OJ simpson

The OJ Simpson murder trial case is one of the most known famous court cases ever. With OJ being such a popular football star, when he was accused of murdering his ex-wife and her friend it blew up all over the media. The cases has been the largest publicized case in United States history. Everyone thought he was guilty for the murder because with all of the evidence it seemed that way, well the jury thought otherwise. All evidence pointed at OJ. All through out the investigations there was a lot of direct evidence that could be used as incriminating evidence. One type of direct evidence that was found was hair, they found hair in a ball cap at Nicole Brown Simpsons house that, and also they found hair on Ron Goldman’s shirt that was consistent with OJ’s hair. There was multiple blood evidence that was direct evidence, for instance, blood drops found at the crime scene matched OJ’s blood type, which only 0.5% of the population would match this blood type. Also, there was blood found in the bronco OJ drives. Plus, when investigators searched OJ’s house, they found blood in his bedroom, and in his dirty clothes they found blood on a pair of socks that matched Nicole. In this case there was also a good bit of circumstantial evidence. The prosecutors in court tried to use the gloves they found, one at Nicole’s house and one at OJ’s house, as evidence, but these specific gloves anyone could own and could have planted them there. While they were in court they had OJ try on one of the gloves and OJ could not get the glove on. The prosecutors argued that the gloves shrank a whole size after sitting in blood for that long because the gloves were leather. Also, the investigators found bloody footprints at the crime scene and the shoe came back to be a Bruno Magli size twelve. OJ had been seen on television while doing football broadcasts wearing this type of shoe and his shoe size was a twelve. This is circumstantial evidence because although he has been seen in