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TWO DECADES AFTER THE BRUTAL STABBINGS OF NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON AND RON GOLDMAN...
SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
"There it is, the infamous glove."
...THE EVIDENCE THAT RIVETED A NATION DURING THE OJ SIMPSON MURDER TRIAL.
SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
"Johnnie Cochran coined the phrase, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.'"
THE GLOVE, THIS HAT, ALL THE EVIDENCE FROM THE "TRIAL OF THE CENTURY" IS STORED IN A REFRIGERATED VAULT.
SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
"These gloves were much too small for his enormous hands. You have to realize he was a football player. He was a big man."
THE AP'S COURT REPORTER AT THE TIME, LINDA DEUTSCH, COVERED THE ENTIRE NEARLY YEAR-LONG TRIAL.
SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
"It seems impossible that it's 20 years. It seems like it was yesterday."
SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
"When Chris Darden and said, 'Mr. Simpson please try on the glove,' we all gasped."
THE FALLOUT FROM THAT DRAMATIC MOMENT WASN'T THE ONLY PROBLEM FOR THE PROSECTION.
SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
"The case was lost not just because of the glove."
NO KNIVES WERE EVER RECOVERED, THE DNA DIDN'T QUITE MATCH UP AND THE PROSECUTION'S STAR WITNESS WAS LAPD DETECTIVE MARK FURHMAN.
SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
"A detective who was tall and handsome and imposing - turned out to be a closet racist and also a liar. He was convicted of perjury after the trial."
TODAY, OJ REMAINS IN A NEVADA PRISON FOR AN ARMED ROBBERY AT A LAS VEGAS HOTEL.
SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
"He has said always that he didn't do it. And he has never changed that position. But the question always arises, who did do it if he didn't?"
WHICH IS WHY THE EVIDENCE WILL REMAIN LOCKED AWAY IN A POLICE WAREHOUSE.
RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, ASSOCIATED PRESS, LOS ANGELES

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