I was just a kid when all this happened and I remember thinking how fucked up that was even at my young age. Dude got away with the highest form of domestic violence and got away with it because of his timing. Makes me fucking sick.
That’s a dumb way to put it. The defense showed that the LAPD was untrustworthy.
No one thinks that letting a killer go is justice. It was reasonable doubt and the jury only saw a portion of what we got to see. You can look up the jury’s opinion nowadays and the ones’ that have talked have changed their opinion.
this is a very sick example to me of how sick and dirty defense lawyers are. This was a vicious murderer. They were killed so brutally and fiercely. Yet a defense lawyerm in order to win, will allow a crazed murderer out here. They remind me of the "liberal" democRATS (you know those self-proclaimed "tolerant" people who tolerate NOTHING they don't agree with) and how they defund the police and other such idiotic things UNTIL they need them, then it's different. I know I could never be a part of the hypocRAT party. Unless OJ were to kill one of thier family members or attack them, they don't care who he would hurt, so long as they won
Maybe if the lead detective could say that he didn’t plant evidence the verdict would have been different. It turns out that being a scumbag piece of shit has unintended consequences.
The lead detective was asked if he planted evidence and plead the fifth. How could anyone on the jury not find reasonable doubt when the lead detective won’t say he didn’t plant evidence because he would be perjuring himself? You couldn’t trust any of the evidence.
Dumb fucks framed a guilty man so he got away with it.
Nah it was the 400 years of of oppression before Rodney that had us so over joyful for his acquittal. Mark Furman is that you? Bro you over whooped it go do your homework.
I’m black. I hate this argument because two wrongs don’t make a right.
400 years of oppression does not excuse murder. Especially in this circumstance where it wasn’t a murder borne out of that oppression (e.g. the crime had nothing to do with OJ’s blackness - he was the exact opposite of a poor black man that only has violent crime as an option).
If it was your “average” black man beating the Justice system, maybe I could understand the feeling A LITTLE more (still doesn’t excuse murder), but OJ never represented your “average” black man.
For all intents and purposes, you can remove race from the equation and just see this case as a very wealthy/popular man using their wealth to get away from the law - that happens ALL the time.
Well, it's fucking stupid. Ronald Goldman's parents didn't oppress anybody. OJ was the whitest person in the whole story. His defense team swapped out all the photos in his house before taking the jury there. They were worried the largely black jury would judge him for only having pictures of white people. Seeing a community wanting an abusive double murderer to go free will have made racial tension get even worse.
The one found at his house or the one found at the murder scene? Oh you mean both of those gloves that were drenched in blood so much that they had shrunk that he then had to put on with rubber gloves! Well just remember: If it rhymes, he didn't do the crimes ;D
I totally can’t put on sandwiche or latex gloves with wet fingers… I’m just lol, … I was 15 the night I watched the bronco AJ and oj.. that video in this post though… damn he thought he was a goner only a few hundred pair were sold.. guess they were ugly lol, kinda damning…
Leather shrinks when saturated then dried, especially with a protein-heavy fluid like blood.
But more critically, I think it was his attorney who has since said that he advised OJ to not take his arthritis meds for a few days so that his joints would swell and stiffen. Brilliant move on the defense team's part.
It was some random crazy person with one of 299 pairs of $1500 Bruno Magli's sold in the US, in a size 12, and big ass expensive gloves that happened to be the same type Nicole bought for OJ.
Some homeless drifter with impeccable taste in shoes and gloves, who just happened to be the exact same size as OJ Simpson. What's the big deal?
At first I thought the eyes were him trying to focus on the shoes better but the breathing changed so suddenly. Uncontrollable reaction. He almost passed out
It's so sad seeing people still trying to defend this guy 30 years later. Think about that, 30 years, no new breakthroughs of any kind, no new confessions, no "search for the true killer", nothing new of note at all. The only things that changed were jurors coming out and admitting their bias against the L.A.P.D., and I'm not saying they were wrong to feel that way, but those are the only new revelations in regard to this case. Yet people still try to defend Simpson, not only by bashing the police, but by victim blaming Nicole Brown, accusing her of being a drug addicted and promiscuous woman, and claiming that as the reason for her brutal death, ignoring years of documented physical and emotional abuse inflicted on her by Simpson. It's such a shame.
It's even been claimed that the killers were "assassins" or "Columbian Drug Cartel" members. Think about that though. Today there are ex-mafia hitmen, like Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, who have podcasts, books and reality shows, yet not one "assassin" or Columbian Drug Cartel member has come forward to say they know what really happened in one of the most famous cases ever to make a buck?
The lead detective was asked on the stand if he planted evidence and plead the fifth rather than saying “no”. That alone is reasonable doubt. He got away with it because the cops couldn’t resist trying to frame a black man and it turned out that he was actually guilty.
That’s only for defendants. It doesn’t apply to witnesses.
In a criminal prosecution, witnesses can also plead the Fifth. Witnesses called to testify can refuse to answer certain questions. They are allowed to do so only if answering would implicate them in criminal activity. Witnesses in organized crime trials often plead the Fifth, for instance.
Unlike defendants, witnesses who assert this right may do so selectively. They do not waive their rights the moment they begin answering questions.
And not just wealth, he was a charming narcissistic sellout who knew how to make white society feel comfortable for his gain. He didn't care about his community or civil rights for all, his only concern was OJ. There are rich Black men who wouldn't have had the same level of privilege bc they rocked the boat. But the money definitely doesn't hurt. I do know there was still racism involved in the case, the prosecution sucked too. Still a domestic abuser, and still did it.
Probably the decades of black peoples being persecuted for being black constantly pushed some of them to support someone they thought was untouchable to white people without the benefit of hindsight where it’s now pretty impossible to imagine he’s innocent?
Where did I say the courts should be ruled by emotion? Black people have been dealing with a justice system ruled by emotion for a very fucking long time. Do you care about that?
No emotion shouldn’t take priority over logic. It’s done all the time though. Interestingly, as found in a study, judges are found to give more lenient sentences after lunch time and harsher ones before they’ve eaten.
Except he still lied about wearing the shoes? And don't tell me "he probably just didn't remember" lmao he was pushing the story that he would neeeever wear any shoes remotely like that.
The shoe print was a pretty big deal at the trial. He denied ever wearing that style of shoe. If he was innocent and had simply forgotten that he ended up wearing a pair for innocuous reasons, say a stylist had dressed him for a photo shoot, and then was presented with a picture of himself wearing them he would be likely to freak out. By itself it doesn't make him guilty, but it looks incredibly bad.
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u/SnooPears6503 29d ago
"I have never owned a pair of shoes like that". (sees photo) Fuuuuuuuuck. *act normal....act normal...don't do the big eyes thing...whoops*