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In reply to the discussion: Wait! Whut?! Judge's instructions to Sandusky jury (unbelieveable) [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)supposedly discovered the incriminating glove AND A KEY PROSECUTION WITNESS, was revealed during the trial to have committed perjury. (He pled no contest to the charges after the trial had concluded). So blaming the jury for the OJ verdict is too simple by far. I think the LA County DA's office bears a lot of blame. And credit must go to Johnnie Cochran and the defense team for doing their jobs superbly, even if it meant that a guilty man went free. Their job is to defend their client.
Do I think OJ killed his ex-wife and Ron Brown? Yes and I thought so before the verdict was reached in the criminal trial (and before the revelations about shoe prints had emerged in the subsequent wrongful death civil suit), because of what I understand of the arc of domestic and spousal abuse cases and because of what I know about DNA evidence. That said, had I been seated on that jury, confronted with Fuhrman's perfidy, Garcetti's and the DA's Office's ineptitude and Cochran's brilliance, I might well have voted 'not guilty' too.