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IN THE AIR
What the Jurors probably knew
The media hype that converted the defense lawyers into “the Dream Team.”
or subconsciously, for the jury to give Simpson every benefit he was legally
entitled to, and then some.
Vincent Bugliosi, a former a Los Angeles County Deputy
District Attorney
His record in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office:
“Yet Judge Ito, knowing that Cochran and Scheck were deliberately making frivolous objections to destroy the effectiveness of the prosecutors’ summations, did not once hold Cochran or Scheck in contempt of court , or even once admonish them to discontinue their outrageous conduct”.
The prosecutors did not show the slightest instinct for argumentation
“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit?” Nothing fits better than DNA. DNA fits a person to the exclusion of all other people on the surface of the earth, better than any glove or any other item of clothing could possibly fit.
And “Mr. Cochran, with DNA tests putting your client’s blood at the murder scene you have the audacity to argue If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit”
The worst part of the prosecutors’ performance, “something that goes
beyond incompetence” was that they decided not to introduce such a great amount of very incriminating evidence against the defendant.
Evidence not introduced in the trial:
1. The suicide note Simpson wrote when he learned he was going to be charged with these murders. Yet this note, pointed in the direction of O.J.’s guilt
2. After the slow-speed chase of Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings in the latter’s Bronco, the police found in Simpson’s possession in the Bronco a gun, Simpson’s passport, a cheap disguise (a fake goatee and mustache), four pairs of folded socks, four T-shirts, two pairs of underwear and $ 8,750. Bugliosi “These items, of course, have guilt written all over them”. The jury never heard all this evidence
The fake goatee, fake mustache, bottle gum were purchased on May 27, 1994, just over two weeks prior to the murders. And just a few days after Nicole returned to Simpson earrings and a bracelet he had given her for her birthday, May 19, telling him their relationship was finally over.
Jury Composition:
Race: 9 Blacks, 1 Hispanics, 2 Whites
Sex: 10 Women, 2 Men
Education: 2 College Graduates, 9 High School Graduates, 1 Without Diploma
Other facts about the final jury:
(1) None regularly read a newspaper, but eight regularly watch tabloid TV shows,
(2) Five thought it was sometimes appropriate to use force on a family member,
(3) All were Democrats,
(4) Five reported that they or another family member have had a negative experience with the police,
(5) Nine thought that Simpson was less likely to be a murderer because
he was a professional athlete.
The typical incompetence displayed by the prosecutors
1. Prosecutors did not prepare their witnesses for cross-examination as
well as they should have. eg. Clark, trying to establish that Officer Robert Riske, the first officer at the Bundy murder scene, had preserved the integrity of the crime scene.
Riske’s answer, which stunned Clark: “They kind of glossed over it. They don’t really train you.”
2. The glove demonstration, which many feel was the pivotal point in the trial, from which the prosecution never recovered.
The prosecutors know there could be problems:
a) In the sidebar conference shortly before the glove demonstration took place in front of the jury, Clark said:
“The only problem is, he has to wear latex gloves underneath… and they’re going to alter the fit.”
b) Because portions of the gloves had been soaked in blood and left to dry, they had shrunk.
A former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney
His record in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office:
• 105 convictions out of 106 felony jury trials
• 21 murder convictions without a single loss, including the prosecution of Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the seven Tate-LaBianca murders of August 9–10, 1969.
• Although Manson did not physically participate in the murders, Bugliosi used circumstantial evidence to show that he had orchestrated the killings.
• Wrote a book about the Manson trial, a true-crime classic, called Helter Skelter
INTRODUCTION
The Five Reasons O.J. Got Away With Murder:
O.J. SIMPSON - AN OVERVIEW
Orenthal James "OJ" Simpson was accused of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, who were murdered on June 12th, 1994. His trial, officially called the People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson, was a lengthy and highly publicized trial. It lasted from January 24th, 1995 to October 3rd, 1995. Simpson was acquitted of both murders, and trial has been described as
the "Trial of the Century."
major players in the case, especially the media (talking heads), for what he sees
as shallow, sensational, sloppy and biased reporting.
a self-fulfilling prophecy galvanized by the media. Part of the media-created legend
held that Simpson was being represented by a Dream Team of lawyers.
media portrayed, because most of them had little or no experience trying murder cases.
believes that the prosecution gave a D-minus performance, and that the jurors
"clearly did not have too much intellectual firepower, and were biased in
Simpson's favor, most likely from the start."
