OJ Simpson Interview

[Brown]

From ABCNews.com (ABC in the United States): I do not recommend reading this after eating, as you might develop an urge to vomit.

"He [Simpson] feels that they [Peterson and Blake] are being tried by the media," [Playboy interviewer David] Sheff said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America today. "He says that it's something he relates to and he feels it's very unfair."

The interviewer opines that Simpson thinks Peterson and Blake are both guilty.

Simpson doesn't currently work for a salary, since his earnings would go to the Brown and Goldman families. Sheff noted that Simpson lives off his $300,000 a year pension, which he doesn't have to share with the Browns and Goldmans.

But Sheff says he believes the former football star would like to be professionally involved in the discussion of high-profile legal cases.

There are other remarks in this story that are downright sickening. The interview, to be published in the October issue of Playboy, is sure to have more of this nauseating stuff. It will probably sell out in a matter of days.

 

[NightG1]

From ABCNews.com (ABC in the United States): I do not recommend reading this after eating, as you might develop an urge to vomit.The interviewer opines that Simpson thinks Peterson and Blake are both guilty.There are other remarks in this story that are downright sickening. The interview, to be published in the October issue of Playboy, is sure to have more of this nauseating stuff. It will probably sell out in a matter of days.

The interviewer also commented that he wouldn't be surprised to see The Juice on Court TV as some sort of expert commentator (talking head). Now there is a train wreck in the making.

 

[corplinx]

In our urge to be as unlike Joe McCarthy as possible, have we forgotten how to blacklist people like OJ?

 

[Ziggurat]

There are other remarks in this story that are downright sickening.

I just keep getting flashbacks of that absolutely brilliant Southpark episode "Butter's very own episode", where Butter's mom tries to drown him and claims he was kidnapped. It had OJ and the Ramseys in it, consoling Butter's parents.

 

[Mike B.]

In our urge to be as unlike Joe McCarthy as possible, have we forgotten how to blacklist people like OJ?

 

[Brown]

Guess who said this:

I didn't commit the crime. That is why I got off.... I feel in my heart that I got off because I was innocent. But I don't know if I could have proven my innocence if I didn't have the money. And that's a shame. Yes, it is a shame that in this country it costs so much to get good representation.

Excuse me while I puke.

If there is anyone out there who thinks Simpson is (or may be)innocent of these horrific murders, let him read Vincent Bugliosi's book, "Outrage."

Bugliosi makes a damn good case that Simpson didn't have good representation, but that the prosecutors were far worse than the defense team.

 

[Charlie Monoxide]

I thought OJ was actively looking for the killer(s). He's checked out most golf courses on the west coast and even relocated to Florida to check the golf courses there.

Charlie (a legal wart in the system) Monoxide

 

[Regnad Kcin]

I agree Brown, "Outrage" is a book everyone should read. Mr. Simpson should be giving daily thanks to the fates that he is a free man, the bloodstained scum.

 

[Mercutio]

I have always felt that the key to Simpson getting off was in the phrase "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit." It is simple, it is easily remembered, and it is untrue. The prosecutors painted a specific picture, which the defense poked holes in. If the prosecutors had painted a more general picture, and said something to the effect of "maybe it did not happen exactly the way we say. Maybe we got a detail wrong here or there. But there is no other explanation for x, y, an z evidence other than to conclude that OJ did it. If our scenario doesn't fit, it might have a detail wrong. But the evidence cannot be explained away...." But they left "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit" ringing in the ears of the jury, and any hole, no matter how trivial, was enough to sink the case.

 

[c0rbin]

OJ was aquited, no?

I guess I can say he was guilty or not guilty, but I was not in the jury, I was not at the crime scene, hell...I wasn;t even in the state.

 

[Cain]

Look, even if OJ did kill his ex-wife, it would have been because he "loved her very much." Why do Simpson haters always leave that part off -- about how he loved her? Sheesh

 

[Ipecac]

OJ was aquited, no?

I guess I can say he was guilty or not guilty, but I was not in the jury, I was not at the crime scene, hell...I wasn;t even in the state.

But you could probably look at the publicly presented facts and make a pretty good determination. The DNA evidence by itself should have won the day.

The fact that the jury partied with OJ after the case says a lot.

 

[nightwind]

OJ

Well say what you may, but the defense showed that the forensic investigations in this case were incompetent if not downright ridicuous, and it seemed to me pretty clear that the police were trying to "enhance" their case, which by the way does go on.

OJ is the only one who will ever know.

But I will say, that this crime to me has always looked like the work of a professional killer.

OJ may very well be innocent, as well as Peterson and Blake. But we will most likely never know for sure.

 

[Mike B.]

Re: OJ

Well say what you may, but the defense showed that the forensic investigations in this case were incompetent if not downright ridicuous, and it seemed to me pretty clear that the police were trying to "enhance" their case, which by the way does go on.

OJ is the only one who will ever know.

But I will say, that this crime to me has always looked like the work of a professional killer.

OJ may very well be innocent, as well as Peterson and Blake. But we will most likely never know for sure.