OJ Simpson gloves tampered with, Christopher Darden says

If it doesn't fit … it must have been tampered with.

At least that's what OJ Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden said on Thursday in New York City, according to Reuters.

He resurrected some old wounds by telling a Pace Law School panel discussion that the late Johnnie Cochran tampered with the now infamous gloves during Simpson's murder trial 17 years ago.

Reuters reported today that Darden believes Cochrane tore the lining in the extra-large gloves, making them harder for Simpson to put on his hands.

"A bailiff told me the defense had it during the lunch hour," Darden told the panel, part of Pace's Trials and Errors series focusing on controversial cases in American legal history.

"It's been my suspicion for a long time that the lining has been manipulated."

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A jury acquitted Simpson in the murder cases of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

When Simpson, a former NFL star and actor, tried to wear gloves similar to those recovered from the murder scene, they appeared at least two sizes too small.

That prompted Cochran, who died in 2005 from a brain tumor at age 67, to say, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

One of Simpson's defense lawyers, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, told Reuters on Friday that Darden should take responsibility for his mistake.

Dershowitz said it was wrong for Darden to allow Simpson to try the gloves on for the first time in open court.

"Having made the greatest legal blunder of the 20th century, he's trying to blame it on the dead man," Dershowitz said.

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