OJ Might Not Walk

[Boxlicker101]

OJ Simpson is scheduled for parole, but it might not happen: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...onviction/ar-AApT9O5?li=BBnb7Kz&OCID=AVRES000

I have no sympathy for the SOB if he stays cooped up for a few years longer, even though he was an outstanding football player. As far as I'm concerned, he got away with murder.

 

[adrina]

As the world knows, Mr. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of the murders of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, in the most-watched trial in American history. But in 1989, he pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to misdemeanor battery of Ms. Simpson, who was then his wife.

The Nevada parole board did not have that information, officials with that agency said this week, so the 1989 conviction was not considered when a four-member panel voted unanimously to release him in October.

How could they not know this?

 

[OldJourno]

How could they not know this?

No kidding.
Unless they are only interested in felony convictions.

 

[water505]

Wife beating is a misdemeanor?

 

[sharingfantasies]

Is there a statute of limitation on that? I am sure wife beating was a misdemeanor back then, it wasn't long before that that it was legal.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No, they were only interested in releasing him.



What he did had far less bearing on their decision than his celebrity and skin color...

 

[Hypoxia]

How many of us really give a rat's ass about OJ's possible futures?

 

[Lancecastor]

OJ is of interest in terms of how american society builds up then tears down its celebs.

 

[adrina]

OJ is of interest in terms of how american society builds up then tears down its celebs.

To be fair, if he hadn't brutally murdered two people there wouldn't have been much of a reason to "tear him down".

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I can think of at least two reasons why OJ's past history of domestic abuse is unlikely to ever recur again. Who would hook up with that monster?

He'll walk.

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNCuCo-AWwE

 

[hsnh]

OJ is of interest in terms of how american society builds up then tears down its celebs.

So true.
Or the opposite - they glamorise and turn a total nobody into a sort of internet celebrity.
Like they did with Amanda Knox.

Personally I always had a strange fascination with such cases, and tend to google++ or watch youtube docus around the topic.
I suspect they made a lot of bucks out of people like me.

 

[jaF0]

If he does get out, it won't be for long. Some agency will find something to charge him with.

 

[Aglaopheme]

He's done a fine job of tearing himself down.

 

[Rightguide]

No, they were only interested in releasing him.



What he did had far less bearing on their decision than his celebrity and skin color...

^^^

This the issue in a nutshell. There's simply no thought of the murders he did commit but wasn't convicted of for the same reasons.

 

[hsnh]

OJ is of interest in terms of how american society builds up then tears down its celebs.

I barely glossed over the forensics part of the OJS case.
Probably because it looked like everyone was certain that he did it, so I assumed that too. Plus I'm no expert in these matters.

Btw - what was your take on the case? Was there true 'reasonable doubt' or not for the acquittal?

 

[jaF0]

When you screw the system, it eventually screws you back, one way or another. Hi lawyer is dead, he's in the pokey and nearly everyone else associated with the circus has a fucked up life.

Dude should have plead guilty and done his time. There would have been much less hardship to so many others.

They'll keep his murdering ass in prison one way or another, no matter who he was or what he looks like.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Wife beating is a misdemeanor?

This specific case was treated as one. It probably shouldn't have been.

But in 1989, he pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to misdemeanor battery of Ms. Simpson, who was then his wife.

 

[Wrong Element]

So true.
Or the opposite - they glamorise and turn a total nobody into a sort of internet celebrity.
Like they did with Amanda Knox.

Personally I always had a strange fascination with such cases, and tend to google++ or watch youtube docus around the topic.
I suspect they made a lot of bucks out of people like me.

To be fair, Amanda Knox was a creation of the British media first and foremost. She eventually got mentioned in the U.S. as an offshoot of all the attention her case was receiving in Britain.

 

[hsnh]

To be fair, Amanda Knox was a creation of the British media first and foremost. She eventually got mentioned in the U.S. as an offshoot of all the attention her case was receiving in Britain.

Yes, that's true.

And most of the british and italian public, and quite a few americans were convinced that Amanda Knox was the ring leader. Hell, on top of all the movies and documentaries, I even read several articles scrutinizing her body language for signs of deception and sociopathy.

But who knows… A more plausible scenario would be that Amanda and Raffaelo were only peripherally involved. Something in the line that their only part was to let Rudi, their main drug supplier in. And that after Rudi independently comitted the crime they panicked and tried to erase the evidence.

.

 

[jaF0]

But were she or OJ involved in that kid that disappeared in Portugal? Or the one with the family in Colorado?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I can think of at least two reasons why OJ's past history of domestic abuse is unlikely to ever recur again. Who would hook up with that monster?

He'll walk.

There are women attracted to this sort of bad boy, even marrying guys who are serving life with no parole...

Life is full of wonderment.