🧪 Photograph of purple-top EDTA blood tubes (Exhibit 1258)
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Photograph of purple-top EDTA blood tubes (Exhibit 1258)

Photograph of purple-top blood-collection tubes containing EDTA, identified as exhibit 1258. Martz described two pictured tubes as containing blood from Simpson and Nicole Simpson, while stating that he assumed the latter was collected at autopsy.

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