Sep 17 2007
OJ heads for the big house
Some OJ thoughts.
First, the past. Great athlete, OK actor. Whoopee.
The infamy: Did he kill his wife? Honestly I don’t know, even if It seems likely. First of all, from a legal perspective, he was found not guilty. And while many believe that was a failure of the system, I do not. The reason? Our legal system is dedicated to the premise that it is better to let the guilty go free then convict the innocent, and the fact is there was some reasonable doubt in his case.
While the evidence was pretty damning, some was circumstantial, and some was tainted. Dusty Laker in this column saw many of the flaws in the case I did.
He saw as I did all the grand screw ups by the LA PD. He saw blood evidence in peoples pockets and some missing. He saw blood then magically appear where no one saw it before. He didn’t mention the Bronco that was impounded, sat for 3 weeks and was broken into in the impound lot.
He saw a racist cop witness who admitted to disliking OJ personally.
Add all of the evidence up and it becomes reasonable doubt. The Defense saw and they used it as they are supposed to. OJ’s verdict was justice in that our system took its shot and failed, but it failed because of the flaws in the prosecution. It sucks. But case closed.
The Families sued and got a bunch o money, which was as we all know, the worlds way of saying “sorry the LA PD was inept”.
So OJ uses the system again, and files bankruptcy. Poor OK, he loses a bunch of stuff, but they can’t touch his 40 grand a month pension. Poor guy, living on just 40 grand a month.
So now he is in jail having been accused of robbery. What a fool. He was living well on what most of us would dream of. All he has to do is keep his head down and fade away. Nope. He is interviewing, doing video games, writing books, one of which was the most idiotic book EVER, and now running around in Vegas playing mafia or something.
If he is convicted he deserves it most for being a complete idiot.
If…is there an if here? No jury in in this nation will acquit him again. If the prosecution takes this to trial, he is going away.
And that raises ethical problems, because how will we be assured he gets a fair trial, or should we stop caring. And just asking that scares me to a degree.
And while the Vegas PD decides to charge him…while the Goldmans and Browns fight over the blood money from his book, and while we in the various forms of media debate his life, his guilt and his character, what of his kids?
Imagine your life. Find all the crap in it you can recall. Think you had it rough? Imagine your dad is accused of murdering your mom and is acquitted. Imagine your moms family sues your dad and now you have to move to Florida. Imagine you get to live with the stigma of this your whole life.
Now imagine your dad is in jail for armed robbery.
Wanna trade lives?
I feel so sorry for his kids. Him, he can rot or not. I don’t care.
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Well, I think he was guilty in the first place, but as you said, the system worked the way it was supposed to. It’s a shame that the L.A. Police and prosecutors didn’t do their job properly.
Having said that though, I have to say I like your approach to this whole thing a lot better than mine. I don’t know what to think about this mess in Las Vegas.
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