I was sick of the OJ trial and all of the surrounding news and events of it 20 years ago, I sure as hell won't be watching this program at all.
This dark time just needs to fade away.
Good take, rack em
I was sick of the OJ trial and all of the surrounding news and events of it 20 years ago, I sure as hell won't be watching this program at all.
This dark time just needs to fade away.
I was born in 1987, so watching this has been interesting to me. I was old enough to remember the Bronco chase and the verdict, but the details went over my head. I had no sense of the racial divide this all caused. It's been especially interesting to me because I've grown up just thinking everyone assumed he was guilty. I guess I never knew there was such a sentiment in the African-American community that he had been set-up. Also, the personalities at play in this whole thing is awesome to revisit. What a cast of characters.
I am through episode 4 now. I'll preface this while I think OJ did it, seeing the evidence of the sloppy crime scene work (1. touching evidence with no gloves, 2.covering bodies with blankets from Nicole's apt. and 3. Taking the viles of blood back to the crime scene) would have cast a lot of doubt in my mind about the DNA evidence. Then throw in that there was no blood on the gate of OJ's house and then 3 weeks later there was. Furman was just the icing on the cake, you can't believe anything he says. So like I said above I think OJ did it, but if I am on the jury there is reasonable doubt and I couldn't vote to convict.
I also forgot how much Goldman's dad annoyed and still does annoy me.
I am through episode 4 now. I'll preface this while I think OJ did it, seeing the evidence of the sloppy crime scene work (1. touching evidence with no gloves, 2.covering bodies with blankets from Nicole's apt. and 3. Taking the viles of blood back to the crime scene) would have cast a lot of doubt in my mind about the DNA evidence. Then throw in that there was no blood on the gate of OJ's house and then 3 weeks later there was. Furman was just the icing on the cake, you can't believe anything he says. So like I said above I think OJ did it, but if I am on the jury there is reasonable doubt and I couldn't vote to convict.
I also forgot how much Goldman's dad annoyed and still does annoy me.
I am through episode 4 now. I'll preface this while I think OJ did it, seeing the evidence of the sloppy crime scene work (1. touching evidence with no gloves, 2.covering bodies with blankets from Nicole's apt. and 3. Taking the viles of blood back to the crime scene) would have cast a lot of doubt in my mind about the DNA evidence. Then throw in that there was no blood on the gate of OJ's house and then 3 weeks later there was. Furman was just the icing on the cake, you can't believe anything he says. So like I said above I think OJ did it, but if I am on the jury there is reasonable doubt and I couldn't vote to convict.
I also forgot how much Goldman's dad annoyed and still does annoy me.
DNA was pretty new at the time, so I would get being skeptical but I think the Jury faced overwhelming evidence and got caught up in the "Dream Team's" ability to lie convincingly and distract from the evidence.
A few observations:
The one juror admitted that her vote was all about getting back for Rodney King. The case lasted 9 months and the jury took 4 hours to come back with a decision. I really don't think there was anything the prosecution could have put in front of this jury to prosecute him.
It seemed crazy to me that every African American they showed was ecstatic about Simpson getting off. At first it annoyed me a little but the more I thought about it the more I realized that I've never been put in the kind of situation that a lot of African Americans have been put into for their whole life. The down side is that OJ was about as "black" as Carlton Banks. A few of the lawyers made me ill when they talked about things they did to play the race card but it worked for them. I felt bad for Chris Darden.