Posted on 03/04/2016 5:55:14 AM PST by PROCON
A construction worker found a blood-stained knife buried on OJ Simpson’s property “years ago” — and gave it to an off-duty cop who kept it in his home before finally turning it over to police, a report says.
Law enforcement sources told TMZ that the blade is a folding buck knife, which is now being tested for hair and fingerprints after being handed over to the L.A.P.D.’s Robbery Homicide Division in January.
It will be tested for DNA and other biological evidence at the department’s Serology Unit next week, sources told the site.
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There is if a person is found not guilty, Double Jeopardy.
no statute of limitations but since he was already tried for it, and found not guilty, he cannot be tried again.
notice they do not find somoene INNOCENT, just NOT GUILTY
I don’t know if it was racial animosity or animosity directed towards the police. A few years after the O.J. case it came out that the L.A.P.D. planted or falsified evidence in 100s of cases. I have to believe that this practice was pretty common knowledge in the black community. A key piece of evidence was the bloody glove found by Furhman (?). Would thinking that the evidence was planted (I’m not saying it was) unreasonable on the part of the jury?
While I am sure that O.J. was guilty of the crime, my outrage at the jury was diminished a great deal after the news of the crookedness of the L.A.P.D. came out. I grew up in the L.A. area and my view of the L.A.P.D. was formed by Sheriff John and Jack Webb—clean and upright. Times change.
“If it has Nicole Simpson’s DNA on it, it probably means something”
Everyone knows she was killed with a knife and any thinking person knows he did it. He was acquitted - end of story.
I do not doubt this is true, but wrongdoing on the part of police in other cases is not balanced by letting a murderer get away with killing someone.
I have to believe that this practice was pretty common knowledge in the black community.
I have had a lot of contact with the lower classes of the black community, and the assertion that the police are racist and picking on them is a bedrock foundation of their belief system. It is simply accepted as a given in their community.
A key piece of evidence was the bloody glove found by Furhman (?). Would thinking that the evidence was planted (I’m not saying it was) unreasonable on the part of the jury?
Yes, because they would have to assume a series of improbabilities were all true; That Furman instantly made up his mind to frame OJ, tucked the bloody glove into his suit somehow, and then rushed to OJ's house to plant it without explicitly knowing OJ's whereabouts, and therefore not knowing whether or not OJ had an iron tight alibi, and thereby leaving himself open to possible charges of planting evidence.
It wasn't just the glove, it was the totality of all the evidence that indicated OJ's guilt.
While I am sure that O.J. was guilty of the crime, my outrage at the jury was diminished a great deal after the news of the crookedness of the L.A.P.D. came out. I grew up in the L.A. area and my view of the L.A.P.D. was formed by Sheriff John and Jack Webb—clean and upright.
People who have never been on the wrong side of the law generally have no idea about the seedy side of law enforcement. I have personally had a lot of social experience with criminally minded people, and I have had a lot of social experience with cops, and I'm here to tell you, the cops never were "boy scouts."
A larger than most people would believe portion of them are criminally inclined themselves, and they do not poses the ethics or morals that we expect cops to have.
End of legal story. Not end of public relations story.
Nobody suffers more than a Bills fan. Well, maybe a Brown's fan
Q. What is the difference between a dollar bill and a Buffalo Bill?
A. You get 4 quarters out of a dollar bill
Q. What is the difference between John Elway and OJ Simpson?
A. OJ drove a slow white Bronco. Elway WAS a slow white Bronco
Actually with compelling new evidence you can face trial again. But the bar is really high, and something with this bad an evidence chain isn’t going to make that height.
Maybe, maybe not. LAPD giving a statement right now on FOX.
He can’t be tried on any of the charges brought in the fist trial. If they only tried him on Murder 1 then they can bring in charges on lesser counts. But if the jury had the option to convict on lesser charges then he can not be tried on those again either.
I thought that double jeopardy protection was absolute (except when the Feds charge you with depriving someone of their civil rights by killing them).
Nothing is absolute. But they have to be able to establish that’s not trying again with a different jury. They need serious Grade A level new evidence, with serious Grade A level possession chain, and a serious Grade A level reason why they didn’t have that evidence available last time. It borders on “only in theory”, but if the right something were to come up they could try again, or they could at least try to try again.
It’s a good show. Really showing the situation as it went. Great cast. And better paced than “the original”.
Precisely. That was a bit of an eye-opening moment in my life. I didn't realize that race relations were still so bad and that rational thought took a back seat to bitterness to so many in the black community. Their response to that verdict was a huge education. It's great that we finally elected a black president to unite us. /sarc
Sort of related, and I kid you not, a couple weeks ago I was glancing at the TV in our office breakroom over the lunch hour. It was on MSNBC, and happened to catch a reporter in a local hair salon, although I don't know what city this was in. There was an older black lady (about 66-68) getting her hair done by a young black man (maybe about 35). Reporter was on a stool in front of her talking with her and he asked: "What do you think of Trump?" Her response was that because it was being recorded for TV, she couldn't say what she really wanted to. He then said: "So you don't like Trump?" Her reply was that, no, she did not, and when he asked why she said: "Cuz if he become president, he going to put black people on ships and send us all back to Africa." The camera then panned out to a commercial break.
I kid you not, it happened just like that. Incredible what the mindset is on the part of a lot of blacks across this country today. Sad, so deeply sad.
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