where were you when? ...

[JPie1]

as with any of these high publicity trials....OJ, Jacko...will we ever know the complete truth. We all have our own suspicions, and these guys will live with the suspicions for the rest of their lives. Media I believe makes these people wierder and wierder. I used to think OJ was great way back when, and I loved Jacko's music. But I have very little regard for either of them now. I can't believe it has been 10 years...I think I am getting old.

 

[steph]

What a crock of shit. My father's best friend thru my entire childhood was black and so was the best man at my wedding. Grow up. I cheered for the murder of Jeffrey Dahmer and I'm WHITE. His color had nothing to do with my wanting OJ convicted~it was the obvious fact that HE DID IT ...duh...

every white person in america was "livid". but i was in the 3rd grade and my teacher asked me to go to another teacher to find out the verdict from a teacher who had a tv and watched it with her class. when i told her it was not guilty she sent me back to make sure. when i told her it was not guilty again she herself went to find out the same thing. all i can say is that people are full of BS. i've seen people on tv, white people, crying and so upset because OJ got off the hook. but for 100's of years when white people were getting off with the same thing they werent so angry, livid, and all the other BS people felt.

 

[isabeau]

wtg steph i hate stereotyping and yes i cheered also when jeffrey dahmer got his, geesh race should never play an issue in deciding ones guilt or not. at least the way i see it.
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isabeau

 

[primetime]

without making this thread into the "did OJ do it or not" thread, i can say i was at home watching the verdict. i knew it was going to happen and the verdict did not surprise me.

whether you think he killed Nicole and Ron or not, you HAVE to admit, what else did you think was going to happen? i mean come on people, in order to convict a man for murder, you must prove BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT! you have to admit, there was all kinds of reasonable doubt in that trial. the prosecution fucked up. point blank. Johnnie did what he had to do and IT MADE SENSE on what he was saying. i am sick and tired of people calling Johnnie a "snake" and a "hustler". the man DID HIS JOB. all he did was create reasonable doubt. Fuhrman was a joke. the LAPD's handling of the case was a joke. there were so many errors in the prosecution's case, how can OJ not get acquitted. for once people, common sense prevailed in this case. you can think OJ is guilty to high heaven, but in terms of how the trial played out, there was reasonable doubt and you can NOT convict a man if there is DOUBT. that is exactly how the criminal justice system is supposed to work isnt it?

now, race had something to do with the trial. reality people, reality. after the Rodney King trial and subsequent LA burning, blacks were sick and tired of getting screwed in the criminal justice system. it is a reality whether you care to admit it or not. why is it that the jury in the Rodney King trial werent called incompetent, but the OJ jury is? Rodney King is a criminal, but he got his ass kicked and it was on video, but yet the four officers get acquitted. where was the moral outrage then? how come "whites" werent screaming about that trial? yeah, yeah, yeah, i know some whites were, but in comparison to the OJ trial, they didnt say a peep about Rodney King. that is why black people in general cheered OJ getting off. not because they believed he was innocent, but because he was black and he got off. fair? makes any sense? of course not, but that is a reality. blacks, especially during segregation days, got screwed constantly. why do you think the animosity exists? the OJ trial showed America exactly what people think about the criminal justice system.

again, whethere you think OJ did it or not, there was no way he should have been convicted with all the doubt. my personal opinion? there is NO WAY IN HELL he PHYSICALLY killed them. not with the evidence they presented. BUT, he may have had something to do with it. he might have set it up or what not, but he couldnt have done it himself. i still cant believe 10 years just passed by.

