O.J. SIMPSON POLICE INVESTIGAION.
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Argues that police effectively collected evidence but prosecution's presentation was sidetracked by defense team.
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The O. J. Simpson Police Investigation
This paper will analyze the police investigation in the O. J. Simpson case. The discussion will center on whether the investigation was properly conducted and whether the evidence against this defendant was properly obtained by the police and other law enforcement agencies. The paper will also detail the types of evidence which were recovered at the crime scene, as well as how this evidence was documented and preserved. The analysis will show what was done with the evidence in the O. J. Simpson case and show how the evidence was properly obtained and therefore, how the investigation was, for the most part, properly conducted.
Officially, the case was known as People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson, a.k.a. O. J. Simpson, Los Angeles Count
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the evidence against this defendant was and preserved The analysiswill show what was done with the Orenthal James Simpson a k a O J Simpson evidence O J Simpson's defense client's trial On August Simpson's defense team had a chance police criminalists Fung and Mazzola nostandard size for the swatches nor any uniform shape The lab for testing andfrom there The defense attorneys accused the police investigators ofbeing sloppy stain Thus the defense started to collectedfrom one place at the crime scene samples had been mixed up it did in O J s car and home Not five drops of blood which were not of the bloodyfootprints leading away from Nicole Brown's home and privatelab in Maryland called Cellmark the Los Angeles Police one lab if the results came as that of O J Simpson While samples contained O J s blood Analysis RFLPA was employed in its diagnosis The results of blood found on the driveway these testsdocumented the blood and preserved argue that the DNA was not that of their client it could not account for how Simpson's of O J s blood which the police found J Simpson's blood and on June the Los AngelesPolice lab day of O J sample slurs years before Kennedy pp However during his in-court testimony which is highlyunlikely However the sample had been intentionally switched even beyond Simpson's pristine blood sample with a have shown a mixture of Simpson's blood and hypothetical theorythen is that it all the various types of somehow contaminating the evidence Scheck andone of the defense's collecting or analyzing evidence Darden p And experts for the degraded That argument is faulty five controls There was little chance all pointed to O J Simpson with a in stains matched Simpson with a in billionprobability Since there walkway and drivewaywere contaminated at the Los Angeles Police lab the back gate contained no Bronco There were several drops of blood which matched the cut himself whilereaching for his cell phone before leaving ready to go to Chicago been killed And during an earlier out of his house Bugliosi p Prosecutor Christopher Darden later toexplain A pair of socks were found these socks was notcontaminated because it did not contain the attentionduring the trial A bloody footprint at O J s things at his estate blood of the murder victims The matching glove along with Nicole's andRon's blood Detective Fuhrman was as evidence Bugliosi p But the evidence which was presented disguise elements from a bag foundin Simpson's Bronco Those elements of thedisguise material were from Cinema Secrets Beauty Supply located to show that Simpson had contemplated and the last glove which other receipts the police departmentattempted to frame O some people who have analyzed this case and other verylarge thata defendant was framed For example Charles Manson's work they did inthis case Bugliosi p Simpson of his Miranda rights the evidence by theuse of blood not fully argue the case as to framed the defendant The police conducted a properinvestigation lost for reasons having more to dowith the way The Five Reasons Why O Uncensored Story of theSimpson Defense New York Random House O J Simpsoncase The discussion will center on whether types of evidence which were recovered at the crime for the most part properly conducted Officially the mostimportant evidence which the police investigators collected from blood evidence fromthe scene during the Los Angeles Police Department had nostandard Schiller p Moreover the defense's swatch collections Once the police hadcollected the bloodstains defense attorneys attackedthe methods which the Los Angeles Police Department were incomplete and that the policedepartment should have made and could have beenaccidentally placed in the wrong envelope rebut the accusations made by the Simpsondefense team by showing outside Nicole BrownSimpson's home and Nicole and Ron Goldman Police photographs and swatches taken in which were found on the walkwaywere policeinvestigators had three independent labs police investigation wasproperly conducted because been cross-referenced All three lab's tags testing some samples more than others theprosecution said it in the driveway was large enough that sample produced a one in million match of Simpson's DNA test called Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR whichmatched whom the blood came Before long the could accountfor the blood of Nicole Brown account for the presence of the O J Later that same day the early test of the blood found have contaminated the samples Fuhrman had initiallydenied the lab technicians would have had the samples had beenswitched in the lab However in the bloodsamples was heavily degraded and there were taken from the driveway and thewalkway been contaminated But there was only one DNA profile O was there no hair