ANOTHER JURY WATCHES SIMPSON STRUGGLE WITH GLOVES.

Byline: Anne Burke Daily News Staff Writer

The infamous O.J. Simpson glove demonstration was played out in a courtroom once again Wednesday, but this time jurors watched the dramatic display on a television screen instead of in real life.

Jurors appeared riveted looking at about a minute of video footage from Simpson's criminal trial, in which the former football star tugs and pulls at the size extra-large leather gloves to fit them over his hands.

Sound effects were about the only things missing Wednesday.

At the request of the plaintiffs' attorneys in Simpson's wrongful-death trial, the volume on the television was shut off, so jurors never heard the football star complaining, ``They don't fit,'' as he did during the actual demonstration.

Defense attorneys - over the plaintiffs' objections - played the footage to convince jurors that, since the gloves found outside Nicole Brown Simpson's townhome and Simpson's Brentwood estate did not fit Simpson, someone else must have been responsible for the June 12, 1994, slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Simpson looked away from his television image during much of the demonstration film, which showed him struggling to put on first the right, then the left glove, then raising his hands for the jury to see.

Despite Simpson's apparent difficulty in putting on the gloves, plaintiff expert Richard Rubin insisted Wednesday that they fit and were a pair.

``They fit with a poor quality fit, but they fit,'' Rubin, a former executive with Aris Isotoner, the gloves' manufacturer, testified. Rubin told jurors the gloves may have been hard to put on because they had shrunk and because Simpson had latex linings on his hands during the demonstration to preserve the evidence.

Plaintiffs' attorneys contend that the gloves are the same ones bought by Nicole Simpson for the defendant. They displayed for jurors several photographs purporting to show O.J. Simpson wearing the gloves while he worked as a sports commentator for NBC.

Simpson contends the evidence gloves were planted to frame him for murder.

Plaintiffs' attorneys also showed jurors a photograph of Simpson at a Buffalo Bills football game in 1993.

Later in the trial, they will claim that the photo shows Simpson wearing the same expensive Italian shoes that they believe the killer wore, but defense attorneys are expected to argue that the picture is not authentic.

Simpson was acquitted of criminal charges last year in the double slayings, but the victims' families filed a civil lawsuit.

In the courtroom Wednesday, the high school court intern who told USA Today that Simpson made suggestive remarks to her was back at work, but keeping quiet about the incident.