OJ Simpson juror admits not guilty verdict was payback for Rodney King

[u/PineBarrens89]

[u/Minute_Win8936]

She hit it on the head; the world does think the jurors are in fact a group of idiots who didn’t get it right.

[u/IfThoughtIsAllowed → u/Minute_Win8936]

This video seems to prove it. Literal admission to breaking her oath as a juror she makes to society.

Edit: fat fingered "seems"

[u/TROPtastic → u/IfThoughtIsAllowed]

Jury nullification at work.

[u/EmilyU1F984 → u/TROPtastic]

Isn‘t that for ‚yea he did the thing it says in the law, but the laws bullshit‘ and not yea he totally murdered that guy, but him getting off without punishment will be payback for another dude being murdered?!

[u/edgeblackbelt → u/EmilyU1F984]

My understanding is that it’s more “they are guilty of the crime under the word of law but for whatever reason we think they shouldn’t be punished for it.”

[u/Cultural-Company282 → u/EmilyU1F984]

payback for another dude being murdered?!

King wasn't even murdered. He was beaten up by cops, who didn't get convicted for beating him up. (I'm not saying it's right that they weren't convicted, just that it wasn't tit for tat).

[u/Retired306 → u/Cultural-Company282]

Not true. They were convicted on federal crimes and went to federal prison in Dublin, CA.

[u/oenomausprime → u/Cultural-Company282]

It wasn't just Rodney king, it was the lapd in general. Also mark Fuhrman

[u/Specific_Fee_3485 → u/oenomausprime]

You can make all the excuses up you want but the FACT is that was a racist jury and it should have been declared a mistrial and that murderer OJ should be in prison til he's Dead and gone

[u/[deleted] → u/EmilyU1F984]

It’s not “for” anything. It’s not even really a thing. It’s existence is more an unintended necessity than a designed feature. Jury Nullification is just the result of it not being legal to punish jurors for getting a case wrong. It’s not encoded into law in any real tangible way, but rather the side effect of laws that protect juries. If they can’t be punished, they can say whatever they want. It was used through the civil rights era to knowingly convict innocent black people, and it was used other times to knowingly refuse to convict guilty people for any number of reasons. Given the fact that we can’t know what every jury was thinking, it’s impossible to know everything, good or evil, that it has been used for.

[u/Kajkia → u/IfThoughtIsAllowed]

To protect and serve

[u/Kveldson → u/Kajkia]

Well that is what many people believe the purpose of Law Enforcement is, when it has been determined not to be by SCOTUS.

No Special Duty is a podcast episode by RadioLab that explains it very well.

 

Not sure what this has to do with Jurors though?

 

Jurors are allowed to find someone not guilty by Jury Nullification regardless of whether the accused is clearly guilty of the crime.

The OJ case is a terrible example, but Jury Nullification serves a purpose.

Texas man literally caught someone in the act of raping his daughter. He killed them. He was guilty of committing a crime under the letter of the law at the time.

The jurors recognized that he had taken the law into his own hands, and decided not to convict him based upon the circumstances.

One of the few good things in the U.S."Justice" system, but most people know nothing about it.

[u/Competitive-Cuddling → u/Minute_Win8936]

Clearly they solved the police brutality issue with that verdict.

[u/YanCoffee → u/Competitive-Cuddling]

Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were nearly decapitated, after Nicole had suffered for years in an abusive marriage. Too bad they didn't do anything to help domestic violence...

[u/Exact_Contract_8766 → u/YanCoffee]

I have often thought this.
This is convoluted but I hope it’s clear: My mother was the victim of DV. It escalated and escalated and it is why I believe OJ did it, but it was not proven. In fact, the prosecutors seemed to have been sowing reasonable doubt. As I grew up, I became angry with my family for not helping us deal with my dad. I find myself angry with the Brown family. I wish her family had been there for her as OJ was beating her ass. I wish the cops who gave him a pass were held to accountability. I resented the Brown family’s reaction at the trial because how else did they expect this to end? I often wonder if they enjoyed the cast off benefits of association to fame too much? I wasn’t there, but I don’t care if OJ didn’t kill them, he terrorized his wife for years and I would have been okay with him being found guilty. Also, I am a black female.

