O.J. Commentary

I thought this piece from yesterday was very good:

Simpson, also known as “The Juice” during his football days, was a Heisman Trophy winner and a Pro Football Hall of Famer. He had film and TV roles and was the star character in Hertz rental car commercials. It could be said that he was a successful and popular African American role model before the murders.

There were only three possible reasons for that verdict – prejudice, stupidity or a combination of the two. It is doubtful that there has ever been a case where so much evidence, especially blood and DNA evidence, pointed so directly at the accused. The blood trail led all the way from the crime scene to Simpson’s Bronco to a pair of his socks in his bedroom with Brown’s blood on them.
The mate to a bloody glove that had been left at the crime scene was even found on a narrow walkway behind Simpson’s mansion in the vicinity of where his friend, Kato Kaelin, had heard thumps against the wall of the guesthouse. The black glove, Simpson’s size and matching a pair that his ex-wife had given him, was soaked with Brown’s blood and Goldman’s blood, and even had a trace of Simpson’s blood, according to the evidence.

One of the “Dream Team” lawyers, F. Lee Bailey, attempted to discount that evidence by insinuating that it was probably planted there by the cop that claimed to have discovered it, LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman, who Bailey suggested was a racist attempting to promote his own career by taking the bloody glove from the crime scene to Simpson’s house.

One would think that simple logic would rule that out on the grounds that Fuhrman could not have known whether or not Simpson would have an alibi of his whereabouts at the time of the murders. Would a cop, racist or not, risk being arrested by planting a bloody glove at the home of a suspect who might have an ironclad alibi proving that the cop had planted the evidence? Not hardly.
By that evidence alone, logic should have declared to any logical person that the possibility that it could have been anyone other than Simpson who committed the murders just did not exist. It just didn’t fit that it could have been anyone else but Simpson.

The case was a prime example of the failure of our criminal justice system.
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It was mostly indifference greeting the latest Simpson verdict. The rest of the country has moved on.
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Simpson's accomplices in the robbery fared better:

A victim in the O.J. Simpson robbery-kidnapping case loudly protested Tuesday as the trial judge sentenced four of Simpson's accomplices to probation, including a gunman who waved a weapon around a Las Vegas hotel room.

"You've got to be kidding me!" exclaimed Bruce Fromong, who was escorted from the courthouse as Michael McClinton was given a suspended two- to seven-year sentence and eight years probation.