Gilbert Aguilar, a veteran LAPD fingerprint specialist with over ten years in the latent print section and more than 150,000 print comparisons to his name, was called by the defense to deliver a focused point: of the seventeen latent prints lifted from the Bundy crime scene, none matched O.J. Simpson. Johnnie Cochran walked him through his credentials and methodology before Christopher Darden moved to limit the damage on cross-examination, establishing that fingerprints cannot be recovered from leather gloves and that many potential sources at the scene were never compared. Aguilar's testimony occupied a single day but challenged the physical evidence case — if Simpson had been at that scene, the defense argued, his prints should have been there too.