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Fingering the Glove...
...same chemistry. Before this court, however, Clark could not, or would not, link O.J. definitively to the carnage. Detectives admitted that they could find no footprints at his estate to match the bloody ones leading from the murder. Nor could a slit be found on the much prized glove to correspond with a cut on Simpson's finger. On Friday, Simpson cried as a coroner reviewed diagrams of the victims' dozens of wounds; but the descriptions posed a new puzzle: Could a lone assailant have done all that damage that swiftly...
...that glove that defense lawyer Shapiro wanted ruled out of bounds. Shapiro argued that it had been collected during a search without a warrant. According to the exclusionary rule, which enforces the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unlawful searches and seizures, illegally procured evidence cannot be admitted at trial, however vital it may be to proving guilt. Thus for two days, the hearing turned itself inside out as investigating detectives found themselves having to explain their own actions rather than Simpson...
Midway through this he encountered Kaelin, heard his tale of bumps in the night, rushed to the service path and discovered the glove. "My heart started pounding," Fuhrman told the court. "I realized what I had finally found" -- presumably the possible key to a double murder. The officer stressed that it was not something he had been looking for: "I was kind of taken aback by the whole event," he said. "We didn't go up there for this...
Judge Kennedy-Powell believed him. Explaining that she could find "no holes" in the detectives' claims, she declared the Fourth Amendment "alive and well" and untainted. She accepted the glove as evidence. In the spectator section, Nicole Simpson's father wept with relief...