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In eight pages this paper considers the police work conducted in the O.J. Simpson double murder case in an assessment of how evidence was obtained, recovered, and documented, whether or not it was properly acquired, and what factors were involved in the criminal investigation’s failure to prove the defendant’s guilt. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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murdered outside her residence on Bundy Drive in Los Angeles. Simpson was subsequently charged with the double murder and because there was so much blood evidence found not only
at the crime scene but also at the defendants estate on Rockingham Avenue linking him to the crime it appeared as if the prosecution would have slam dunk. However,
Simpsons defense attorneys, who included Robert Shapiro, Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, and Barry Scheck, believed that they had sufficient grounds to attack "the impartiality, competence, or even honesty of
the police who gathered the evidence" (Levy, 1996, p. 159). The conduct of the investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department including Simpsons initial interrogation, the blood evidence acquisition
and handling, and the credibility of the primary case investigators lend considerable weight to the defenses assertion. First, the LAPD interrogated Simpson for approximately a half hour on Monday, June
13, 1994, the day after the murders (Linder, 2000). Most of this questioning involved a deep gash on Simpsons right hand (Linder, 2000). Simpson originally stated he was
not sure how he cut his hand, but later suggested that he had initially cut his hand while reaching into his Bronco vehicle the night before, then reopened the wound
after breaking a glass in reaction to his ex-wifes murder (Linder, 2000). Although these inconsistencies should have been followed-up by experienced interrogators, these officers failed to do so (Linder,
2000). In fact, this first questioning of O.J. Simpson, which should have been most critical was not even introduced by either side when the case was brought to trial
in January 1995 (Linder, 2000). There was crucial blood evidence found at the crime scene, inside as well as outside O.J. Simpsons house, and inside the defendants car. At
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