Ms. Clark and Mr. Darden were certainly not the prosecutorial A-team, that is for sure.

None of those strike me as knock-out evidence, and a fair argument could be made that they are just the sort of "too much bun, not enough meat" things lawyers should avoid. The bloody hand thing is worth mentioning, though.

The larger problem, to my mind, was Judge Ito letting his court turn into a circus run by the defense team. By the end, he allowed the trial to be an inquiry into LAPD racism, not facts surrounding a murder and Simpson's actions. That was almost entirely the judge's fault.

Add to that jurors who were apparently racially motivated and biased, and you got an absurd result. A result applauded by far too many who should have known better.

One of my more annoyed moments in life was hearing the verdict in a room filled with black edcuated professionals, who cheered when Simpson was found not guilty.

Think about that: they cheered.

I remember when the verdict came down over live television- utter disbelief...

Ito was an idiot who lost control of the trial the moment he let cameras in. And yes, the prosecutors were dweedle-dumb and tweedle-dumber. Typical cali incompetence all around.

Black people rarely vote to convict a black person. This isn't news. Just as black people will vote for another black person no matter what. But hey, only whites are racist.

The jury that brought in the verdict consisted of eleven blacks and one white ( there were 3 or 4 whites seated originally, but were challenged successfully during trial, removed, and alternates were seated ). After months of testimony, the verdict was rendered in 10 or 15 minutes.

Ditto Spartee and Momof4: racial bias played a huge role. The jurors knew they would go home that night where all in their community would know how each juror voted. A "Not Guilty" verdict was assured.

I would never want to go to court in this country.
Family courts are screwed up enough.

Trial court has guys like O.J. go free while other guys on Death Row have to be freed by The Innocence Project.

I own fake moustaches.

So, yeah, I'm not seeing THAT one as very damning.

Does the book talk about how O.J. could have gotten rid of his own bloody clothes? (None were ever found.)

I ask because I've never seen a simple rebuttal to all the "proof" given by Michael Moore that O.J. was innocent. So I have no idea if his points were reasonable or not.

I watched the trial from beginning to the end, and I also felt there was not enough evidence to make a conviction.
Even though his wife was cheating on him, the evidence they had was all circumstancial. I would have voted him NOT GUILTY.
He is only in jail now, because of people feeling he was guilty of murder and got away with it.
I hope he appeals the situation he is in now.
By the way, I AM WHITE,

To this day, I get sick on my stomach when I think of the evidence against this piece of excrement and the fact that he went free, and probably had to be framed in that robbery to finally get him behind bars.
Too bad his kids have to be subjected to all that.
Wonder how life is these days for our hero without the young blondes?

Regarding the missing bloody clothing, Robert Kardashian was photographed holding a bag of OJ's which disappeared. There was plenty of time for the clothing to be destroyed before the police ever got around to asking about the bag. The prosecution was completely inept and dropped the ball on many occasions.
What I'm curious about though is Bugliosi. He prosecuted Manson and had him convicted despite the fact that Manson himself was not guilty of any of the murders he is in jail for. He also was not present during the murders. Charlie is certainly not someone I'd like running around but I don't exactly buy Mr. Bugliosi's arguments and theories in that case. His 5 reasons for OJ's case are very old news. I guess he feels its time to make some money off of the public again with another book with regurgitated information.

O.J.case was just a judiciary mistake and someday very soon the real murdered will come out and many will be ashamed that very day for sure some would even fight against each other;Men or Women that love and jealousy there wife or husband hardly murder two people at the time and if they those it will not take up to six or twelves hours for them to confess for there crime simple as that;lam sorry about folks that called Ito idiot and commented about black juror & white juror

I think several factors explain the jury's failure to convict.

First, plenty of black people have negative experience with cops and were disinclined to vote for conviction due either to jarring experiences either they, or relatives or friends had with the police in the past. (Prosecutor Marcia Clark admitted during the trial - closing arguments, I think - that Detective Mark Fuhrman harbored racist sentiments.)

Second, as others have said, Judge Ito made a terrible decision to allow TV cameras into the courtroom. That pretty much guaranteed that the trial would become a circus.

Third, while I'm no lawyer, the prosecutorial team may have decided that what many consider to important evidence in the case should not be presented during the trial, either because they thought the rules of evidence would prohibit them from doing so, or because other evidence they had was so strong it wouldn't be needed.

Fourth, Judge Ito may have prevented certain valid evidence from being weighed by the jury based on an incorrect interpretation of the rules of evidence.

I'm no authority on these matters but my understading is that while may lay people think they understand the law as well as lawyers, in fact they don't even come close to understanding the rules of evidence and court procedures as well as lawyers do.

15 years plus a day since that awful verdict. It's interesting that not too long ago, a facet of Simpson's real self became so evident in the incident in Las Vegas, and now he's doing time.

>>"Even though his wife was cheating on him, the evidence they had was all circumstancial."

Okay, I'm pretty sure that Nicole & OJ were divorced. So she wasn't "his wife". And she wasn't seeing Ron Goldman romantically. So, please don't say that she was "cheating". Because she was just living her life. You make it sound like this was justified due to her fooling around, which is insulting to her and her family.

Well lets be fair cornerdemon. She was living her life, but on his dime.

I'm not saying O.J. should have killed her, but in the words of Chris Rock: I understand.

Never felt much sympathy for the gold digging bitch.

> Never felt much sympathy for the
> gold digging bitch.

For fuck's sake, the woman was essentially beheaded.

You don't get to go around slaughtering people of questionable character.

Bummer!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/03/30/prosecutors-suggest-simpson-dumped-bloody-clothes-at-airport/766cec21-d8c8-45a5-ba0c-c8ee29d437cf/

Bloody clothes