O.J. Simpson was a murderer. The evidence was overwhelming. His acquittal in the criminal case was jury nullification – based on race. A decade after that trial I sat on a jury in the same courthouse and witnessed what that trial wrought firsthand. Murder is a heinous and awful crime, but the real villain of the O.J, Simpson saga is his attorney Johnny Cochran who did not hesitate to turn that case into a racial circus. Were their racist cops involved? Yes, there were, but the evidence is and was the evidence. Their racism notwithstanding – the evidence said O.J. Simpson brutally murdered Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, but Johnny Cochran turned the trial into a judgement of the racist cops, not the accused. And thus, we stepped onto a slippery slope.
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