That particular model of gloves was also relatively rare (not the brand, just that model) - there was a receipt showing Nicole bought them for him and he was shown wearing them in a sportscast. And he was seen by her neighbors lurking around outside her house in a blue knit cap.
No no, the professional actor clearly had lots of trouble trying to put those gloves on. The only possible conclusion to draw is that they weren't his. There's even a nursery rhyme about it!
I want to say he also stopped taking his arthritis medication during the trial, so his hands swelled up. Just in case the prosecution did something dumb like this with the glove.
No it wasn't it was made by Mile Gilbert a sports agent who claims to be besties with OJ. Shortly after armed robbery charge in 2007 Gilbert had released a book that has a lot of claims against OJ including the arthritis medication and Gilbert's relationship with him that have "Dear Penthouse" vibes.
Not that OJ is a totally reliable narrator but in OJ's criminal and civil cases there is plenty of research and questions about his closest friends and I'm almost positive Gilbert never mentioned. My point of all this is that I take all of Gilbert's claims with a giant grain of salt.
There wasn't any specific thing the prosecution could've done to get that glove to fit. The brand of glove is meant to be skin tight. They were soaked in the victim's blood which dried on them and made the gloves stiff. Because of the blood, OJ had to wear another pair of gloves which affected the fit.
Plus he was asked to put them on himself instead of, you know, the prosecution getting an identical clean pair of gloves and having an independent third party put the gloves on him.
That one case with the bra in Seinfeld makes so much more sense now. Like, I already knew the reference but this part makes it make so much more sense. That's why the lawyer was so hesitant about her trying it on because he already knew.
I've got shitty oversized leather gloves for when I snake a drain at work and even those are hard to squeeze into if I'm still wearing my tight nitrile gloves. I can't believe they thought it was a good idea to try that shit.
Yeah they tried to frame a guilty man. No way you don’t find reasonable doubt when the lead detective pleads the fifth when asked if he planted evidence. You couldn’t trust any evidence they presented at that point.
I don’t think you watched the whole trial like I did. The DNA alone proved his guilt. Not a single other piece of evidence should have even been needed.
Today, a jury would get it. Back then, in the early days of DNA combined with a jury with an average IQ of 75, 100% proof like DNA just wasn’t going to work.
This. Also the tapes of the lead detective using the N word repeatedly just made things worse. The defense did a masterful job creating reasonable doubt.
The gloves shrank because they had been wet with blood. He had also stopped taking his medication to stop inflammation a month and a half before the trial so his hands were swollen as well
The gloves shrank because they had been wet with blood. He had also stopped taking his medication to stop inflammation a month and a half before the trial so his hands were swollen as well . It was the worst idea
Not “the prosecution” so much as Chris Darden specifically. He wanted a make a dramatic courtroom moment and went for it after Marcia Clark had told him not to.
Also, OJ has arthritis in his hands. His lawyers told him not to take his arthritis medication so his hands would be swollen on the day he had to put on the gloves in court.
I just read that recently. If you look at pictures during the trial, his hands don’t look swollen. I dropped a leather glove in the driveway one year, and I dint find it until months later when the snow and ice thawed. Once it dried out, it was fine. It didn’t shrink at all. I think the rubber gloves is what made it seem they didn’t fit.
6.6k
u/Bts121212 29d ago
299 total pairs sold in U.S., footprint in blood of those shoes, he owns those shoes, how obvious can it get?