There’re Several Questions About Simpson’s ‘Fair Trial’

October 7th, 2008

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When questioned during jury selection, all 12 of the non-Blacks who were eventually chosen as jurors said they would give O.J. Simpson a fair trial, but the fact that at least five of them said they believed the former football legend had gotten away with murder 13 years ago is enough to make you wonder. Read the rest here.

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Tanisha Said on

He killed those people, and he is guilty for what he just did. and I’M BLACK!!! So I don’t want to hear about ths white peoples keepin’ the black man down. Your down cuz you wanna be. I think the fact that we have a black man running for President should tell you something. What really upset me was the fact that the black jury got him off for murder, and what has he done for us?? Nothing. He deserves whatever he gets. Your right Miss Gee O.J. is a white man.



gill Said on

Only O.J. knows who really killed his ex wife and her lover and at first being a young black teen during his first trail believe that THE greatest back since Jim Brown would never do something like this. But now after the book it made me think differently. And now for him to do this you got away for muder once and you wont get away this time. I dnt care who’s on the jury nobody will give him a faair trail



ruth Said on

First of all, regardless of what, as African Americans UMIlaw, we are always going to be concerned about our own! Got it!!!!!????? Blacks have been so mistreated and lied on in this country until it is not funny. One of our doctors who helps kids overseas, a surgeon, was pounced on while in military uniform by the police in this very country he serves, they broke the doctor’s arm just because the man was black………The dumb cop asked the learned surgeon and the surgeon casually answered and the cop did not like his answer and the cop went beserk! On the other hand OJ is ours and come heck or high water, right is right and wrong is wrong! Nobody is condoning OJ’s actions, especially if he is wrong! However, the “insignificant-stuff-that was not worth this trouble, was HIS. I for one will always believe his wife’s killer(s) are still at large…..it is ALWAYS easy to accused a “black” man! OJ was just in the right place at the wrong time!!!!! As for his trumped up trial years ago?duh!!!!whoever killed his spouse, that is indigative of a serial mind…..OJ is not serial minded, carnal & stupid minded but not serial………

In this case, it was idiotic for OJ to follow his own stupidity. He appears to not be that bright! Maybe he is finally learning how 2 faced and deceiving “certain” people can be!! OJ needed a wake up call! However, pure racism led to the decision given to him. An all white jury??????these people would have given that decision to a month old black baby boy!
Any black man who gets himself tied to these people always comes out on the bottom. You can be nice but not stupid! Or you can think you are all that, and slip into these mock relationships if you want to, and it is downhill all the way. We try to tell our men but they do not listen……they call us “jealous”…..no nut…….trying to protect what we already know!!!!! On the other hand, he needs our prayers and whatever we got left to give him because I hope he realizes his plight!!!



JAM Said on

OJ brought this on himself. He should have taken his big-head a$$ somewhere and kept quiet when he got off 13 years ago. He used the black community to rally behind him and then when he got off he basically told us to kiss his a$$ when he flaunted another white woman in our face. He should have realized then that although he made lots of money for white america, they put his black a$$ in his place after those murders. OJ and several other famous blacks always want to run back to the hood when white america shuts them out. The bottom line is, OJ got a second chance and he blew it because if that had been any normal black man on trial for killing two whites, he would have been put to death a long time ago.



Gerald Said on

O.J. never had a chance for a fair and unbiased trial. You would have to be a complete moron to say Mr. Simpson’s previous 1995 acquittal didn’t play a role in his Las Vegas guilty verdict. A few anti-O.J. comments in this BET Blog further validate my point. One member (a female) of the jury said during a press conference, that they never considered what he “DID” 13 years ago. What he did? O.J. was acquitted on the charges he faced. It’s mind-bogging to realize that he will spend to next 15-20 years (minimum) in prison for attempting to recover personal items with his name on them. This case was overcharged by the Las Vegas DA and the jury’s verdict against O.J. was nothing more than payback for his 1994 double-homicide case. When was the last time the Las Vegas DA (himself) was the lead prosecutor during a robbery trial? Probably never!



ruth Said on

Again, ya go talking out the side of your mouth! We may never know who murdered his wife, but as an african american I will never believe he did it. color has a lot to do with it! If an 8 month old black baby was crawling near the scene of the crime, whites would swear the 8 month old did it. Any time a white doctor is caught in a hospital nursery counting black newborns…….123jail, 123jail,……..that is heinous……..black people need to know the people and I mean really get to know the people you hang with and stop being so naive and letting your guards down……and above all stop thinking you can do what others do……there is not one ounce of justice for blacks in this country and if you believe that then you are next!!!!! I do agree, because of all of the above, OJ was stupid……I mean was there not anyone around him who was not around him for money?????None who were close or knew him seemingly did not care anything about him,…..just used a stupid man. How unfortunate!!!!



DeeVa Said on

For me, regardless of what he did in his past; that time has past and is over it. the fact that people for the last 13 years, have been hoping for something like this to happen, got just what they wanted. When the jurors went into the jury pool, some of them were hoping to get that case so they could find him guilty. No matter what was said and what evidence was presented, some of them had their minds made up and planned on finding him guilty. Of course, they are not going to tell the public or Judge their actual thoughts but thats what it was. My thing with him, he should have stayed off the radar for the last 13 years and no one would have given him a second thought.



