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A. Harrison Barnes, Founder and CEO, BCG Attorney Search |
Your Success is a Product of the Procedures You Follow
Harrison Barnes | Dated:07-04-2009
Like many people at the time, I was pretty fascinated with the first trial of O.J. Simpson. The court days were long, droning on–and I never could watch for more than an hour or two at a time. One thing I remember quite well about the trial, however, was the emphasis that the defense placed on the procedures followed when the police arrived at the crime scene where Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson were found brutally murdered. Numerous times during the trial, various videos were shown, highlighting the fact that the police officers on the scene had allegedly not followed proper procedure in their collection of information at the crime scene.
Several police officers were questioned by the defense, and the crux of the defense team’s argument was centered around whether or not the investigators had followed the correct procedures and protocol. Based on what I could tell from the trial, numerous police procedures were not carried out properly in the investigation of the murders. After the trial, when I listened to one juror during an interview, he stated that he had been very upset that the police had not followed correct investigative procedures.
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