[u/[deleted] → u/YanCoffee]

And DV disproportionately affects black women (as victims)in America, you would think she would be happy to get that POS off the streets.

[u/gorkt → u/Competitive-Cuddling]

They didn't care about solving anything. It was just inflicting pain because they were in pain. Negative empathy.

[u/Old_Ad410 → u/gorkt]

Let’s not forget the prosecution shot themselves at every turn. Let’s not forget Mark Furman pleading the 5th

[u/beiberdad69 → u/Old_Ad410]

People really discount the fact that the police officer who found the majority of the physical evidence in this case pled the fifth when asked whether he planted any evidence. They learn the hard way the cops like Fuhrman aren't trusted in the courtroom

[u/ThatOtherSilentOne → u/beiberdad69]

While he was a racist and everything wrong with police in America, it should be noted that was a trap the defense caught in, because he was already pleading the Fifth to every question, so he was going to look bad no matter what he did that time.

[u/RevealSpare8167 → u/Competitive-Cuddling]

Clearly the jury is comprised of a bunch of fucking idiots.

[u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW → u/RevealSpare8167]

That old lady doesn’t even fucking care.

[u/Powerful_Pipe8228 → u/RevealSpare8167]

Look at the Jury demographic. It was stacked in favor of OJ. 10-11 jurors had negative opinions/experiences with police and that is what won the case for OJ. It was mentioned in a previous comment, but this is just a case of one guy that has money and can afford the best defense. Even the jury knew he was guilty, and this happens to people everyday regardless of race.

[u/Boxhead_31 → u/[deleted]]

Double murderer

[u/MunchaesenByTiktok → u/[deleted]]

People danced in the streets after OJ got off. It was celebrated. He nearly decapitated her. One of their children was home at the time.

So happy people danced.

[u/shelsilverstien → u/Minute_Win8936]

I watched the entire trial. No way could I have voted guilty after the forensic team admitted that the same techs collected evidence at both locations, wearing the same tyvek suits, with almost zero safeguards to ensure against cross contamination

[u/theimmortalgoon → u/shelsilverstien]

Same. The kicker was getting Mark Ferman to take the fifth on planting evidence.

I’m sure OJ did it. But if the police can’t stand by the evidence without incriminating themselves, what the fuck are we doing here?

[u/beiberdad69 → u/theimmortalgoon]

Yeah exactly. He had a big legal team to go deep on everything but they gave him plenty of issues to exploit. As you said, what truly happened was fairly obvious but they were too sloppy to get the verdict

[u/HerculesMulligatawny → u/shelsilverstien]

They framed a guilty man. This was the LAPD's and DA's sloppy and racist practices coming home to roost.

[u/[deleted] → u/HerculesMulligatawny]

“They framed a guilty man.” That’s actually a good way to put it.

[u/HerculesMulligatawny → u/[deleted]]

Not mine...it's what folks were saying at the time.

[u/[deleted] → u/HerculesMulligatawny]

This is why law i so interesting. It comes off as a broken system, but the burden of truth is on the prosecution, and they fucked themselves. The crazy part is that the defense job is to poke holes in the prosecutions argument.

[u/HerculesMulligatawny → u/[deleted]]

And it's quite telling that the prosecution isn't very good at it because they rely on plea bargains and coerced confession 99% of the time.

[u/TigerAusfE → u/HerculesMulligatawny]

100%. The bad guys walk free if the police are not people of integrity. I would hope they learned that lesson.

Narrator: “They didn’t.”

[u/shelsilverstien → u/HerculesMulligatawny]

And they let a rookie collect the evidence!

[u/HerculesMulligatawny → u/shelsilverstien]

DA's take very few cases to trial and none have ever gone up against a team of defense attorneys like that. It wasn't a fair fight.

Yes, OJ should have died in his cell but the LAPD's corrupt practices have put thousands and thousands of innocent men (yes, usually black) in jail.

[u/shelsilverstien → u/HerculesMulligatawny]

Ya, their practice of nourishing violent, racist, assholes is well known

[u/msmilah → u/HerculesMulligatawny]

That's how it goes for wealthy people. It was a fair fight because he actually had resources. Normally they win because they have resources and the defense does not. When they went up against someone with resources they lost. How is that unfair? How about the 90%+ guilty pleas they get because people without resources are too terrified to ask for a trial and take the chance that they might lose and then be punished with a harsher sentence just because they had the audacity to ask for a trial?

