It appears that the prosecutors went out of their way to “throw the book” at OJ and stretch the meaning of various statutes to cover OJ’s seemingly rather limited crimes in this case. Just because so many people (including me) feel that OJ should be in jail for the murders, maybe it’s not good to establish a precedent of non-proportional justice based on what the authorities “know” someone got away with in a previous case.
I see this is the flip-side of "jury nullification", which was the ONLY reason O.J. was still walking the streets these past 13 years. There is no doubt that the prosecution threw every charge in the book they could at him in order to get this murderer back in jail where he belongs. Personally, I see nothing wrong with that and neither did the jury. None of the charges were "made up" though I concede if this was an ordinary citizen in the same circumstances, the prosecution probably would have been less zealous pursuing these charges and the defendant probably would have ended up with probation or maybe just a couple years in jail something.
As for O.J., he was pretty darn stupid for hiring gunmen to terrorize and rob those people even if he thought he was just stealing his own property back. But because of that jury nullification for murder back in L.A. (it's okay for black people to murder white people), O.J. felt as though he had the right to rob and kidnap them too. But as he found out the hard way, Nevada ain't L.A.
May he rot in jail the rest of his life where he belongs.
OJ, irrespective of what happened before, is getting what he deserves in this case. He picked the wrong town, he picked the wrong state to carry on his nefarious business.
There are tons of laws he broke, not just the theft part, so I have no problem with the adding of charges.......if the jury did a realistic evaluation of the case instead of just trying to “get” him.
Still, it feels great.