Goldman Clothing

Questioned parallel-line impressions found on the front right leg of Ron Goldman's blue jeans, a crime-scene envelope, and a triangular piece of paper — analyzed by Dr. Henry Lee, FBI Agent Deedrick, and FBI Agent Bodziak. Test impressions of the jeans were made using an Identicator chemical transfer kit on August 21 and August 31, 1994 without prior defense notice; comparison boards, photographs, and LAPD reports were introduced. Goldman's boots and shirt were evaluated and excluded as impression sources; Deedrick opined the shirt could have produced the imprint above the right knee, while Bodziak concluded the circled marks were not shoeprints.

A series of crime-scene and laboratory photographs depicting Ron Goldman's boots, including close-ups of the soles, cuts near the toe area consistent with kicking at an attacker, blood and soil deposits, and a photograph showing one boot's proximity to the right-hand leather glove. A board of three photographs showing cuts and damage was also introduced.

A series of photographs depicting Ron Goldman's shirt as physical evidence, including images of the shirt as received from the Coroner's office folded in its bag, the shirt stretched out during LAPD laboratory examination, a close-up of the cotton-label, and a photograph showing blood staining on the garment.

A series of photographs depicting Ron Goldman's blue jeans as evidence, showing blood-staining patterns including continuous staining from beltline to bottom, heavy saturation on the back, and views of stab defects and blood distribution used by medical examiners and forensic experts to reconstruct wound paths.

The blue jeans Ron Goldman was wearing at the time of the murders (LAPD Item 19 / Item 79). DNA testing by Gary Sims revealed stains from multiple contributors; pathologists identified one to three stab defects with penetration through the outer layer and pocket layer consistent with the thigh wound. Heavy blood saturation was documented on both front and back, and D1S80 testing identified mixture patterns consistent with both victims, with Simpson excluded.

Analytical exhibits and an FBI report documenting hair evidence found on Ron Goldman's shirt. An FBI report dated September 7, 1994 identified a hair fragment designated Q23 as consistent with O.J. Simpson. Comparison charts contrasting known Simpson head hairs against questioned hairs from the shirt and the Bundy knit cap were introduced, along with a photograph of the Q23 fragment and a hair exemplar (K18).

The shirt Ron Goldman was wearing at the time of the murders, collected by the Los Angeles County Coroner's office (LAPD Item 81). It bore multiple stab defects — counts vary between three and six across different expert analyses — with buttons torn from positions 3, 5, and 6, consistent with a violent struggle. FBI Agent Deedrick identified a Negroid head hair (designated Q23) and Negroid limb hairs consistent with O.J. Simpson, along with abundant blue-black cotton fibers; mold growth developed during storage, complicating pattern analysis, and a three-quarter-inch stab cut consistent with a single-edged knife was documented.

The blood stain collected from the bottom of Ron Goldman's boot at the Bundy crime scene (LAPD Item 78). Sub-samples designated 78-A through 78-E were subjected to RFLP and PCR DNA testing; results showed a mixture consistent with both victims, with Simpson excluded from the RFLP profile. The stain was characterized as possible cast-off from the murder weapon. Chain of custody included swatching by Yamauchi on July 20, 1994, and cutting by Dr. Blake on July 28, 1994; defense counsel extensively cross-examined lab handling.

Debris items collected from the Coroner's transport bags for Ron Goldman's clothing: loose fiber and soil bindles from the shirt bag (LAPD Item 165) and a Petrie dish of debris scraped from the shirt during an August 23, 1994 examination conducted with FBI Agent Deedrick (LAPD Item 285). A photograph of bindle no. 75 recovered from beneath Goldman's shoes was also introduced.

Analytical charts and exemplars comparing cotton fibers from Ron Goldman's clothing, including charts of known cotton fibers from the shirt with microscopic photographs, a comparison of known jeans cotton fibers against questioned fibers from the shirt, a chart showing a blue-black cotton fiber wrapped around a Nicole Brown-consistent hair, and a three-photograph fiber-comparison board examining blue-black cotton fibers recovered from the shirt.

The socks Ron Goldman was wearing at the time of the murders (LAPD Item 80), collected by the Coroner's office and examined for trace evidence. Photographs of the socks introduced as People's 427 showed debris present approximately one month after collection.

A white dress shirt and black dress pants — Goldman's Mezzaluna restaurant waiter uniform — found draped over a bedroom door inside his apartment on June 15, 1994, retrieved by his sister Kimberly Goldman and their father. The clothing was stored in a Vons Pavilion grocery bag along with a handwritten grocery list on green paper belonging to Patti Goldman; introduced as People's Exhibit 30 and identified by multiple witnesses as the attire Goldman wore when he left Mezzaluna that evening.

The boots Ron Goldman wore at the time of the murders, examined for footwear impressions, trace evidence, and injury evidence. Experts identified a fresh cut to the rubber toe area of the left boot consistent with a sharp instrument, along with soil, blood, and trace evidence (hair and fiber) embedded in the soles and heel. FBI Agent Bodziak examined the sole pattern and cleat configuration; the boots were ruled out as the source of parallel-line imprints found on Goldman's jeans and crime-scene paper.