Historic Cases: OJ - Did he do it?

[ISUFan22]

In light of the recent OJ verdict, may be "fun" to look back on the murder case - vote and discuss.

Perhaps we can do this weekly, I'll fire up another one next week - a famous debated trial or a historic event that still has uncertainty (Kennedy, etc).

Anyways - the OJ murder trial - did he really do it?

 

[mplscyclone]

If you write a book called "If I did it...." then you probably did.

I have never been motivated to write a book about myself personally committing a crime I didn't do.

 

[Flag Guy]

If you write a book called "If I did it...." then you probably did.

I have never been motivated to write a book about myself personally committing a crime I didn't do.

Yeah that was pretty ******* stupid.

Not stupid, not pretty stupid, pretty ******* stupid

 

[alaskaguy]

Yes, for the murder case
No, for the armed robbery case

Somehow the legal system ended up getting it backwards.

 

[Palmer]

Yes...with help in the murder case.

 

[Flag Guy]

Yeah his lawyers had it right when they said it was impossible for him to get a fair trail this time around


That said, maybe it makes up for the trial he had last time with the super expensive lawyer.

My question now is... what's that girl's father going to do now that OJ is in jail and he can't harass him all the time?

 

[Al_4_State]

Although I voted that he committed murder, the irony of finding this thread while I took a break from studying for my Criminal Law final is too much. Honestly, there is an argument that he may have committed voluntary manslaughter, which isn't technically murder, although it is homicide. Under the Model Penal Code (which is sort of a legal guideline for legislatures that a bunch of Crim Law professors dreamt up, and isn't really a binding authority at all), if someone commits homicide while suffering from "extreme emotional distress", it would be considered manslaughter. Given the state of his personal life, it's actually pretty feasible that an argument could be made for this. But to make a long story short, he still killed her.

 

[Drizzle]

IMO, he did it..

 

[NIowaClone]

If anyone has ever watched "My Name is Earl," I think Karma had a little something to do with what happened to Mr. OJ.

 

[IcSyU]

I'd be willing to lay down all of my credits says he did it.

 

[Flag Guy]

Ok he may have done it, but this ***** still pisses me off

"If our efforts for all these years of pushing him drove him to commit armed robbery in Vegas, great!" Fred Goldman told reporters after the hearing.

EDIT
. . . I guess I found a new word that is filtered

 

[Aclone]

I dunno. I wasn't there to see.

 

[Drizzle]

Ok he may have done it, but this ***** still pisses me off

Why? The guy most likely killed his daughter, what would you think? Just curious..

 

[anticyclonic]

I am the dissenting view (sort of). Since 1994, I never though that he physically did it, but may have hired it done or hired to have the two roughed up and it ended up getting out of hand (so he is still guilty). Somehow the Mexican, Colombian, or Central American drug cartel is involved.

 

[garn91]

a jury of his peers said he didn't do it, if people feel other wise, blame the prosecution for not doing their job.

 

[Aclone]

Why? The guy most likely killed his daughter, what would you think? Just curious..

Probably something about "two wrongs don't make a right". Do you really think the guys in Vegas deserved to be terrorized?

Alternately, if someone is declared by a jury to be innocent, then in a civil suit loses everything, does he somehow deserve to be "driven into" committing a crime?

 

[bos]

He is one arrogant bastard even if he didnt commit the crime. Guess it isnt against the law to suck as a person, but still, doesnt help his case.

 

[herbicide]

I was told by a criminal attorney that in those days, if there is no murder weapon or no eye witness then there is practically no chance of a guilty verdict.

The prosecution had neither.

 

[jumbopackage]

a jury of his peers said he didn't do it, if people feel other wise, blame the prosecution for not doing their job.

If the question is "did he kill Nicole Brown Simpson?", I think the answer is probably yes.

Just because he was found not guilty of committing the crime, doesn't mean he didn't actually commit the act. People walk on technicalities or juries that are sympathetic for whatever reason all the time, even though they actually did commit the act which led to them being charged with the crime. Maybe there wasn't enough evidence to charge him with murder, and manslaughter would have been a more appropriate charge.

Regardless, I think he killed her - or at the very least had her killed.

 

[majorcyfan]

In light of the recent OJ verdict, may be "fun" to look back on the murder case - vote and discuss.

Perhaps we can do this weekly, I'll fire up another one next week - a famous debated trial or a historic event that still has uncertainty (Kennedy, etc).

Anyways - the OJ murder trial - did he really do it?

Does the sun come up in the East or a bear crap in the woods? It's a given on OJ. I know he will still be looking for the murderer when HE gets out.