“LAPD investigates knife purportedly found at O.J. Simpson home ” He was working a movie job, which a lot of our officers do on an off-duty basis”, said Captain Andrew Neiman with the LAPD.
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After finding the knife at the perimeter of Simpson’s estate, the construction worker took the knife out to the street, where he saw a Los Angeles police officer.
Though some may doubt that any evidence can reasonably be found on the knife in the two-plus decades since Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman’s deaths, Clark says, “it’s entirely possible that if there is some DNA to be recovered, that it could be found, especially with today’s technology, which is much more sensitive”.
“If say, you know, the biological evidence, if this knife was preserved well, we can still find biological evidence”, said Lee.
Even if the latest is established to be the relevant weapon, Simpson can not be re-tried under the American justice system’s double-jeopardy ruling that precludes defendants being tried for crimes for which they were acquitted.
The retired officer was identified by TMZ, which initially broke the story, as 70-year-old George Maycott.
Dr. Irwin Golden, who served as the Deputy Medical Examiner, testified in the O.J. Simpson case and performed both autopsies, tells TMZ the folding buck knife could have severely cut both victims. I think it’s just filler.no one on my crew found anything”, Weber said regarding the alleged discovery.
“I think I would look somewhat skeptically at this new discovery because of the way in which it was discovered and how it was held for months and months and months”, Dershowitz said.
He added that the department could not take administrative action against the former officer as he had since retired.
Since Simpson was found not guilty the case is still open. “I personally hope this puts to rest all the negativity surrounding him”, Kessler said.
In their version of events, a construction worker discovered the knife in 2003 while working on the property where O.J.’s house had once stood.
Nicole Brown-Simpson had divorced the former football star. Despite an exhaustive, high-profile investigation after the June 1994 killings, the murder weapon was never found. “We never found it”.
Simpson is now serving a nine to 33-year sentence in state prison due to his October 2008 conviction charges for armed robbery and kidnapping.
The characteristics and condition of the knife, which had no traces of blood, were inconsistent with the weapon used to murder Brown and Goldman, sources told NBC. He isn’t eligible for parole until 2017.
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Simpson’s dramatic acquittal in 1995 in what was dubbed America’s “trial of the century” is back in the public eye in the current US Fox TV mini-series American Crime Story: The People vs OJ Simpson.
