Goldman Clothing

Questioned parallel-line impressions on Ron Goldman's jeans, a crime-scene envelope, and a piece of paper were examined through photographs, comparison boards, reports, and test impressions. Deedrick testified that Goldman's shirt could have produced an imprint above the right knee and that lines on the envelope and paper were consistent with the jeans; Bodziak testified that the circled marks he examined were not shoeprints.

Ron Goldman's crime-scene shirt, identified as LAPD Item 81 and displayed as People's 43F/43-F. The mold-affected, apparently bloodstained garment had a folded storage pattern and was sampled through cuttings 81-a through 81-h. Witnesses examined it for biological and trace material, bloodstaining, garment defects, and missing buttons; reported hair, fiber, and sharp-instrument findings and interpretations were disputed or characterized by the respective witnesses and advocates.

Bloodstained material designated Item 78 from the sole of Ron Goldman's boot, sampled at locations 78-A through 78-E and depicted in several exhibits. Cotton testified that PCR indicated a two-person mixture, with Simpson excluded and Nicole Brown Simpson and Goldman not excluded, while the RFLP result was consistent with Brown Simpson but inconclusive as to Goldman. Plaintiff's counsel and the prosecution characterized the stain as a mixture of the victims' blood and argued that it was cast-off from the murder weapon.

Ronald Goldman's blue jeans were identified as LAPD item no. 19 / DNA 59 and Item 79. Testimony addressed nine tested stains, one to three garment defects, a path through the outer and pocket layers described as consistent with a thigh wound, and extensive blood staining on the front and back; Deft's 1173-A through I summarized mixture results across multiple garments rather than the jeans alone.

Item 165 contained loose fibers and debris collected from the original Coroner's bag for Ron Goldman's shirt, while Item 285 was a Petrie dish containing debris scraped from the shirt on August 23, 1994. Photographs also showed a bindle recovered from beneath a shirt or jacket and bindle no. 75 recovered from beneath Goldman's shoes.

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.

Ronald Goldman's two socks, identified as Item 80 and examined on July 27; debris from the examination was identified as Item 162.

Ron Goldman's two crime-scene boots, packaged together in one evidence bag. The boots were examined for blood and debris, sole and cleat patterns, and a reportedly fresh toe cut whose left-or-right location varied among the sources; witnesses excluded or could not associate the footwear with the examined parallel-line or envelope marks.

People's 30 was a grocery bag containing Ron Goldman's white dress shirt and black dress pants, identified as his Mezzaluna work uniform and as the clothing he wore when he left the restaurant. Testimony described the clothes as found over a door in his apartment and retrieved on June 15, 1994, by Kimberly Goldman and her father; the bag also contained a handwritten green grocery list attributed to Patti Goldman.

Pair of shoes discussed during a DNA-evidence motion hearing after transfer from the LAPD Property Division to the Scientific Investigation Division.

Ronald Goldman's left shoe, designated item 78. Blood-positive toe areas were swatched; a larger swatch was sent to Cellmark and a smaller swatch was booked as item 174. Testimony stated that no substrate control was collected because nearby areas also tested positive with phenolphthalein.