Christopher Darden says a new O.J. Simpson witness came forward last week

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LOS ANGELES - Christopher Darden, the criminal lawyer who retreated from public life after O.J. Simpson's acquittal, says people are still coming forward about the 21-year-old case - including a woman who called him just last week to say she saw something that might've tipped the scales toward conviction.

Darden has given precious few interviews in the past 20 years, but appeared Monday on The Adam Carolla Show - in no small part because Carolla's podcast regularly features their mutual friend, prominent Los Angeles defense attorney Mark Geragos, who also joined the podcast.

And whereas Darden is usually very guarded, he opened up for Carolla, telling the comedian that the Simpson case severely dented his rising legal career; that the prosecution suffered mightily from the "speedy trial"; and that they had all kinds of crazy ideas about how to deal with those ill-fitting gloves.

But the most intriguing of Darden's revelations was that potential witnesses have been coming out of the woodwork in the years since.

"After the trial and after he was acquitted, some people developed a conscience," Darden said. "And people began to come forward. I got a phone call not a week ago from a woman who told me that the night of the murders, she saw O.J. Simpson on Bundy [the street where Nicole Brown lived]."

Trial witnesses testified to seeing a white Bronco at the Brown residence that night, and hearing a man's voice, but no eyewitness had emerged to place Simpson - who had said he was on his way to the airport - at the scene of the murders.

Darden said the woman told him she saw the former football superstar walk right in front of her car. "She was near Nicole's place. And she saw him, recognized him as O.J. Simpson, went on about her business, and as the trial went on, she just decided to not get involved."

He said he believed the woman, like many others with potential key evidence or testimony, figured there was plenty enough evidence for a conviction already in hand.
Speed kills: Why the case was lost

Darden said if the district attorney's office had taken its time filing the criminal case - which would've allowed them to pull together all the forensic evidence - O.J. Simpson's legal team would've been in trouble. But the defense pounced, declining to ask for more time.

Darden, brought aboard late to help litigate the case after it was filed, saw that as a key mistake.

"The entire time the prosecution was backpedaling because they filed the case too quickly," he said. "Didn't have all the forensic evidence in. All the DNA analysis. You didn't have all that time it takes to look for those Bruno Maglis [Simpson's shoes that were crucial to winning the civil case] ... instead they quickly filed the case. And that's the best thing that [could've happened for the defense]."

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