Despite defense survey data suggesting that women generally made better defense jurors than men, Prosecutor Clark willingly accepted a disproportionate number of women jurors. The revelation of Simpson's abuse of Nicole is credited with turning public opinion against him.Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, testified on June 14, 1995 that Brown's time of death was estimated as between 10:00pm and 10:30pm.Allan Park testified on March 28, 1995 that he arrived at Simpson's home at 10:25pm on the night of the murders and stopped at the Rockingham entrance: Simpson's Bronco was not there.Park's testimony was significant because it explained the location of the glove found at Simpson's home.During cross examination, Park conceded that he could not identify the figure but said he saw that person enter the front door and afterwards Simpson answered and said he was home alone. The socks were collected on June 13 and had blood from both Simpson and Brown, but her blood on the socks was not identified until August 4.Detective Vannatter denied planting Nicole Brown's blood on the socks. A construction worker had given the knife to a police officer, who, believing the case had been closed, did not submit it as evidence at the time. The Jury selection continued for two months. The jury spent only three hours deliberating the case that had produced 150 witnesses over 133 days and had cost $15 million to try. Park conceded that he did not notice any cuts on Simpson's left hand but added "I shook his right hand, not his left.
It was no secret that the prosecution wanted white jurors and the defense wanted black jurors. The defense's simulated jury tests had indicated that black females disliked Nicole Simpson--believing that she was irresponsibly milking money from a famous black man--and that they would also likely be hostile to a hard-edged female prosecutor such as Marcia Clark.The defense poured great effort into the jury selection process. What OJ Simpson juror thinks of Simpson now, two decades after criminal trial Lon Cryer served on the jury for Simpson's 1995 criminal trial. February 12, 1995: The jury visits key locations. However, a taped July 29 statement by Lopez did not mention seeing the Bronco but did mention another housekeeper was also there that night, Sylvia Guerra. The pool was 40% white, 28% black, 17% Hispanic, and 15% Asian.The racial composition of the jury was strongly influenced by the decision of the prosecution to file the Simpson case in downtown Los Angeles rather than--as is usually the case-- in the judicial district where the crime occurred-- in this case, Santa Monica. For detailed descriptions of Simpson's jurors, jump to: Simpson Criminal Jury or to Simpson Civil Jury. Forensic tests demonstrated that the knife was not related to the murder.The presence of Kardashian on Simpson's legal team, combined with the press coverage of the trial, was the catalyst for the ongoing popularity of the The murders continue to be the subject of research and speculation.Alternative theories of the murders, supposedly shared by Simpson, have suggested they were related to the Los Angeles drug trade,Michael Nigg, an aspiring actor and waiter at a Los Angeles restaurant, was shot and killed during an attempted robbery on September 8, 1995, while withdrawing money from an ATM.In 2012, several links between the killings and convicted murderer Best selling author and journalist Stephen Singular was approached about the O.J. Simpson also attended. Potential jurors complained about the lengthy questionnaire, which took about four hours for many people to complete. The blood on the back gate was collected on July 3, 1995, rather than June 13, the day after the murders.The prosecution responded by showing that a different photograph showed that the blood was present on the back gate on June 13 and before the blood had been taken from Simpson's arm.Barry Scheck alleged the police had twice planted the victims' blood inside Simpson's Bronco.
The prosecution implied that Gerdes was not a credible witness: he had no forensic experience and had only testified for criminal defendants in the past and always said the The defense initially only claimed that three exhibits were planted by the policeFBI special agent Roger Martz was called by the defense on July 25, 1995 to testify that EDTA was present in the evidence samples, yet instead said he did not identify EDTA in the blood, contradicting the testimony given by Dr. Rieders the day before.The defense alleged that Simpson's blood on the back gate at the Bundy crime scene was planted by the police. He noted the house was dark and nobody appeared to be home as he smoked a cigarette and made several calls to his boss to get Simpson's home phone number. Pictures of Nicole Brown's face from that night were then shown to the jury to confirm his testimony. The prosecution responded that the Bronco had already been impounded by the time Vannatter returned and was not even at Rockingham.The defense alleged that the police had planted Brown's blood on the socks found in Simpson's bedroom.