Officer Robert Riske was the first LAPD officer to arrive at 875 South Bundy Drive, where he discovered the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. His extended testimony across multiple days became an early battleground in the trial, as the defense's cross-examination systematically exposed evidence handling failures — including his ungloved handling of Nicole Simpson's phone and the absence of fingerprint dusting at the scene. Riske's time on the stand established a theme the defense would return to throughout the case: that the LAPD's crime scene procedures were fundamentally compromised from the very first moments of the investigation.