What pro-OJ conspiracy theories were surrounding the trial (not trying to start a debate - it’s just a genuine question)?
His lawyers made it about race.
But that wasn’t why he got off. He got off because he’s O. J. Fucking Simpson and he’s rich enough to buy his way out.
If he had been a poor black man, he’d have been convicted.
Generally, just the assumption that the LAPD had tampered with the blood samples, and/or other evidence. There was a mysterious envelope handled by the prosecution, whose contents were never revealed. And the day the story broke, the LA Times reported that the weapon used was an entrenching tool. Don’t know where they got that, but it was never mentioned again.
I don’t know how all that ties into any kind of conspiracy. But people will build conspiracies out of anything.
Speaking as one who is 50/50 on Simpson’s guilt, I have to say the fact that there was clearly manufactured evidence undoubtedly played a great part in his acquittal. Blood showed up in the Bronco months after the murders, and blood showed up on the gate at Nicole’s house weeks after the murder.
Not only that but there was very little blood inside the Bronco, including only one drop that could be attributed to Ron Goldman. I’ve seen pictures of this as well. It appears to me as though perhaps a detective with damp blood still on his hands from the horrendously messy crime scene a short distance away was inside the Bronco and feeling around for evidence or perhaps the dome light switch. The stains I saw were very small and spotty and were in places where someone looking for something would have touched the interior. There were fingertip-looking stains on the back of the headrests, the back of the seats, and on the headliner above and behind the front seats.
Then we have the prosecution’s apparent dual entry scenario when Simpson allegedly returned from the murders. One theory has it that he rushed home after the murders, parked the Bronco hastily at the curb, and rushed inside his house dripping blood on the drive as he went. Yet at the same time, he’s supposed to be entering the grounds of his property from his next door neighbor’s back yard, jumping the fence and landing behind Kato Kaelin’s room, whereupon he banged into an air conditioner and dropped the bloody glove, a glove by the way that was still mysteriously wet some eight hours after the murders.
Further, it was said that Goldman fought furiously for his life and that his murder must have taken at least a couple of minutes to accomplish, yet despite this violent struggle with the young and fit Goldman, Simpson’s body bore no bruises or contusions, only the small cut on his knuckle which may or may not have occurred when he smashed a drinking glass in his hotel sink in Chicago.
As I also said before, I’m truly 50/50 on Simpson’s guilt. I am no more persuaded that he is innocent than I am that he is guilty. Too much doesn’t add up if he’s innocent, and too much doesn’t add up if he’s guilty. But the points I just outlined would be enough to make me have a “reasonable” doubt, and speaking as a middle-aged white guy I, too, would have voted to acquit.
I have to say I too would probably have voted to acquit, even though I believed he did the muders. That the defense was able to get the lead investigator to repeatedly take the 5th on the stand would probably be enought for me to vote that there was reasonable doubt.
Just another white guy with another 2 cents here. 