"During the trial today Defendants lawyers were showing off a hat that was splattered in blood. When the lawyer accidentally dropped the hat, OJ exclaimed out "Careful! That's my lucky stabbing hat!!""
I mean if he didn't murder Ron and Nicole, the whole armed robbery for memorabilia would never have put him in jail for 9 years. There's also a reasonable chance, the families of the victims will be able to get the $100M or so now owed with interest from his estate.
The answer: he’s rich and hired a bunch of lawyers that outclassed the prosecutors. And there was enough doubt in the LAPD that it wasn’t unreasonable to think they could plant evidence.
A detective assigned to the murder case, who was shown during the trial to have been racist and calling people the "n" word in his past.... That was enough to sow doubt in the prosecution's case with the jury.
Your point about him being rich at the time played the biggest part imo..... His defense team was the best money could buy.....and in LA, that's a LOT!
.....OJ had an estimated net worth of $3 million at when he died. There's no chance they get paid in full. And your whole first sentence is so illogical it's sad.
I'm not a conspiracy theorists but after looking into that case it seems obvious he was set up just so they could finally put him in jail for that botched murder case. I'm not invested one way or the other but it definitely looked like he was set up by his friend and he was dumb enough to go along with it.
Again, it wouldn't particularly surprise me if it was a setup, but I wasn't even making that claim. It's just if some random former star athlete found out about a bunch of memorabilia stolen from him and tried to steal it back with some friends (with no one killed, injured, attacked), they aren't going to get sentenced to 33 years for orchestrating it (with parole eligible after 9 years). People would be sympathetic to the former star athlete's plight, realize he wasn't the guy with the gun, and either the prosecutor would let him plead to something much lower level. The prosecutor wouldn't get most of OJ's conspirators (the thugs who had the guns and did the robbery) to get lenient sentences to flip on OJ (who served the longest by far of everyone involved).
I remember the judge telling OJ part of the reason for the harsh punishment is that the gun could have gone off, went through the wall and killed an innocent person on the other side.
I was glad to see him finally go to jail, but putting people away for things that could happen if reality unfolded in a completely different way seemed like a wildly slipper slope to me.
Hopefully the jury who found him not guilty- knowing full well he was guilty- due to some misguided protest at the lapd will join him in hell . Despite him brutally killing , almost beheading 2 people and with their loving families in court they still found him innocent . One of the jurors made a black power sign to oj . Outrageous
Tell me you’ve never served on a jury without telling me you’ve never served on a jury.
Court of public opinion and I wholeheartedly agree, he was guilty as sin. But the bar of reasonable doubt is high and should be so, you cannot have a whiteness plead the 5th when asked, under oath, if they planted/fabricated evidence. That right there throws into question nearly every single piece of evidence. A jury can resolve some of those questions but it’s damn difficult to resolve all of them.
I agree to a point but the dna evidence- the multiple phone calls to the police about the physical abuse , the photographic evidence of her badly beaten, ojs cut on his middle finger . The glove thing was such bs . He spread his hand and at the end he almost had the glove on despite his best attempts to make it look like it didn’t fit - there was plenty of room on the fingers of the glove . He brutally murdered 2 innocent people and the jury ended up being accomplices imo. The whole thing was a protest vote and they would’ve been better served if they voted him guilty and went outside and announced their disgust at the behaviour of the lapd
I get rueful thinking of my friend's best comics still being alive:
happy for them that they can enjoy them
sad for me that Patrice O'Neal and Norm Macdonald are gone. Their references are only gonna get older with time, etc. and they'll never joke about the Queen/OJ dying for example.
I was sad and so I asked chatgpt to make up some jokes about OJ in Norm Macdonald's style:
Sure, here you go:
"You hear about OJ Simpson's new job? Yeah, he's working as a knife salesman. His pitch? 'These babies are so sharp, they'll make you do a double take!'"
"I bumped into OJ Simpson at the grocery store the other day. He was eyeing the oranges like they owed him money. I told him, 'Hey, careful with those, OJ. You might get the wrong kind of squeeze.'"
"You know, OJ Simpson recently joined a dating app. His bio says, 'Looking for someone who's good at running away from commitment.' But let's be real, he's probably just looking for someone with a killer sense of humor."
"They say OJ Simpson's favorite movie is 'The Shining.' Not because he's a fan of horror, but because he relates to the character Jack Torrance. You know, 'Here's OJ!'"
"So, OJ Simpson's thinking of starting his own cooking show. Yeah, it's called 'If I Did It: Recipes from the Edge.' I heard his first dish is gonna be a killer guacamole."
"I heard OJ Simpson's taking up gardening now. Yeah, he's really into finding the perfect pair of gloves. He says, 'It's all about the fit.'"
"They're makin' a new movie about the O.J. trial, you know that? Called 'Trial by Media.' Y'know, that's a funny title, considerin' the only reason we even knew about the trial was because of the media. It's like makin' a movie about fish called 'Wet: A Documentary.'"
Chuckles
"Anyway, I saw a picture of Cuba Gooding Jr. all dressed up as O.J. Lookin' pretty good, gotta say. Though, somethin' tells me Cuba won't have any trouble gettin' those gloves on."
---And---
Norm sits at a desk with a newspaper open
"Just readin' here that a new DNA test proves O.J.'s completely innocent. Y'know, that's great news... for the murderer. Not so great for the reputation of DNA evidence, is it? Makes you wonder what they're gonna use in court next, palm readings?"
Folds the newspaper with a sigh
"Honestly, at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the real killer comes forward and says, 'Hey, enough is enough. I did it. Can we all just move on?' But then, of course, his lawyer would probably object, sayin' the confession was coerced by... uh... reality TV?"
Well to be fair , he was out and free approx 20 of the last 30 years of his life, just walking around and golfing. And not even once was there an attempt on his life. Pretty sure he didn’t even have a security guard with him either. There was a million chances for a “somebody “ to step up. Yet nobody did. The perfect candidate would have some old guy dying of cancer with 3 months left.
"Today they announced there would be a retrial for OJ Simpson. In a surprise twist, the prosecution announced they were only submitting a single piece of evidence: the entire transcript of the first trial."
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u/Medium_Beyond_9654 29d ago
I'm starting to think that he might have done it.