Prosecutors Revive Bloody Glove Theory

O.J. Simpson’s chief prosecutor suggested Monday she might use photographs and videotapes to link the ex-football star to a pair of bloody gloves that have become the Achilles’ heel of the case against him.

Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark didn’t disclose how she would prove that the gloves Simpson wore while broadcasting from wintry football sidelines were the same gloves worn as he allegedly stabbed to death his ex-wife and her friend.

At a hearing in which the defense asked Superior Court Judge Lance Ito to bar prosecutors from presenting the pictures and videos, the judge asked Clark, “Can you establish the foundation that those gloves are the same gloves?”

“Yes, I can,” she replied confidently.

After a pause, Ito said, “Interesting.”

The bloodstained gloves have haunted the prosecution since Simpson was asked to try them on in court. Simpson tugged and pulled on them and told jurors they were too small. Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden later had Simpson try on new gloves of the same style. Those fit, and Darden suggested the murder gloves had shrunk.