A former Los Angeles County district attorney who served during O.J. Simpson’s trial was disturbed to discover new details through an ESPN documentary that could have debunked Johnnie Cochran’s famous line: “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
Gil Garcetti, who has remained mum for two decades on the 1994 case that captured the country’s attention, learned that Simpson had stopped taking an arthritis medication which may have caused his hands to swell and stiffen, a side effect that could have resulted in the bloodied glove’s poor fit.
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“My God,” Garcetti said on Good Morning America on Thursday morning. “Did it tick me off? And I would use a different word? Yes, it did,” Garcetti added, before saying that he didn’t believe the medication meddling was “really crossing the line.”
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Garcetti told GMA’s George Stephanopoulos that he had only recently found out about the new details after he agreed to participate in the ESPN Documentary “O.J. Made In America.”
The pair of gloves—one of which was found at Simpson’s home while the other turned up at the slaying scene of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman—were never supposed to be tried on during cross-examination, Garcetti also revealed.
“It was never supposed to happen,” Garcetti said. “Chris Darden and Marcia Clarke were never supposed to ask O.J. to try on the glove. He had probably been working out his hand, developing muscle in his hand and we knew that the glove would shrink. It’d been in the elements. It’s leather,” he said, adding that Cochran’s defense team likely provoked them to make the request.
The bombshell moment when Simpson tried on the gloves and they fit his hands awkwardly was a factor in the former football star’s not-guilty verdict and also inspired Cochran’s oft-repeated line.
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The O.J. Simpson trial has reemerged in popular culture lately due to the FX drama series “The People v. O.J. Simpson and the well-reviewed ESPN doc, directed by Ezra Edelman.
The documentary retells the story of Simpson’s stardom in the NFL, his crossover success in Hollywood and his racially murder trial and subsequent imprisonment from unrelated robbery and kidnapping charges.
Simpson was acquitted in the headline-grabbing criminal trial but was later found liable for his ex-wife and Goldman’s death in a civil lawsuit brought by the victim’s families.
The A.V. Club called the new ESPN documentary about Simpson “essential viewing.”
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