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O.J. & the criminal justice system, take 2

Nymr83 Sep 16 2007 12:53 PM

arrested for armed robbery [url]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296948,00.html[/url] this guy might be 2nd to michael vick on the list of notorious athletes who are unlikely to find an unbiased jury.

Willets Point Sep 17 2007 06:09 AM

Actual footage of Simpson making his get-away:

Nymr83 Sep 17 2007 07:50 AM

"go o.j. go!" haha love the little old lady

Frayed Knot Sep 17 2007 08:11 AM

This'll give the 24-hr news channels something to obsess over ... at least until Brittney strips down to her underwear in public again.

Willets Point Sep 17 2007 08:18 AM

Britney wears underwear?

Frayed Knot Sep 17 2007 11:51 AM

Sometimes exclusively.

Gwreck Sep 17 2007 12:29 PM Re: O.J. & the criminal justice system, take 2

="Nymr83"]this guy might be 2nd to michael vick on the list of notorious athletes who are unlikely to find an unbiased jury. Irrelevant. If the matter should somehow come to trial -- and that's a fairly remote chance -- they'd just do a bench trial.

Valadius Sep 17 2007 12:31 PM

I actually feel bad for O.J. No, seriously, I do. In this instance, I feel sorry for him. A lot of his story makes sense. Think about it. A lot of his stuff got stolen, and he gets word that some schmucks are trying to sell some of it. I can see why he wouldn't call the police because I doubt most cops would want to be too terribly helpful to O.J., and a dozen news choppers would've been circling the hotel within hours. The Goldmans want everything he has, and just published his book "If I Did It" by adding "Confessions of the Killer" to the title and adding lots of other accusatory things to the book. Nobody wants anything to do with him. All he has left are the memories and mementos. He probably associated with the wrong kind of crowd, and might have tried getting his stuff back the wrong way, but I can see where he was coming from. Now the guy who called in the "armed robbery" wants the case dropped. But I guarantee you the prosecutors are going to be blinded by "I-can-be-the-guy-to-put-O.J.-in-prison" zeal. It's sad that innocent-until-proven-guilty has gone out the window here. Very very sad.

Edgy DC Sep 17 2007 12:34 PM

I don't know what you're talking about. There's no bad reason to call the police if you've been robbed and you know where the stuff and the thieves are. There's no good reason to round up a posse. I don't know how "innocent-until-proven-guilty has gone out the window here."

Benjamin Grimm Sep 17 2007 12:34 PM

Yeah, I feel sorry for the murderer who, instead of going to jail, is unable to make money off a book about how he did it, and may have had a few mementos stolen from him. It makes me feel so sad.

Nymr83 Sep 17 2007 12:39 PM

]All he has left are the memories and mementos of how he murdered his ex-wife and her friend. i wonder if he asked for his glove back so he could keep it as a "memento."

metirish Sep 17 2007 12:43 PM

Val you can't of course used armed robbery to recover stolen goods,I shouldn't ask this but how could O.J. be this stupid.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 17 2007 12:44 PM

You know, even if O.J. is completely innocent in this case, I hope he goes to jail for the rest of his life anyway. He's already had twelve years of freedom that he didn't deserve.

Johnny Dickshot Sep 17 2007 12:47 PM

I heard the prosecutors are trying to saw his head off.

Valadius Sep 17 2007 12:53 PM

Yes, O.J. is going to the deepest pits of hell. I'm not defending him. I'm just saying that I can see just how far down he's sunk, how little he has left, and knowing O.J., you can see how this all went wrong. And with regards to innocent-until-proven-guilty, what I'm trying to say is that now, with 24-hour-news networks and Nancy Grace and the like, it seems we now assume that everyone in a headline-worthy case is guilty. Look what happened to poor Richard Jewell, who was a fucking hero. I'm just saying that we rush to judgment too often now. Let's get all the facts out and hear everybody's side of the story before we assume anything.

Edgy DC Sep 17 2007 01:03 PM

Valadius wrote: And with regards to innocent-until-proven-guilty, what I'm trying to say is that now, with 24-hour-news networks and Nancy Grace and the like, it seems we now assume that everyone in a headline-worthy case is guilty. Speak for yourself. ]Look what happened to poor Richard Jewell, who was a fucking hero. That was eleven years ago. Almost as long ago as OJ's trial. ]I'm just saying that we rush to judgment too often now. So, don't judge. ]Let's get all the facts out and hear everybody's side of the story before we assume anything. Or let the poilce and courts of Nevada do their jobs and wash our hands of the whole thing.

Edgy DC Sep 17 2007 01:41 PM

I realize I'm being a dick here and I'm sorry, but why do we have to have an opinion on whatever CNN says is a lead story? It makes us all panelists on The View or something.

seawolf17 Sep 17 2007 01:43 PM

Valadius wrote: knowing O.J., you can see how this all went wrong. Which happened right around the time he killed two people.