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Case Study Nicole Brown Simpson

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Introduction: The Scenario “On June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found dead outside of Nicole Brown Simpson’s condo in Brentwood, California at approximately midnight” (Case). “A few days later on June 17, 1994, as police go to arrest OJ Simpson as a suspect in the murders, Simpson and a friend attempted to flee in Simpson’s white Bronco but Simpson was eventually apprehended at his house after the chase concluded” (Linder). “On July 22, 1994, Simpson pleaded not guilty to charges of two counts of first degree murder” (Linder). The trial lasted from “January 29th, 1995 to October 3rd, 1995” when Simpson was ultimately found not guilty for the murders because there was not sufficient enough evidence to convict Simpson …show more content…

“Blood found on the socks contained genetic markers associated with both OJ Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson” (List). As we learned in class the blood evidence was very important because of its role as a body fluid containing DNA. This evidence should have been critical in linking OJ Simpson to the crime scene and with Nicole Brown Simpson. According to the defense Nicole Brown Simpson’s blood was planted on Simpson’s socks to implicate him. “One of the defense’s claims was that from the blood samples collected on the sock there was EDTA present” (Matheson). In class we learned that EDTA is used in the purple topped vacutainer vials that are used to collect blood. The EDTA helps to stop the blood from coagulating and instead keeping it a liquid form. “According to the FBI analysis the levels of EDTA found were only 1/1000 that of what would be in a vacutainer vial” (Matheson). Given this information I would reasonably conclude that this is probably not blood from a vacutainer vial and that the evidence was not likely planted by someone. “Another claim that the defense had was that the blood had soaked all the way through the socks which would not have been possible if OJ Simpson would have been wearing the socks” (List). One of the things we studied in class was blood stain patterns. In particular one of the patterns was a wipe. If OJ Simpson had taken the socks off and left them on the floor it would make sense that if the volume of blood on the socks was substantial, like the amount of blood at the scene, that the blood could still be wet enough to wipe blood from the front of the socks to the back of the socks and soak through. A lot of this would depend on how much time it took between the murders and OJ Simpson removing his socks, because if the blood had already started to dry before he took them off the blood likely wouldn’t

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