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OJ Simpson: Made In America

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Alma, Jun 15, 2016.

  1. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Even O.J.'s "denial" that he just loved Nicole too much sounded more like a confession.
     
  2. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Part 4 was brutal. Just brutal.
     
  3. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    My next door neighbor when the verdict came out was a black attorney who worked for the US government as patent attorney, very science oriented. Very nice, Smart and nerdy guy, about 15 yeas older than me. The day after the verdict we briefly talked about it and he said "payback's a bitch".

    Since OJ, every cop that shot a black guy and got away with it had supporters that said, OJ got away with one too.
     
  4. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    OJ was not progress. Injustice never is.

    That said...do I get the verdict? Sure. You get an elite team of lawyers and talkers...pulling out all the stops to win...juries are not hard to shape in those settings.
     
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  5. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    There's also the small matter of LAPD making a hash out of the chain of custody.
     
  6. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Yep that was the worst part which could be seen as "reasonable doubt".
     
  7. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    How many people have pissed away celebrity and good fortune more than OJ?
    Probably a short list. Simpson was Everybody's All-American, wherever he went.

    Now he's rotting in a prison cell. Probably crazier than ever at this point.
     
  8. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    That happens more than we think. Great lawyers with big teams and a lot of money are better at uncovering it. They're the, uh, elite Longform writers of the legal field.

    He did it. That's obvious. It was then and it is now. Hell, the doc makes it in clear in episode 5 why many of the jurors voted the way they did.
     
  9. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    Anyone who watches this and still believes OJ was innocent is a moron.

    But it is much more clear to me why he was found not guilty: 1) Idiotic police and investigators 2) Idiotic science guys 3) Darden is a moron 4) The 12 people on the jury had a combined IQ of 60
     
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  10. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    But that is justice. Any mistake by the prosecution means the murderer can't be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, even if any sane person knows he is guilty. And if you think a defense lawyer shouldn't be proud of letting a murderer walk, go pound salt.
     
  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Just got done binge-watching last two episodes via on demand. Wow.

    I won't be as blunt as Zag, but yeah, the prosecution made a lot of tactical errors. And Cochrane played the jury like it was modeling clay.

    But for all the goodwill OJ generated in the black community that loved him through the trial, it seemed like he turned on it as soon as he could. Next to the deaths of Nicole and Goldman, this might be the greatest tragedy.
     
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  12. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Can you "turn on" something you were never actually with? Because OJ never was truly "with" the black community, indeed he did everything in his power to run from it right up until the day he was arrested (As Hondo noted, it's telling that his words as he was being driven to jail was "what are these niggers doing in Brentwood?"). To the extent he gave a different impression during the trial it was because Johnny Cochran told him to.

    Other than perhaps Michael Jackson, not sure there's been any black celebrity who more seemingly wanted to be white. Which makes it so bizarre that he's the guy Black America rallied behind like nobody else I can ever remember.
     
    Last edited: Jun 18, 2016
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