If you're really a liberal, you must applaud the Simpson parole.

[Awsi Dooger]

42. Jo-Ellan Dimitrius was largely responsible for the acquittal in 1995

Unfortunately she knew her stuff and did her job extremely well, as jury consultant for O.J.'s team. Dimitrius' research indicated that women and especially black women would not have typical sympathy toward Nicole -- as a younger white woman married to a black man -- or outrage toward O.J.

Marcia Clark had won several slam dunk cases and thought she had bonded with black women on those juries. Therefore she made a tragic poor assumption and allowed the jury to be loaded with black women.

Obviously the relocation didn't help. That was on Garcetti. The sequestered aspect also undoubtedly further limited the potential juror pool and gave us not the brightest bulbs.

Even a moderately intelligent jury would have convinced O.J. based on math and science alone. Clark and Darden were hardly the worst I've ever seen. Not close. The glove demonstration was idiotic but the totality was average among televised court cases I've watched. But once you get dunces on that panel who have no clue toward probability then sure you're subject to morons who over value Barry Scheck's cross of Dennis Fung, or F. Lee Bailey's indictment of Mark Fuhrman, or Phil Vannatter's transport of the evidence, etc.

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Regarding the Palace Station episode that landed O.J. in jail, I have to say I witnessed far more confrontational and dangerous situations in casino parking lots or in casino sports books, during the 25 years I lived in Las Vegas. There were plenty of thug types in that environment and countless times I was told this person had a mob connection, or that person had a mob connection. When somebody owed money or had done something wrong they were confronted and it could get violent. I always kept a distance, both in knowledge and safe location. The O.J. Las Vegas verdict has always been considered an absolute joke by locals who know how the town operates.