Whitney Said on

I feel that OJ was unfairly judged! I believe that the jury didn’t consider the robbery only, they were also thinking of the murders and that’s what i believe they based their verdict on! The murder trial shouldn’t have even been brought up because that had nothing to do wit the robbrty!!! Like all say they finally got him!! I really believe that he commited those murders but he was proven innocent, so people need to stop talking about that! So he may have gotten away wit murder in our eyes, but GOD knows and that’s all that matters!



Ms.Thang Said on

Yeah he needs a new trial not guilty until proved otherwise they wanted him from the get go from the other trial of being found not guilty of those two murders.

They need to do a retrial they had said that they thought he was guilty from the Nicole trial if that’s the case then they have no right to be in that court room trying to play God because they couldn’t get him the first time.

and look at the jury they mostly were white why did’nt they put most of the african american people up there because they knew they would not have got that same results that they have now.

they already knew who they wanted to make that call to say if he was guilty or not thats why they picked the jury like that.

this world is so messed up for the african american community as it is we should known with they way cops our treating our people that they were going to find him guilty any ways because he was hot from the get go for the murder of two non african american people!

what they should have did was even out race for the jury to balance it out not just mostly whites to cast their opinion among someone of another race make it a far trial he needs a retrial or a very much lighter sentence!



J59 Said on

what I don’t understand is why is the person that came and got O J to begin with isn’t held accountable. OJ wouldn’t have even been thinking bout the sh%t if he or she wouldn’t have brought he there. if they knew the stuff was stolen they shouldve called the police as well as OJ. I think the charges were a lil to blown out of proportion also



blackbeautyanddiva Said on

OJ probably was stupid, but that doesnt take away the fact that it was a setup. The main person involved talked about setting oj up before he went into the room, and even talked to the Las Vegas police who told them to hide a camera in the room. What type of BULL CRAP is this????????????????



Amanda OAK Said on

That what he gets for messing with them White ho’s. Damn he already killed one white girl then he was fu@#ing on them. F a sell out. I don’t care about no black man getting in some sh@# over another race that is what his sell out a@# gets.



Go to Jail OJ Said on

I’m an African American and I believe he committed murder 13 year ago. Johnnie Cochran and team were excellent lawyers; they created “a resonable doubt” that got OJ off. The Las Vega jury probably was biased, but from the reports and tapes I’ve heard from the case, I believe he is also guilty. OJ got away with murder but he kept putting himself out there. He should have done a “Michael Jackson” and kept a much lower profile. Dumba^^!



blackbeautyanddiva Said on

IT WAS A SET UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. THE DEALER SAID IT WAS A SET UP AND TALKED TO THE LAS VEGAS POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO ADVISED HIM TO PUT A CAMERA IN THE ROOM. REGARDLESS IF HE WAS STUPID OR NOT, REGARDLESS IF HE LIKES WHITE WOMAN, REGARDLESS IF HE HASNT BEEN BLACK FOR A LONG TIME, THE MAN SHOULD HAVE NOT BEEN CONVICTED NOR SHOULD HE HAVE WENT TO TRIAL.



passion Said on

Umlaw, you have a lot to say where you there when all this happen? You want us to move on How? if O.J. went to play golf his business was put out in the street people in Kentucky, refusing to server him because of something as you said happen 20 Years ago.

O.J. didn’t stand a chance of not being found guilty not of this case but something that you said to let go. We let go of the murder that ROBERT BLAKE didn’t do either, but where is his name in the news? Right you don’t hear about that but, the two case were the same and you only hear one name O.J. and that is because A black man were involved.

this is the reason why I don’t think that we should have jurys because of things like this. People can say hang them or let them go if they don’t like you.



Roses Said on

I agree Deeva….In addition, why were all the jurors White? Let us think about this for a moment – If OJ was White and all of the jurors were Black would that be fair?



amanda Said on

see this is what i mean…IGNORANT PEOPLE who just disregard allt he evidence.. and say.. “oh hes innoncent, its because hes black that hes being accused” like ruth… my GOD PEOPLE WAKE THE F UP! he is guilty… the 4th comment is myne & i pointed out sO MUCH and thats not even all of the evidence and yet ya’ll are still set on the fact he didnt do it cuz hes black.. thank god none of you are in the criminal justice system… the country wuld be an f-in mess!



amanda Said on

sry the EIGHTH comment was mine ***



James Said on

UMLaw you are exactly right…now let’s go get the white supremacist cops that beat Rodnay King like a dog and walked scot free!!!! Oh no, wait, had they been taped beating a dog like that, they would have been locked up!!! Your sense of fairness in a justice system that was created specifically to lock up “freedmen” is sorely misplaced. Why doin’t you talk about the fact that if 5 people on the jury thought he got away with a crime in the past surely CANNOT claim any impartiality. I can’t believe ignorance of this magnitude still exists. I bet you decided to vote for McCain merely becuase he picked a woman when Obama did not.



a voice for the people Said on

.I don’t know if O.J killed his ex-wife and her lover nor do i really care i believe we can fool people all the time but never our self .If he commited that crime in past than OJ will answer for it either here on earth or in heaven or whereever he spends his after life .i will say this whites has been robbing ,raping ,murdering blacks for century and got away with it .was it right no but it happened .so as it is said an eye for an eye .and oj gets what he get his butt should had stay with own had he hook a sista and her family up like he did nicole and her family the fool would still been the “juice”/