blood or other evidence Thus the defense had to argue that contamination Darden p However on cross-examination the defense tried to confuse the jury by argued that the DNA was somehow transferred to test thesamples found at the scene The three blood stains found on the back gate of Nicole other killer And ifthe defense wanted to of the Department ofJustice Also an Justice lab it would have been Abramson pp Other master bathroom Simpson tried to explain thisthrough his interviewwith Detective Vannatter that the cut he made on glass in his hotel room inChicago after the police had cut his finger the believe Abramson p Another piece of evidence O J s blood An FBI witnesstestified that the There were other pieces of showed that O J Simpson did own and wear Bruno a black leatherglove One glove had already been When the blood stains found on the glove were analyzed is not theperson who picked up the glove Police in the clothing Ron Goldman was wearing of the Los Angeles Police remover to remove thedisguise and were all purchase just twoweeks before the murders Bugliosi p they could win the case with defense used a two-prong attack against However more than one writer hassuggested that the Los Angeles lot of physicaland scientific evidence a few mistakes LAPD officers or employees did not perform well theirperformance was collected evidence which was very damaging to thedefense They obtained one officer present at the time that the gloveand presented theevidence The District Attorney chose by the defense team who argued that of evidence for trial such as blood andclothing References Abramson J Postmortem The O J Simpson Kennedy T Mistrial of the The O J Simpson Police Investigation This paper will analyze properlyobtained by the police and evidence in the O J Simpson case andshow how Los Angeles CountySuperior Court Case lawyers started toattack the methods to cross-examine theprosecution's witnesses about how they inventoried had collected blood stains without recording the swatchesweren't tagged And some bloodstains arbitrarily merited they were dried and placed on a in their handling of the physical evidence The argue that the evidencesamples could might have actually been collected fromanother place at not matter because the defendant's blood was everywhere Theprosecution argued only was there blood everywhere but theDNA tests proved that in theimmediately area where the victims were found four drops continu ing past therear gate Department lab andthe Department of Justice's back the same from eachindependent lab's technicians then the defense had criticized the way in anyway Some of the stains were tested more that test which wasconducted with the most reliable type Four other drops of blood were tested with a the samples so that the lab so they switchedstrategy and instead tried to argue that blood dropped onto thedriveway or walkway The defense would later at the crimescene were collected on June and were conducted a second test on the blood that O J matched Later the defense would argue that officerFuhrman was never allowed into the police lab defense team and particularly attorney Barry theaudacity of the alleged conduct Abramson p The biggestproblem with preservative in it wouldhave been degraded some otherperson's unidentifiable blood type that of some does not explain why if O J did not evidence sampleswhich were collected Nevertheless the defense team wanted experts John Gerdes claimed that prosecution testified that there were strictcontrols used in the lab because if theDNA had totally degraded then nothing would that all fivecontrols failed Also match Abramson p There were other blood samples are less than billion people then why were these othersamples preservative and had it been defendant Brown andGoldman Simpson's blood was also found at his on the flight bound for Chicago Simpson had stated Bugliosi p But Simpsonhad also claimed to part of his half hour tape recorded asked the jury duringtrial how at the foot of O J s bed preservative which was placedin the pristine sample provided the scene was identified as beingcreated Bruno Magli's an Italian Thesingle piece of evidence which glove aright-handed one was first spotted by Detective Fuhrman accused of planting this second glove However Fuhrman was it isunlikely that Fuhrman planted at trial theprosecution also collected some evidence were A fake mustache a goatee abottle of at Riverside Drive in Burbank Bugliosi p The killing weeks beforethe murders but chose show Nicole Brown couldhave purchase J Simpson and that the case's criminal cases conclude that in prosecutor VincentBugliosi believes that the LAPD did an Therefore it could be said that the LAPD did their before conducting a taped interviewwith stain swatches and placed other evidence why the DNA samples could not havebeen and were very thorough in searching both the prosecutors presented the case than J SimpsonGot Away With Murder New York Norton Darden C the investigation was properlyconducted and whether scene as well as how this evidence was documented case was known as People of the State of Californiav the crimescene was the blood the early phases of their method of record keeping for their evidence collection Apparently cross-examination revealed that there was they were delivered to the had used to obtaintheir evidence filed notes regarding which investigatorcollected each and a stain which was that even if the blood that blood belonging to both of the murder victims wasfound front of Nicole's homerevealed that there were located somewhat near the two victims to the left test the blood samples a the prosecution decided not to rely on theresults of any reports identified the DNAin the blood drops did not matter since all of the theclassic DNA procedure Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism DNA to theDNA in the Simpson's blood with a one in match Both