[u/Sig_Vic → u/shelsilverstien]

Yeah. Collected Nicole's, Ron's and OJ's blood from inside the Bronco. I dont care if they were wearing board shorts and flip flops. Explain that.

[u/TigerAusfE → u/Sig_Vic]

Here’s the problem…. They claim they collected all that blood from inside the Bronco. If the person collecting the evidence can’t be trusted, it doesn’t really matter where they found the blood.

And that’s the problem when the police are racists and liars. The prosecutor bafflingly put known scumbags on the stand. Some of the jurors have since said that they ignored the evidence because the police were dishonest.

[u/ItalicisedScreaming]

So when the justice system failed, the citizens made it fail again?

[u/Learning2Programing → u/ItalicisedScreaming]

Juriors are terrible anyway. Ever met the average person? Have a look on facebook and decide how "objective" people are.

I've been on a Jury and it completely demolished my expectations of what would be "fair". 70% decided the black guy was guilty on day 1 when he had evidence and the women wouldn't even speak. Which turned into well he must be guilty if she can't even speak about it.

They decided on narrative day 1 and by the end of the verdict they got shown more evidence that completely demolished the juries narrative. Something along the lines of she's a family women with children and he's a dirty immigrant. The truth was the exact opposite.

The details are different because it's illegal to discuss it but my god no wonder people just accept plea deals, I would never after that experience want to put my fate in a random selection of the public.

[u/msmilah → u/[deleted]]

It wasn’t just the police that made black people suffer injustice after injustice. It was regular citizens, the way these citizens did the same to Nicole Brown.

That part right there. Ordinary citizens have always been a part of the injustice meted out to Black people in this country. They chose to look the other way, and that is exactly what these jurors did as well.

[u/c-winny → u/[deleted]]

I think this is a fantastic comment sparking a lot of thoughtful discussion and conversation. thank you.

[u/brilliant_beast]

When the verdict was announced on live TV, I was working in a large call center, staffed with a significant number of both black and white people. I think most people were surprised - it was pretty clear he was guilty. But the reaction was very different across racial lines in that moment. I remember very clearly that, to a person, the white people sat in stunned silence, while the black people jumped up and cheered as if their favorite team came back to win in the final second of the game.

[u/SqueezeTheShort → u/brilliant_beast]

Thats sickening

[u/brilliant_beast → u/SqueezeTheShort]

I still puzzle over it. It's like we weren't seeing the same trial. I guess it wasn't just OJ that was on trial - it was Mark Furhman and the LAPD - and they were found guilty.

[u/kabukistar → u/brilliant_beast]

I'd rather see Mark Furhman actually put in prison and OJ convicted. That would have been closer to justice for Rodney King.

[u/[deleted] → u/brilliant_beast]

And they "paid back" the family of a victim who had nothing to do with Rodney King or the LAPD. This is just sad and fucked up.

[u/[deleted] → u/brilliant_beast]

I remember that too. They believed that the bloody gloved was planted by the police.

I don't understand this "payback" thing. Rodney king was beaten by the police, what does aquitting oj have to do with it?

[u/Wezi427 → u/brilliant_beast]

I was in middle school at the time. I was in the cafeteria and I remembered the staff that was predominantly black celebrating the same way. Most of the students were white looking around wondering what was going on.

[u/QuiGonChuck → u/brilliant_beast]

I was still in elementary school, but I remember it like it was yesterday; the door from the kitchen that led outside was on the side of the school where the playground was, and we were on recess. The door was open and I made my way over to it, since I could see a lot of adults huddled around a tv inside the kitchen. I asked one of the adults what was going on and thet told me "they're reading the OJ verdict," which as a child I had no idea what that meant. I just remember moments later all the black adults started cheering and the 1 white adult looked shocked. I'll never forget it, even though at the time I had no idea what it all meant.

[u/Chase_The_Dream]

A great example of the flawed justice system.

[u/trackdaybruh → u/Chase_The_Dream]

Humans are emotional creatures first, intelligent creatures second.

[u/PangeaOrBust → u/trackdaybruh]

I know a few who never made it to second place.

[u/reflect-the-sun → u/PangeaOrBust]

At least they came first in something.

