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Problem:The examination of the knife came more than two decades after the former football player turned actor and announcer was tried in one of the highest-profile murder cases and acquitted by a jury. A civil trial, however, held Simpson liable for the two deaths and ordered him to pay $33 million. ||||| FILE - In this July 29, 1998 file photo, crews demolish the former home of O.J. Simpson in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. After nearly a month of testing, Los Angeles police detectives have concluded... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - In this July 29, 1998 file photo, crews demolish the former home of O.J. Simpson in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. After nearly a month of testing, Los Angeles police detectives have concluded a knife found during the demolition was not the weapon used to kill Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown... (Associated Press) 
  
 LOS ANGELES (AP) — After nearly a month of testing, Los Angeles police detectives have concluded a knife found at the former estate of O.J. Simpson was not the weapon used to kill Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. 
  
 Investigators ruled out the knife after weeks of forensic tests, Police Capt. Andy Neiman said Friday. "We have confirmed, we have determined, there is no nexus," he said. 
  
 Police revealed last month they had recently discovered the knife had been in the possession of a retired Los Angeles police officer for more than a dozen years. The officer said he received it from a construction worker who told him he had found it while working on a crew tearing down Simpson's old Brentwood estate. 
  
 Simpson was acquitted of stabbing to death his wife and Goldman on June 12, 1994, outside her condominium, which was not far from the estate. 
  
 Over the years, police have examined several knives, but have never found one they could connect to the killings. 
  
 Simpson, meanwhile, has steadfastly maintained that he did not kill his wife and her friend. 
  
 He is serving a sentence of nine to 33 years in a Nevada prison for a bungled 2007 Las Vegas hotel robbery in which the former football star tried to retrieve sports memorabilia he said had been stolen from him. After the items were seized from memorabilia dealers held at gunpoint, he was convicted of robbery and kidnapping. He is eligible for parole next year. 
  
 Investigators previously said it was unlikely this knife was the murder weapon, noting it was too small to inflict the damage the victims suffered. 
  
 A lawyer for retired Officer George Maycott has said the construction worker gave his client the knife after meeting him on a film set where the officer was providing security. 
  
 Attorney Trent Copeland said his client, who by then had retired, attempted to hand the knife over to the LAPD, but he was told there was no need because Simpson had been acquitted. |||||
Solution:
A knife found years ago at OJ Simpson's former property wasn't used by the former football star or anybody else to murder Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the LAPD has determined. A variety of forensic tests were carried out on the blade, which retired LAPD officer George Maycott said he was given in 2003 by a construction worker who claimed to have found it while tearing down Brown's old estate years earlier, the AP reports. "We have confirmed, we have determined, there is no nexus," LAPD Capt. Andy Neiman told reporters. Police had already said that the knife appeared smaller than the one that killed Brown Simpson and Goldman, which is still missing, the Los Angeles Times reports. Maycott's lawyer says his client, who gave the knife to investigators in February, has been "dragged through the village" for holding on to it for so long, even though he called the LAPD in 2003 and was told the case was over. "This is a retired police officer, a 70 year old man, who didn’t ask for this attention and did what he thought was the right thing back in 2003. And that was to call the LAPD and to let them know that he had a knife that was allegedly recovered on the property," the lawyer tells ABC. "And the fact that they chose not to act on that... can't be directed negatively towards him." Simpson, who is serving time in Nevada for robbery, was acquitted of the murders and can't be tried a second time, though he worried that the knife could affect his chances of being paroled next year.