LA police testing knife found buried at OJ Simpson's former estate - Polidicks

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/04/la-police-recover-blood-stained-knife-found-buried-on-oj-simpsons-estate.html[/url] [QUOTE]A knife found buried under O.J. Simpson’s former Los Angeles estate where he lived at the time of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman is undergoing forensic testing, Fox News confirmed Friday. TMZ reports a construction worker found the knife years ago and gave it to an off-duty cop who kept it in his home before finally turning it over to police in January. TMZ did not specify when the knife was found, but reported that it may have been around the time the home was destroyed in 1998.[/QUOTE]

What a shit show

Why wasn't the knife turned over sooner, keeping it as a sort of trophy is fucked up

Well they said the house was torn down in 1998. Maybe it was part of another crime and is there coincidentally? People ditch stuff in construction zones all the time. Guess we'll find out that answer when the report of when the knife was found, comes out.

If it turns out being related to the OJ case, wouldn't there be nothing they could do because of double jeopardy?

i don't get why someone would bury a murder weapon on their own property when they could drop it in a random dumpster, never to be found again

I'm amazed that this has happened when [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071cm1b"]this [/URL]has been airing the past few weeks over here (probably airing in America but i don't live there so i wouldn't know) .

[QUOTE=Bawp;49868691]If it turns out being related to the OJ case, wouldn't there be nothing they could do because of double jeopardy?[/QUOTE] Yep. It's all moot anyway as the man is going to die from Chronic Encephalopathy.

[QUOTE=27X;49868808]Yep. It's all moot anyway as the man is going to die from Chronic Encephalopathy.[/QUOTE] Death does not serve as justice. Regardless, given how many hands have already touched that knife, any accusation would be quickly disarmed.

[QUOTE=27X;49868808]Yep. It's all moot anyway as the man is going to die from Chronic Encephalopathy.[/QUOTE] Well, and he's already serving a 33 year prison sentence. btw [url]http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/knife-found-o-j-simpson-property-inconsistent-killings-sources-n532091[/url]

Was there any other court case that was as dramatic and shocking as OJ's? It's the only time I was ever interested in watching the entire thing

[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;49870388]Well, and he's already serving a 33 year prison sentence. btw [/QUOTE] He could be out next year.

[QUOTE=Bawp;49868691]If it turns out being related to the OJ case, wouldn't there be nothing they could do because of double jeopardy?[/QUOTE] If substantial evidence arises you can be retried

[QUOTE=Tarver;49870408]Was there any other court case that was as dramatic and shocking as OJ's? It's the only time I was ever interested in watching the entire thing[/QUOTE] Doubt it. I was reading about it because I never really knew anything about the trial and the wikipedia stated that[QUOTE=Wikipedia]An estimated 100 million people worldwide stopped what they were doing to watch or listen to the verdict announcement. Long-distance telephone call volume declined by 58% and trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange by 41%, water usage decreased as people avoided using bathrooms, and government officials postponed meetings. So much work stopped that the verdict cost an estimated $480 million in lost productivity.[/QUOTE]

i doubt they would find any DNA on the knife after this long, especially if it were buried in the ground for years

[QUOTE=No Party Hats;49870471]If substantial evidence arises you can be retried[/QUOTE] Not under double jeapordy. The only way a case gets retried is if there was substantial issues with the way the case was handled in terms of law enforcement or the court itself. The can however try a new case under different charges, such as second degree murder instead of first.

If they find something it seems as though the police officer should face some kind of charge.

[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;49870623]Not under double jeapordy. The only way a case gets retried is if there was substantial issues with the way the case was handled in terms of law enforcement or the court itself. The can however try a new case under different charges, such as second degree murder instead of first.[/QUOTE] They can try a new case but not on the same alleged action. You could try getting someone for perjury if they lied on the stand about an alibi or something, but you can't just keep throwing different degrees of murder at something.

[QUOTE]TMZ[/QUOTE] It's probably safe to ignore anything that you've read.

Tons of knives have been turned in over the years with stories about how they got the knife and how it is the murder weapon. This is only in the news now because of the new show and it being the 20 year anniversary.

[QUOTE=Bradyns;49872879]It's probably safe to ignore anything that you've read.[/QUOTE] I fucking hate these people, they're legal stalkers with a TV show.

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;49868786]i don't get why someone would bury a murder weapon on their own property when they could drop it in a random dumpster, never to be found again[/QUOTE] Also why they wouldn't clean the fucking blood and fingerprints off of it.

[QUOTE=Sleepy Head;49870381]Death does not serve as justice.[/QUOTE] Don't suppose you can justify this idea beyond an argument based on emotions, can you? I mean, the man murdered two people and got away with it; brutally murdered them at that (look up videos and photographs of people who have had their throats slashed and have been killed with knives sometime... it's not a pleasant sight, and I can only imagine how awful it must've been for them as they were dying). Death from a degenerative brain disease (CTE) that will gradually rob him of his ability to speak, hear, control his own body's movements, hell even do so much as think thoughts (etc.) before it actually kills him in the end seems like poetic justice in the truest sense of the term. [editline]5th March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;49868786]i don't get why someone would bury a murder weapon on their own property when they could drop it in a random dumpster, never to be found again[/QUOTE] Not thinking properly. Very few killers are calculating individuals who know what they're doing. I was reading about a shooting that happened in Brazil (I think) the other day where the guy who assassinated this cop in the street accidentally turned right around after he'd done it and ran headfirst into a streetlight pole. He got up and ran away, but he was clearly freaked out by what he had done, and he got jittery and anxious... and the result was him making a flub up in his attempt to get away. The point here being that he (Simpson) probably panicked, just wanted to get rid of the knife as quickly as possible, and so he buried it in a hurry. Assuming this is somehow related, I mean. Which is going to be hard to find out since it's been buried for as long as it has. Lots of criminals make stupid mistakes because they panic and don't do everything that they should do in order to hide their involvement with whatever they did. Or because they're so fucking full of themselves they think they can get away with anything, and they'll never be caught.