OJ Simpson
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I followed the trial on tv, it was real gripping stuff. I remember he was in a car trying to get away from the police and the tv helicopter was overhead filming .
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Heard he had a ticket for Dens Park next week tae.
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Not so much a chase but a procession as I remember.
Jack K
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Yeah, it was bonkers.
Trundling along with the hazards on with a sea of cop cars behind him with load of bams at the sides of the road cheering the cavalcade.
Phrase white Ford Bronco has been stuck in my brain ever since.
brianmc
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I remember watching a fair bit of his criminal trial live on Court TV when I was just a whippersnapper living at my parents house- back in the pre internet days . In fact we still only had 4 terrestrial channels....
Some of it was truly gripping, and at other times it was tediously dull.
But one thing I remember was his defence lawyer Barry Scheck was the kinda nippy wee terrier you'd want on your side.
And the Prosecutor Marcia Clark was as dull as a rainy day at Dens Park!
*He (OJ) was good in Naked Gun as well, though obviously at that point a teenage me had zero idea who he was.
Some of it was truly gripping, and at other times it was tediously dull.
But one thing I remember was his defence lawyer Barry Scheck was the kinda nippy wee terrier you'd want on your side.
And the Prosecutor Marcia Clark was as dull as a rainy day at Dens Park!
*He (OJ) was good in Naked Gun as well, though obviously at that point a teenage me had zero idea who he was.
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I think I remember that the Lakers were playing and the game stopped and the screens all had the chase on. I watched the "chase" on TV at home for a while, went out for some food, got home again and the "chase" was still going on but coming to its conclusion.
I always remember thinking about being on the jury for that trial. They were sequestered for months!
Alex Edwards Shin pad
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If i remember wasnt one of his lawyers a Kardashian
egb_hibs
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A mad episode
yes. Kim’s father.
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Never ‘got’ the Kardashian fad.
I was in Los Angeles a few years back, and there was a LED type sign up on a roof saying one of the Kardashian’s was currently in ‘pub x’ .
Couldn’t see the point at the time. Thought it was a ‘celeb’ type thing.
But now….
If you saw “Manchester Green / JFB /some other gadgie who’s a bit annoying * insert some other irritating twats name was in “x” pub, well…. Best avoided.
*no offence to other top blokes who take offence to my posts.
Particularly the ones younger than my sons actually are, who want to have a pagger. Grow up you fuckin twats.
I’m old enough to be your dad.
PM me a pic of your mum, just in case this is getting a bit Jeremy Kyeleish.
I was in Los Angeles a few years back, and there was a LED type sign up on a roof saying one of the Kardashian’s was currently in ‘pub x’ .
Couldn’t see the point at the time. Thought it was a ‘celeb’ type thing.
But now….
If you saw “Manchester Green / JFB /some other gadgie who’s a bit annoying * insert some other irritating twats name was in “x” pub, well…. Best avoided.
*no offence to other top blokes who take offence to my posts.
Particularly the ones younger than my sons actually are, who want to have a pagger. Grow up you fuckin twats.
I’m old enough to be your dad.
PM me a pic of your mum, just in case this is getting a bit Jeremy Kyeleish.
egb_hibs
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Some arse, but.
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Annoying.
Thought I had the pic rights.
Thought I had the pic rights.
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Robert Kardashian was a very good friend of OJ. If I remember rightly, Kardashian met OJ and possibly took a bag from OJ that may have contained evidence about the murder before OJ was arrested. At the trial, when the not guilty verdict was read out, Kardashian looked stunned that OJ got a not guilty verdict.
egb_hibs
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It was a harbinger of today’s racial politics. The jury made him not guilty not because he was not guilty, but because he was black.
Greenmachine
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I remember the trial....and the excellent dramatisation of it all on TV about 10 years ago.
Found Not Guilty but eventually convicted of another charge.
OJ had a bit part cameo appearance in The Towering Inferno.
Found Not Guilty but eventually convicted of another charge.
