Aug 01 2007
OJ vs the Goldmans: Who gets the blood money for his tacky book?
First up: OJ’s book was tacky. Period.
Second: OJ is an arrogant jerk. Period.
O.J. Simpson Criticizes Goldman Family
O.J. Simpson lashed out Tuesday at the family of the late Ronald Goldman, a day after they won the rights to Simpson’s canceled “If I Did It” book about the slayings of Goldman and Simpson’s ex-wife.
A federal bankruptcy judge in Miami awarded the book rights to Goldman’s family Monday to satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against Simpson.
“I find it sort of hypocritical that they talked everybody in America to boycott the book: it was ‘immoral,’ it was ‘blood money,’” he told interviewer Kate Delaney. “But we now see it wasn’t ‘blood money’ if they got the money.”
God I hate this, but in a sense he is right. The book profits, were there actually any, would be the tackiest form of blood money.
Granted, OJ doesn’t deserve a penny of it, but in a sense, aside from showing what an ass OJ is, all this really does is showcase the depths of Fred Goldman’s hatred and his terrier like determination to squeeze every penny out of OJ.
Goldman attorney David Cook said his clients were justified in accepting rights to the book as payment for the judgment against Simpson.
“Mr. Simpson himself has placed us in this horrific setting of seeking to liquidate this asset,” he said. “His comments are beyond redemption.”
Again, I won’t argue about Goldman’s right to the money, but honestly, would you want it considering the source?
Some thoughts:
I agree the OJ case was in some ways a slam of the legal system, but it is supposed to be a justice system that operates under rules, one of which is that those not convicted are presumed innocent.
It may be a slap in the face that OJ was acquitted, but he was. OJ, like it or not, was found not guilty. There were actually a couple valid issues in the trial to support an acquittal, though it was still a shock. We had tainted blood evidence, witnesses committing perjury and frankly a lot of weak circumstantial evidence.
You want a villain? The prosecutors and police flubbed this, big time.
The acquittal, that ugly slap in the face to the Browns and Goldmans prompted their civil lawsuit, which they won.
So…let’s suppose OJ does get the book published and the book makes 38 Million+. Then what?
The Browns and Goldmans get the money. OJ’s debt would be settled, and the families would be forced to accept that Justice had spoken and the scales were now balanced.
OJ Should fight to get it published on those grounds, just to settle the suit.
But what then? No amount of cash brings back the dead, nor does it change anything. They will never NOT hate him. Fred Goldman particularly strikes me as someone who has sacrificed his own happiness and life for a cage of hate.
He has cause, but he is poisoning himself in the process, and to me it is just more evil to come out of this ugliness.
So the question is, aside from punishing him, which it does not do as he still lives cushy on a $40,000 a month pension, what is the point?
No closure will be had even if he pays every penny. This all just seems pointless now.
One after thought:
The jury’s award of money to the families was clearly an after attempt to right the miscarriage of justice, but isn’t it odd that what we usually consider miscarriages of justice occur when the innocent are wrongly convicted, not the other way around.
Something to think about.
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