I’m pretty sure OJ killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman; but I never thought the state did a good job of proving that.
To me, and maybe to the jury (I say maybe, perhaps they would have acquitted Simpson no matter what), the stumbling block was always the absence of blood.
They had drops of blood and I don’t even know if they even had drops of Goldman’s blood anywhere near Simpson. Here was a man who had allegedly slit two person’s throats, he should have been awash in blood.
So that was always my reasonable doubt issue.
I had a job, so I didn’t watch the trial on TV or anything like that, but that was my impression at the time.
BTW, one guy I worked with was the only guy who said “they’re acquitting, for sure”, after the verdict came back we asked him how come he was so sure of that and he said he heard the jury had asked for champagne to be delivered to them in the hotel. He said, rightly, you don’t celebrate if you’ve just convicted someone of murder.
Nevertheless, the reaction of black people to that verdict kind of amazed me.
Bullcrap.
The state proved it well beyond a reasonable doubt.
O.J. was aquited because the cop that found the incontrovertible evidence uttered the "n" word several years previous.