fred1451
Banned
Chris Darden broke one of the cardinal rules of a trail lawyer when he had OJ try on that glove, "Never ask a question in front of a judge/jury that you don't already know the answer too."Actually you have a really good point. People didn't understand what DNA was all about. CSI and other procedural have made it seems much more clear than it actually is, which brings in a whole different set of issues, but the defenses arguments regarding the DNA would never have stood up today. There were very legit chain of custody issues that could have been brought to bear, but the defense actually managed to get the jury to question if Simpson was really the only person who could have that DNA. Rather brilliant actually.
Same goes for so much of the defense's case. The glove bit was sheer genius, to this day I can't believe that State didn't blow a valve when the idea came up. The defense did its job about as well as a defense team could, when you put that against what can only be seen as a less then stellar DA effort and the absolutely lousy, Keystone Kops quality, investigation (you drove around for HOW LONG with the evidence in your truck?) the result was damned near a forgone conclusion.