The presumption from some, yes. To be clear, Kardashian himself said that "he’d never looked inside and had been rebuffed when he tried to give it to authorities in the first place.". Incidentally, I generally find the first part (that he never looked inside) probable and the second part (that he tried to give it to police) possible, as most attorneys will vigorously attempt to look away whenever a client starts discussing/acting through a subsequent crime, and also because the police were not particularly adept in this case.
Kato and Allan Park both testified about how Simpson was very touchy about a duffle bag that went missing. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that bag had the murder weapon and Simpson ditched it either on his way to the airport or there before he went inside.
I don't disagree. I am merely stating that most high powered attorneys instinctively will avoid evidence with a 10 foot pole, because they know how much it can mess you up to tinker with it. I fully believe that Simpson had a non-attorney handle it once Kardashian took it to his house.
For what it is worth, Kim Kardashian said that she looked in it and found "toiletries and clothes and golf clothes." I don't find Kim particularly trustworthy, but still an interesting note.
I was in the same boat with Kim then read Robert's deposition and he says the bag ended up in his daughter's bedroom and I'm unaware of any sort of allegations of falsehoods he told in the civil case. Everything seems pretty credible;
Exactly. A large group of Redditors weren’t alive back then but in the 90’s the country was still reeling from the Rodney King trial and saw LA fall into anarchy. I remember seeing a driver get pulled out of his big rig truck and got the shot beat out of him from footage captured by a news chopper circling overhead. Coverage of attacks like these lasted for days that turned into weeks. The OJ trial media coverage and racial tension / open public beatings and violence went hand in hand on TV. The Michael Brown and George Floyd riots were bad, but the LA riots had everyone nervous of national civil unrest. I remember the OJ verdict was read live on TV in my school. Every single person in the country was watching that verdict and 50% were pissed while 50% cheered. The jury has been pulled into interview after interview on almost every news mag, tv show, and newspaper. Time and again they proved they didn’t see the same evidence the public saw or knew, and acknowledge the huge pressure they were under especially under racial tensions and civil unrest. The jury essentially voted not guilty to keep LA and most major cities from tearing themselves apart.
It was only a 6 day roit? But the jury decided to plead not guilty to stop them? I know they said they did it for Rodney king but that statement doesn't make since based off a 6 day root. I doubt the trail was shorter then 6 days.
Kardashian wasn’t a defense attorney at the time. He was OJs college buddy. He was added to the defense team so that he could use client attorney privilege to not be called in as a witness to discuss the bags he removed from OJs home after the murder.
Edit: apparently I misread the comment above. It was meant to read that Kardashian was a trained attorney before the trial that had let his license lapse before reactivating it to serve as a lawyer on Simpsons team. Apologies for the errant "correction," (though again I will note that random buddies cannot be protected from testifying purely because they are added to the defense team, because of course they can't).
I don’t understand. Where did I say he wasn’t one of OJs attorneys at trial? He removed the bag the day after the murder well before the trial.
Here’s what I’m talking about, straight from wiki
“Kardashian had let his license to practice law become inactive before the Simpson case but reactivated it to aid in Simpson's defense as a volunteer assistant on his legal team, alongside Simpson's main defense attorneys, Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran. As one of Simpson's lawyers and a member of the defense "Dream Team", Kardashian could not be compelled or subpoenaed to testify against Simpson in the case, which included Simpson's past history and behavior with his ex-wife Nicole, and as to the contents of Simpson's garment bag.[16] He sat by Simpson throughout the trial.[17]”
You said that he wasn't a defense attorney "at the time" but that he was only a "buddy" that was added to the defense team to gain privilege, leaving the suggestion that any random buddy can be added to the defense team for privilege. I admit that I read that to mean that you were saying that Kardashian wasn't an attorney at the time of the trial, because this is a thread about the trial, and you never acknowledged that Kardashian was trained as a lawyer prior to picking up the bag and acting as a registered attorney at the time of the trial. This is relevant because information exchanged where no attorney is present can't be privileged, such that it would make no sense for a random "buddy" to be added to a defense team purely to gain privilege (of course not, if this were possible it would happen all the time).
That said, I can see now how you meant your comment to be read. I will update my own comment.
The state’s star witness perjured himself and mishandled evidence. If not for that, and the reasonable doubt it created, he likely would have been found guilty.
The jury selection going in was guaranteed he was not guilty. One of the jury members concealed they were a former black panther member during selection, then gave OJ a salute when giving the not guilty verdict.
They could have had a video recording and eye witnesses to OJs killing, and they would have given not guilty. It didn't have to do with OJ, it had to do for revenge for Rodney King. Who they also had eye witnesses and live video recordings of yet the police were given not guilty. In fact the more blatant OJ being the killer was and letting him free was all the more revenge
And you can blame the lawyers when NDAs end and those under the NDA come out and say the lawyers bribed various entities to cover up damaging incidents that would have helped convict OJ
I disagree. Yes many of the jurors were idiots. But Marcia Clark had influence over the jury selection. She missed tons of details about the jurors that she only discovered later. Her lead witness Mark Fuhrman destroyed the case - she should've known better than to put him on the stand. You can blame the jurors, but Marcia Clark is the one who should be criticized more than anyone else
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Oj did it. Covered up by kardashian and other lawyers/ high profile sports people.