OJ had a bit part cameo appearance in The Towering Inferno.
Archie
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I think a catastrophic prosecution was a major contribution.
egb_hibs
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Perhaps. But not the decisive one as I recall.
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Might have been cos of his colour but could also just be down to him being an iconic American footballer of the time that he got the run of public opinion or at least public male opinion of the time from the jury.
egb_hibs
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It’s a long time ago but my recollection is Simpson’s legal team cleverly made it about race in a febrile environment (Rodney King, LA riots etc in preceding years). A heavily black jury reached a not guilty verdict in 8 minutes.
Archie
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There's extensive commentary online about prosecution errors. The glove wasna catastrophe. Exposing Mark Furman as a racist all helped to sow doubt. So don't be too quick to pin it all on race. 'If it don't fit you must acquit' was a masterstroke.
egb_hibs
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Fair enough. I still reckon it was decisive but that's based on recalling my opinion at the time; all details have gone the way of mortal things lol.
Didn't he later come out with a book or TV show along the lines of "I didn't do it, but if I had done it I'd have done it like this" !
GibbytheHibby
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My wife occasionally watches court tv.
It always strikes me that the lawyers comes across as really fucking stupid and slow.
I’d fall asleep if i was on the jury. If I was accused, I’d be keeking my pants as they all seem rather inept.
emerald green
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Yup, your recollections are very much how I recall it. A total race war was brewing. He was innocent as far as the black american comminuty was concerned. Completely agree re your King/LA riots comment.
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A major part yes. Once the trial was set for Down Town LA, OJ was going to get a not guilty verdict before the opening statements were heard. We didn't know this when the trial started but then when you look back you realize what happened. Where the trial was held and the jury selection for starters. The trial was all theatre, going through the motions. The prosecution didn't pick up on that, they thought it was such a slam dunk case (and it was) they only had to dial it in. Simpson's own attorney, Robert Kardashian could hardly believe the not guilty verdict when it was read out in court. Found not guilty by a jury of his peers, lol.
Los Angeles was on high alert the day the verdict was due in case the verdict was guilty!
Gil Garcetti was the DA at the time and his useless twat of a son was the mayor of LA for a while. Two imbeciles.
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"If I did it" was the book wot he wrote.
I think a TV show was planned but never happened as far as I know.
The rights to the book were handed to the Goldman family (the other murder victim's family) as part of a settlement in the civil case against OJ.
They then released the book re-titled "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer" and it immediately became a best seller.
The fella Goldman was a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. OJ's ex had left her sunglasses where he was a waiter and he took them back to her, and met up with OJ.
Allegedly.
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They never found the murder weapon. Cops thought it was OJ's laddies weapon that killed his missus but when they couldnae find it....
there was NAE KID GUN.
Aye I know.
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When Norm MacDonald was on SNL he would regularly lampoon OJ Simpson.
Jack K
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Ah, the late great Norm.
Did he not eventually get binned from SNL for continuing to rip OJ after being told to desist by the TV network owner?
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Something like that. He may have just been removed from the weekend update segment and sent back to the writing team and then fired.
What a weird way things turn out. Non double murderer Norm taken far too soon and double murderer OJ lives to 76.
Ryan69
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How that guy didn't serve the rest of his life in prison is a sin.
His trial was actually moved from the location as the area was too white.
It was moved to a more predominantly black area with a jury of 2 Hispanics,2 whites,1 Native Indian....and 8 black people.
At that time....they were never gonna send him down,and the prosecutor knew it.
His trial was actually moved from the location as the area was too white.
It was moved to a more predominantly black area with a jury of 2 Hispanics,2 whites,1 Native Indian....and 8 black people.
At that time....they were never gonna send him down,and the prosecutor knew it.
Jack K
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Just had a quick look at the Mail online. They are carrying a story that Simpson paid the Gambino mafia family to off her.
A geezer has apparently came forward with information.
A geezer has apparently came forward with information.