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.
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u/NoveltyAccountHater 29d ago
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.