o j simpson

[dave2222]

hi is there anyone outthere that thinks o j was innocent

[scatty mare]

...tumbleweed blows by...

[dot.hawkes]

He was guilty as hell! have you seen Naked Gun? How could he get away with that after Capricorn One?

[dukas68]

I remember a newspaper article which tried to claim that the murders may have been committed by OJ's mentally unstable son ........

[vehelpfulguy]

Well the members of the jury did !

[johnlambert]

They were miss led by his defence. They played the race card,

[Loosehead]

I saw a documentary that did ask some pretty searching questions. I'm offering no view myself but there appeared to be a fairly strong case for his son doing it. One of the things highlighted was that her boyfriend, a martial arts extpert had put up a fight and showed the signs and that OJ's sone dissapeared for a week afterwards. OJ didn't have a mark on him. I don't think it's as clear as it's made out. OJ left himself in the firing line to protect his son and due to the US judiciary managed to beat the rap as it where.

[jno]

well, the prosecution pinned a lot of faith on the glove - and it clearly didn't fit. So maybe the police or the prosecution bungled it - or maybe he was innocent. Also, there was definitely scope for tampering with the samples, which is dreadful procedural lapse when you're trying to build a watertight case against someone. Were they tampered with? No idea, but the jury felt there was enough room for doubt.

[jake-the-peg]

I think that was probably the point - thinking somebody's guilty and finding them guilty beyond reasonable doubt are 2 very different things.

Wasn't there a civil case where he was found guilty. They only needed to find on the balance of probabilities in that case

[naz_nomad]

No ..you pain in the arse

[jake-the-peg]

Oh what would this be then naz?

http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/simpson.civil.trial/i ndex.html

[naz_nomad]

jake ...it's only in respone to my ''planning permission'' question ...don't read too much into it :-)

[bernardo]

OJ is definitely guilty. I simply do not understand why some people say that "the glove didn't fit". The glove did fit, and he was clearly seen putting it on during the trial.

[The Big Gill]

He was clearly seen struggling to get the glove on during the trial. It didn't fit.

[StillSpry]

He was innocent. I am a 72-year-old white woman who lived on Gorham Street just west of the Mezzaluna when the murders occurred. I heard the dogs (and it was dogs, not dog) barking but did not note the exact time. My neighbor, however, habitually let her dog out at 10:30 pm and, some minutes later when she heard the dogs barking, checked to see if she had let her dog back in. He was there. I reported this to the defense investigator but she was never called to testify. I believe it was because, in spite of the testimony of her own ears and knowledge of her habits which demonstrated that the prosecution timeline was wrong, she still believed that OJ was guilty. I questioned also how a father, especially one reputedly as attentive as OJ, could leave his children in the house with the door open after committing the murder of their mother? There was no blood found on the white stair carpeting in his house. And the idea that a murderer would toss a bloody glove behind his own house to incriminate himself, especially when there were plenty of places he could have tossed it on the way home, including a large dumpster next to a market on the corner of San Vicente and Bundy, has always struck me as ludicrous. That glove was planted.

[dot.hawkes]

Oh that is interesting, what a very close perspective, has noone ever approached you and your neighbour at all then?

[StillSpry]

I'm not sure if Helen Brown, my neighbour, was ever approached by either the defense or prosecution. In fact, no investigators ever inquired of any neighbours on our street. Yet those dogs howled so loud on a very still night that they must have been heard within at least a mile's circumference. I was not contacted by the defense but initiated the call to them. I never told Helen that I was reporting her to the defense because she was so adamant that OJ was guilty and I didn't want her to know I'd ratted on her. Just 1 1/2 years later myself and five neighbors were forced to leave so that they could replace our bungalows with an massive, ugly condominium building. We were a group of military veterans living in low-rent housing right in the midst of some of the most expensive real estate in the world. We had tried to prevent the sale of the property by the charity which housed us but no go. I moved up to Santa Barbara, Helen up north somewhere. I don't know if she's still living.

I also drove the route that OJ would have had to travel from Nicole's place to his home and, again, could not see how he would have had time to do the dirty deed, arrive home, dispose of the glove and ready himself for his trip to the airport.

This case has always stinked for me from the beginning and let me tell you this old lady is not senile!