In jail now? In December , Simpson was found guilty of 10 charges related to a gunpoint robbery at the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas. The former NFL star is now serving a 9 to year sentence at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, but will be up for parole in The People v.
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The sample from the carpet contained a profile consistent with Nicole Brown Simpson. Police also collected blood samples from the vehicle over two months after the homicide. Police also found blood in the driveway and foyer of the property belonging to OJ Simpson.
Tests showed that this blood belonged to OJ Simpson. Many more pieces of evidence were adduced during this trial. It is likely that the other pieces of evidence, some of lacks forensic relevance, also played an critical role in the outcome of this trial. There were two pieces of physical evidence relied on by the prosecution:. The prosecution also argued that blood splatter transferred from the victims to OJ Simpson during the murders had been transferred to his car from his person and from the glove which was later found behind his house saturated blood.
Evidence had been mishandled during the investigation. Racism in the Los Angeles police department had biased the investigation. The first task for the defence was to explain the presence of blood belonging to OJ Simpson in his car and home.
Their case was that OJ Simpson had simply cut himself at his home on the night of the murders and this explained the blood found in his car, driveway and foyer.
The other evidence - the sample taken from the crime scene that produced a DNA profile consistent with OJ Simpson, the samples taken from the car that showed DNA belonging to victims and the sample taken from the glove that found DNA consistent with OJ Simpson - was more difficult for the defence to explain.
Their case sought to discount this evidence on the basis that it was improperly collected, tested and reported. Their job was made easier by the various mistakes and mishaps that occurred in the course of collecting and testing the evidence. Following the chase, Simpson had a brief stand-off with police in which he held a gun to his head before giving himself up. Nicole alleged that OJ beat her up - a claim she made to friends and also wrote in her journal.
Her ex-husband denies the allegation. She claimed the first time Simpson battered her was in , and that he physically beat her over a period of 16 years, according to The Daily Mail , which cited copies of the journal entries.
The murder victim also wrote in her journal how OJ once beat her up at a friends' anniversary party. DNA evidence was a relatively new science in meaning the jury found it difficult to understand the importance of forensic testimony given by experts.
Indeed, the DNA evidence against Simpson was overwhelming and would have almost certainly convicted him in a modern trial.
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