The Goldman family is still trying to collect, and gets Simpson's residual payments from his movie performances.

That's funny. I hadn't heard about that. A couple of months ago I had to stop and watch a few minutes of Capricorn One in part because it's just so weird to see O.J. on screen.

Sybarite: The Goldman family is still trying to collect, and gets Simpson's residual payments from his movie performances.

That's funny. I hadn't heard about that. A couple of months ago I had to stop and watch a few minutes of Capricorn One in part because it's just so weird to see O.J. on screen.

I was a huge Police Squad fan. His appearances in it just ruins the fun for me now.

Just this once, is it okay to root for the banks?

I was a bit too young when his murder trial went on...but...with what little I have read about about it, how in the hell did he get off? I mean, Nicole Brown Simpson's DNA was actually in his car IIRC...

Endive Wombat: I was a bit too young when his murder trial went on...but...with what little I have read about about it, how in the hell did he get off? I mean, Nicole Brown Simpson's DNA was actually in his car IIRC...

Read the part about where a cop said "n*gger" on tape, and you'll understand.

SoCalSurfer: I never realized that the kardashians were the offspring of if the glove doesn't fit you must acquit until recently because I never cared enough to know. Now I do and I wish there were more white people on that jury

The jury rendered the correct verdict. Yes, OJ was guilty as hell, but no he should not have been convicted on the basis of the case put forward by the prosecution. The combination of police misconduct, basic incomptence by the crime lab and those charged with securing the evidence, and the worst prosecutors I've ever seen in a major murder trial, made the verdict a foregone conclusion.

Like the Casey Anthony trial, everyone hates the defendant and/or her lawyer for "getting away with murder" when the scorn and hatred should really be directed at the incomptent cops and prosecutors who screwed up a slam-dunk case

I wonder if I can stop paying my home load with J P Morgan/Chase because they consort with a known criminal element?

I only took the loan out with them because I thought it was Jaye P. Morgan.

Magorn: Like the Casey Anthony trial, everyone hates the defendant and/or her lawyer for "getting away with murder" when the scorn and hatred should really be directed at the incomptent cops and prosecutors who screwed up a slam-dunk case

I totally blame the prosecution there. They went for the death penalty...I think they would have won if they went for 20-life. As a juror, being one of the 12 that basically says "go die now" is probably a tough pill to swallow.

Endive Wombat: I was a bit too young when his murder trial went on...but...with what little I have read about about it, how in the hell did he get off? I mean, Nicole Brown Simpson's DNA was actually in his car IIRC...

Short answer? An idiot racist cop, crappy evidence techs, and incomptent prosecutors.

The idiot racist was Det. Mark Furhman who "found" (planted) the infamous bloody glove. The Guy who denied, under oath, ever once using the N-word, despite the fact that he was planning on moving to a white power enclave in Idaho, and had once given an interview on tape in which he dropped the N-bomb a few hundred times. Thus the prosecution's strongest evidence was suddenly made suspect.

The DNA evidence in the Bronco was rendered useless because the cops admitted after impounding OJ's vehicle, they neither locked it or did anything to restrict access to it. (so much so that a tabloid reporter was able to crawl around inside and get pictures AFTER it was in police custody. Once "Chain of custody" on evidence is broken, it become essentially useless.


Finally Clark and Darden were not only bad at thier jobs but nearly incompetent. The "glove does not fit" moment should never have happened because they should have been on their feet and objecting to high heaven. OF COURSE a Lether glove that has been stored wet will no longer fit its original hand, ESPECIALLY when the person has a latex glove on underneath. The tried to bring in experts after the fact to say this of course, but by then the damage was already done because the demonstration was allowed to happen in front of the jury.

velvet_fog
ows: Endive Wombat: I was a bit too young when his murder trial went on...but...with what little I have read about about it, how in the hell did he get off? I mean, Nicole Brown Simpson's DNA was actually in his car IIRC...

don't forget about the bloody footprints found at the scene which match his shoes.

And the letter he wrote pretty much confessing to the crime.
And his attempted getaway in the Bronco. Because that's how innocent people act.

The shoes didn't show up until after the first trial. He claimed to have never owned such ugly-ass shoes. Then some photographer found a shot of him with exactly the U/A shoes.

There was enough doubt cast in the case by OJ's excellent defense and the incompetent prosecution to get a Not Guilty verdict.

Personally, I wondered if his kid did it. The kid had OJ's temper, had step-mommy issues (she was supposed to eat at the restaurant OJ's kid worked at but went to the other place instead. The kid had access to OJ's cars, shoes, etc.

OJ has announced that he is looking for the real bankers.

Harry Freakstorm: velvet_fog
ows: Endive Wombat: I was a bit too young when his murder trial went on...but...with what little I have read about about it, how in the hell did he get off? I mean, Nicole Brown Simpson's DNA was actually in his car IIRC...

don't forget about the bloody footprints found at the scene which match his shoes.

And the letter he wrote pretty much confessing to the crime.
And his attempted getaway in the Bronco. Because that's how innocent people act.

The shoes didn't show up until after the first trial. He claimed to have never owned such ugly-ass shoes. Then some photographer found a shot of him with exactly the U/A shoes.

There was enough doubt cast in the case by OJ's excellent defense and the incompetent prosecution to get a Not Guilty verdict.

Personally, I wondered if his kid did it. The kid had OJ's temper, had step-mommy issues (she was supposed to eat at the restaurant OJ's kid worked at but went to the other place instead. The kid had access to OJ's cars, shoes, etc.

That's also ben a pet theory of mine for a LONG time. OJ was an ex NFL running back, and all of those I've ever personally ecountered have been nigh-crippled from injuries from thier playing days. I find it a little incredible that OJ managed a double murder and ran from the scene given his known mobility limitations.

gunga galunga: OJ was found Not Guilty by a jury of his peers.

But don't let that fact stop you bloodthirsty jackals from forming your lynch mob.

He was found not guilty under the strict definition of the criminal code, namely "reasonable doubt". The jury decided that, despite the fact that he had the means, motive, blood covered gloves, the same size and kind of shoes that left prints at the scene of the crime (despite denials by his lawyers, numerous photographs showed him wearing precisely those shoes), and he took flight, and despite DNA evidence, the total lack of any other suspects, his previous record of domestic violence, the likelihood of an "Othello complex", and so forth, that some of the evidence could possibly have been tainted by a racist cop. This is "reasonable doubt".

Then he was tried by the looser and less demanding standard of a civil court and found guilty of murder because there's no fricking way he didn't do it unless you are going to put the LA police on trial instead of him.

Weird, convoluted and time-consuming, but I think justice was done. The jury in the first trial may well have been right to suppose they had a "reasonable" doubt that he did it, but the jury in the second trial had no reason to doubt the over-whelming evidence that he did it.

Don't forget: there were two trials, one for murder in the first degree, and one for wrongful death. The second jury decided that it was wrongful death for a strong jealous husband to hack the heads nearly off of his soon-to-be ex-blonde Shicksa and her gay friend who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that is that. Especially since he never testified in his defence as most innocent men do, his lawyers denied he was wearing shoes of the exact size and brand that left bloody footy prints all over the scene of the crime, his blood WAS found at the scene of the crime and on gloves in his possession, and he did attempt a flight in which a mysterious bag possibly containing the weapons used in the murder played a significant role. The only witness of any note was a twit who was indebted to the accused for letting him crash on his couch and the only cause for reasonable doubt was the general conviction that the LAPD are a bunch of racist farkers, but during the trial they proved to be a bunch of star-struck farkers as well, so the two tend to cancel out.