of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. With no racial animus, I have always been thoroughly convinced that he was guilty.
Do you think OJ was guilty or not guilty…..
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Of course he was guilty. There was literally a trail of blood going back to his apartment where they found his bloody shoes.
Guilty. But my degree of confidence was probably only at 80% upon the verdict announcement. But OJ's behavior since then has raised my confidence to over 90%. E.g., where he subsequently (and stupidly) published the book titled "If I Did It" which is essentially a theoretical confession.
But the glove didn't fit, and the jury did acquit.
But the glove didn't fit, and the jury did acquit.
Is your question whether I think he was “not guilty” or whether I think he was “innocent” because those are two separate questions.
I don’t have to guess whether he was not guilty. A jury determined he was in fact not guilty.
An easy fix to our system would be to change verdicts to “proven beyond a reasonable doubt” and “not proven beyond a reasonable doubt”.
So, I guess we took a time machine back too 1995? Hasn't this debate/question long been decided.
You're such a lawyer, and of course I mean that with all due respect.
He killed her but the combo of incompetent cops/prosecutors and racial issues at the time ruined the case
Spoken like a true defense attorney.
Rephrase: Do you think he dunnit or nah?
Oh he 100% killed them. There’s no question
I just want people to understand that “not guilty” ≠ innocent
And a combination of the two with Fuhrman
I happened to be home for lunch when the prosecutors STUPIDLY had him try on the gloves. I was screaming at the TV. That opened the door.
That's true. Crazy case. I watched the Netflix series and got really into it last year or whenever it was. Really learned that fact through that process.
I lived with a guy at the time who sat there and watched that trial all day every day and was absolutely convinced that OJ didn’t do it. To this day I don’t understand how he ever believed that. Dude went on to become a Bartow county sheriff’s deputy as well. I have never ever understood how anybody actually thought OJ did not do that.
Didn't you guys know that OJ was out looking for the real killers ever since he got out of jail? LMAO
His history with women and physically abusing Nicole would certainly point to a good chance he was capable of doing it. Probability is high he was involved.
DNA evidence was relatively new back then. They reported that there was a 1:100 billion chance that it was somebody other than OJ whose blood was on both victims and at the crime scene and in his car. There were only 7 billion people on the planet in the mid 90s. You do the math.
There are current videos of jurors who are today saying that they knew that he murdered the two but that they pulled a jury nullifcation because of the Rodney King scenario, among other things. So the jurors admit he should have been found guilty, but they nullified the verdict.
There could have been video of oj committing the murders and that jury would not have convicted him.
Guilty. Verdict was a joke. I lived off Peter street at the time of the verdict and our cable went out about 45 mins before it was delivered. Coincidence?
GUILTY and its not really a debate. If you have any doubts just watch this for a refresher....
Dan Abrams Looks Back on OJ Trial
The DA lost this case when he decided to use the venue of downtown LA instead of in the suburbs where OJ lived and “a jury of his peers” could be seated.
Beyond the shadow of any doubt.
Read Christopher Darden’s book. Dream team of lawyers vs ordinary lawyers. Star struck jury that didn’t consider any facts against him because “it’s OJ!” A judge woefully inadequate to handle a case of that magnitude. No doubt he’s guilty and no doubt the jury knew it too, but just refused to convict their hero.
I had a number of folks in my office that were cutting flips when the verdict was announced. Talk to em privately years later and they all smiled, looked down and would say “Yeah he did it…” Others would bring up the fears of the jury, being in LA, were scared of the ramifications if they decided differently.
I have always said the verdict will be different one day when he faces the Ultimate Judge and Jury.
Read Christopher Darden’s book. Dream team of lawyers vs ordinary lawyers. Star struck jury that didn’t consider any facts against him because “it’s OJ!” A judge woefully inadequate to handle a case of that magnitude. No doubt he’s guilty and no doubt the jury knew it too, but just refused to convict their hero.
I had a number of folks in my office that were cutting flips when the verdict was announced. Talk to em privately years later and they all smiled, looked down and would say “Yeah he did it…” Others would bring up the fears of the jury, being in LA, were scared of the ramifications if they decided differently.
I have always said the verdict will be different one day when he faces the Ultimate Judge and Jury.
OJ snapped for some reason and killed them both, no question he did it
I was out in Los Angeles when the crimes occurred. Nobody out there ever wanted to discuss whether he was guilty or not. And as far as the modern day re-invention of history of this was payback for Rodney King, that’s bullshit. they didn’t give a shit about Rodney King they just wanted to stick it to whitey
in a way karma kind of won out. He still served almost 10 years which is probably more than most murderers in California spend and he was shunned by decent society and his poor little ego didn’t get stroked. There are stories coming out now that US C paid off battered blonde girls during his time there.
As a sidenote a friend of mine used to frequent an Italian restaurant in the Tampa area that OJ discovered and liked to come to. After his third or fourth visit the owner came out and told him he was not welcome there please don’t come back. So for a guy like that to be shunned that was paid back.
in a way karma kind of won out. He still served almost 10 years which is probably more than most murderers in California spend and he was shunned by decent society and his poor little ego didn’t get stroked. There are stories coming out now that US C paid off battered blonde girls during his time there.
As a sidenote a friend of mine used to frequent an Italian restaurant in the Tampa area that OJ discovered and liked to come to. After his third or fourth visit the owner came out and told him he was not welcome there please don’t come back. So for a guy like that to be shunned that was paid back.
The prosecution team botched the case on a million levels, but none more than just over-trying it. By trying to preempt every possible defense, they made it nauseatingly long and invited jurors to be overwhelmed. A case study on how not to try a case.
The jury gets far too much of the blame. The prosecution deserves much more of it.
If one has studied the facts of the case at all, the evidence is as iron clad as any murder case could possibly be. He’s guilty not just beyond any reasonable doubt, but beyond any doubt.
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