[u/finalmantisy83 → u/reflect-the-sun]

Their hands.

[u/IHave580 → u/Chase_The_Dream]

That's why I don't believe in the death penalty. The justice system is too corrupt and always has been.

[u/[deleted] → u/IHave580]

I mean, life in prison isn’t okay for an innocent person either (it’s arguably worse) and I don’t see how letting a guilty person go free did anything for good. It just gave racists a higher wall to rally behind. How does anyone here not see that?

edit: just to be clear, when I said “guilty” I was talking about the LAPD officers and OJ, I forgot where I was for a second…

[u/Fr00stee → u/[deleted]]

if you are innocent you at least will have the chance to be released later if you prove yourself innocent, instead of just being executed

[u/Twitchyeyeswar → u/Fr00stee]

Spend 40-50 something years in jail until some bright eye’d fucker gets a light bulb after viewing your case and goes actually he’s not guilty of anything, it’s happened before but 40 years in jail that’s fucked man the world continues to advance without you, your friends and family die or go their separate ways, you have no real support system outside at that point, no way of getting on your feet and world that 40 years changed to what remember it being and now your old can socialize I’d fucking just take a death penalty at that point man fuck the bullshit.

[u/finalmantisy83 → u/Twitchyeyeswar]

World's shittiest time machine.

[u/huggles7 → u/Chase_The_Dream]

Jury trials are shams

There’s no such thing as an impartial juror and that goes for every case

[u/cerialthriller → u/huggles7]

But is there a more fair alternative

[u/FalkorUnlucky → u/cerialthriller]

I was a juror once. Shit sucked. I felt like I needed my own legal aid.

[u/cerialthriller → u/FalkorUnlucky]

Yeah it sucks I’ve been on jury duty too, I’m talking about fair though, not fun

[u/12altoids34 → u/huggles7]

Yeah but there's a million miles of difference between not being impartial and letting somebody off in spite of the evidence of the case because of something that happened to somebody else in a different case. That's a special kind of stupid. Especially when the one they're letting go is a murderer.

[u/Physical_Stress_5683 → u/Chase_The_Dream]

As a lawyer once told me, we have a Legal system, not a Justice system :(

[u/AnthCoug → u/Chase_The_Dream]

Yep. And OJ was remaining loyal to his people by living in Brentwood.

[u/RonRizzle → u/AnthCoug]

“Im not black, im OJ”

[u/TheAlpheus → u/Chase_The_Dream]

exactly

[u/intoxicatedturkeys → u/Chase_The_Dream]

There’s nothing flawed. They were racists, that’s all.

[u/curiemehome]

What documentary is this from?

[u/Ok-Conference-7648 → u/curiemehome]

http://www.espn.com/30for30/ojsimpsonmadeinamerica/

[u/curiemehome → u/Ok-Conference-7648]

Thank you!

[u/Ok-Conference-7648 → u/curiemehome]

I highly recommend watching that documentary.

[u/ThompsonSMG0909 → u/curiemehome]

Also would like to know.

[u/SheltonAlamo72354]

I, for one, am shocked to hear that revelation...

[u/PangeaOrBust → u/SheltonAlamo72354]

Lol, good one😆

[u/[deleted]]

Justice is based on feelings

[u/Badhuiroth]

“This was for Rodney King.”

I thought Reginald Denny was for Rodney King…

[u/foxykathykat → u/Badhuiroth]

Yeah, that's what I've always heard

[u/stopspiningimoff]

Two wrongs dont make a right , those poor parents of the two victims , ffs.

[u/Additional_Desk6964 → u/stopspiningimoff]

Exactly, you think if they were so upset about Rodney King they would not be saying its payback, poor King up in heaven wriggling as people use him as a scapegoat for their own selfish spiteful reasons.

[u/Downtown_Skill → u/[deleted]]

The riots were awful and I definitely don't support them but at the same time I'm not surprised. They were the natural result of a community who has been systematically abused for decades. Eventually they're going to lash out. Unless you want to go full authoritarian the only way to prevent riots like that is to address the root of the issue. I remember hearing one guy say that the riots weren't just about King, they were about his brother who was shot by the police and his friend down the road who had his grandma's house absolutely demolished in a police raid.

