Expert: Simpson's Size 12 Foot Fits Crime-Scene Prints -- Sole Left Unique Marks, Says FBI Agent

LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson's foot size matches that of the shoe that left bloody prints leading from the slashed bodies of his ex-wife and her friend, an FBI expert testified today.

William Bodziak, who specializes in shoe prints, compared one of Simpson's size 12 tennis shoes to the size 12 sole of an unusual Italian shoe that appears to be the type that left prints outside Nicole Brown Simpson's home.

"For all practical purposes, (the shoes are) identical in the size and shape features," Bodziak said, holding the Italian shoe sole against the shoe seized from Simpson's house.

Authorities have said the killer wore size 12 Bruno Magli shoes with waffle soles. The shoes worn by the attacker have not been found.

Bodziak cited studies that showed only 9 percent of the U.S. population wear size 12 shoes and that a person with size 12 feet would be between 5 feet 11 and 6 feet 5. Simpson is 6-2.

The FBI agent also testified that the bloody shoe prints were left by shoes so unusual that the design couldn't be found in the records of the FBI and seven international law-enforcement agencies.

Bodziak finally found the Bruno Magli shoe that appeared to match the prints after a global search that included sending up to 80 letters to manufacturers and a visit to an Italian shoe-sole company.

Bodziak said this shoe is not in the FBI's computer database, which includes records back to 1937. Of international police agencies, only the National Police Agency in Tokyo had that shoe.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, said they have more evidence to present about the bloody gloves found at the crime scene and at Simpson's estate. Last week, the prosecution asked Simpson to try on the gloves. Standing in front of the jury, he struggled as he tried to pull the gloves over his hands.

Prosecutor Chris Darden revealed in a sidebar conversation last week that authorities have seized additional gloves from Simpson's house and "we will get into this later," according to a transcript released today.

"We have gotten gloves out of O.J.'s master bedroom and out of his drawer and they are all extra large, some are actually large," Darden said in the sidebar.

Prosecutors have said the gloves shrunk. The defense suggested Simpson wears size extra-extra large and there was no way the evidence gloves ever would have fit.

Upon hearing that authorities had obtained gloves from Simpson's house, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran said sarcastically, "I love when you guys get into stuff."

Meanwhile, outside the jury's presence, the defense argued successfully for more time to investigate new allegations of domestic violence. Judge Lance Ito scheduled a hearing on the subject for Wednesday. The allegations, from a baby-sitter and a personal trainer, were not among those approved by the judge earlier this year.

Two limousine drivers and the baby-sitter are on the prosecution's witness list to remind jurors why Simpson was allegedly capable of two brutal knife murders.

Among the witnesses expected to testify this week is Alfred Acosta, a chauffeur who has said that in the late 1980s, he picked up the Simpsons from a Beverly Hills nightclub and saw Simpson hit his then-wife in the face.

Another limo driver, Albert Aguilera, was expected to testify that he saw Simpson strike his wife and knock her to the ground at Victoria Beach in 1987.