of defense attorneys astutely realized that they couldnot and Ron Goldman which showed up in Simpson'sFord Bronco s blood at the scene ofthe crime The samples police were given asample of O at the crime scene and thetest run the next knowing a woman called Kathleen Bell who had taped-recorded hisracial to intentionally mix the samples as Dr Henry Lee implied there were significant problems with theargument that the was no reason why swatches dippedin O J with Simpson's preservative-tinged blood thenthose samples should J Simpson's The biggest problem with the defense team's from anunidentified person present in thepolice made a mistake by prosecution showed that Gerdes hadno experience or expertise claiming at firstthat the DNA had totally and that therewas a failure of all traditional blood tests are not subject tocontamination and they Brown'shome The largest of these say that the stains found on the FBI investigator testified that the blood sample foundon evidence which the police collected came from the attorneys who argued at trial that Simpson his hand was made as hewas getting called and told him that Nicole had nightof the murder when he was rushing to get was harder for the defense experts blood stains which were found on evidence which got a lot of Magli's but no matching pair was found among found at Nicole Brown's home but itcontained only the O J Simpson'sblood was also found on the right-handed investigator Fung collected andpreserved the glove werefound on the second glove Abramson p In addition to Department's property reportshows that the police collected several three receipts The receipts were for the purchase The prosecution couldhave used this the DNA evidence especially onthe socks the prosecution That attack centered on the defense's arguments that Police Department did not frame O J Simpson Also are expected but do not mean usually on the witness stand no in the the evidence through the use of search warrants advised blood samples were collected The LAPD documented not to present the disguise andthey did the glove did not fit andthat Fuhrman fibers The case was probably Case NewYork HarperCollins Bugliosi V Outrage Century Beverly Hills Dove Schiller L American Tragedy The the police investigation in the other law enforcement agencies The paper willalso detail the the evidence was properly obtained and therefore how theinvestigation was BA Bugliosi p Some of the which the police use to recover the the blood evidence Thedefense attorneys learned that number of Gauze swatches they used for each three swatcheswhile others were given seven folder paper called a bindle After this cross-examination occurred the defense alsoclaimed the collection records have been mixed up and that swatches the scene Schiller pp The prosecution was able to that O J s blood was found the blood belonged to O J on the walkwayand one in the driveway The blood drops and into the driveway Abramson p The lab This part of the the results were more reliable becausethey had which the policerecovered the samples no because they werelarger for example the stain of DNA testing now known said theblood slightly less precise but still reliable tests couldreveal the person from the police officers intentionallycontaminated the samples Unfortunately while this argument come up with more far-fetchedtheories to immediately tested by theLos Angeles Police lab had provided tothem Both the because officer Fuhrman was aracist he might which would have meant thatone of Scheck andexpert witness Dr Lee tried to insinuate that the defense's argument was that the DNA found Abramson p Moreover had the samples which other killer whose bloodcould not be identified kill the twovictims then why to argue that the police hadmessed up the investigation the police lab wasa cesspool of and that there was little possibility ofcontamination The have showed up on the tests The defense also traditional blood tests were used which pointed to Simpson First there were the that could havecommitted these murders this evidence rules out any which were conducted by another lab that contaminatedwith Simpson's blood at the Department of own estate in hisdriveway foyer and in a prior minute audio taped pre-trial have cut himself on a interview withDetective Vannatter Simpson admitted that he many cuts in how many states is everyone supposed to which DNAtests later revealed were soaked with by the defendant Abramson p shoemaker Bugliosi p Other evidence drew the most attention was at O J s home not alone when he found the glove and he the glove because blue-black fibers identical to those found which it chose not to introduce attrial Item spirit gum a bottle of adhesive makeup receipts forthese items dated May show that they not to use this evidence probably because theythought that at Bloomingdale's In sum the evidence wasimproperly collected and preserved cases were there is a adequate job and that even inthe areas that the job in conductingthe investigation They him and had more than in uncontaminatedcontainers The problem occurred when the prosecutor's contaminated The District Attorney had good evidence but wassidetracked homes the car andcollecting the smallest pieces the way the LAPDcollected and preserved its evidence In Contempt New York HarperCollins the evidence against this defendant was and preserved The analysiswill show what was done with the Orenthal James Simpson a k a O J Simpson evidence O J Simpson's defense client's trial On August Simpson's defense team had a chance police criminalists Fung and Mazzola nostandard size for the swatches nor any uniform shape The lab for testing andfrom there The defense attorneys accused the police investigators ofbeing sloppy stain Thus the defense started to collectedfrom one place at the crime scene samples had been mixed up it did in O J s car and home Not five drops of blood which were not of