OJ Simpson "If I Did It."

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I have looked and looked again, all over the Catholic forums. Unless I am completely wrong, I cannot find a thread about this, which shocks me because of the extreme controversy surrounding this. So if there is, please close this down and/or move it.

Anyway, has anyone been following the news that next week, OJ Simpson will be doing a documentary/interview on FOX network, saying, “if” he did kill his wife Nicole and Ron Goldman, this is how he “would have” done it. He is also pimping a new book, titled (I believe) “If I Did It,” which I understand is now #28 on the Amazon best seller list.

Any thoughts on this? The movie “Network” was very prophetic. It will be horrible and repulsive, but it all comes down to ratings.
 
I haven’t been “following” it, but I did see that he plans to do this.

When I read the news article, I felt like I wanted to be sick to my stomach. He is a monster, and I knew that from the moment the whole thing started. I think this is so incredibly sad and horrible for the parents of his ex-wife and her friend. To think that they have to re-live all that horror and tragedy over again - Simpson really knows how to rub salt in the wound.

He will receive his own - it may not be here on Earth, but God knows how to handle his type. In that I am at least comforted.

~Liza
 
Benedictine said:
I have looked and looked again, all over the Catholic forums. Unless I am completely wrong, I cannot find a thread about this, which shocks me because of the extreme controversy surrounding this. So if there is, please close this down and/or move it.

Anyway, has anyone been following the news that next week, OJ Simpson will be doing a documentary/interview on FOX network, saying, “if” he did kill his wife Nicole and Ron Goldman, this is how he “would have” done it. He is also pimping a new book, titled (I believe) “If I Did It,” which I understand is now #28 on the Amazon best seller list.

Any thoughts on this? The movie “Network” was very prophetic. It will be horrible and repulsive, but it all comes down to ratings.
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Maybe the reason you have not seen anything here is because the posters are as revulsed (is this a word?) as I am and are ignoring the whole thing. This man is a sociopath who craves attention no matter how he gets it and he gives no thought to his children, or the other people who were touched by his actions.
 
I have written (email) to my local Fox affiliate how I feel about the show and that I object to them airing it in my area.

~Liza
 
He did do it,but the only reason he got off was that he was famous and black. How many famous people have been sent to prison recently…very few if any.
 
‘breaking news’ they’ve cancelled the special with oj simpson .
 
aimee said:
‘breaking news’ they’ve cancelled the special with oj simpson .
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No way!!! That’s fantastic news!!!

Wow - you mean the actually DO listen to complaints??? Go figure!

~Liza
 
GarryOwen said:
the only reason he got off was that he was famous and black.
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Oh Puhleeeeze. He got off because he was black!!?
Somebody give me a break.

Any way, along with what aimee wrote, I just saw the report on the news that it’s been cancelled WITH an apology.
 
Maria3m said:
Oh Puhleeeeze. He got off because he was black!!?
Somebody give me a break.

Any way, along with what aimee wrote, I just saw the report on the news that it’s been cancelled WITH an apology.
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Well, I think GarryOwen has a point. I remember when his trial was going on some cities were afraid if the verdict was ‘guilty’ then there would be riots. I live in a state where there are a lot of blacks and a good majority of them sided with OJ very strongly. They saw a guilty verdict as an attack against them, not to mention the fact the Mark Fuhrman was accused of making racial slurs and “planting” evidence.

On an unrelated note, I feel very sorry for his children.
 
StratusRose said:
Well, I think GarryOwen has a point. I remember when his trial was going on some cities were afraid if the verdict was ‘guilty’ then there would be riots.
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I didn’t comment too much because I don’t know if it’s going on a rabbit trail or not.

Believe me… I wasted an entire summer watching the trail. I was in college at the time, majoring in Criminal Justice. I should have been studying for my summer physics class, but I had to watch that trial. :rolleyes: 😉 😛

I know the racial issues…I was soooo upset with people who were happy he got off. I remember the Johnny Cochran race card.
I remember Judge Ito giving more attention to the cameras in the courtroom, than what was happening in his courtroom.

I just thought it was, umm, a poor choice of words to say he got off BECAUSE he was black. Is that really why the jury gave a not guilty verdict? Nope.

It was the awful job the LAPD did investigating it. It was the briliant defense Johnny Cochran put on…was it Chris Darden who made OJ put that glove on for dramatics & it didn’t fit.
“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

I CRIED when the verdict came in. How can someone who is guilty get off?! Oh, that’s why everyone was so happy. A black man got off, usually it’s not that way. It can be said he got off because he was famous (money to pay for Johnny…the Dream Team), but to say because he was black…NO…that’s why communities PARTIED after the verdict. To show the guilty can get off when they have money. It was a money thing, not a black thing.

