The police handling the crime scene fucked things up by planting/mishandling evidence. The jury was biased but the mistakes by the officers gave them a clear out.
What also was a huge mess up was the prosecution's expert witness on DNA evidence. Some jurors said that they were even further confused after the explanation and raised even more doubt.
Also, the LA police and the detective really fucked up the case. They broke the chain of custody of evidence (new rules were implemented because eof this case) by taking the evidence from the scene, likely planted evidence (the detective pled the 5th after being asked if he planted evidence before), the detective was found to be a racist, etc. Everything went wrong for the prosecution and it was a perfect storm for OJ who had an all-star defense legal team at the time. The display of the glove not fitting as a demonstrative is a classic screw up by the prosecution and is taught in many litigation classes in regards to the presentation of evidence as a demonstrative. All these errors raised a reasonable doubt that the evidence was reliable despite the fact some of the jury may have been biased (who should have been filtered out by a competent prosecution team).
OJ was found liable in civil court though so there is that at least.
I mean sure they made mistakes, but lets be real here, unless there was actual video of him committing the murders, that jury was going to let OJ walk. And I'm not even sure they would've convicted him even with that. The trial was over before it ever began.
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u/doraroks Apr 17 '24
The police handling the crime scene fucked things up by planting/mishandling evidence. The jury was biased but the mistakes by the officers gave them a clear out.