Yes, thank you, that was it.
Never mind. 
Sick jokes about the victims are the only ones I have, unfortunately.
Thanks for deleting that. I only got to the first one, and I did not like it.
Vincent Bugliosi (known best for being the prosecutor in the Charles Manson case, but also a true crime author) wrote a pretty good read on the evidence and, his estimation, the mistakes made by the judge and prosecutors.
Yes, even I have pangs of conscience occasionally. 
Upvoted.
Yep. I was a Houston Rockets fan watching that NBA finals game in the most unusual way.
I was in London, which is 6 hours ahead of my time, so it was really late/early AM. Then, the only way to watch the game at our hotel was on a “preview” type channel that featured about 8 different feeds of random channels displayed in separate small boxes. The NBA game was one of those small feeds. No sound. Then that small feed goes picture in picture with the white Bronco and all of us wondering wtf is going on…
That car chase must have been on the most channels of anything ever. Not only was it on all the news channels and networks, it was also on at least ESPN, not sure about other sports channels. What other broadcast ever showed up on such a wide variety of outlets?
“The deputy testified last week that Simpson slammed a phone down, hit his fist against the counter and shouted two comments at Grier during his Nov. 13 visit to Men’s Central Jail. Stuart said Simpson appeared to be crying and ‘quite upset,’ and that Grier responded to Simpson in a 'very loud and raised voice.”
Was he telling him that it’s alright to cry?
You beat me to it. Good.
The Bugliosi book I mentioned earlier references an interview that the deputy made.
Purportedly, Simpson yelled out “I didn’t mean to do it! I’m sorry!”
And Grier responded with “OJ you gotta come clean! You got to tell somebody!”
OJ was a great football player. If that was his only claim to celebrity, it would have been fine.
OJ starred in the long-running Hertz ad.
OJ turned actor. If you want to fondly recall his acting career, knock yourself out.
OJ was an abusive, angry, jealous husband. He should have faced consequences for that. Instead, he was fawned over by the cops and dismissed the accusations.
That lead to OJ killing his wife Nicole, and then Ron Goldman. Then the “trial of the century” that made a mockery of jurisprudence, and an acquittal based on reverse racism.
(Yeah, Furman was a racist, but he didn’t plant evidence or otherwise tamper with the case.)
Then his fame revolved around “searching for the real killer”, and writing a book about how he did it (“If I did it”).
Finally, we got to see a whole new round of legal trouble for him, as he and some friends broke into a hotel room and threatened some men over what OJ claimed was his own property.
I feel sorry for his family, especially his kids. They either had to live knowing their father was an abusive fuck who killed their mother/ stepmother, or else they believe he was wrongly accused and the real killer for away with it. Neither prospect is a fate I’d want.
Hid hijack of thread
The acquittal was based on the police and prosecution screwing up multiple times. Every piece of evidence had a hole in it. It is the very definition of reasonable doubt. The verdict was correct, given the evidence.
Was he guilty? Probably, but it wasn’t proven to a legal standard.
It isn’t the racism that’s important. It’s the fact that he lied about it under oath. This demonstrates that he was willing to present false testimony to help the prosecution. All his testimony becomes questionable.
And the fact is, he was shown to have falsified probablr cause in other cases. What makes you so certain that he didn’t falsify the evidence in this case?
Note, it isn’t a case of a racist cop falsifying evidence to frame an innocent black person, it’s a case of a maverick falsifying evidence to help the prosecution when they are already sure he did it. Something that he definitely did on multiple occasions.
i read this. it is a good book for the case and rather informative on our legal system.
I mean I remember seeing news footage of 9/11 on MTV, basically a lot of networks replaced their normal programming with feeds from their parent news stations or local affiliates.
For me, the Bronco chase was the “almost never” in “What is extremely common in TV or movies but almost never happens in real life?”
I was with a group of friends at one of their houses, when another one called to tell us “Turn on the TV…”
An acquaintance I see frequently is friends with Bill Dear, a private investigator who writes books about OJ being innocent. I don’t remember what his arguments are, and I don’t care to be dragged through them again, so hopefully it won’t come up.
I’m only sorry Norm MacDonald isn’t around to see this.
Random weird fact: Norm MacDonald was golf/poker buddies with Kato Kaelin for a while…
Thanks! I was alluding to this:
