The Gloves
When
examining the scene of the crime, Mark Furhman came across a right handed glove
on the floor of the scene. The glove was then, unlike many other pieces of
evidence was catalogued and entered into the chain of custody. Then upon
entering the house of OJ Simpson, Furhman found a corresponding left handed
glove, around the back of OJ Simpsons ‘pool house.’
Both
gloves were checked into the audit trail and then sent to the laboratory for
testing. While testing the gloves both the DNA of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown
Simpson were found, along with the blood of OJ Simpson. This immediately made
OJ Simpson the police’s main suspect in the murder of his ex-wife.
However;
there were several reasons which meant that the gloves were not strong enough
evidence to produce a conviction. First of all, while collecting the glove from
the OJ Simpson property, Mark Furhman neither had a warrant to search the
premises, or the appropriate PPE for collecting evidence. Therefore meaning
that the defence could easily imply that the glove found at OJ’s house had been
planted by the already established racist police officer, who had found the
glove.
Furthermore, the glove found at the property of Nicole Brown Simpson,
was contaminated while being inspected in the laboratory, when the lab
technician admitted to having spilt a sample of OJ’s blood in the vicinity of
the glove, explaining how OJ’s blood would have been on the glove.
Finally, when it came to the end of the trial, the prosecution allowed OJ Simpson to try on the gloves, which were supposedly his in front of the jury. Unfortunately for the prosecution, the gloves did not seem to fit, therefore indicating that he would not own them. Despite the fact that the prosecution provided evidence of Nicole Brown Simpson buying those gloves, and a photograph of OJ wearing the gloves, with Nicole.