-- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2.
-- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2.[Image] [Image] Police Downplay Chance of New Clue in Killings Knife Found Near Simpson Home [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image] U.S. ABCNEWS.com HEADLINES April 30 � A pocketknife has been found near O.J. Simpson�s former home and turned over to a police crime lab for tests, authorities said today. Construction crews working near Simpson�s former home in Brentwood, Calif., discovered the pocketknife, the Los Angeles Police Department said. But police downplayed speculation that the knife could be connected to the stabbing and slashing deaths of Simpson�s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The knife �contained nothing of evidentiary value,� police said. [Image] Simpson was acquitted of criminal charges in the 1994 slayings. A civil jury later found [Image] the former football star liable for the [Image] [deaths. Former Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman, who in 1996 pleaded no contest to perjury charges stemming from his testimony in Simpson�s criminal trial, seized upon the discovery as possible vindication. He said the knife could be important evidence. �What are the odds, that across the street from a man charged with murder, that he used a Swiss army knife, with a lock-back design and a serrated blade, has an empty knife box in a house...and right across the street you find the knife that goes in the box?� Fuhrman told radio station KXLY in Spokane, Wash. But ABC legal analyst Royal Oakes says that even if the knife were linked to Simpson, it would be too late for any criminal case. �Even if smoking-gun type evidence were to be found pointing to Simpson�s guilt, the double jeopardy rule prevents the government from putting him on trial again,� Oakes said. [Image] [Image] Copyright (c)1998 ABCNEWS and Starwave [Image] [Image] Corporation. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, [Image] broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in any form.
