# Do you know anyone who believes O.J. was innocent? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-believes-o-j-was-innocent/690663 "2014-06-12T22:53:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-believes-o-j-was-innocent/690663/21 "2014-06-13T16:17:42Z")
My brother, who lived in L.A. then & still does, believed that his son did it, O.J. knew it, and did his best to confuse the matter, figuring he would not get convicted himself as he did not actually do it, but he could divert all attention away from his son. We haven’t discussed it lately so I don’t know if he still holds to that. He also thought that all the time O.J. spent in jail & under prosecution was what he had coming from his abuse of Nicole. IF O.J. did NOT do it, it seems to me it would have to have been someone else with a lot of personal emotion against her & Goldman. I’m sure Organized Crime rings have hit-people who can commit that sort of carnage, but still. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-believes-o-j-was-innocent/690663/22 "2014-06-13T16:58:22Z")
> [@](#): > > MAY 19 - On what would have been Nicole Brown Simpson’s 36th birthday, the prosecution described in gruesome detail its verson of how she was killed. > > Assistant district attorney Brian Kelberg said that O.J. Simpson incapacitated his ex-wife with blows to the head and at least four stab wounds. As she lay facedown, he grabbed her by the hair with his left hand, put his foot on her back, pulled her head up and cut her throat left to right, severing the carotid artery, Kelberg said. > > In arguing over the admissibility of 40 to 50 autopsy photos, Kelberg said the cut was so deep it partially severed her vertebrae, Kelberg said, in arguing over the admissibility of 40 to 50 autopsy photos. > > The jury, which was not present for this description, needs to see the autopsy photos because they prove the killings were committed by someone in a rage, such as an abusive ex-husband, Kelberg argued. [COURTTV.COM - TRIALS - O.J. Simpson: Week-by-week](http://web.archive.org/web/20071211050804/http://www.courttv.com/trials/ojsimpson/weekly/17.html) This type of violence at the victim really points at OJ. It is, as mentioned, highly indicative of someone with an emotional tie to the victim that is acting from a level of rage at the victim that is not seen in stranger encounters. I think he did it and got away with it because the defense team demonized Mark Fuhrman and successfully distracted the jury from the facts in the case. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-believes-o-j-was-innocent/690663/23 "2014-06-13T17:04:19Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I think he did it and got away with it because the defense team demonized Mark > Fuhrman and successfully distracted the jury from the facts in the case. I have always assumed O.J. did it. I’m not necessarily convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, but I haven’t examined all the evidence in any great detail. I do know, however, that the “not guilty” verdict was not just the result of defense tactics at trial. The prosecution screwed up. If it takes you 8 months to prove your case, you don’t have a case. I know trials take forever in Southern California, but I cannot imagine taking more than 4 or 5 weeks to prove any case. The longer you present your case, the more time the defense has to take shots at it and argue how confusing the whole thing is. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-believes-o-j-was-innocent/690663/24 "2014-06-13T19:47:10Z")
At the time I knew people who thought he was innocent, I don’t know what they think now. One woman I worked with got a copy of the paper with the verdict in the headline and she ran around holding up the paper screaming YAY! I figured that was just about the right mentality for the people who thought him innocent. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-believes-o-j-was-innocent/690663/25 "2014-06-13T20:10:26Z")
Hertz does, they want to use them again. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-believes-o-j-was-innocent/690663/26 "2014-06-14T09:29:09Z")
I think he absolutely did it. I didn’t watch everything by any means - I caught it here and there, but I thought it was certainly arguable that the prosecution had met their burden. However, I confess to being glad that he got off. The reason I was glad is that I was learning at the time about the gross injustices perpetrated by the “justice” system against black men in particular, including higher rates of detention and arrest, more serious charges for the same crime, longer sentences, etc. That translated into me being glad that just this once the extremely imperfect system worked in a black man’s favor. So I was glad and relieved for a few years. Gradually I realized what a stupid position I held - yes, the criminal justice system is criminally unfair to black people, but this particular person got away with murder, which is not at all something I should be glad about. By the time my feelings had shifted, he was in trouble for the paraphernalia thing, which I think we’re pretty sure was a set-up, right? At that point I was very happy to see him go to jail and I figured it was the universe’s way of setting things right. ---
**Author:** ![cococ173](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@cococ173](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cococ173)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-believes-o-j-was-innocent/690663/27 "2014-06-14T19:42:55Z")
To answer the OP, there is a brother of a serial killer who believes his brother killed Nicole and Ron. I saw him on a Discovery ID show. I don’t think he is correct but he makes a compelling argument. OJ did it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-believes-o-j-was-innocent/690663.md?page=1)