YARMOUTH, Maine — Evidence of O.J. Simpson’s innocence was held back in the 1995 trial in which he was acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife and her friend in Los Angeles, one of his former lawyers says.
In the 20,000-word proposal for a book that never materialized, F. Lee Bailey tells of four people who could have bolstered Simpson’s case but never testified: a forensic scientist, an expert on battered women, a blood expert and a person whose possible testimony he says is the most important of the four: a man who might have seen the killers.
The defense team decided not to call any of the four to the witness stand out of fear that additional jurors would be dismissed and a mistrial declared if the eight-month trial didn’t soon end, Bailey wrote.
Simpson was found not guilty. Most Americans are convinced that he is guilty, Bailey said, but the document — which he wrote in 2007 as a book proposal and published on his website Sunday — might convince some doubters that Simpson is innocent.
The Associated Press
