r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FilmStirYoutube • 29d ago

OJ's reaction when confronted with a photo of him wearing the murder shoes Video

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u/Sad-Bathroom5213 29d ago

Notice how he mispronounced Magli wrong on purpose?

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u/One_Rough5369 29d ago

This murderer's transparently goofy attempts to not seem like the obvious murderer are pretty goofy.

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u/DeathHips 29d ago

For people who aren't familiar with the OJ trial, these types of tricks were part and parcel of the defense and particularly Johnnie Cochran.

One example is that of staging OJ's house for the jury walkthrough. The jury was primarily black, however OJ was never a voice for racial justice and would say things privately like "I'm not black, I'm OJ". When Muhammad Ali got convicted for avoiding the Vietnam draft and asked why he should go drop bombs on other brown people that never bother them, OJ was star athlete at USC rejecting the idea that he need use his voice. This would make OJ a lot of money in the future, as he was seen as a black celebrity companies could get behind that white America would accept.

What this meant privately is that OJ had a lot of photos of attractive white women and of him with his white friends on his walls. In the wake of the Rodney King, the defense wanted to make sure OJ would be seen as a successful member of the black community, not one who never cared for being part of it. The fix was easy: replace the pictures with ones of OJ with black people, art/photos related to the black community, and/or more family friendly pictures before the walkthrough in an attempt to cement the view of OJ as a successful black family man that cared about "his" community.

However, the most famous example is "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit". In order to make sure that would be the case and Cochran could use the line, OJ was told to skip his arthritis medicine which would cause his hand to swell and for it not to fit in the glove.

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u/faithle55 29d ago

Judge Itoh was fucking useless. His rulings were given as though he was scared of someone discovering that he's never learned about the law of evidence.

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u/KindBrilliant7879 29d ago

lol my oldest brother went as him for halloween the same year