L.A. Officers Testify They Found Just 1 Glove

Plugging holes left by prosecutors who failed to convict O.J. Simpson of murder, three police officers who reached the scene long before Mark Fuhrman said Monday they found only one bloody glove.

The officers also swore they saw blood on a back gate - blood Simpson’s criminal defense lawyers successfully claimed was planted three weeks after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Later Monday, Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki dealt Simpson a serious blow, rejecting his attorney Robert Baker’s complaint that police failed to preserve all the crime scene evidence.

“This is not a case against the Los Angeles Police Department for committing malpractice,” Fujisaki ruled. “You are not going to be able to talk about the evidence they didn’t find.”

Baker argued there were key questions about blood not collected from Nicole Simpson’s back, a piece of paper not collected from the crime scene and a lens from a pair of glasses that mysteriously disappeared.

“No,” the judge said, “that’s the kind of evidence that’s not coming in because it’s not relevant.”

Simpson was acquitted of murder last October. Now, the families of Goldman and Nicole Simpson are going after his money, seeking to hold him responsible for their wrongful deaths.