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What can the police do?

POD # 1 Get rid of Mark Fuhrman. During the 80s, he sued the LAPD in order to get a disability pension. Have him win. During the Simpson trail, a colleague said, that after he married a Jewish women, Fuhrman painted swastikas on his locker. Fuhrman denied it, but if it were true and people saw him paint the Swastika, hopefully he would be fired.

POD # 2 After seeing the late Nichole Brown Simpson's record, the police decide that the abusive ex husband is a suspect, but decide not to go to his house until there is a search warrant. They call him to tell his ex wife has been killed and leave a message because he has already left for Chicago.

POD # 3 During the search of OJ's house, the police get his cell number from the housekeeper. They tell him his ex wife has been killed. Like OTL, he does not ask how. They talk to him about returning his children. They also tell him he is a suspect.

POD # 4 In a celebrity murder case in 1985, the LAPD are greatly embarrassed by the reports of the sloppiness of the care of blood evidence by the police officers and the lab, The LAPD reforms funding and the care of evidence. ITTL all the blood, sox, gloves and the hat found at Nichole and OJ's house is removed by trained experienced people and is catalogued and secured. It is all removed on June 13, 1994, the day after the murders, unlike OTL where some of the blood samples were taken on July 3, 1994.

POD # 5 When OJ returns to Los Angeles, the police are waiting for him at the airport. He also called his lawyer, who is there. After talking to his lawyer, he goes with the police to be questioned, giving up his right to be silent and to have a lawyer present, like he did OTL.

POD # 6 Unlike OTL where OJ gave the police a rambling monologue and they did not ask for specifics about whet he did during the time of the murder, ITTL they press OJ for specifics. He is evasive and contradictory, This interview becomes key prosecution evidence.

What can the prosecution do?

POD # 1 Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden are not assigned to the case. The prosecutors are experienced and confident, unlike Darden, Jeffry Toobin, in his book The Run of His Life, describes Darden as incompetent. At least one of the lead prosecutors is an African American like Darden. Toobin also describes Clark as arrogant and distracted by her divorce.

POD # 2 The prosecutors find a better than OTL DNA expert. Toobin describes their OTL DNA expert as boring and confusing. This alone will convict OJ. Even the jurors that are sympathetic to OJ, will see he did it, when they understand the DNA evidence.

POD # 3 When Johnny Cochran and F. Lee Bailey insist that OJ try on the gloves, the prosecutor, unlike Darden, is not intimidated. He refuses. He gets the glove expert to testify, as he did OTL, after the damage had been done, that gloves may have shrunk and the latex gloves necessary because the gloves are a bio hazard, will effect the fit. Judge Ito rules that OJ will not try on the gloves.

POD # 4 Tell the jury about the Bronco chase. Show a video and depend on the police for testimony here.

POD # 5 Call AC Cowlings to the stand. Ask him two questions. Were you driving the bronco? Did OJ have a gun to his head.

POD # 6 Tell the jury about OJ's suicide note. I think OJ being suicidal is a sign of guilt.
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