Dr. Irwin Golden performed the original autopsies on both Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, but the prosecution made the striking decision never to call him to the stand. Instead, his superior, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, testified at length about the autopsy findings while acknowledging roughly thirty errors Golden had made — though none, Lakshmanan maintained, affected the ultimate conclusions about cause of death or the murder weapon. The prosecution's choice to sideline its own autopsy pathologist became a point the defense seized on, highlighting Golden's absence as a sign the People lacked confidence in the work underpinning their forensic case.