O.J Simpson has been granted parole - he'll be out by October (at the earliest)

[AHVB]

What a shame. I feel for the family of his murder victims.

[Spirit_Juice]

White people are triggered

100% true. I was barely apathetic about hearing about OJ 7 years ago when he went to jail and the other day when they set him free.

But holy shit, go back one generation and it was this big thing. They were on facebook the other day bashing OJ, “he got away with murdering two of the whitest angels every put on this earth and he should be in jail forever”. And no, I didn’t say anything, I just hid their post. Some of them are family, better to keep nice.

I don’t see them sharing posts when innocent black people or poor people get murdered, much less kids on the other side of the planet.

Only exception is if they knew the person, likely through their kids.

It’s an example not direct racism or anything like that, it’s institutional racism, classicism, and generally the way humans have evolved to not GAF about people outside their circle. TV broke through that barrier and made OJ’s trial personal, somehow.

White people get away with crimes all the time, but when one, famous black man does (and only prison), they got their knickers in a twist.

I mean, there were a lot of layers to the OJ case. It came off the back of the LA riots. There was a lot of racial tension and allegations of the LAPD being racist. Cochran’s entire defense relied on a conspiracy theory that the LAPD was out to get OJ, despite the evidence of the contrary. On top of all that, OJ was a huge celebrity at the time, so of course it became a huge, high profile case. It’s interesting to go back and read up or watch documentaries on the case since it was a complete circus. Pretty sure a majority of us here on SRK were children at the time of the trial and don’t remember anything of importance. However, you strip away all the fluff and bullshit, at the end of the day, a man walked for very obviously killing two innocent people. That sucks.

There were also the prosecution’s mistakes, like sloppy evidence handling, having O.J. try on the recovered gloves, and putting Mark Fuhrman on the stand (though that couldn’t be avoided). Not that it’s all the prosecution’s fault; just throwing that in there. This case was crazy, though I only know of it through the documentary.

Absolutely not denying this. The case was pretty much handed to the prosecution on a silver platter but they fucked it up. Jury more than likely being extremely biased probably didn’t help. Only two jury members were white, the rest or majority were black. The jury deliberated for forty god damn minutes in a DOUBLE HOMICIDE CASE. Most of the jury probably already made up their mind on OJ being innocent the moment they realized it was him on trial; the evidence, although mishandled, probably did little to sway their minds. The whole thing was a shitshow. Incompetent prosecution. Conspiracy theory defense. Dumb ass jury.

I still question the timeline of events. O.J. managed to kill two people, only get a tiny bit of blood on himself, dispose of all evidence, and still catch his flight.

I’ve seen those crime scene photos, and blood was all over the place.

If you look at his last adventure to “steal” his property, it’s so hard to believe he’s such a “pro”.

It’s less believable that he was able to dispose of all the evidence and be framed by such incompetent police. It’s more believable that he was able to dispose of some evidence, but in his haste, made some mistakes such as the blood on and in the Bronco and the glove found at his home. It’s hard to believe he’s a “pro” because he absolutely wasn’t one. All the evidence pointed to this, but the incompetent prosecution, Cochran’s black magic (pun intended), and very likely dumb/biased jury lead to him literally getting away with murder.

[Dime]

I remember the evidence. I would have let him off as well. Missing blood and a sock that was on the floor of his room perfectly presented with a single drop of blood on it… that soaked through the sock as if planted there.

Anyone in LA knows the police frame people, OJ got off because the police tried to frame a guilty man. And if they tried to fabricate evidence, there’s no telling how much other evidence was also fabricated. Points to reasonable doubt.

Not saying I think he’s innocent, just that stranger things have happened.

[angelpalm]

I still question the timeline of events. O.J. managed to kill two people, only get a tiny bit of blood on himself, dispose of all evidence, and still catch his flight.

I’ve seen those crime scene photos, and blood was all over the place.

If you look at his last adventure to “steal” his property, it’s so hard to believe he’s such a “pro”.

For reals, I would imagine oj trying to kill someone would look like one of his naked gun skits

[Spirit_Juice]

Christopher Darden, one of the lead prosecutors on the case, did an AMA, if you guys are interested.

Hi Reddit - I am Christopher Darden, Prosecutor on O.J. Simpson's Murder Trial....

[angelpalm]

And Jay-Z.

You aint lying, them jayz oj memes was killing me earlier.

[white_shadow]

I remember the day of the announcement of his verdict my black teacher wheeling in the TV for all of us to watch, and her celebrating the verdict. It’s funny now because I could also hear the ruckus in other classrooms of shock and disappointment down the hall.

Like what was echoed by a few in this thread, the trial wasn’t about guilt or innocence for black people. Most black women saw Nicole as a white hussie who stole a successful black man from “them” even though OJ was the one who chose her, and black men saw all the times they were treated as third-class citizens by “The Man” and mistreated by police, and wanted the rich and successful OJ to win on that principle alone. This only got exacerbated when that racist POS Mark Furhman all but admitted he planted evidence to stick it to OJ. Many white people could claim the moral and legal high ground because they blinded themselves to bigger picture and willfully ignored the underpinning social issues that warped the moral perceptions of so many of their black “friends” of convenience and workmates.

