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POLICE IN LOS Angeles have announced that they are testing a knife found at the home of OJ Simpson.
The former American football player and actor was accused of the murdering his wife Nicole Brown Smith in June 1994.
He was later acquitted after a high-profile televised trial daubed the ‘Trial of the Century’.
At a press conference today, police confirmed that a knife that had been found at his home and was being tested for DNA and hair samples.
The Los Angeles Police Department said that they had come upon it after a construction worker gave it to an off-duty police officer sometime after the case had concluded.
Believing that the case was closed, he held on to it during the intervening period.
It is not possible for Simpson to be prosecuted again in relation to the case.
Speaking today, Captain Andrew Neiman of the LAPD said that he was really surprised that any officer would not immediately turn in evidence.
“I would think that any LAPD officer would know that any time you come into contact with evidence you should and shall submit that to investigators,” he said.
Simpson is currently being held in a Nevada prison for a 2007 armed robbery.
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Were Manitowoc involved in the new search?
BOOM. Poor Steve Avery.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Lol
Steven Avery did it
It doesn’t matter… Sure the glove didn’t fit… Case closed
Wow it only took 22 years to come to light
Free OJ
With every 50 litres of petrol
Better call Saul…
Hey juice. Do you want some juice
Legally, this means nothing; OJ was tried & acquitted in criminal court, so can’t face a second criminal charge for it. He’s already been found culpable in a civil suit so it’ll make no difference there either. If the knife comes back with relevant evidence on it, all it will do is reinforce the opinions of those on either side; those who think him guilty will have their proof, those that think him innocent will see it as another plant.
The only thing it might do would be throw suspicion on someone else for helping OJ by burying it if their prints or DNA were found on it but suspicion is all it would be. Because of the passage of time and the fact that the evidence would clearly be contaminated there could never be a successful prosecution of another person.
It would only prove what everyone already knows
What does everybody know? Genuine question. I’m only asking coz I’m studying dna ..so what does everyone know
Well his dna was found at the scene. Rons niocles and ojs was found in the bronco as well as a trail of ojs blood going into his own house and the bloody glove where kato heard someone climbing in at the rear of the property. As dna was new the evidence was nor handled in a manner it would be today. Risk of cross contamination. So most of it was not put to jury.
Me-hole…. Someone’s looking for a few bob out of this….
How convenient.
Convenient for who and in what way?
“daubed the crime of the century”?!? Good jaysus.
Up there with the Kennedy assassination, the break in at The Watergate Hotel and the election fraud in Florida in 2000….
OJ look’s blacked up in that photo!
Looks like he’s been on wintersports in the pic…
Hahahaha reversed panda eyes
Is OJ wearing black-face!?
Why is this supposed to be interesting or news?
Thousands of Americans gun themselves down every year.
He just happens to be another American cowboy gunslinger.
It is in their constitution.
Gunslingers kill Gunslingers.
Their law.
Europeans do not care about American cowboys any more.
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Lock that fooook bag up. A total animal.
He is locked up.
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