View Full Version : OJ Guilty!
Gn2Dlnd
10-03-2008, 11:03 PM
That is all.
wendybeth
10-03-2008, 11:06 PM
About 13 years too late, but better late than never.
scaeagles
10-04-2008, 08:34 AM
Justice a long time coming.
And patience pays...now he does time in Nevada, the facilities there aren't as warm and cozy as California institutions!
Betty
10-04-2008, 09:32 AM
Oddly enough 13 years to the day he was aquitted. What an odd coincidence. He has the potential to get life in prison ya know.
Stan4dSteph
10-04-2008, 09:37 AM
Wow. That's good news that I never thought I'd see.
Not Afraid
10-04-2008, 09:44 AM
About time!
BarTopDancer
10-04-2008, 09:47 AM
Oddly enough 13 years to the day he was aquitted. What an odd coincidence. He has the potential to get life in prison ya know.
The universe correcting himself.
Funny how the jury was instructed to not take into account their feelings about his last trial while everyone [that I've talked to] is of "about time" train of thought.
RStar
10-04-2008, 10:23 AM
While I agree with you all that it is a long time coming, look at the answers above. Is it at all possible that he even got a fair trial if the jurrors had the same opinions? They came to a pretty quick guilty.
Yes, they had a good amount of evidence, and from what I can tell he looks to be guilty. So I guess it doesn't really matter much if it was fair or not, just an interesting thought......
cirquelover
10-04-2008, 10:35 AM
Oddly enough 13 years to the day he was aquitted. What an odd coincidence.
It does make you think Hmmm, doesn't it. Although Karma has a way of coming back to slap you in the face! I guess it caught him too!
innerSpaceman
10-04-2008, 11:01 AM
His co-defendant, though, has a good shot on appeal --- why should he have been tried with OJ when telling jurors to forget all about that pesky murder business likely had as much effect with them as it would right here on the LoT or anywhere else in the world?
Ghoulish Delight
10-04-2008, 11:37 AM
It's about time. It's shameful the way, just because he's black, they let him get away with beating up that poor white truck driver.
Kevy Baby
10-04-2008, 03:51 PM
Wrong Football
tracilicious
10-04-2008, 04:59 PM
Do I live under a rock or something? What's going on with OJ?
RStar
10-04-2008, 08:50 PM
Do I live under a rock or something? What's going on with OJ?
I guess! You didn't hear??
He beat up Rodney King.
JWBear
10-04-2008, 10:38 PM
Can't we all just get along?
bewitched
10-05-2008, 08:04 PM
While I agree with you all that it is a long time coming, look at the answers above. Is it at all possible that he even got a fair trial if the jurrors had the same opinions? They came to a pretty quick guilty.
Yes, they had a good amount of evidence, and from what I can tell he looks to be guilty. So I guess it doesn't really matter much if it was fair or not, just an interesting thought......
Apparently, 5 of the jurors thought he should have been found guilty in the murder case. Methinks this may be an appeal just waiting (or all ready) written.
scaeagles
10-05-2008, 08:50 PM
ISM - if I recall, you believe OJ was indeed innocent in the murder of his ex and Goldman....is that correct?
Gemini Cricket
10-05-2008, 09:20 PM
The whole OJ trial (the first one) was such a circus. It just seemed so very overblown, the constant courtroom footage, the carnival atmosphere around the courthouse, Ron Goldman's dad's daily commentary with the press, freakin' dancing Judge Itos on Leno...
I remember getting into the spectacle of it until I saw the pictures the Star published of the victims. That put it all into perspective for me. Sad sad sad.
I have no real opinion on the guilty verdict, don't know enough. But I'll decide how I feel once I see the sentence (I've not been paying much attention so if that was done already I missed it).
All I know is that they are saying on the news that he could get life. If the sentence is anything more than a few years then it seems to me that it simply isn't fair (unless someone has data showing that similar crimes by non-OJs generally result in long sentences).
Despite him getting away with murder (and I do believe he committed those murders) there is no make-up call. Incorrect acquittals is a risk of the system and I like the system well enough to accept that.
Bootstrap Bill
10-05-2008, 10:04 PM
I have no real opinion on the guilty verdict, don't know enough. But I'll decide how I feel once I see the sentence (I've not been paying much attention so if that was done already I missed it).
All I know is that they are saying on the news that he could get life. If the sentence is anything more than a few years then it seems to me that it simply isn't fair (unless someone has data showing that similar crimes by non-OJs generally result in long sentences).
Despite him getting away with murder (and I do believe he committed those murders) there is no make-up call. Incorrect acquittals is a risk of the system and I like the system well enough to accept that.
The system needs to be fixed.
One day after the aquital, he could have had a press conference and admitted guilt, shown home movies, etc., and nobody could have done a thing.
I fail to see what needs to be fixed in that. It sucks, yes, but it is better than the alternatives. Double jeopardy protections are a very important principal. And regardless, has nothing to do with whether a perception that you got away with something justifies later augmentation of sentences for different crimes.
belleh5
10-05-2008, 11:33 PM
Do I live under a rock or something? What's going on with OJ?
Ditto??? What did he do now?
bewitched
10-06-2008, 12:20 AM
Ditto??? What did he do now?
The arrest. (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/us/16cnd-simpson.html?scp=38&sq=OJ&st=cse)
The conviction. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/04simpson.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=OJ&st=cse&oref=slogin)
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