THE US Justice Department has launched an investigation of former Los Angeles detective Mark Fuhrman, one of the key investigators and witnesses in the trial.
Mr Fuhrman, who claimed to have found the bloody glove which was a pivotal piece of evidence in the sensational case, was discredited after tapes of him making racial slurs and talking about police misconduct based on race were played in court.
He had earlier denied, under oath, using the word 'nigger' in the past 10 years.
But on the tapes, made during interviews with a would-be screenwriter, he repeatedly used what came to be known in the US press as the 'N-Word'.
When Mr Fuhrman was called back to the witness stand after the tapes were played, he invoked the Fifth Amendment, which allows witnesses to refuse to give evidence which could incriminate them.
The tapes were handed over to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.