I’m still amazed by the Mind Gem-wielding Johnnie Cochran who somehow got OJ off with his “Glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit defense”.

Hyper Combo Finish! KO!

[MarcOfTheBeast]

I still question the timeline of events. O.J. managed to kill two people, only get a tiny bit of blood on himself, dispose of all evidence, and still catch his flight.

I’ve seen those crime scene photos, and blood was all over the place.

If you look at his last adventure to “steal” his property, it’s so hard to believe he’s such a “pro”.

No. We not doing this. OJ killed those people. The only reasons he ain’t waiting to get a needle is because Johnnie Cochran was goddamned wizard, and the LAPD is more incompetent than Capcpom at doing anything that doesn’t involve beating minorities.

Po, you forgot the biased ass jury too. It’s still hard for me to grasp how the prosecution could fumble a case like this. I mean they had a clear path to the end zone.

[MCP]

I’m still amazed by the Mind Gem-wielding Johnnie Cochran who somehow got OJ off with his “Glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit
defense”.

Good post. Trying to provide some quotes from that AMA:

I read Marcia Clark’s book about the trial, and, apparently, they had ordered a pair of the same style of gloves new just for that reason. The day he was supposed to try them on, though, they discovered the gloves were either the wrong style or size (I can’t remember which now). There was some debate about having him try on the actual gloves from the crime scene or avoiding it altogether. We all know what happened at that point.

Before then, however, it was Detective Vannatter who had been able to determine that the glove found by Detective Fuhrman was very rare, and that Mr. Simpson had bought one of only 200 pairs of that exact size and style that had ever been sold; he was even able to produce the receipt.
"Besides the DNA evidence, this sales receipt may have been the most incriminating evidence in the entire case,” Mr. Toobin wrote. “Who else in Los Angeles except O. J. Simpson would have had access to these extremely rare gloves? Who else except O. J. Simpson would have used them to murder his ex-wife?”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/philip-vannatter-70-dies-o-j-simpson-investigator.html

And then, this lovely quote:

That case was lost the moment that Mark Fuhrman responded to “Did you plant or manufacture any evidence in this case?” with “I assert my fifth amendment privilege.”

[axeman61]

I thought, though, that you’re unable to choose what you respond to and don’t respond to when you assert 5th amendment privilege. As in, you can’t plead the fifth to every question, then say “NO!” when they ask if you planted evidence. Is that true? Google seems to have different answers.

[Spirit_Juice]

Did Fuhrman actually plant evidence or was he just trying to cover his ass no matter the possibility? We’ll never know for sure. For all we know he was just doing everything he could to avoid being charged with perjury, but the reasoning didn’t matter. Like Darden said in the AMA, all that mattered was Fuhrman pleading the fifth was enough to make up the minds of the (already biased) jury.

The AMA is pretty great though. I haven’t read through all the questions he answered, but Darden is incredibly honest and answers some great questions. He notes that putting Fuhrman on the stand was the biggest mistake the prosecution made, despite knowing the fact that it could bite them in the ass.

Reading through the AMA, I noticed a comment that one of the jury members was a former Black Panther member. LOL. This whole trial was fucked from start to finish.

[MarcOfTheBeast]

Did Fuhrman actually plant evidence or was he just trying to cover his ass no matter the possibility? We’ll never know for sure. For all we know he was just doing everything he could to avoid being charged with perjury, but the reasoning didn’t matter. Like Darden said in the AMA, all that mattered was Fuhrman pleading the fifth was enough to make up the minds of the (already biased) jury.

The AMA is pretty great though. I haven’t read through all the questions he answered, but Darden is incredibly honest and answers some great questions. He notes that putting Fuhrman on the stand was the biggest mistake the prosecution made, despite knowing the fact that it could bite them in the ass.

Reading through the AMA, I noticed a comment that one of the jury members was a former Black Panther member. LOL. This whole trial was fucked from start to finish.

It’s just so much dumb shit the prosecution did at that time, hard to keep track of. It’s funny but it’s not funny.

[angelpalm]

We need one of these dudes on every jury XD

[rcaido]

Wasn’t there a popular theory that his son could have done it & OJ covering?

[Spirit_Juice]

Wasn’t there a popular theory that his son could have done it & OJ covering?

Someone asks Darden in the AMA what his thoughts were on that theory. He says it was defamatory.

[DiNyc3st]

It’s clear as day that OJ did it and Rob hid the evidence. He took it to he grave! That’s a real one right there RIP

[FrostyAU]

Did it or not he wasn’t convicted of it. You can’t punish someone on what should have happened. He’s in jail for armed robbery and he’s getting let out from armed robbery.

[BigDewey]

Everyone: Did you hear O.J. is getting out?

Me:

[po_pimpus]

Um… What the fuck is that?

[BigDewey]

Um… What the fuck is that?