Sunday, November 6, 2016

OJ Simpson, Guilty or Not?

For the past couple of weeks we have been taking an in depth look at the OJ Simpson case. As Mr. Stewart has put it many of times, the Simpson case has a mixture of everything. There is a trail in the criminal courts in which Mr. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder in the 1st degree. There is also a civil court case in which OJ is found guilty and had to pay out a total of $33 Million to the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.
I found it interesting that in the criminal case the jury was predominantly black and very quickly found OJ not guilty, and in the civil case the jury was predominantly white and found OJ guilty almost as quickly as the black jury found him not guilty.
Personally I would have to side with jury from the criminal case. I think that although there is enough evidence to convict OJ, a large majority of the evidence seems to be tampered with. Too me this causes enough reasonable suspicion of the police that I could not find OJ Simpson guilty. Even though we have been looking at this case for almost two weeks and seen many, many hours of documentaries on this case I still can not decide whether or not OJ Simpson killed his ex-wife and her friend.
Even though the blood and DNA evidence shows that OJ was at the crime scene and had a blood trail all the way back to my house, part of me still thinks that the police may have framed him. The fact that the police did not find a lot of the blood till weeks later, there was a spill in the lab, and one of the detectives was driving around with a vial of OJ's blood that mysteriously lost about a mL of the blood. When all of these factors are added up the data looks a little to suspicious for me to think that OJ is guilty. The other piece of evidence that did not really sit well with me was the extra glove that detective Fuhrman found. When OJ tried to put the glove on and it did not fit him that really made me think that he was not guilty.
On the other hand some of the new evidence that was presented in the civil case made a much stronger point toward OJ being guilty than the evidence being presented during the criminal case. I think had the prosecution used the evidence

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