 

[isabeau]

yes there was definitely reasonable doubt and i agree mark fuhrman is a liar. why wasnt he jailed after the perjury he committed? and again i still say that oj to me at least surely wouldnt have taken the chance of his children coming downstairs. anyone who has viewed the pictures of the crime scene, and i did not although they are online somewhere, should realize how brutal the murders were and no matter what to me, oj simply wasnt capable of such violence. just my opinion dont want this to become a guilt or innocent thread either. and yes ten years do fly by especially as you get older eeks.

isabeau

 

[amk714]

I'm one of the few people who didn't watch when OJ's verdict was handed down. For some reason I had a bad feeling the jury would acquit him, and unfortunately I was right. That trial was a perfect example of what happens when a court case gets too much media coverage (Scott Peterson and Michael Jackson also come to mind) and a rich famous person getting off because he could hire the best lawyers around. But I don't blame the jury. The media, the police, Mark Fuhrman, and Lance Ito messed up big-time. If there's a Hell OJ will burn in it, and that's justice enough for me.

 

[chickles_:)]

chickles hon you didnt offend me or anyone. every one is entitled to their opinion and what you say makes perfect sense to me. thanks about the thread, actually i had forgotten the anniversary was approaching, i heard it mentioned on john boy and billy which i listen to and thought out of the blue, why not ask the forum what they remembered and thought about it. and btw cute siggy i've always liked it.

take care
isabeau

Hiya Isabeau!
Thanks for letting me off the hook 😛

It's neat how we remember things like this. Judging by the replies it seems like many were really captivated by the event. I don't know though. Ultimately i have to say, maybe he did it, maybe he didn't. In the end the jury wasn't convinced. that seems to be all we can say.

Even if he's a "jerk" in the rest of his life, and i can't say as i've ever met him to form my own opinion, but to my mind that ought not to bear on the verdict.

As to the destiny of his soul after this life. I'm glad that such decisions belong to the God who has a much bigger picture and much bigger heart than any of us, certainly me.

Many blessings,

Chickles

 

[crydun]

Drew, I remember the day I bought that album, too! I was working at Great Adventure in those days, and it was a sunny Saturday, and I waited at my local record store for them to stock the shelves...

Back to OJ...

It was a joke, a travesty from day one, and I figured the fix had to be in somehow, because I thought no Prosecution could possibly be that stupid, that incompetent; that no judge could be that much of a star-struck dingbat; that Gil Garcetti could be so much of a photogenic media hog; that no one like Kato Kaelin could possibly exist in an America outside Los Angeles; and that no jury of humans with an intelligence above that of a roto-rooter could buy what Johnnie Cochran was selling.

Later on, I kind of boned up on just what jury nullification is.

Today, I understand many of the jurors have a remorse, especially after having seen how OJ Simpson's lived his life in the ten years after the verdict. They're finally confronted with just how much of a scumbag he really is, how much of an evil human being this person is that they gave a free pass to.

I heard that there was a party recently in a swank Miami Beach hotel. One of the guests at the party was Jamie Foxx, flush from his winning Best Actor for Ray. Suddenly, there was a commotion at the door, and OJ walked in, with a small entourage of sycophants, flunkies, and bimbos. Jamie Foxx went to the DJ's corner, grabbed the microphone, stopped the music, and screamed, "yo, it's a killer party now! OJ's here!"

LMAO!! That was hilarious, Knox.

During the Bronco chase, I was in the hospital cafeteria waiting on my mom to come out of surgery for stage 3 breast cancer.

During the verdict, I was in the living room, balking at the TV screen. My mother watched it day and night like some do soap operas.

No, I didn't agree with the verdict. He was as guilty as sin!!

 

[Tickle Fiend]

everybody in the world thinks he was guilty but he was let off the hook so unless some break comes or he confesses he's innocent...but for people in the tallahassee area there is some program on oj's legacy coming on at 10...its coming on pbs...not sure if they're showing it everywhere but here they are...just thought i'd post that

 

[terorizer]

Ahhh.... *sigh* the OJ Trial. I remember exactly where I was... at work, and I ONLY knew the verdict because there was a fire drill and we were all standing around in a park, 300 people with radios and watchmans. The verdict "Not Guilty". 150 people (varous races by the way), screaming and jumping up and down in jubilation; me and 150 other people (including several black folks even) who didn't give a damn.

