I'm a 51 year old white man, and I watched virtually the entire OJ Simpson trial.
The prosecution utterly failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. There were several yuuuuge blunders, and they were completely sufficient to raise reasonable doubt.
For anyone who watched the trial, it's a rather trivial exercise to list at least 2 or 3 major problems with the state's case.
In America, that is how our Justice system works. Sometimes that means that Justice isn't served.
Many guilty people are acquitted because the state fails to meet the standard of "proof beyond a reasonable doubt."
Even so, I wouldn't trade the American Justice system for any other in the world. Even with its flaws, it towers above all other nations. American Justice is distinctly superior to all others, and, indeed, is merely another facet of the many which define American Exceptionalism.
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
I don’t argue against anything you say but the raucous, in your face, celebration of 13% of this country in the hours following the verdict was what I was referring to. I was stunned. THAT opened my eyes. Then the Monica thing a few years later just completed it.
Agreed.
I had a similar experience as a jury foreman, tho’ the crime was less severe. Every jury member at a minimum thought that the defendant was likely guilty, but the prosecution themselves introduced “reasonable doubt”.
It was so bad that the judge himself instructed the jury to overlook the prosecution’s incompetence (but not evidence itself.)
You feel bad, walking away afterward, that a likely wrongdoer went unpunished, but, in America, we don’t throw people in jail for “likely”.