OJ SIMPSON

HA, I remember those commercials!

It is hard to hate a guy who has amused and entertained so many over the course of his life...even if he is a murderer.

A real live soap opera!

the real reason Old J got off was because the prosecution blew it:

First they selected two people who had little experience with this type of case.

second, the jury research told them not to put black women on the stand because they would never vote vs OLD J. Instead, Marsha Clark did the opposite, actually seeking out black women because she thought they would side with the white woman being a victim. She was wrong.

third, she thought the DNA evidence was so overwhelming she never even entered into evidence the suicide note, the $8,000 in cash, the police chase, the interrogation, the disguise. Instead she spend 5 boring weeks on DNA evidence.

basically the prosecution blew it.

OJ's dad was a drag queen, and he nearly got to be the Terminator instead of Arnold.

It wasn't so much that he was a black man who killed a white woman, although that was certainly part of it. It's that he was one of the most famous black men in America--along with Michae Jackson, Michael Jordan, Bill Cosby, and Sidney Poitier--and he was arguably the most famous black commercial spokesman in America. He was also notably beloved by whites. He was married to a beautiful blonde and lived in the white community in L.A.

And then....The Beast leapt forth. (In mythological tems.) And incredibly bloody double murder. And all this a couple of years AFTER the whole L.A. Riots and Rodney King thing.

Court TV essentially happened as a result of the OJ case.

Mark Furman, the L.A. cop who had a hand in the evidentiary side of the case, lied on the stand or in a deposition about having used the N-word. Then they busted him in a high-visibility moment. Regardless of how strong the evidence was, that was all Johnny Cochrane needed. He was a brilliant courtroom lawyer--the whole "If it does not fit, you must acquit."

My sense is that almost everybody in the black community, deeo down, knew he'd done it. But they also felt that Cochrane and his team has bested Chris Darden and Marcia Clark--the prosecution team and that the case AS ACTUALLY MADE, in the courtroom and on the merits, deserved to go down, EVEN IF EVERYBODY KNEW THAT OJ HAD DONE IT.

And then something happened that simply never, ever happened. OJ was acquitted. He'd "beaten the system." Black men, as a group, never did that. Just the opposite: they got screwed by the system. For once, one had beaten the system.

It was that simple, in the end. What actually happened--that OJ had killed his ex-wife and an entirely innocent, uninvolved friend of hers--simply didn't matter, ethically, to the black community. This fact registered as sickened shock on the face of Ron Goldman's father when the verdict was delivered.

I watched a lot of the trial on Court TV. It was addictive.

No way OJ murdered these two people.

He was probably around when things started heating and he knows who might have done it but he is not the kind of guy who has fights just has a big mouth. Ron Goldman fought for his life and had multiple bruises and OJ got away wit a little cut on his finger? No f*****ng way.

Norman Pardo, OJs former manager has some good and funny stories to tell about OJ and has a more plausible explanation for what happened on the night of '94 than the pathetic prosecution. You can find some interviews of him on YT.