I'm not so sure about the "real" part as applied to the jury. I remember when the verdict was announced, and all channels stopped what they were doing and focused on the reveal. Everyone thought he was guilty, but I remember thinking, "There's a chance that there will be racial justice done here." That was what in fact happened.
Of course, the prosecution bungled it. Who can forget "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit?" What idiot doesn't know that wet leather shrinks? Well, maybe, in sunny California, they had little experience with leather gloves.
“What idiot doesn’t know that wet leather shrinks?”
Right. Also, Johnny Cochran arranged for Simpson to wear a plastic glove under the glove, supposedly to protect the evidence. No way it could have fit.
The mistake was made when the trial was moved out of the jurisdiction in which the crime happened into Los Angeles proper.
It was done because California officials were terrified of the prospect of OJ being found guilty by a predominantly white Jury. They gambled that a mostly black Los Angeles jury would be willing to convict him, but they lost that gamble.
OJ clearly committed these murders, and all claims to the contrary are just bullsh*t.
Going back to the O.J. trial, I was completely disinterested at the time. But in retrospect, the jury were selected because they were idiots. They were purposefully starved of information on top of it. Their verdict was a result of grooming, not evidence.