In the four months separating the first and second interviews (March 30–August 1, 1995), much had happened in the Simpson case. Prosecutors had presented the final twenty witnesses of their case-in-chief and Simpson's defense team had presented thirty-three of the fifty-three witnesses it would eventually call (Schmalleger 1996). During this period, a multitude of LAPD, California Department of Justice, and FBI agents and criminalists would testify that physical evidence – blood DNA, human hairs, and shoe prints – conclusively tied Simpson to the murder scene, and the victims to blood found in his Bronco and on items at his Rockingham home. Defense attorneys, of course, had endeavored to discredit and/or impeach these witnesses, their efforts reaching a crescendo, perhaps, with defense attorney Barry Scheck's much-heralded cross-examination of LAPD criminalist Dennis Fung (April 3, 5, 11–14, and 17–18, 1995).

Finally, in what many observers up to that point had described as the nadir of the prosecution's case, prosecutor Christopher Darden asked Simpson to try on the bloody gloves in court. Simpson stood before the jury, wrestled with pulling the leather gloves over the latex ones protecting his hands, and finally announced that the gloves did not fit (June 15–16, 1995). Although prosecutors would suggest that Simpson was acting – and later offer testimony indicating the gloves had shrunk and that the latex gloves further altered the fit – many trial observers felt the impression had already been made: the gloves did not fit.