I seem to remember some jurors and other apologists for OJ on the anniversary of the verdict still proclaiming his innocence. I don’t have a cite but will look for it.
I think there was too much fear of another racial upheaval similar to what happened after the Rodney King police trial verdict. Cochran beautifully played the race card, found the perfect fall guy in Mark “The Fuhrer” Fuhrman, and didn’t just plant a seed but sank a whole freaking garden of doubt with the BS about planted gloves, aerosolizing blood in the lab, chain of custody (which was sloppy, to say the least) and, of course, the infamous, “If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit!” He did everything a defense attorney is supposed to do in order to get reasonable doubt. If he was alive today, he would be a consultant for Boston Legal.
I don’t remember that at all. I remember a juror saying something like, “He probably did it; but the prosecution didn’t prove beyond reasonable doubt that he did it, so we had to acquit.”
But they haven’t, for the last ten years. When Simpson was first acquitted, I was certain he was going to do a vomit-inducing victory lap of all the talk shows–Oprah, Larry King, Sally Jessy Raphael.
But somehow, some way, there was enough outrage that the networks wouldn’t touch him. They’ll touch anybody and anything else that can draw an audience, but not him. They’ve left him severely alone for 11 years.
Until now. Fox is scum, and Judith Regan is scum, and any corporation that sponsors this horse-shit is worse than scum. And I’m not a liberal, so I’m not drawing any unrelated political baggage in against Fox.
My mind is boggled. He was acquited of a heinous crime while every SANE person knows his hands are dripping with blood, and now he’s writing a book that “I didn’t do it, but if I did, this is how I would do it” wink wink nudge nudge.
Why doesn’t he just go over and crap in the Browns and Goldmans’ living room, while he’s at it? What mind could possibly conceive that this is a good idea?
Going on the talk shows has been mentioned. I doubt he could do Leno. It was Jay who, after OJ said he couldn’t afford to go on searching for the real killer, who said “C’mon, how much does a mirror cost?”
I’d like to see O.J. go on The Daily Show. If Jon Stewart has the cajones to lead off to a foreign head of state with, “So where is Osama bin Laden?”…imagine what he’d do to Simpson.
He did testify at the civil trial. However, the statute of limitations for perjury in California is only three years. He can’t go to jail for anything said at either trial.
I am convinced that OJ has gone round the bend. No sane person, after ranting about his innocence, would write a book about “If I had done it.”
I truly believe he’s pissed off at the Browns and the Goldmans and this is how he’s getting back at them. Do Nicole’s parents and sister ever get to see the kids?
