I never really paid attention to the case when younger because it was simply information overload. All news was about it. Even the sitcoms mentioned it. We were being flooded with OJ Simpson Murder Trial information.
It wasn't until now that I have ever actually tried to read anything about the case. This is some blurbs from the wikipedia page:
- "Jill Shively, a Brentwood resident who testified that she saw Simpson speeding away from the area of Nicole's house on the night of the murders, told the grand jury that the Bronco almost collided with a
Nissan at the intersection of Bundy and San Vicente Boulevard.
[3] Another grand jury witness, Jose Camacho, was a knife salesman at Ross Cutlery. He said he had sold Simpson a 15-inch (380 mm) German-made knife, similar to the murder weapon, three weeks before the killings.
[3] Shively and Camacho were not presented by the prosecution at the criminal trial because they had sold their stories to the tabloid press.
[34] Shively had talked to the television show
Hard Copy for $5,000,
[34] and Camacho sold his story to the
National Enquirer for $12,500."
So, a witness that places him at the crime scene and a witness that posible sold him the murder weapon could not tesitfy in the criminal case because they wanted cash to talk to the tabloids.