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OJ Simpson - Guilty on 12 counts of armed robbery

T & P said:
You're probably right Johnny about him not possibly getting a fair trial anywhere. But what is the answer then? Does the US justice system allow for judges to reach veredicts sometimes, or is it only a jury?

If the latter, should it mean that OJ Simpson (or indeed people of such high profile infamy) should be de facto exempt from prosecution in the US, regardless of what they might do? Since they couldn't possibly get a fair trial...
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Obviously not. I suppose these people just have to accept this sort of thing as part of the Devil's Bargain they make to become famous.
 
sorry, but imo it's obvious he's guilty. ffs he wrote a book describing "how he would have done it" if he really had killed his wife etc ...

why do we even care about this in the UK anyway? i remember that trial going on for literally years when i was a kid...

you're probably right about him not getting a fair trial jc2 though - i mean he is basically now a figure of ridicule ...
 
yea so what happened? i didn't hear cause i was travelling back from chicago all day
 
Naturally, if the defense can prove that the arresting officer's used the "N-word" (even once in his life) then Simpson will go scott free. And if that doesn't work, the doorknob to the hotel room can be admitted as evidence to see if Simpson's hand fits it. If not ...... :rolleyes:

If the only crime they could jail Al Capone on was tax evation, then I recon "breaking and entering" or even "J-walking" will have to do for the O.J. I say, "Burn the bastard!" :mad:
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
A jury sat in a courtroom for a long time, and heard a lot of evidence from both sides. They acquitted him.

It's funny. The US is a country where there is an obvious bias against black people. There are many examples of wrongful conviction of black men.

This time, the black guy gets off, and the crowd is still howling for his blood.
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I totally agree that the US is a country where there is a bias against black people, but to be fair I don't think OJ Simpson was simply a 'black man' he was a hugely famous sportsman/celebrity on the scale of David Beckham here and who was involved with a murder case that many people believe he wrongly got off from. Writing the book with the provocative title hardly helped dispel those thoughts of justice not being served.
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
OJ%2BGlove.jpg

"If the glove don't fit, you must acquit."
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Even if it didn't fit, can one assume that someone prepared to commit murder would not also be prepared to (entirely legally) attempt to wear an ill-fitting glove? :confused:
 
Jazzz said:
Even if it didn't fit, can one assume that someone prepared to commit murder would not also be prepared to (entirely legally) attempt to wear an ill-fitting glove? :confused:
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Ill-fitting or otherwise, it proves nothing: rather merely casting the proverbial "shadow of doubt" in the heads of those of the jury. Anyway, wasn't the bloody glove admited by the defense? I rest "my" case.

I think his behaviour (leading up to the time of his arrest) was suspicious enough. "The guilt is in the eyes. When you know, you know" as Chris Taylor said in "Platoon". In the OJ Simpsom case I tend to agree.
 
Bizzump!

TMZ.com reporting a knife found on OJ Simpson estate... years ago! Missing murder weapon?

http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/04/oj-simpson-knife-found-murders-nicole-brown/

Our law enforcement sources say the construction worker took the knife to the street, where he saw an LAPD cop. He told the officer where he found the knife and the cop took it.

Turns out the cop -- who worked in the traffic division -- was off duty at the time, working security for a movie shoot at a house across the street on Rockingham. Our sources say the officer took the knife home and kept it ... kept it for years.

In late January of this year, after the cop retired from the LAPD, he contacted a friend who worked in LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division (RHD). The cop told the friend about the knife and said he was getting it framed to put on his wall. He wanted his friend to get the DR (Departmental Record) number for the Nicole Brown Simpson/Ronald Goldman murder case, which he planned on engraving in the frame.

We're told the friend was indignant, and told his superiors. The brass was outraged and demanded that the retired cop turn the knife over, which he did.



Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/04/oj-simpson-knife-found-murders-nicole-brown/#ixzz41wOn6fhp
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:oops:
 
Sounds like bullshit. But if it's the police it must be true.

Haven't you just been watching that OJ shit on tv?
 
Everyone knows he did it, be pointless to trial him again. Though it would be good a good TV lol of course.

But don't they got double jeopardy laws which would prevent that happening anyway, even if this wasn't bs.
 
That's a cop in trouble! Can't help but wonder, assuming this is the murder weapon, how very different the trial might have been.
 
Libertad said:
Why do I get the feeling that someone is about to try and sell me something?
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Oi mate, was meant to deliver these top of the range speakers, but the bloke weren't in and I can't take em back to warehouse can I? Yours for a oner
 
skyscraper101 said:
Everyone knows he did it, be pointless to trial him again. Though it would be good a good TV lol of course.

But don't they got double jeopardy laws which would prevent that happening anyway, even if this wasn't bs.
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Yes, I think double jeopardy would apply. Even if it didn't, it wouldn't be difficult for a lawyer to get the knife thrown out. The chain of custody is an absolute mess. I know I wouldn't want to put a cop on the stand who admits to stealing evidence from the scene and keeping it quiet for a couple of decades. It plays in neatly with the original defense contention that evidence was tampered with.
 
he was given it and apparently phoned the lapd who shrugged double jeopardy applies and a knife allegedly from ojs estate was of no intrest so he kept it you'd be hard pressed to claim it was any where near oj
 
BBC claims that DNA tests are being run on it but the shape of the blade doesn't match anyway. As others have said, chain of custody would be a mess, double jeopardy applies anyway and it hands the defence credible evidence of policy ineptitude. Plus he's currently serving 33 years for a series of robberies, so society isn't in imminent danger.
 
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