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From the start, no one doubted that the prosecution could accomplish the simple goal of this hearing: to convince Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell that there is sufficient evidence to justify bringing Simpson to trial. Yet for most people, the real point was to learn precisely what evidence the prosecution had assembled. As it turned out, there was plenty. In the first two days of a hearing expected to continue at least through this week, it became apparent that lead prosecutor Marcia Clark and her team had gathered some devastating material, including enough scenes of blood to splice together a horror...
...WEAPON. Though they went to court without a murder weapon, prosecutors left no doubt that they believe they know what it was. The owner of a Los Angeles cutlery shop and a salesclerk testified that five weeks before the killings, Simpson bought a 15-in. stiletto with a 6-in. folding blade; before paying, he had it sharpened. To help the courtroom visualize such a knife, co- prosecutor William Hodgman displayed glossy photographs showing a duplicate of the stiletto that he said Simpson had purchased. This was followed by hints that a coroner would offer testimony to prove that...
...BLOOD. Police say they went to Simpson's home after midnight on June 13 to tell him of his ex-wife's murder. On arrival they spotted bloodstains on the outside of the driver-side door of Simpson's Ford Bronco and a trail of blood leading from the driveway to the house. When it turned out that O.J. was not at home, one of the officers entered the grounds by climbing a wall, then admitted the others, who proceeded to search the house and grounds. In all, police found 13 places where blood was splashed around the car, including...
...that evidence could be decisive if the prosecution is permitted to use it at a trial. It came to light only because of a defense motion to suppress 34 items collected by police. Shapiro maintains that they were gathered illegally because detectives searched Simpson's house for nearly six hours before obtaining a warrant. Even the warrant is illegal, he says, because in their effort to get it, police claimed that Simpson had fled when in fact he had taken a long-planned business trip. Under some circumstances -- say, for instance, when police fear that evidence will be destroyed -- warrantless...
...ENVELOPE. With a lawyerly touch, Shapiro produced a sealed envelope containing evidence that he would not identify. When he objected to having it opened at that moment, Judge Kennedy-Powell ordered both sides to submit briefs on how they think it should be unsealed. What's inside -- Simpson's stiletto...