The creators of the FX mini-series The People V. O.J. Simpson have just been handed a gift from the TV gods and they are taking full advantage of it.
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Former Los Angeles County prosecutor Marcia Clark, the lead attorney on the O.J. Simpson murder case, is weighing in on the Friday discovery of a knife found on Simpson’s previously owned Brentwood estate.
Police are now looking into whether that knife could be the weapon used to murder Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
TMZ said it’s not clear when the knife was found, though a Los Angeles police officer who came to possess it apparently kept it at his home for years as a memento.
Forensic experts will try to determine if this “evidence is in fact evidence or it’s just a facsimile or a made up story”, Neiman said.
Upon learning of the knife, superiors at the LAPD immediately demanded that he bring it in for analysis.
A jury acquitted Simpson in 1995 after deliberating only four hours. Under double jeopardy law Simpson can not be tried again for the crime. Never mind that the chain of evidence has been trashed.
Simpson, setting off speculation today that it could be the murder weapon used against Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994.
The knife is now being tested for hair and fingerprints.
“As I explained at the beginning”, Neiman said, “any case that we don’t have a conviction on all of the charges or we’re not able to prove to our satisfaction that we’ve proved the facts of the case, remains an open case”.
“For them to now consider spending taxpayer dollars to run a test on this supposed knife I think is really a waste of limited taxpayer resources”, he continued. He wanted to get it framed to hang on his wall, according to TMZ, an entertainment website, which broke the story.
Nieman declined to further describe the knife or identify the retired officer.
After finding the folding knife buried at the site, the worker gave it to the officer who was working security for a film crew in the area.
“I was dumbfounded by the media frenzy that follows what i think is a very ridiculous story” , attorney Carl Douglas said.
“To think that it would have any relevance whatsoever to circumstances surrounding the OJ Simpson case to me is outrageous”. In 1997, a civil court jury found Simpson liable for the slayings and awarded millions of dollars to the victims’ families.
The recently-recovered knife that was allegedly found on the estate of O.J. Simpson has been dismissed as “a joke” by the man in charge of construction on the estate at the time.
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He was convicted in Las Vegas in 2008 of kidnapping and robbery in a bungled attempt to recover memorabilia from his storied football career and was sentenced to a prison term of up to 33 years.
