Simpson Transcript Describes Murder

New York Times ^ | 2/3/07 | RUSS BUETTNER and EDWARD WYATT

[freespirited]

I have known pondscum with more scruples than OJ.

[investigateworld]

I just can't believe Judith went with O.J. with all the attendant risks, when she could have DUFUnnies. (Shakes head)

[karnage]

I have known Hollywood agents with more scruples than OJ!

[JennysCool]

I have known Hollywood agents with more scruples than OJ!

Ooooh, that's low!

[RunningWolf]

I read what was supported to be his hypothetical story.

He murdered them, and his 'story' explained a few details of it.

Like for one, he retraced his steps back into the veranda to remove his blood soaked clothes down to his socks.

He insists he had an accomplice, I am beginning to wonder if it was not that flake Kato himself.

Remember the eye witness that saw him leaving the area in the Bronco, only to have her excluded because she had contacted the media.

And no one lays them self open on the hand like that with a 'cell phone'

[JennysCool]

Channeling Johnnie Cochran:

"If I Did It ... I Got Acquitted!"

[RushCrush]

WHAT? OJ admits to the killings? / RC wakes up from rumplestiltskin-like slumber

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Try A.C. Cowlings.

[BackInBlack]

This trial, and subsequent reaction in the black community to the acquittal, was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. That's hard even to say, but it's true. I simply felt embarrassed.

[skimask]

"He insists he had an accomplice, I am beginning to wonder if it was not that flake Kato himself."

I have always thought it was Al Cowlings, who probably gave the bloody clothes to Robert Kardashian to dispose of, was his primary accomplice.

[CurlyBill]

The jury knew he was guilty, and they knew that the State had proven it's case. That wasn't the point... they wanted him to get away with it! After all, he did kill two white people and the race card was being played with a vengeance.

[RunningWolf]

It is good that you and others see that, if mankind is ever to dissolve the barriers of color and so on when it comes to such issues as this tragedy of justice.

And that is not to diminish all other gross transgressions of justice otherwise.

Wolf

[RunningWolf]

After all, he did kill two white people and the race card was being played with a vengeance

It was race from day one, just like Rodney King was. LA would not have been burnt down had a white person get beat up during a filmed high speed pursuit-arrest

No S***. I mean how many times did F. Lee Baly use the N word at Mark Furman? The jury did not seem to pick up on such details /sarc>

[Yogafist]

I don't know nothin' 'bout no NDA.

[ashtanga]

I'm flogging a dead horse, but I loved Robert Blake's alibi: I couldn't be guilty! I left the murder weapon at the restaurant.

[RunningWolf]

Now that you mention it, I think Kato had a 'phone alibi' for that time, although that could just mean an open line.

Still as poorly as the prosecution ran the case the evidence was overwhelming.

I hope the jurors understand what they did, but of course they don't.

[blondee123]

It must be true that murderers really want to tell someone about it, they can't keep it to themselves. Why else would someone do an interview like this????? Strange!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Why else would someone do an interview like this?????

First, to promote a book that's going to make money; second, to promote a version of events that spins events or outright lies to make the crime appear to be something it isn't.

[Tall_Texan]

Since he can't be tried again for murder, I think the Justice Department needs to try him for denying Brown and Goldmen their civil rights. It worked on the Klansmen of the 60s. Just because the races are reversed doesn't mean it can't be a hate crime.

[Choose Ye This Day]

That was one of the more surreal moments of my life. I was working at Opryland in Nashville, in the employment office. We always had a TV set on in the waiting area, while applicants filled out forms and waited for interviews.

We saw a LOT of the O.J. trial that summer, more than I cared to. I was absolutely certain that he was going to be found guilty--not because of his skin color, but because of the overwhelming evidence against him, and his nutty behavior.

When the verdict was announced, I could not believe the reaction. All of the staff in the employment office were white; we were stunned, absolutely shocked, that he was found not guilty. Several black applicants were watching, and they yelled and shouted and jumped for joy.

I had never before felt such a gulf of understanding between races before or since. In that moment, my eyes were for the first time opened to how vastly different are the perspectives of middle-class whites and blacks in our country. It was unfathomable to me how we could be looking at the exact same trial, the exact same evidence, and have such diametrically opposed opinions about it.