Word: gloved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saturated publicity, the search for a dozen unbiased jurors is certain to be more difficult than it was the first time. Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti has promised to retry Simpson even if the jury votes 11 to 1 for acquittal. The seminars on dna evidence. The bloody glove. Mark Fuhrman. Kato Kaelin. Could there be anyone, anywhere, who would want to go through that again...
...GLOVES For prosecutors, the glove found at Simpson's estate is key. It matches the one found at the murder scene. A glove expert testified that the pair is the kind Simpson is seen wearing on TV broadcasts, and credit-card records show that Nicole bought him such gloves. The one found at Simpson's house has both victims' blood...
...these are also the gloves that seemed too small for O.J. when Darden asked him to put them on in court. Will the jury care that O.J. was putting them on over latex lab gloves that would have hampered the fit? More important, it was Mark Fuhrman who found the glove in Simpson's yard. More than once, the jury heard excerpts from the letter by Kathleen Bell, a Fuhrman acquaintance, who said he told her if he wanted to arrest an interracial couple, he would invent a charge if necessary...
...second set of DNA tests, done in a lab not affiliated with the L.A.P.D., also showed the blood of O.J., Ron and Nicole in the Bronco. But the defense explains that by saying Fuhrman rubbed the bloody glove around the car. They offer no physical evidence to support their claims, but to the mind of the jurors they may not need to. Their allegations exist in a context of public anger over the L.A.P.D.'S problems with race relations, to say nothing of Fuhrman...
...most part, the prosecutors handled these witnesses like the hot potatoes they were, cross-examining them only briefly. But with McKinny, prosecutor Christopher Darden set himself up for what defense attorney Johnnie Cochran later termed "another glove day"--a reference to the prosecution's disastrous move to have Simpson try on the leather glove found at the crime scene. "When Mark Fuhrman used those words in your presence," Darden asked, "why didn't you tell him to stop?" McKinny replied: "For the same reasons I didn't tell him to stop when he told me of other procedures, cover...