# What would happen if they found evidence saying Oj was completly innocent?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 16, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-they-found-evidence-saying-oj-was-completly-innocent/175711 "2003-05-16T16:24:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-they-found-evidence-saying-oj-was-completly-innocent/175711/41 "2003-05-17T06:57:25Z")

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**doctordoowop** , you’re quite right; my mistake, no doubt owing to the lateness of the hour.

What I should have said is that the shoe issue came up at the [criminal trial](http://www.courttv.com/casefiles/simpson/criminal/summary/week22.html), with the defence challenging the prosecution’s inability to show that OJ had the shoes.

However, OJ was subsequently questioned about the shoes at the civil depositions (see [this site](http://goinside.com/97/2/ugly.html)), and denied having that type of shoes. He then was faced with the photos at the civil trial, and had to explain his denial.

The basic point remains the same - the civil jury heard evidence that the criminal jury did not.

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**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-they-found-evidence-saying-oj-was-completly-innocent/175711/42 "2003-05-17T18:18:30Z")

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It hasn’t been mentioned yet either, but a civil verdict only require 9 of 12 jurors to agree.(in Cal). Northern Piper-you sound knowledgable- here’s one for you–What’s the connection between the OJ Simpson trial(criminal) & the Phil Spector murder case? No not as easy as both were in LA county. I’ll let you think a bit.

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**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-they-found-evidence-saying-oj-was-completly-innocent/175711/43 "2003-05-18T22:10:35Z")

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Phil Spector had a group-The Teddybears. The lead singer was Annette Kleinbard. She changed her name to Carol Connors. She testified in OJ’s criminal trial. Something about seeing him the night before the murders & he wasn’t angry then. Say what? Yep, Ito let Johhnie C. do what he wanted.

BTW, Ito’s conduct cost him a promotion to the Ct. of Appeals, made almost all judges afraid of cameras,& left him in the same courtroom in LA.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-they-found-evidence-saying-oj-was-completly-innocent/175711/44 "2003-05-19T07:04:46Z")

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Just got back to this thread, so didn’t see **doctordoowop** ’s quiz before, but I have to say, _I love it when people think I’m knowledgeable!_ 😛

Sadly, I’m not - just read about the shoe thing somewhere. The link between the two cases is news to me, but interesting.

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