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From: Jasper
Date: 12 Jul 2000
Time: 11:45:49
Charlie,
Powerful observations.
The hair on the glove always struck me as being key to the killer's identity for the obvious reason plus some that weren't so obvious. We knew that it didn't belong to anyone that the prosecution said came in close proximity of the glove before, during or after the killing; namely: O.J., Fung, Yamauchi, Ron, Nicole or Fuhrman - black African, East Asian, Caucasian. Phillips' name is out of place. Actually, Fuhrman's is, too. It was the Bundy glove that Fuhrman was photographed pointing to with his bare hand near the opening of the glove. That's where the hair was found on the Rockingham glove. Phillips, supposedly came nowhere near either glove.
We know that there should have been some naturally shed, black African limb hairs in the glove if O.J. wore them at any time. There was no evidence produced during the criminal trial that there were any in either glove. However, Marcia got away with saying in her summation that such hairs WERE found in one of the gloves without objection from the defense. I think there were - and I think it was easy to prove they were transplanted from O.J.'s missing glove. I think she slipped in bringing it up and the defense allowed her to get away with it because it was a double-edged sword that could have hurt either side if they addressed the issue head on.
Now, here's the part that gets me. If the killer intended to wear the gloves to set O.J. up, he would have worn long-sleeved latex gloves to insure that no trace evidence from his hand ended up on the cashmere inside lining of the Aris Lights. Despite the OBVIOUS evidence and the anonymous tip given to Steven Singular that Fuhrman planted the Rockingham glove, I found that the evidence he didn't is far more compelling. I found that the one person who could have was Fuhrman's "silent" partner, Brad Roberts.
Once again, why did Marcia exclude Fuhrman and PHILLIPS, when Fuhrman's partner, and the one detective unaccounted for when Fuhrman was finding out what Kato heard and when he heard it was Brad Roberts.
Before your post I was convinced that Marcia didn't want Roberts to testify because she didn't what Robert Heidstra to hear his voice. I still think that had something to do with it, but now I'm beginning to wonder if the bigger issue with her was the identity of the hair in the glove. I'm beginning to wonder if she knew who it belonged to all along. Roberts would have been the logical guy to check if only to prove that neither Fuhrman nor Roberts planted the glove….
The danger I see in DNA testing is not with close-but-no-cigar matches, but in the integrity of the DNA chain of custody. A sample switch will give you a perfect match every time no matter how many markers are used. That's how "O.J.'s blood" ended up "on Bundy." If you can't insure the integrity of the evidence gatherers and processors, DNA could be the single most potent tool for framing innocent people that the world has ever seen. The more sophisticated the test, the more convincing the frame. --Jasper