"the accolades and praise this wretch is getting on this thread are appalling ..."
There is a lot of stupidity on FReep. If even our own people can't speak intelligently about Cockroach, how can we expect the American people to understand what's wrong with him? How can we win our many battles if our own people aren't with us, especially in a case of such moral clarity?
The first big foul-up in the OJ case, at least among the prosecutors, was when D.A. Garcetti met with the local NAACP
(or was it the Urban League?) and shortly thereafter ruled out seeking the death penalty.
By admitting that racialist black-advocacy groups have ANY legitimate voice in this case, he turned it into a political and racial matter before Cockroach, Schapiro, Jerkowitz and the rest got their filty paws on it.
And by ruling out the death penalty in advance, Garcetti legitimized the skewing of the legal system in favor of celebrity defendants, or at least black celebrity defendants.
I don't know enough to comment on the prosecution's conduct at trial. But these huge missteps by Garcetti beforehand set things up nicely for Cockroach's vile manipulations.