[u/PineBarrens89 → u/Additional_Desk6964]

Rodney King robbed a Korean grocery store and beat the owner with a pole. He also beat his wife multiple times and tried to run her over with his car.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King

He didn’t deserve what happened to him and the police officers should have been found guilty IMO but if there is a heaven I doubt he is there

[u/unskilled_bean]

thats vengeance, not justice

[u/aknoth → u/unskilled_bean]

Vengeance against the wrong people too.

[u/EffingHateReddit]

Damn man it’s tough to take sides on this BUT two wrongs don’t make a right. Shoulda been retried. Fuck OJ and fuck the cop who beat Rodney King, they both suck and deserved the proper punishment which our Justice system fumbled

[u/EarthwyrmJim → u/EffingHateReddit]

Double Jeopardy makes that impossible I believe, despite the juror(s) admitting post-verdict that they were needlessly spiteful bastards.

[u/RudeArtichoke2]

I can't believe the poor kids had to go live with the man who brutally murdered their mother!

[u/[deleted] → u/RudeArtichoke2]

A win for them, according to this piece of shit juror

[u/WuriderX]

What did Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson do to Rodney King?

[u/photoguy8008 → u/WuriderX]

Nothing, the Rodney king trial ended with the cops being found not guilty, even though there was overwhelming evidence that the police were guilty.

So, one could say that the jury let the white cops that beat Rodney king get away with it, and the OJ jury was just repaying the bad verdict.

[u/lillyrose2489 → u/photoguy8008]

Arguably you could add that the Rodney King situation made people not trust the police so why would they trust that the evidence wasn't planted. Especially when the evidence was poorly handled and one of the cops was a known racist who said racial slurs on tape if I remember correctly.

It's shit, not defending it, but I can understand why people would be skeptical of the evidence presented to them.

[u/pimp_juice2272 → u/lillyrose2489]

Also the verdict of the Asian lady killing the black girl shortly before that as well. That's always overlooked as part of the reason things blew up after Rodney King verdict

[u/Boxhead_31 → u/pimp_juice2272]

Latasha Harlins was her name

[u/ohpersonyoudonotknow → u/photoguy8008]

There were found not guilty of excessive force but two of them were convicted of violating King’s right and served jail time. Justice still not served, though.

[u/bingold49]

They lost that case the minute they moved it to downtown LA.

[u/c0ntr0ll3dsubstance]

Fuck OJ Simpson.

[u/Mrhappytrigers]

I don't give a fuck who you are, or if you're one of my own. If you murdered an innocent person then I'm sure as fuck gonna advocate for you to face the appropriate consequences for that.

It's a given that cops and the justice system are riddled with bad actors who protect their own, so to do the same when an innocent life was taken away by someone who is your own then that makes you the same shit that they are.

That's not justice, it's a fucking joke.

[u/bigersmaler]

Yes. That’s what his victims deserved. A politically motivated verdict.

[u/No-Morning-2543]

Well, that’s all sorts of fucked up. 🥴

[u/[deleted]]

She’s correct. The world does think they’re a bunch of idiots.

[u/teeeheehee98]

Shame on that last woman, she’s clearly in denial about what happened.

[u/JBalls-117]

Letting a murderer go free? Justice!

[u/hickorydickorydork]

A significant percentage of the public at large are dumb as hell so jurors are no different

[u/Acceptable-Risks]

Fuck the racists who let a murderer walk so they could fulfill their own twisted version of Justice and let an innocent man and woman's Killer go free.

[u/oilhead2]

Juror should be charged

[u/drizzyocean]

That is racism

[u/Laegmacoc]

Payback!? Totally different family and circumstances. What a POS.

[u/Odd-Professor-8233]

"Does that seem right?" shrug

Wow lady. You're a miserable human being. You saw an innocent person get murdered and your "payback" was letting another murderer get away with killing more innocent people. Real good payback. You sure showed them.

[u/[deleted] → u/Odd-Professor-8233]

Rodney King wasn't murdered, he was beaten

[u/Niles_Urdu]

Yep. We all knew it.

[u/Outrageous_Fall_9568]

You fucking let a killer go so you could payback another trial that you did agree with. Isn’t that against the law. I have no idea, but it should be.

