Slow,white Bronco...that's a good one!
Posted on 11/18/2014 9:17:21 PM PST by SamAdams76
On October 3, 1995, O.J. Simpson was found "not guilty" of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, even though any reasonable person knew that he was guilty. Basically this was a case of "jury nullification". Reaction to the verdict was divided among racial lines.
However, it is important to point out that no cities were burned and no whites retaliated by taking TVs and designer clothing out of department stores. Basically they sucked it up and got on with their lives.
However, O.J. Simpson did not get away with murder after all. From that point on, O.J. Simpson's life was a living hell.
Nobody hired him as an actor again. Not even the 7th remake of "Naked Gun". Nobody wanted his autograph anymore. He did not run through airports anymore. No corporation hired him again to sponsor their product. His stellar NFL career was forgotten about. No longer was he welcome in an NFL stadium. People shunned him. He became a laughingstock (remember the "I'm going to find the REAL killer"?)
He lost a civil trial to the tune of $33,500,000. His Heisman trophy was auctioned off with the proceeds going to the Goldman family. He was denied compensation for book and speaking deals. He was arrested for various offenses and eventually convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery.
He is still in prison today, a miserable, unhappy and unhealthy person. He will either die in prison or if he lives to his parole, will die destitute and lonely.
He did not get away with murder after all.
makes sense to me
Sorry to say it, but this thread does not deserve Free Republic’s memory cache. No, no, and no............
Had he not messed up and ended up in prison, he would be out playing golf.
Yes, he got away with it.
Everyone knows OJ could never cut to the right.
Some people called that vehicle “Elway” — you know, a slow, white Bronco.
I'm no lawyer and I could be completely wrong here but that's what I recall having read some time ago.
You are taking both sides of the issue. Yes he did get away with murder. And yes he was guilty of the second offense that had nothing to do with the first. So why post this? Yes this will anger a few .....
Slow,white Bronco...that's a good one!
LOL
IMO no one really gets away with anything.
By the grace of God, you dodged a bullet, as did your girlfriend. She was lucky to have a Dad who was involved with who would be taking his daughter out. Now what’s this about O.J.’s dad being an Hiv+ Tranny? What?! I’ll have to look that one up.
I hope he burns in he!!.....
I am sorry you feel that way.
Tell that to Michael Morton.
Just google the name and you’ll learn pretty quick how an evil prosecutor in Williamson County, TX deliberately withheld two key pieces of exculpatory evidence in the case.
Morton was convicted for killing his wife on August 13, 1986, and served 25 years in prison all the while maintaining his innocence.
In 2002 the Innocense Project took on his case.
They uncovered the evidence and fought for 7 years just to get DNA testing of a blue bandana found only 100 feet from the crime scene.
The testing showed the blood of his wife, and the blood of a male who was NOT Michael Morton.
It turns out the DNA was already in CODIS and the real killer was discovered.
But the DA didn’t give a damn, and the IP actually investigated the real killer’s crime spree and time lime.
In doing so they solved a cold case from 1988 where a woman was bludgeoned in her home in basically the identical way Mrs. Morton was killed.
Also their three year old son saw the murder, and told his grandmother about it.
He said the monster with the red hands did it, and daddy wasn’t at home.
This was withheld from the defense.
So Michael Morton lost his wife, 25 years with his son, and to top it off he served a horrific 25 years in prison wrongly convicted.
He was formally exonerated and released in 2011.
The Texas legislature passed the Michael Morton Act in 2013 to try and prevent this kind of thing from happening.
As a former Texas prosecutor and present defense attorney I can say our system is not nearly as good as it could be, and certainly not as good as people outside of it think it is.
Morton actually thought that because he was innocent that by the end of the trial Justice would be done.
Just keep that in mind if you ever end up on a jury.
There are serious consequences when politically driven prosecutors with no conscience take a high profile case.
There is an excellent documentary on Netflix called “An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story”. Sorry for the preaching. It’s just an issue I’m all too familiar with.
Oh yea, OJ is guilty based on everything I saw.
Aggressive prostate cancer would be better. He’d be incontinent and dysfunctional from treatment, but everything would still be present to frustrate him.
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