johnnie cochran on the attack. and on the offensive. the lapd s laboratory is a cesspool of contamination. citing police incompetence. some had gloves, some didn t have gloves. picking up the evidence. even suggesting a conspiracy to frame o.j. simpson. the fact that blood mysteriously appears on vital pieces of evidence is devastating evidence of something far more sinister. but the fireworks really begin here. defense lawyer blasts lapd criminologist dennis fung. confronting him about not wearing gloves while handling evidence. and picking apart inconsistencies in his testimony.
people always say, what do you think s going to happen? nobody knows. another development now in the o. j. simpson trial. the jurors are being brought back into the courtroom. but no one expected this. after eight months of trial, it took the 12 jurors just four hours to reach a unanimous conclusion. we couldn t believe it. that it was so fast. it took longer to read the jury instructions than their verdict. simpson s fate decided but not revealed. we are missing, as you can tell, several of the attorneys. i ve indicated to them that i will accept the verdicts from you tomorrow morning at 10:00. the judge decides to hold the verdict until the next morning. the world would have to wait one more day. stunned and shocked may be underestimates as far as reactions go. october 3rd, 1995. the sun rises and everyone everywhere is waiting. and watching.
opera, the o.j. simpson murder case was the first true reality show for the country. this was the first wall-to-wall televised trial. july 22, 1994, a month after the murders, the legal proceedings against o.j. simpson begins when he enters this defiant plea. absolutely, 100%, not guilty. and to help him prove that, simpson assembles a legal dream team. each one of them was famous. jeffrey toobin covered the trial for the new yorker. there has never been, in american history, more prominent defense lawyers on a single trial than in the o.j. simpson case. there s harvard law professor, alan dershowitz.
shaking hands with lee brown. he picked his son up. didn t look bitter and raging. so was simpson a warm family man or a violent attacker who cornered and killed two innocent people? the jurors and simpson take a field trip to his house, and the crime scene. it was very good for the jury, i think, to see the evidence better, the testimony better and how the victims were essentially cornered. what do you remember the most about visiting o.j. s house, actually going to the crime scene? i was like, oh, wow, that s the first time i ve ever seen a heisman trophy. we couldn t ask questions. nothing was told to us. don t talk amongst yourselves and don t touch anything. and it s this home visit that leads to the very heart of the prosecution s case, the physical evidence against o.j. simpson. can you please describe the appearance of the gloves? it appeared a dark leather glove, appeared to be somewhat moist or sticky. i didn t touch it, but it
simpson for murder believes they can prove he butchered ron goldman and nicole brown simpson. this appeared to be an overkill or a rage killing. there was blood everywhere. at the bundy crime scene, at simpson s rockingham estate, and scattered along the route in between. blood, prosecutors say, is simpson s. does that mean that these characteristics that mr. simpson has that are also found in the bundy walk bloodstain are only found in approximately 1 out of 170 million caucasians or african americans? yes, approximately.