He was found not guilty by a jury in a criminal court, he was found legally responsible for the deaths by a different jury in a civil courtroom, as a result of that finding, the judge ordered him to pay damages. I have no idea how much, nor do I know how much he has paid, none of my affair.
I'm sorry to hear that your school never taught the Constitution, or the most basic fundamentals of our criminal justice system.
He can be innocent of murder and still have killed them. I'll wager there are well respected members of the club who have killed another, but are not guilty of murder.
They are different. I think the evidence presented by the lawyer in the civil suit was sufficient to justify the civil verdict, a finding by a preponderance of the evidence.
I do not think that the State of California presented the evidence in a manner that was sufficient to achieve a verdict of Guilty.
Ever since the verdict people have argued this matter, I think that the JUdge got caught up on being a TV star, the head investigor should have gone to jail for lying (he admitted to it, and if he had been honest about the side issue he lied about, then the jury would not have disregarded possibly important evidence), I think the prosecution was sloppy, and also caught up on the TV aspect of the case, I think the 'experts' were ill prepared, sloppy, and over all very unprofessional. Truth is the State of California has proven themselves nearly incompetent when it comes to criminal prosecution (see cops in Rodney King beating, the rioters who beat the truck driver on video, or Michael Jackson).
I do not believe that he killed them on his own. The State couldn't argue this because they had no evidence of a second person, in the civil matter however they left that possibility open, and OJ had to keep his mouth shut or acknowledge being there. But it is impossible for a person with the knees of OJ, to jump out of bushes, kill her, run across a yard on uneven ground and kill a second person with neither puting up any resistance.
At this point you'll notice I haven't answered your question. Truth is I don't really care. Any, and every death upsets me, however, I refuse to be pulled into the celebrity watching of criminal cases. People were tethered to their TVs not because of the crimes (there were hundreds of more horrific crimes all over the nation that very night), but because it was celebrity, and hollywood, and money, and beautiful people.
Because we wanted the reality TV of a trial, justice was not allowed to do its business.
Ron and Nicole were not denied justice, Justice couldn't get past the damn cameras. That is what I think.
And I am done.
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