Your feeling on the OJ Simpson murder case verdict?

[KingCharlemagne]

64. It's been a long time now, and I've forgotten much of that trial which happened

my first year living in LA (1994-5?). I remember the prosecution at the beginning of the trial introduced some witnesses about how domestic violence often follows easily predictable patterns that culminate in homicide. This thread seemed to die still born in the trial, being lost amidst all the forensic evidence and quibbling about DNA. But it's the part that stuck with me. OJ was angry that he could not 'control' Nicole and each step she took to assert her independence only made him all the more angry until it culminated in one final paroxysm of homicidal rage. (Ron Brown stumbled upon the homicide in progress and thus OJ had kill him to prevent any witness to OJ's murderous rampage from surviving.)

Cochran did a masterful job (with the connivance to varying degrees of D.A. Gil Garcetti, ADA Clark, Fuhrman and others) of converting what should have been a case about domestic violence reaching its final apogee into a case about race and a racist system determined to bring a successful black man down.