The Chase
away from the slain bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman toward the rear alley, four of which were immediately to the left of bloody size-12 shoe prints.
facts, the evidence against him was conclusive from the outset.
In Outrage, Bugliosi states his expert opinion about how it came
to pass that someone “we know, not believe, but know”
committed these two savage murders was allowed
to go free.
Judge Lance Ito ("Judge Ego,") "specialized in making patently erroneous
rulings, one after another" such as:
Judge Ito wrongly and "irrevocably changed the entire complexion of the trial" when he allowed the defense to ask Mark Fuhrman if he had used the word "nigger."
undue prejudice."
would get off free, and that, based on the facts, the evidence against him was
conclusive from the outset.
So What Happened?
O.J. Simpson's astonishing popularity major cause of the acquittal
might get off despite conclusive evidence of his guilt.
“let him go, he has suffered enough.”
Outrage sets forth five reasons why the O.J. Simpson's murder case was lost.
FINAL SUMMATION
THE WEAK VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Bugliosi, V. (1995). Outrage: The five reasons O.J. Simpson got away with
murder. New York: W.W. Norton
Vincent Bugliosi vs. O.J. Simpson (Absolutely 100% guilty”) Part 1 (2013).
Retrieved from www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXgpGt11Ycw
II
THE CHANGE OF VENUE
Garcetti transfers the case downtown
Bugliosi said the mistake "dwarfed anything the defense did."
Incredible and ill-advised statements by the prosecutors:
Marcia Clark’s: “You may not like me for bringing this case. I’m not winning any popularity contests for doing so.”
Chris Darden’s: “Nobody wants to do anything to this man. We don’t. There is nothing personal about this, but the law is the law.”
In the air were the “talking heads” ( lawyers-turned-TV-commentators)
constantly finding problems and weaknesses with the prosecution’s evidence that either did not exist or that they exaggerated.
The real core of the defense case had to be a police frame-up.
Thano Peratis, the male nurse from the Los Angeles Police dept.
said he withdrew around “7.9 to 8.1 cc”of blood from Simpson’s arm. Detective Philip Vannatter carried the vial of blood that to Simpson’s home so he could personally deliver it to police criminalist Dennis Fung.
Garbage in Garbage Out
"contamination” and used the concept of contamination to denote the term “garbage in, garbage out”. Prosecutors could not explain to the jury that there was no “garbage in” in this case, because contamination
couldn’t produce a false DNA positive of Simpson’s blood.
Judge Lance Ito ("Judge Ego,") "specialized in making
patently erroneous rulings, one after another" such as:
Sustaining an "aberrational" number (7,000)
of objections
Judge Ito wrongly and "irrevocably changed the
entire complexion of the trial" when he allowed the defense to ask Mark Fuhrman if he had used the word "nigger."
ultimately used.
O.J. Simpson would get off free, and that, based on the
faccts, the evidence against him was conclusive.
Bugliosi was very critical of the prosecution, from the moment DA, Gil Garcetti, moved the trial downtown where jury makeup would benefit the defense.
O.J., the DA’s office feared that blacks may hang up the jury.
to file a case in the superior court of the judicial district where the crime occurred, in this case, Santa Monica.
pool. Instead, the DA filed the case downtown, where the percentage of blacks in the jury pool was much higher, thereby (assuming the DA’s fears are correct) multiplying the likelihood of a hung jury
4. The jury never heard the tape-recorded interview of Simpson by officers, Philip Vannatter and Thomas Lange, at Parker Center on June 13, 1994. Simpson admited dripping blood all over his car and home and on his driveway around the time of the murders! And when they asked him how he got the cut to his left middle finger that caused all the bleeding, he answered: “I don’t know”
5. Photos and videos of Simpson from his days as a TV football commentator wearing highly distinctive Aris Isotoner Light leather gloves identical to the gloves found at the Bundy murder scene and on Simpson’s Rockingham estate
Vincent Bugliosi
Marcia Clark at the Trial
Clark and Darden to prosecute it (due to lack of competence and skill
to try a significant murder case).
their verdict.