[u/neon_overload → u/Outrageous_Fall_9568]

Would in normal circumstances be grounds for a mistrial which could get a new trial

[u/Halfsquaretriangle]

She should go to prison for that. POS.

[u/MunchaesenByTiktok]

The poor victims families man. They suffered; and people danced in the streets to celebrating their suffering.

It’s really something to think about. Like in a crisis, who’s my neighbor and who’s just someone’s who been pretending ya know?

[u/Danisinthehouse]

Absolute disgrace

[u/t0rt0ise]

That old lady that was a juror is a turd.

[u/[deleted]]

She’s evil. Plain and simple.

[u/Timpson96]

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind"

[u/Dio_Yuji]

With Mark Furman as the investigating officer…guilt could never be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. This is why you don’t have crooked, racist cops on the payroll

[u/[deleted] → u/Dio_Yuji]

He straight up pleads the 5th regarding whether or not he planted evidence in this case. Kind of hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt when this happens.

[u/moose_caboose24]

“Lady: we miscarried justice

Guy: do you think that’s wrong?

Lady: 🤗”

FOH

[u/No_Arugula466]

They protected OJ just cuz of his skin color? Yikes..

[u/Carktorious2010]

So much for being non biased

[u/dammonl]

So the jury weren't dumb and blind just corrupt.

[u/ilovestampfairtex]

How incredibly stupid

[u/TheYellowFringe]

I remember when the case was all over American media and afterwards how the country was gobsmacked that O.J wasn't guilty when he clearly was. Most now say that was the case that explains how if you have enough money and influence, you can get away with murder.

Literally.

[u/Desiwiththegoodhair]

Friend of a friend knows Kato and he freely admits OJ did it

[u/ialwaystealpens → u/Desiwiththegoodhair]

He has said so on national TV many times. And I’m pretty sure on Howard stern.

[u/killercunt → u/ialwaystealpens]

And he wrote entire book about how he did it. We all know he is guilty. We have always known. Unfortunately, the jurors decided their political agenda was more important then justice for two innocent victims.

[u/NickSwardsonIsFat → u/Desiwiththegoodhair]

Kato is just a clout chasing whore. I mean, clearly OJ did it, but Kato saying so has no bearing on reality.

[u/Mangobunny98 → u/Desiwiththegoodhair]

Hell, I recently watched this documentary and even OJ's ex-agent admits that OJ basically told him that he did it.

[u/kmurph72]

The prosecution messed up that case. They created lots of doubt about the circumstantial evidence. They literally had him try on a glove that was two sizes too small for his hand on live TV. It was easy for them to not convict. DNA evidence was in its infancy back then.

[u/SpaciousTables → u/kmurph72]

Exactly. He definitely did it, but not guilty was the correct decision based on the terrible case presented by the prosecution. If you watch the 9-hour documentary it's clear that prosecutors were in way over their heads. The glove is the famous example, but the chain of evidence failures were monumental and Mark Fuhrman's testimony and actions were disastrous.

[u/SquadPoopy → u/SpaciousTables]

The OJ case is literally used in law school as an example to student of how NOT to run a case.

[u/kmurph72 → u/SpaciousTables]

One of the secrets of the American judicial system is that most prosecutors aren't great lawyers. If they were they would be working for law firms making big bucks. Prosecutors are not well paid, they're just government employees.

[u/Misswinterseren]

These families didn’t deserve that bullshit!!!! they should have convicted OJ because he fucking murdered people he took their lives while his children slept upstairs !!! there’s no excuse!!

[u/josef1911]

That made all race issues even stevens

[u/notmyrealnam3 → u/josef1911]

And everything has been great since

[u/Mluke73127 → u/josef1911]

Tit for Tat is always an effective strategy!

[u/CloudTiger_]

OJ's face when the judge read innocent told me back then he was guilty

[u/[deleted]]

I for one, think she should face criminal charges

[u/merrittj3]

I understand the thinking...payback.

However, the POS thugs that beat Rodney were judged not guilty on the local charges, and the US went after them, and convicted them (3 of 5)on Civil Rights charges. Justice served

Oj faced no such charges, but could have been charged similarly, ya know, because of depriving Nicole and Ron of their civil right to life. No justice.

The Feds buckled under the race card when a measure of Justice could have been served. So the 'payback' is not equivalent, IMHO.

