Check local listings and times (around 6 PM in the evening in LA, in some cases, shown multiple times). I'm actually not sure these are two different documentaries, but think so based on descriptions.

Reminded of the Bruno Magli shoes (bloody prints of that kind in his size left at scene of crime IDed by FBI forensics expert). Only like 250 pairs of that type/style were sold in his size in the US, he denied ever having them, prosecution in criminal trial could never provide smoking gun-type proof he owned them. Before or during the civil trial, 20-30 photos surfaced in which he was clearly wearing Bruno Magli shoes. His story was he was in the picture, but they were not his shoes. Okey dokey, pokey.

With probably close to 250-300 million US population at that time, maybe something like a literal 1 in a million shot somebody else randomly was wearing a pair at the scene of the crime (maybe Fuhrman planted the prints, as well as the glove, blood evidence at the scene, in the Bronco and his home, etc.)? Which reminds me of another odds scenario. The defense noted, actually not that many spousal beatings lead to murders. The prosecution turned it around, and noted of those spouses that are later murdered after earlier spousal abuse charges, a large percentage were by the spouse. One of the jurors made it a point in interviews to state specifically she ignored all spousal abuse evidence, which would have been directly in violation of Judge Ito's jury instructions.

The shoes were one of the key pieces of evidence Vincent Bugliosi identified in the criminal trial post-mortem, Outrage. He was the former lead DA in LA that successfully prosecuted the Manson trial, one of the biggest in city/county history prior to Simpson. Other prosecution mistakes he noted, in his opinion, that led to the verdict:

1) Switching the venue from Santa Monica.

2) Not pushing to admit the "suicide letter" and Bronco footage chase - by themselves not conclusive, but helped establish a mosaic and pattern.

3) He claimed to work through countless drafts of his final summation so he was as prepared as possible, it looked to him like they (Darden and Clark) were up all night, fumbling and winging it, he basically thought they were incompetent (though it sounds like the trial was already lost by this point due to the accumulation of prior errors?).

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Timely

 

[Bob Magaw]

The tapes were called "forgotten", no idea what took so long?

Maybe potential interest was deemed prohibitively negligible? Even going forward, this isn't exactly 60 minutes.

Very possible a few Yanamano Rain Forest Indians and myself are the only remaining handful of people in the Western hemisphere still interested in the case.

 

[dkp993]

Wife and I watch the 20/20 pre show tonight and it brought back all that anger. Really mind blowing stuff

 

[Bob Magaw]

I think this is the 20th anniversary of the trial?

We also saw that, they mentioned recent polls, unlike before, show a majority of African American believe O.J. was the murderer.

I thought the most compelling evidence was the shoes. The look on his face when he was shown the photo in which he is wearing the Bruno Magli shoes he claimed he would never wear is classic and priceless.

How fitting that losing the civil trial put pressure on him financially that may have prompted the armed robbery/kidnapping escapade that landed him in prison for up to 30 years (basically a life sentence for him if max) where he belonged all along.

Like the lawyer (Petrocelli?) noted, justice was delayed but not denied.

You could see the look on Kardashian's face when the verdict was read, it was like he was in total shock and disbelief, his ex said on his death bed, he refused to take a call from O.J. I'm not superstitious, but Johnny Cochran also died of cancer.

Life is so full of chance encounters. O.J. met Nicole Brown when she was a waitress at a restaurant. Probably she is still alive if he went a McDonalds instead? If glasses don't get left behind, Ron Goldman is probably still alive.

 

[Underachievers]

OJ murdered the wrong Goldman. Fred Goldman is a slimeball.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

 

Knife found buried at O.J. Simpson’s estate years ago, but cop kept it as personal memento: report


A construction worker found a rusted knife buried at OJ Simpson’s California estate — but the cop he turned it over to kept it as a sick souvenir for years instead of forking it over to investigators as possible evidence in the murders of the football star’s ex-wife and her friend, officials said.

It’s not clear exactly when the weapon was recovered from Simpson’s former Brentwood mansion, Los Angeles police said at a Friday press conference. 

Investigators have long hunted for the knife used in the 1994 stabbing deaths of Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Police only learned about the weapon within the last month — nearly 22 years after the ghastly murders — when the now-retired cop asked about the records number for the Simpson murder case, so he could engrave the number on the knife’s frame, sources told TMZ adding that the knife was discovered anywhere between 1998 and the early 2010s.

But officials stressed Friday that the authenticity of the wild story of the knife's discovery was not confirmed.

"Maybe the story is bogus from the get-go," Andrew Neiman of the Los Angeles Police Department said at a Friday press conference 

Brown Simpson and Goldman were found stabbed to death at her Brentwood condo on June 12, 1994. Simpson was acquitted on two murder charges the next year.

