Quite possibly one of the most stunning examples of ineptitude was the decision not to call the witness who was walking his dog and saw a black man speeding away in a White Bronco from the street where the murder had just occurred. The prosecution were worried that he would be discredited as he wrongly guessed the time to be about 20 minutes too late.Dargo wrote: ↑April 12th, 2024, 9:34 amYep, and then, and perhaps even more importantly, there was their total and complete mishandling and failure in presenting to the jury the whole Mark Fuhrman issue.Feinberg wrote: ↑April 12th, 2024, 8:02 amNot to beat a dead horse, but I just recalled Bugliosi's utter disdain for Darden's summation in which he said to the jury (paraphrasing), "I know that you don't want to convict this man ... I don't want to either ... but ..."
Right there, Bugliosi sated that Darden gave the jury the rope that they needed to acquit Simpson without a second thought.
I mean, did any of the prosecutors even attempt to laugh out loud and call out the absolute absurdity and use of hyperbole by the Defense comparing him to a certain German who sported a funny little mustache?
As I recall, no, they didn't.
(...and that's where I've always thought was where the incompetent duo of Clark and Darden REALLY lost their case)
They didn't enter OJ's suicide note where he practically confessed because they were worried the jury would feel sorry for him.
And instead of going into detail of how he practically decapitated his wife they constantly deferred to his celebrity.