I thought that was the plan.
It would be great if cases were always open and shut, but they seldom are. Juries are presented with evidence, and are supposed to reach a judgment. Many now expect to be presented with a case in which the verdict is so obvious they will not suffer any pangs of regret for voting guilty. Judging by your reply to my original post, and many others in this thread, the jury was correct to not find O.J. guilty because they did not have 100% proof that he did it. No one saw him do it, and it wasn't caught on camera.