OJ Made in America

[Kane]

Originally Posted by Axl Rose

i'll wait for it to hit netflix (if ever) i thought the tv series on the case was pretty good...the guy that played Cochran was amazing i thought

i don't think theres much chance OJ would be acquitted today. Forensic Files has dumbed down DNA evidence enough where everybody should know yours should not be at a crime scene

Agreed. In fact, the late prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi stated that denying guilt when your blood is at the murder scene is like a man being caught by wife in the act with another woman and saying to her (in the words of Richard Pryor), "Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?"

Bugliosi knew there was a wealth of evidence pointing to OJ's guilt, although some of the most important pieces were never introduced in the criminal trial. He also remarked that an innocent person would not behave the way OJ did. But none of that is keeping some people from believing he is innocent. For that reason, a new pro-OJ documentary, produced and narrated by Martin Sheen, will be airing on Investigation Discovery in 2017.

[DJM77]

Even my aunt's parrot knew that OJ was guilty!

[MegtheEgg86]

Originally Posted by Axl Rose

i don't think theres much chance OJ would be acquitted today. Forensic Files has dumbed down DNA evidence enough where everybody should know yours should not be at a crime scene

I think the documentary made a very compelling argument for the reasons why the jury voted to acquit. There were a lot of overwhelming, complex, and critical social forces at play during the trial. Although I can't be certain, I'm not sure I think a more sophisticated understanding of DNA would've helped the prosecution's cause.

Originally Posted by Kane

But none of that is keeping some people from believing he is innocent. For that reason, a new pro-OJ documentary, produced and narrated by Martin Sheen, will be airing on Investigation Discovery in 2017.

Gross.

[Kane]

Originally Posted by MegtheEgg86

Gross.

When it comes to ID's upcoming OJ documentary, "gross" is a perfectly legitimate word to describe it.

[nohwheregirl]

Originally Posted by Kane

But none of that is keeping some people from believing he is innocent. For that reason, a new pro-OJ documentary, produced and narrated by Martin Sheen, will be airing on Investigation Discovery in 2017.

For serious??? UUUUGGGGHHH. Martin Sheen is constantly finding ways to disappoint me.

Originally Posted by Awsi Dooger

BTW, that series included more graphic photos than I've ever seen of Nicole and Ron Goldman's injuries. I had to look away.

Me too. There was a close-up of Nicole's wounds that I saw before screaming and closing my eyes that I will never forget. I can only assume that the filmmaker felt it was necessary to show these photos to emphasize the brutality of these crimes. I cannot imagine the depravity that makes it possible for one human being to do that to another human being.

Originally Posted by Axl Roxe

Basically they would look like sellouts for voting guilty on a guy that was, well, a sellout...

That's a really good way of putting it. Watching this show was the first time I *got it* Not that I agree with it, but I finally understood the thought process involved in the jury coming to their verdict.

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

Bumping this again because it was on the other night on ESPN to mark OJ's death. I watched some of it again. It is so awful to see where we were as a society, particularly in LA in those days. It is frustrating to see how much police brutality there was and blatant injustice. It is also remarkable to me to see that some things have changed for the better in our society since the early 90's, but yet even back in 2016 when this documentary was released, you can see that there were still multiple LA area law enforcement people justifying police brutality in the early 90's. One example was being pro-choke hold (no surprise that it was Mark Fuhrman).

It is sickening that OJ being a famous LA celebrity was allowed to repeatedly beat Nicole and even get out of a domestic battery arrest on New Years day in 1989 because he fled the scene and decided that he did not want to be arrested. The responding police officer wrote down in his report that Nicole told him "He's gonna kill me" It is disgusting to see so many people in OJ's and Nicole's inner circle that knew that she was being battered and did nothing about it. I also noticed that OJ was on NBC covering the Cowboys vs. Dolphins game on Thanksgiving in 1993 with his kids throwing snowballs at him, with Nicole by his side. That was less than a month after Nicole's October 911 call where OJ was rage yelling at her at her house for having a relationship with someone else. In retrospect you can tell that everything was being setup for OJ to continue to control Nicole's every move and mask his abuse of Nicole. and it would only be months later that he would kill her and Ron.

It is crazy to see that the cops back then knew that he was 100% guilty and were still so afraid to arrest OJ. even up to the point to where he was fleeing in the bronco. they escorted him, if it had been any other criminal you know what the LA police did to people back then who ran from them...LA county deserves all of the negative publicity that they got during this period.

I'm glad OJ is finally gone for good. I hope that Nicole's and Ron's family can have some justice. It's so wrong that they did not get that justice when they deserved it.