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Everybody knows that Shakespeare's Othello condemned two people to death on the strength of false evidence against them. Iago was the real villain who contrived that evidence, mostly through the power of suggestion, to advance himself by way of Othello's downfall. In the next paragraph I'm going to use one of Iago's tricks to create a compelling illusion. Picture a man in a blue/black sweatsuit, with a blue knit cap on his head, and size 12 Bruno Magli shoes on his feet. He has a bloody leather glove on his right hand and a bloody knife in his fist. He is leaving the scene of a gruesome double homicide with a bad cut on the finger of his bare left hand. Who is he? You pictured O.J. Simpson, didn't you? Sure you did. You couldn't help it. The man I described couldn't be Simpson, because of subtle inconsistencies built into the picture that make it impossible for the picture to fit the man. The whole case is like that, full of clues that add up to O.J., and logic few people will bother to work out that doesn't. Indeed, radio and TV pundits routinely accuse those who have worked out the logic of the inconsistencies of ignoring the logic of the big picture, or being too stupid to see it. Who could have manipulated the evidence so convincingly if not the killer? How could the killer have been anyone other than the first detective on the scene linked in one way or another to O.J.'s current image and every bit of evidence against him? From chapter 19, "No Such Allegations": "What about Mark Fuhrman who manipulated blood evidence without even touching it? All he had to do was make timely suggestions that got the right people to see it his way—and they did. Who said the killer was bleeding from the left side? Mark Fuhrman. Who said the killer's blood trail led from Bundy to Rockingham? Mark Fuhrman. Who found the 2-degree angle at which O.J.'s Bronco was parked so extreme as to warrant his inspection? Mark Fuhrman. Who discovered a speck of blood on the Bronco's door, which led to the illegal search of O.J.'s estate? Mark Fuhrman. Who gave everyone the false idea that blood drops straddling the Rockingham gate were going in instead of coming out? Mark Fuhrman. So, when we read about the killer's blood trail, which eventually led Mark Fuhrman to the bloody glove on O.J.'s property, whose trail are we really following?" |
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