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Research Paper On The Oj Simpson Case

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The OJ Simpson case is a case that involves a lot of controversy. On June 13 1994, there were two murders that involved Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. The trial lasted for eleven months. OJ Simpson was accused of killing his ex-wife and her friend. There was a lot of evidence presented to prove that OJ Simpson committed the crime, however OJ Simpson was found “not guilty”. Although there was a lot of evidence to prove he was guilty, a lot of the evidence was contaminated because it wasn’t secured properly. The detectives that were in charge of the OJ Simpson case were Mark Fuhrman and Philip L. Vannatter. While they were investing the crime scene and collecting evidence, they made a lot of mistakes with packing the evidence. For example, …show more content…

Also as said in the article, “the blood samples were collected improperly” (USA Today). Since the blood samples were collected improperly, the dna evidence for the case became invalid. Moreover, during the investigation, the police found a shoe print at the crime scene. The article states that, “a bloody shoe print found….Simpson’s genetic type wasn’t present but his ex-wife’s genetic fingerprint was on it” (USA Today). The police used dna fingerprinting to find out whose blood it was. The police also used polymerase chain reaction as shown in document A. They used the pcr to find the locus of the chromosomes. As shown in document A, the police were able to find the location of a lot of chromosomes using pcr. Pcr is used to generate millions of the same dna sequence in a short amount of time. The dna sequence that contains a lot of base …show more content…

This made the jury of the trial be more cautious on their decision because the detective could have tried to put OJ Simpson in jail because of his race. Also the technology for DNA during the time was not very good, and evidence would not be packaged well as they do today. Many times, the evidence that was collected would become contaminated. Contaminated evidence played a big part in the OJ Simpson trial, therefore many of the jury began to believe that OJ Simpson was innocent. If the trial were to be held today, a lot of this OJ Simpson was able to get away with would not happen today. He wouldn’t be able to get away with it because evidence and analyzing DNA is a lot more precise and accurate. However, if I were a juror, I would have said that OJ Simpson was guilty because a lot of the evidence provided connected to OJ Simpson. Also if the trial was held in current day, I wouldn’t have to worry about the evidence being false or contaminated because it would have been checked a lot before being presented in

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