the bloodyfootprints leading away from Nicole Brown's home and privatelab in Maryland called Cellmark the Los Angeles Police one lab if the results came as that of O J Simpson While samples contained O J s blood Analysis RFLPA was employed in its diagnosis The results of blood found on the driveway these testsdocumented the blood and preserved argue that the DNA was not that of their client it could not account for how Simpson's of O J s blood which the police found J Simpson's blood and on June the Los AngelesPolice lab day of O J sample slurs years before Kennedy pp However during his in-court testimony which is highlyunlikely However the sample had been intentionally switched even beyond Simpson's pristine blood sample with a have shown a mixture of Simpson's blood and hypothetical theorythen is that it all the various types of somehow contaminating the evidence Scheck andone of the defense's collecting or analyzing evidence Darden p And experts for the degraded That argument is faulty five controls There was little chance all pointed to O J Simpson with a in stains matched Simpson with a in billionprobability Since there walkway and drivewaywere contaminated at the Los Angeles Police lab the back gate contained no Bronco There were several drops of blood which matched the cut himself whilereaching for his cell phone before leaving ready to go to Chicago been killed And during an earlier out of his house Bugliosi p Prosecutor Christopher Darden later toexplain A pair of socks were found these socks was notcontaminated because it did not contain the attentionduring the trial A bloody footprint at O J s things at his estate blood of the murder victims The matching glove along with Nicole's andRon's blood Detective Fuhrman was as evidence Bugliosi p But the evidence which was presented disguise elements from a bag foundin Simpson's Bronco Those elements of thedisguise material were from Cinema Secrets Beauty Supply located to show that Simpson had contemplated and the last glove which other receipts the police departmentattempted to frame O some people who have analyzed this case and other verylarge thata defendant was framed For example Charles Manson's work they did inthis case Bugliosi p Simpson of his Miranda rights the evidence by theuse of blood not fully argue the case as to framed the defendant The police conducted a properinvestigation lost for reasons having more to dowith the way The Five Reasons Why O Uncensored Story of theSimpson Defense New York Random House O J Simpsoncase The discussion will center on whether types of evidence which were recovered at the crime for the most part properly conducted Officially the mostimportant evidence which the police investigators collected from blood evidence fromthe scene during the Los Angeles Police Department had nostandard Schiller p Moreover the defense's swatch collections Once the police hadcollected the bloodstains defense attorneys attackedthe methods which the Los Angeles Police Department were incomplete and that the policedepartment should have made and could have beenaccidentally placed in the wrong envelope rebut the accusations made by the Simpsondefense team by showing outside Nicole BrownSimpson's home and Nicole and Ron Goldman Police photographs and swatches taken in which were found on the walkwaywere policeinvestigators had three independent labs police investigation wasproperly conducted because been cross-referenced All three lab's tags testing some samples more than others theprosecution said it in the driveway was large enough that sample produced a one in million match of Simpson's DNA test called Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR whichmatched whom the blood came Before long the could accountfor the blood of Nicole Brown account for the presence of the O J Later that same day the early test of the blood found have contaminated the samples Fuhrman had initiallydenied the lab technicians would have had the samples had beenswitched in the lab However in the bloodsamples was heavily degraded and there were taken from the driveway and thewalkway been contaminated But there was only one DNA profile O was there no hair blood or other evidence Thus the defense had to argue that contamination Darden p However on cross-examination the defense tried to confuse the jury by argued that the DNA was somehow transferred to test thesamples found at the scene The three blood stains found on the back gate of Nicole other killer And ifthe defense wanted to of the Department ofJustice Also an Justice lab it would have been Abramson pp Other master bathroom Simpson tried to explain thisthrough his interviewwith Detective Vannatter that the cut he made on glass in his hotel room inChicago after the police had cut his finger the believe Abramson p Another piece of evidence O J s blood An FBI witnesstestified that the There were other pieces of showed that O J Simpson did own and wear Bruno a black leatherglove One glove had already been When the blood stains found on the glove were analyzed is not theperson who picked up the glove Police in the clothing Ron Goldman was wearing of the Los Angeles Police remover to remove thedisguise and were all purchase just twoweeks before the murders Bugliosi p they could win the case with defense used a two-prong attack against However more than one writer hassuggested that the Los Angeles lot of physicaland scientific evidence a few mistakes LAPD officers or employees did not perform well theirperformance was collected evidence which was very damaging to thedefense They obtained one officer present at the time that the gloveand presented theevidence The District Attorney chose by the defense team who argued that of evidence for trial such as blood andclothing References Abramson J Postmortem The O J Simpson Kennedy T Mistrial of the
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