1.   Prosecutors attempted to cut their losses the other day by forcing Simpson to try on a new pair of gloves that was said to replicate the murder gloves.

2.   Darden left the courtroom Tuesday carrying a fistful of new leather gloves similar to the ones prosecutors have sought to portray as the murder gloves.

3.   Those fit, and Darden suggested the murder gloves had shrunk.

4.   In what was considered a major blunder by the prosecution, Simpson was ordered to try on the actual murder gloves on Thursday.

5.   The courtroom demonstration was intended to offset the damage to their case Thursday when the former football star was unable to slip the actual murder gloves onto his hands.