Hey, I’m 1/2 black. It’s not a color thing.

One thing I don’t remember is if the jury was sequestered or not.
I think they were :confused: but that verdict was because of the evidence. That stupid phrase I still remember …“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” UGH! It gave the jury a reason to doubt.
Prosecution messed up the case, and the defense was brilliant.

I understand what you’re saying. I hope you see where I’m coming from. OJ didn’t walk in the courtroom & the jury saw he was black & said…NOT GUILTY. There’s more to why he got off than “because he is black.”

OK, calming down now. ROTFLOL
 
Maria3m said:
One thing I don’t remember is if the jury was sequestered or not.
I think they were :confused: but that verdict was because of the evidence. That stupid phrase I still remember …“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” UGH! It gave the jury a reason to doubt.
Prosecution messed up the case, and the defense was brilliant.

I understand what you’re saying. I hope you see where I’m coming from. OJ didn’t walk in the courtroom & the jury saw he was black & said…NOT GUILTY. There’s more to why he got off than “because he is black.”

OK, calming down now. ROTFLOL
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Yes, the jury was sequestered. If I remember, they were down to a just one or two alternates due to the pressures of people being sequestered for so long. The word I heard was that the jury would be locked up longer than OJ.

As for why he got off? Sloppy evidence handling and brilliant lawyering. There was, IIRC, some chain of evidence handling issues as well as a crisis in confidence in the DNA labs of the nation at the time due to other cases that had been botched. If nothing else, I like to think of that case leading to a massively cleaned-up forensic evidence handling system. From better protocols to better techniques to more care being given to the tasks at hand and better documenting of same, it was all affected.

I sometimes wonder if maybe one or two of the cops were trying to “help” the case. The problem is the inconsistencies tainted the whole body of evidence. By the time the trial was over, there did seem to be a lot of reasonable doubt.
 
I also saw the “glove” thing. It did fit. You had OJ pulling, tugging and grunting and Cochran saying, “Look! It does not fit!”. It was a psychological move on the part of the defense. And it worked.
The glove fit.
The DNA was right on.
I’m sure that “jury” (and, yes, I use the term loosely) had their minds made up long before they had received most of the evidence.
Now this murderer gets a publisher for a book he only dictated to someone (he proved he can’t spell cat) and Fox news to give him a 2 hour venue for his lies and posturing.
I’m so disgusted!
And, no way would I ever watch that thug or read his lying book;
UNLESS, ALL the money he earns from this latest escapade would go to the Brown and Goldman families.
Fat chance!
 
I would say that he got off because he was able to afford a very good lawyer, who was able to put doubt into the jury’s minds.

You know that at the first I thought that he didn’t do it.
Up here is Oregon a few years before this happened, there was a trial against some white supremestist (spell?), any ways in the trial, one of them said that in the near future that they were going to do something in hollywood, and bring down a famous black person. Well when this first happened, I remembered what had been said and thought that it was the group had done it, to frame OJ.
But after all the evidence, I would have been voting to convict if I had been on the Jury.
 
lizaanne said:
I haven’t been “following” it, but I did see that he plans to do this.

When I read the news article, I felt like I wanted to be sick to my stomach. He is a monster, and I knew that from the moment the whole thing started. I think this is so incredibly sad and horrible for the parents of his ex-wife and her friend. To think that they have to re-live all that horror and tragedy over again - Simpson really knows how to rub salt in the wound.

He will receive his own - it may not be here on Earth, but God knows how to handle his type. In that I am at least comforted.

~Liza
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That’s a lot of hyperbole for a man who was only convicted in the public eye.
 
Oh really? Then how do you account for the fact that he was found accountable in civil court?

The ONLY reason he’s walking around free is because of who he is. If he were any other black man on the street in the same situation, with the same lawyers, he would be behind bars by now.

~Liza
 
lizaanne said:
Oh really? Then how do you account for the fact that he was found accountable in civil court?

The ONLY reason he’s walking around free is because of who he is. If he were any other black man on the street in the same situation, with the same lawyers, he would be behind bars by now.

~Liza
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I guess I disagree. He was an abusive person, but everyone decided he was guilty long before his trial even started, because it was juicy. The minute the news broke, he was guilty. And then everything that happened after that, people forced to fit in with their pre-conceived notion of guilty.
 
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