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To: hanamizu
From a legal point of view, it is worthless—O.J. was acquitted, and therefore no matter what evidence surfaces can never be held for the murder. On the other hand, if it turns out to be the murder weapon, the police, the D.A. will at least know for sure that he did it and hopefully learn how not to blow the next big celebrity case.

They already know how to do that. Don't empanel a racist jury.

The case was moved away from Brentwood into Los Angeles so as to not have a bunch of white people passing judgement on a black man.

It never occurred to them at the time that black people would put racial animosity ahead of justice.

77 posted on 03/04/2016 7:28:00 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

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.


83 posted on 03/04/2016 8:08:54 AM PST by hanamizu
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