As much as my heart went out to the kids and the Goldmans, I really could have cared less whether he was found guilty or not. Obviously you hope just prevails in any trial, but I didn't watch or listen to the trial, with the exception of closing arguments for both sides. Having only listened to that, oh and the testimony of ... was it the forensic specialist Dr Fong or something?, I heard not one, but many questions were raised by the defense that never got answered. Didn't know if he did it, still don't. My guess is he probably did, but that's based on the general public opinion more than any facts. I agree with Judy and Prime, there's plenty we don't know and given the fact OJ had a legal defense team (key word defense), that a small percentage of people in the country could afford, black or otherwise, I say the the color green was the color that mattered most. I think it was evident Marcia and Christopher were overmatched.

A few observations - I think most of the people who were happy with the not-guilty verdict felt that way because in the 70's and 80's America LOVED OJ. I mean who wasn't a fan of the Juice? I know people who still think of Michael Jackson as the 12 year old singing "Ben" and copletely incapable of molesting a kid. I think a lot of people still viewed OJ as the guy hopping over chairs at the airport, rather then the fence alongside the guest house. Perception is big in this country... sometimes bigger than fact.

And to suggest black people would be blind to the facts of a case because of color is to suggest black people are incapable of justice or seeking justice... Which is akin to saying we ain't quite as civilized.... than God for slavery, but I guess several hundred years is just wasn't enough time.

Tero - staying black on weekdays.

Relax folks, I just miss Chappelle Show.... and I don't care who you are, that was funny right thar!!

 

[chicago]

I was in 3rd grade and had listened to the trial on the radio everytime I was in the car with my mother. I remember my principal made an announcement. It was two words "He's innocent." I remember being kinda pissed... that's about it

 

[Dionysus]

All I remember is that a perfectly good basketball game was ruined, they kept breaking into coverage of that stupid bronco driving 5mph with 150 police cars in "hot" pursuit. I never followed the trial and have no idea where I was when the verdict came down.

Although, on an interesting side note, this has suddenly caused me to think on how in ten years I've gone from worshipping basketball and knowing almost nothing about football, to despising the nba and almost everything about it, and having an almost insatiable appetite for NFL football 🙄

 

[Red Jester]

I was somewhere doing whatever eight year olds do wondering who the OJ Simpson guy was and why whether or not he killed someone was so important. Two years later I learned he was a celebrity and that celebrity actions are more important than other people's. Two years after that I learned the only reason anyone cared was because it was a white/black issue. It was around then that I realised human beings are a doomed and idiotic species. I also developed an addiction to Strawberry Yoohoos.

 

[Wildtime]

Wasn't he the guy from Naked Gun...

By the time the O.J. verdict was announced, I had already been oversatiated with the story, and apparently I wasn't alone. One of our local television stations made the conscious decision to no longer broadcast 'news' about the O.J. trial...and viewership went through the roof.

I apologize to anyone that followed the proceedings religiously and are offended by this...but I believe the trial was seriously overblown. It was not 'The Trial of the Century' as CNN purported (re: The Scopes Monkey Trial, Roe vs. Wade, Nuremburg...), or for us in Canada it wasn't even the most important trial of its' time (serial killer Paul Bernardo's trial was beginning), it was just another sensationalised trial.

'nuff said

 

[isabeau]

I was somewhere doing whatever eight year olds do wondering who the OJ Simpson guy was and why whether or not he killed someone was so important. Two years later I learned he was a celebrity and that celebrity actions are more important than other people's. Two years after that I learned the only reason anyone cared was because it was a white/black issue. It was around then that I realised human beings are a doomed and idiotic species. I also developed an addiction to Strawberry Yoohoos.

lmao but thats not why the majority of so callled celibrity worshippers cared. it was because he was oj. theeeeee famous football player. its like jayson williams. only about jayson, until he was accused of killing the chaffeur, i had never heard of him. but oj was more famous, however i have to admit that until the murders of nicole and ron, i had forgotten such a man existed. he had a few cameos like towering inferno, and then the naked gun series, but to me he was nothing until nicole was killed. then i remembered who he was, and i must say i found the trial got me hooked on live trials and how they work.

isabeau