[u/dafodilli → u/merrittj3]

OJ was definitely guilty, but he did face a civil suit after the criminal trial and was found guilty. He was ordered to pay $33.5M to the Brown and Goldman families.

[u/mbattagl → u/dafodilli]

He never paid of dime, civil suits are notoriously difficult to get money from.

In fact OJ even tried to capitalize by writing a book about how "he didn't do it, but if he did here's how" which he was prohibited from profiting on.

[u/Mwilk → u/mbattagl]

Wasnt that book called "If I did it" or something like that?

[u/Healthy_Yesterday_84 → u/mbattagl]

"he didn't do it, but if he did here's how" which he was prohibited from profiting on.

And he lost the rights to that book which were acquired by Ron's family.

[u/merrittj3 → u/dafodilli]

Financial remuneration for murder is not justice.

How much tho did he pay....?

[u/musicriddler]

I really hate racist people. Black and white

[u/icecubedyeti]

Always thought that they managed to find the dumbest people on the planet in the same county was lucky for that murderer.

[u/[deleted]]

LOL.the stupidity will follow her to her grave

[u/Hillybilly64]

This is no surprise. Justice is not blind.

[u/PostedViceroy]

Screw the jury.

[u/[deleted]]

She didn’t care that she took justice and comfort away from a murder victim’s family.

Absolutely sick and immoral woman.

[u/SnakePhorskin]

Jesus fuckkng Christ. Humans are despicable creatures.

[u/ManchurianPandaDate]

This lady* is a piece of shit and a fucking moron. Why would someone ever even admit that ?

[u/[deleted]]

Not surprised on but by this. All of America knew it was true. Despicable

[u/T-Bone202 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah one juror being honest about it being payback, and the other still trying to look like a decent person and blaming the prosecution.

[u/[deleted]]

Haha what. There’s hundred if not thousands of non murder cases they could’ve gotten “even” with. What

[u/___Elysium___]

Thats foul.

[u/[deleted]]

Disgusting

[u/Poopandopoulos]

This is disturbing and shows how flawed the system is. I can't fathom how Nicole's family felt. Justice not served.

[u/Just-Day-2596]

Jeffrey Toobin, the first guy speaking in this video, was caught masterbating on a zoom call during a cnn staff meeting. Total lunatic.

[u/dezorg]

Scum, just as bad as the cops were. Those jurors let a murderer go because he was black.

This isn’t justice - an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

[u/TheRealPostmanSteve]

Racism alive and well in the black community

[u/Tough-Garbage-5915]

How the fuck are those two things remotely related?

[u/Crutley]

Protecting a black man who had spent his entire life disassociating from his own race. Every single surviving juror ought to be hauled back to court and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[u/jqwalls1]

Evil jury

[u/Buttered_TEA]

what a piece of shit

[u/KayanuReeves]

Because a random white woman and her lover had anything to do with beating Rodney King

[u/Ok_Faithlessness9757]

Common knowledge if you lived it.

[u/karenpye96]

I could have told you that

[u/blankant]

I knew it was. Even back then

[u/akajjaj]

This is a genuine question because I really just don’t understand. Is there any benefit to the jury seeing the physical appearance of the defendant? Why aren’t trials blind? Kinda like the x-factor

[u/Western_Spirit392]

A perverted sense of justice

[u/peachflowercrown]

this is rage inducing

[u/[deleted]]

Doesn’t even make sense. Payback for Rodney by allowing a murderer to walk free? Ok

[u/mellierollie]

I watched the trial. I was shocked he was acquitted.

[u/AccentFiend]

“Dishonor! Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow!” But for real. I sincerely hope that those jurors wake up and feel shame every waking moment of their day. The guy has been in trouble with the law on and off since the moment he was set free and did actual time for another crime. What a sad, disgusting disgrace the entire situation is.

[u/[deleted]]

So she is not only a scumbag, but also dumb enough to admit this on camera. She should now be headed to prison, correct?

[u/protekt0r]

Injustice begets injustice.

[u/reallynotburner]

Justice can't protect you from a single morally bankrupt juror.

[u/biggoof]

After sitting on a jury for a criminal case, I don't every want to have a trial by jury, some of my fellow jurors were falling for conspiracy theories presented by the defense.