 Defense attorney Robert Kardashian stated during an interview afterwards he had doubts about Simpson's innocence specifically because of the blood evidence and later severed ties with him and testified for the Goldmans during the civil trial.Defense attorney Alan Dershowitz stated during an interview after the trial the defense had concluded they could "not" raise reasonable doubt about all of the DNA evidence and instead attempted to elicit a cherry picking response from the jury whereby they would discard all of the DNA evidence against Simpson if they could show some of it was planted by the police.He said they did prove Vannatter planted Nicole Brown's blood on the sock despite Dr. Cotton debunking that claim at the civil trial.