It’s unclear if the cop will face any criminal charges. He retired in the late 1990s, so it’s unlikely he’ll face administrative charges, police said.

“I was really surprised,” Neiman said. “I would think than an LAPD officer ... would know that any time you come into contact with evidence you should submit that to investigators”

Police are working to determine if the cop was still employed by the force when he first got his hands on the knife.

F. Lee Bailey, one of the defense attorneys on Simpson’s team slammed the unnamed police officer.

“Any police officer with half a brain would realize this knife could be important,” he told Fox 25. “A police officer holding it (the knife) has destroyed any credibility you might prescribe to it."

Cops who saw the rusted knife believe it could have blood on it, but it’s impossible to say for sure before the test results come back, sources told TMZ.

The worker uncovered the weapon some number of years ago while digging at the site of Simpson’s Brentwood manor. As he carried it away from the grounds, he spotted an off-duty cop, who was working security at a movie shoot across the street. Such security detail jobs are staffed by both off-duty cops and retired officers.

But instead of taking the possible piece of evidence to the precinct, he allegedly took it home as a keepsake. It stayed in his house for years, sources told TMZ.

Recently, the cop, who had since retired, asked one of his buddies from the force to look up the records number for the 1994 murder of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. He wanted to engrave the number on a frame for the secret relic, he allegedly told his cop friend.

The officer told his supervisors, who demanded the retired cop fork over the knife.

Police launched a top-secret investigation into the new piece of evidence, and detectives will test it for hair, fingerprints and DNA.

Investigators have long hunted for the missing murder weapon.

Jose Camacho, who worked Ross Cutlery store in Downtown Los Angeles, testified that Simpson bought a 15-inch Stiletto knife from his store six weeks before the killings. While the type of knife matched the stab wounds found on the two victims, detectives later determined it wasn’t the murder weapon because it still had a protective oil on it — meaning it had never been used. 

Simpson cannot be prosecuted again for the two murders because that would constitute double jeopardy. Still, Fred Goldman, the father of the slain Ronald Goldman, said he hopes the knife produces new evidence against Simpson.

"I hope it turns out to be the weapon," he told the Daily News Friday. "It would be one more nail in (Simpson's) coffin. He should be dead already, but he’s not. Unfortunately, I don’t think it would change much legally.”

The grieving dad said he first heard about the knife from a family member 10 minutes before speaking with The News.

“It’s unreal to hear that an officer may have had it and didn’t turn it in,” he said. “Obviously he wasn’t doing his job. His responsibility was to turn it in and not try to use it as a piece of memorabilia.”Simpson is now in prison on a 2008 armed robbery conviction related to the robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/knife-found-buried-oj-simpson-estate-article-1.2552656

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

 

Buried Knife Found at O.J.'s Estate


A construction worker found a knife buried on the perimeter of the former O.J. Simpson estate ... and it's currently being tested by the LAPD in a top secret investigation ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.

The story is incredible. We're told a construction worker found the knife years ago -- we have heard several different stories, ranging from "several years ago" to 1998, when the house was demolished.

The weapon is a folding buck knife.

Our law enforcement sources say the construction worker took the knife to the street, where he saw an LAPD cop. He told the officer where he found the knife and the cop took it.

Turns out the cop -- who worked in the traffic division -- was off duty at the time, working security for a movie shoot at a house across the street on Rockingham. Our sources say the officer took the knife home and kept it ... kept it for years. 

In late January of this year, after the cop retired from the LAPD, he contacted a friend who worked in LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division (RHD). The cop told the friend about the knife and said he was getting it framed to put on his wall. He wanted his friend to get the DR (Departmental Record) number for the Nicole Brown Simpson/Ronald Goldman murder case, which he planned on engraving in the frame.

We're told the friend was indignant, and told his superiors. The brass was outraged and demanded that the retired cop turn the knife over, which he did.

Our sources say the knife is currently being tested for hair and fingerprints. It will be moved to the Serology Unit next week, where it will be tested for DNA and other biological evidence. 

One source familiar with the investigation tells us, cops who eyeballed the knife think it could have blood residue on it, but it's hard to know without testing because it's extremely rusted and stained.

The investigation is top secret. It's been logged into the LAPD's computer system outside the official case file to maintain security. Our sources say, since O.J. was found not guilty, it's still an open case. That means cops can continue investigating, but O.J. cannot be prosecuted again -- double jeopardy.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/04/oj-simpson-knife-found-murders-nicole-brown/#ixzz41xyeItLv