I found several cites from 2016 that the case is still open. It doesn’t sound accurate that a police department can just say they know something and close the case. Do you have a cite for this claim?
USC law professor and criminal defense attorney Michael Brennan claimed it is still open in 2016:
can’t recall where I read it was closed but I suppose that writer got it wrong. Cops have limited resources so I don’t think they spend time on 24 year old cases absent new evidence.
Which I think is suspicious. Wouldn’t your first thought be an auto accident?
One of the key things for me are the amazing coincidences if OJ was innocent. Take his blood dripping all over his driveway. How many times in your life have you cut yourself so badly that you bled all over the place? Maybe a couple of times?
How unlucky would you have to be to cut yourself on the same night that your ex-wife and her friend were brutally murdered right across town?
Maybe it was his first thought. What makes you think it was something else?
I wouldn’t think that, though. IME, when someone says “(Blank) was killed”, the thought that follows is that it was murder/manslaughter. Deaths in auto accidents are usually announced differently, at least with the ending “killed in an car accident.”
I guess we are all different, but my first question after composing myself, would be “What the hell happened?”
Former FBI profiler and author John Douglas wrote about this in one of his books (I think it was The Cases That Haunt Us). He states that OJ never asked which ex-wife.
I never commented on what my first question would be or if I’d have one at all. You said you think it was suspicious that OJ’s first thought wasn’t that it was an auto accident. How do you know it wasn’t? I then commented that based on the detective’s phrasing, it wouldn’t be my first thought.
another interesting story is the rumor that OJ is the real father of Khloe Kardashian , she is 5-10 and her sisters are 5-0 and 5-3. And she does not look that much like her sisters either. No proof of that story as far as I know and OJ and Kris Jenner have denied it. I don’t think anyone thinks OJ was faithful to Nicole.
However, she has naturally paler skin than her sisters. I’d go with the hairdresser before OJ.
Shoddy police work, a racist detective that was discredited on the stand, mediocre prosecution, a very rich and famous defendant, and the best lawyer money could buy pretty much sealed the deal.
And perhaps most importantly: an African-American jury that (collectively) felt they were in a position of power for perhaps the first time in their lives from a societal point of view, and were determined to exercise that power, especially in light of the recent Rodney King trial.
the joke at the time was the LAPD were so bad they could not frame a guilty man.
Sacha Baron Cohen tried to get OJ to confess but he did not fall for it
Sacha Baron Cohen trolls O.J. Simpson on 'Who Is America?' finale
O.J. should be in jail for the rest of his life, or worse. He murdered two innocent people in cold blood back in 1994, and there was a plethora of physical evidence that proved that he committed the crime. I don’t care that he got off in a court of law. He’s still guilty, everyone knows he’s guilty, and it’s one of the biggest jokes & travesties of justice that he got off on this.
It’s also worth noting that O.J.'s previous domestic abuse against NB were taken into account when the murder trial took place - though I guess that wasn’t enough for the jury. Obviously, someone who had a history of viciously beating his wife - and threatening to kill her - should have been one of the first suspects in her murder.
It’s obvious that even some of O.J.'s defense lawyers believed he was guilty - but, since he had a shitload of money & since they were getting paid very well, they could obviously overlook this - LOL. It’s painfully obvious that our criminal justice system is biased towards those who have money, and biased against those who don’t. If O.J. had been poor & under the exact same circumstances, he would have been in jail forever - or gotten the death penalty.
I also feel the defense made two fatal mistakes that cost them the trial:
It’s worth noting that there were numerous reasons why the gloves didn’t fit:
The gloves were leather, which shrinks - so, they could have shrunk & been smaller than they were initially.
O.J. wore plastic gloves over his hands before trying the leather gloves on. So, of course they wouldn’t fit correctly.
There is no way of knowing whether or not the gloves fit O.J. that well to begin with.
I felt bad for the prosecutors - their hearts were definitely in the right place, and they definitely were prosecuting someone that they knew committed the crime (obviously, not all lawyers are this way). However, because of their various bad decisions & missteps - this whole thing blew up in their face. Sad.
I was in college when O.J. was declared innocent in Fall 1995. I distinctly remembered passing by the student center on that day, and suddenly, without warning, there was a huge amount of cheering coming from the building - I heard this even though I was outside the building. I immediately knew the reason, even though I wasn’t watching TV at the time.
I would also urge everyone interested in this case to see the superb documentary series from 2016, O.J.: Made in America. This spends a lot of time on not just O.J.'s personal history, but a history of L.A. & the police force, the early '90’s events in L.A. leading up to the trial (Rodney King, the riots, etc.), the trial itself, the later civil case against O.J., and the robbery in Vegas. It even interviews some of the former jurors in the 1994/1995 trial. Very educational & informative.
Absolutely.
You mean the prosecution, right? Because it wasn’t the defense who had him try on the gloves.
Right - I misspoke. I meant the prosecution.
the defense were ready for him to try on the gloves but they did not think the prosecution would do it. They prepped OJ to tell him how to make them not fit.
True. Based on everything I’ve heard/read, they even mentioned to the prosecution that if they didn’t have OJ try on the gloves, they (the defense) would have him do so. They did this intentionally to discredit the prosecution, and it worked extremely well. The prosecution’s stupid rookie mistake here was not knowing ahead of time whether or not the gloves fit.
My take on this is that the prosecution should have just called the defense’s bluff & had them have OJ try on the gloves. Sure, they still wouldn’t have fit but at least the prosecution wouldn’t have looked like idiots re: asking the defendant to do something that made them (the prosecution) look bad.