Simpson Defensein Civil Trial

* Re “Defense Dealt Setback in Simpson Case,” Oct. 29:

O.J. Simpson’s defense counsel Robert Baker says that the failure of police to collect certain items of evidence “tells us about a rush to judgment.” But how could officers or criminalists know to whom the evidence pointed before it was analyzed? Is Baker suggesting someone looked at the blood drops on Nicole’s back and said, “Don’t collect those. They contain the DNA of the real killer”? Or, “Don’t look at that triangular piece of paper. It’s the one and only place the Colombian hit man left a foot print before broad jumping 50 feet to the parkway”?

In fact, every single piece of evidence that was collected and analyzed pointed directly to Simpson, and thank goodness there’s a judge this time who will confine the case to those facts, not wild, preposterous speculation.

BARRY P. GOLD

Los Angeles

* Simpson’s lawyers attacking the character of dead Nicole Brown Simpson (Oct. 25) is beyond belief. And to think that I thought lawyers had sunk to the lowest level possible. I guess I was wrong, as it seems the depth to which they will sink is nothing short of a bottomless pit.

ROBERT HIGGINS

Simi Valley

* Never in the course of human events has so much money been made by so many people off one trial (and it’s not over yet).

WILLIAM F. LANGLEY

Oxnard

* Gil Garcetti should drop the charade of possible prosecution of Al Cowlings. Given immunity, Cowlings will have to take the stand at the Simpson civil trial and tell the full story of what he knows.

DAWNA KAUFMANN

Los Angeles