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.
Oh...I think it’s a good thing.
Sociopaths like OJ never get there. Your compassion is misplaced/wasted.
I remember him complaining about the Miami police flying over his house at night and dropping golf balls on the roof.
He was golfing at exclusive clubs and living large. He wasn’t rotting in prison or on death row, so, yes, he did get away with murder.
Theodore Bundy was not out of God's reach. But he needed to be executed for his crimes.
Want to talk sociopath? O.J. doesn't have anything on Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel). How about the King of Assyria? (Jonah 3) No one, not even Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot combined could reach that level of depravity.
God gives grace to who He chooses, in the framework of a "whosoever" Gospel (John 3:16, John 17).
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