After watching both the civil and the criminal cases against OJ Simpson, my opinion if he was guilty or not became hard to choose. Right after the criminal case, I thought that he was guilty but with reasonable doubt, making it so that he could not be fully punished. I thought that the overall evidence of the blood and the DNA was very compelling evidence, but because it was not collected correctly, I couldn’t help but think that something was wrong. Also, I do think that it is possible for the investigators to miss certain blood marks, but finding splatters weeks later, and after having collected some of OJ’s blood to test, I didn’t think that it was reliable evidence. I don’t think that it is really possible for the whole police force to frame OJ for the murder because it involves more than just a little bit of tampering, but I do think that the way that the investigation was taken on was not correct. After the civil case though, my opinions changed and I was more so convinced that he did it. The evidence of the shoes is what mostly sold me. The one photo with him wearing the shoes wasn’t strong enough for me, but once they found 30 photos of him with those shoes on, I was convinced that he had to have been there. Not the smartest move on his part wearing a shoe that has only 300 of its’ kind in the US. I think that if that evidence had been brought up in the criminal case, the outcome could have been much different for OJ. Overall, I agree with how both juries ended up sentencing him because the evidence is what changed and what made the difference.
I agree with Audrey because this was all very relatable to my thoughts following these cases. As I was watching I immediately thought that he was guilty when the evidence of the shoes had been presented. I felt that since he had lied in his interviews, and in court that he was certainly guilty when this evidence had come out. The fact that he said he would never wear those shoes, and then upwards of 30 pictures popped up in a public newspaper in which he had them on was just so affirmative, that I had to believe he was guilty.
ReplyDeleteThis is very similar to the way I felt when watching the two different trails unfold. I think had the prosecution in the Criminal case used the shoes instead of the glove as evidence the case would have ended in a very different way. I think that not using the glove would have been a smart move for two reasons. First off, detective Fuhrman would not have ben involved in the trial which would not have unveiled his racist past. Second, OJ would not have had to try on the glove and show that it did not fit him.
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