NFT: OJ Simpon - Your Verdict

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But the LAPD fucked the case up so badly (detective lying about racial slurs, poor handling of DNA evidence, the glove incident, etc.).

The real tragedy of this was there were no more Naked Gun movies after this, because no one was going to put OJ Simpson in a movie again.

In comment 12798828 Scyber said:

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Why not?

Don't people usually kill themselves when suffering from CTE?
Usually it is a suicide not a homicide - just sayin' ; ).

and they find significant signs of CTE, that could be it for the NFL.

OK, maybe not, but if someone can link CTE to homicidal behavior, that can't be good for the league.

are aggression, depression, anxiety, anger, etc. There's another 10,000 medical ailments with the same side effects but still, CTE if he has it could have played a role.

He been paroled for the major charges, but some lesser charges have him locked up until... 2017.

prosecution and brilliant tactics by Cochran, Shapiro and Dershowitz. The prosecution did a generally terrible job, but there was more than enough there for Simpson to be convicted.

And perhaps the most brilliant defense tactic (fuck the glove) was getting Robert Kardashian on the Dream Team. Not because he was such an amazing lawyer, but because it prevented him from testifying due to attorney/client privilege and therefore, prevented him from discussing how he essentially hid OJ's "luggage."


A real travesty of justice

but the fact that the defense was able to successfully paint him as an anti-black bigot went a long way to convince the jury of the illegitimacy of any evidence procured by him and his fellow detectives.

He was proved to be a liar in an unrelated incident. To be effective as a police officer and a detective means your credibility must be substantial if not perfect. His was not.

In comment 12799464 ed90631 said:

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but the fact that the defense was able to successfully paint him as an anti-black bigot went a long way to convince the jury of the illegitimacy of any evidence procured by him and his fellow detectives. He was proved to be a liar in an unrelated incident. To be effective as a police officer and a detective means your credibility must be substantial if not perfect. His was not.

aha...Furman.

in a long list, of how fucked out our "justice" system is.

People are convicted of murder in this country every day on the strength of about one one thousandth of the evidence that pointed the OJ's guilt. He got away with murder. You have to really stretch hard to ignore the avalanche of evidence against him. Or have a very strong bias in his favor.

What did Ron Goldman say to Nicole Brown Simpson when he saw her in heaven ?

"Here are your fucking sunglasses."

It almost a certainty that he did it. But, the police, DA, crime labs, etc. all bungled the case from the moment the first officers arrived on the scene. According to the law, the correct verdict was rendered.

that so many paid professionals could drop the ball like that.

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In comment 12798965 BeerFridge said:

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but DNA evidence was really new to the general public then.

I disagree, the public has a much higher standard now in the post CSI era, an almost unrealistic standard.

I'm having a bit of a problem with Travolta in the role of Shapiro. I'm still thinking in terms of "Hey, it's Travolta playing Robert Shapiro" I suppose as this thing unwinds, I'll get used to it, but for now it's distracting. I remember pretty much all of the events, and the coverage was pretty much wall to wall on CNN. I remember that once it got to trial, the monotony started to make it hard to watch. God only knows, how those jurors felt. I was convinced O.J. did it, the glove notwithstanding.

In comment 12798719 UConn4523 said:

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was it confirmed that it got wet and shrunk? I can't really remember.

Believe it did get wet, not sure it shrunk.

That being said, I want to see you put on a fur lined glove while wearing a rubber glove. Also, after OJ feigned not being able to get his hand in it, when told to take it off, he just pulls it off as if it was lubricated....what a freakin sham.

The prosecution put the limo driver on first and he should have been last. His testimony alone should have all but convicted OJ. Saw him (or "somebody") climb over the wall, run into the house and then come out 15 or 20 minutes later after taking a shower and still sweating like a pig. OJ said he overslept... Why was OJs car outside that wall and not in the garage or in the driveway??
The prosecution could not have done a worse job if it wanted to.

How was that the correct verdict? Mountain of evidence picked apart with the race card. That gives you reasonable doubt?

however, the 1% chance that it was not him leads me to believe that it could have been his son and that he was covering for him. That would explain the similarities in the DNA. I also think that the cops had the wrong getaway car. There were bloody footprints leaving the scene and according to the police OJ should have been covered in blood. However, there were just a few blood specs/drops in his car. I think the car leaving the scene was a different one and that he went to his car afterwards to get something but never got in.

During the time of these murders OJ was filming a TV movie called frogman where he played a navy seal and was getting training during the filming of this show he even bought a knife during the filming and which was believed to be the same knife he used to do the murders and some of the training was said to come into play in how he committed the murders, the movie never aired the FBI confiscated the film, crazy.

In comment 12799994 EricJ said:

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however, the 1% chance that it was not him leads me to believe that it could have been his son and that he was covering for him. That would explain the similarities in the DNA. I also think that the cops had the wrong getaway car. There were bloody footprints leaving the scene and according to the police OJ should have been covered in blood. However, there were just a few blood specs/drops in his car. I think the car leaving the scene was a different one and that he went to his car afterwards to get something but never got in.

Another story was Oj hired serial killer Glen Rogers to do it. I still believe OJ did it but I could definitely see his mental son committing the murders

he's guilty. It was a fiasco.

In comment 12800051 Mike Graves said:

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During the time of these murders OJ was filming a TV movie called frogman where he played a navy seal and was getting training during the filming of this show he even bought a knife during the filming and which was believed to be the same knife he used to do the murders and some of the training was said to come into play in how he committed the murders, the movie never aired the FBI confiscated the film, crazy.

I've been told that some of the methods for cutting a throat that are taught in Basic Under Water Demolition School (BUDS) leave wounds that are very much like the ones left on Nicole (close to decapitation)but concurrently with forcing the K-Bar blade forward one forces the back of the victims head forward limiting somewhat the degree of blood spray. That was one of the things that made me think that OJ might have done it, because I thought he probably got some rudimentary SEAL training for the role he was playing, maybe he even had to go to Coronado for a while. I never bought into the whole DNA after the DA and mostly unattributed cops started saying that the DNA testing pointed to OJ way before they could have received the test results back. If that Scientist hadn't of been such a jerk that's what I think he would have testified to. Shapiro had already torn apart the DNA evidence so the defense probably thought they didn't need the scientist. Just the way Furhman carried himself for some reason kind of gave me the idea that he was sticking his thumb on the scales. The tapes shocked me but didn't surprise me. I said in another post that an NYPD detective once told me that "unless he's an idiot never try to frame a guilty man". OJ and his lawyers weren't idiots and every time they saw a piece of tampered evidence they eviscerated it. How do you know the evidence is tampered with?

100%. The whole thing was an absolute circus. The prosecution sucked, Cochran turned the whole thing into a racial debate, & you had a cast of characters you couldn't make up.

I just watched FX's 'The People vs. O.J. Simpson'. Good show.