Ex-O.J. Simpson trial prosecutor Christopher Darden is re-opening old wounds. He accuses the late defense attorney Johnnie Cochran of “manipulating” infamous gloves that were used in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. When Simpson tried on the gloves and they didn’t appear to fit it became a crucial turning point in his trial. Reuters reports:
Nearly seventeen years after O.J. Simpson walked away from his murder trial a free man, a prosecutor at the center of the case has alleged that the lead defense lawyer tampered with a crucial piece of evidence.
Former Los Angeles deputy district attorney Christopher Darden on Thursday accused Simpson defense lawyer, the late Johnnie Cochran, of “manipulating” one of the infamous gloves that the prosecution said linked Simpson to the grisly double murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
After Simpson struggled to fit the gloves on his hands — in one of the defining moments of the racially charged trial that captivated the nation – Cochran famously admonished the jury, “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
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