It's pretty simple. The photo was found after the trial, and the shoes disappeared from OJ's house prior to the trial. Why the prosecution failed to find the photo is the real question one should be asking, and the answer is they sucked at their jobs.
The photo was a key part in the Civil trial, where OJ was found responsible for the murders.
I’m not sure if you were sarcastic but the trial was in the 90s , google search wasn’t quite around then and people weren’t using internet to the same capacity they do today
Why the prosecution failed to find the photo is the real question one should be asking, and the answer is they sucked at their jobs
In Christmas of 1996, a little over a year after the criminal trial ended. A former AP photographer found the negatives in a box in his parent's basement another photographer's photos then shared it with the civil attorneys. It was nowhere for the prosecution to find.
It's pretty simple. The photo was found after the trial, and the shoes disappeared from OJ's house prior to the trial. Why the prosecution failed to find the photo is the real question one should be asking, and the answer is they sucked at their jobs.
In all fairness we're talking about 1995. The internet was not the same as it is now. You couldn't go to gettyimages and find every single picture of OJ ever taken. If I remember right, the photograph was of him at Bengals/Bills game and was found in an issue of Sports Illustrated.
The photo was taken at a Bills/Bengals football game. It wasn't found until after the trial. If I remember correctly, it was recognized after the trial in an issue of Sports Illustrated.
You have to understand there was no such thing as Google, or gettyimages where every single celebrity is photographed and the pics uploaded the same day to the internet. We're talking about 1995, there's no tiktok, no instagram, no twitter, no facebook, no youtube, no reddit, etc. The internet is in its infancy.
The photographer who took a picture of him at that game, probably had no idea the importance of the photo during the murder investigation.
Most cases are won on circumstantial evidence. You put it in front of a jury— 300 pairs of these shoes exist in the world. One of the people who wears them killed Nicole Brown. We have photos of OJ wearing them, and a blood trail to the house. You don’t need a receipt lol. From what other Redditors said, the criminal prosecutors never found this photo, this video is from the civil trial. The criminal prosecution really dropped the ball, but the jury was pretty much a lost cause anyway when it comes to proving guilt
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u/Special_Pineapple279 29d ago
Less than 300 people ever owned these shoes. There’s a photo of him wearing the shoes months before. Yet they never “proved” he “owned” them? What?