Desperate lawmen have kept sinister secrets from the jury in the O.J. Simpson trial because they're terrified that he'll walk if they hear the whole story!
That's the startling charge O.J.'s defense team has leveled at the detectives and the district attorney's office in the winner-take-all court battle.
The cop's primary motivation was fear of the defense and the media, says O.J.'s team.
After Nicole Simpson's and Ron Goldman's bodies were taken away, worried police cleaned up the scene so completely there was nothing for defense experts to get their hands on, say O.J.'s lawyers.
Cops didn't call the coroner for hours after Officer Robert Riske first saw the bodies, because they feared the press would come with the coroner, say police witnesses.
Insiders also suggest that the LAPD's friction with the coroner's office was another reason they kept them in the dark.
Ironically, because the police waited and because the coroner didn't preserve some of the victim's vital organs, the prosecution was left with precious little detail of when Nicole and Ron actually died.
The other motivation for the cops was hatred of O.J., Cochran says.
The police force is rife with racism that reared its ugly head when a rich black man was charged with killing his white wife and her white male friend, charge insiders.
And Cochran says the cop who hates O.J. the most is Mark Fuhrman.
He and other defense lawyers believe Fuhrman planted the glove to frame O.J.
National Examiner Magazine
March 7 1995