O.J. Simpson guilty: Analysis of what went right (or wrong) *
One juror in the Las Vegas O.J. Simpson robbery trial said the guilty verdict was in no way payback for Simpson's acquittal on murder charges 13 years ago. But for Simpson critics looking for karma, it's a fine difference. Celebrity-justice journalist Diane Dimond, writing on the Huffington Post, felt like hugging Lady Justice:
Part of me says, "Finally! Justice has caught up with him." What I really mean by that is that he's finally going to be where he should have been 13 years ago after he murdered Nicole and Ron. But make no mistake about it. O.J. Simpson is not going to prison for that. He's going to prison because his escapade in that Vegas hotel room was caught on both audio and video tape and this time there was just no talking his celebrity way out of it. I guess it doesn't matter why he's in prison. After his Dec. 5 sentencing we may learn he's in for what amounts to a life sentence. But if I'm the family of Nicole or Ron Goldman I'm not sure I'm feeling satisfied or particularly victorious.
Maybe it wasn't Lady Justice but a pro-prosecution jury. According to AP:
The case against O.J. Simpson was won when the jury was chosen, said the consultant who helped prosecutors pick the Nevada jurors who found the former football star guilty of kidnapping and robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint. "That was the best possible jury prosecutors could ever have," Howard Varinsky said Saturday, after jurors found Simpson and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Varinsky drafted a questionnaire for the prosecution that formed the basis of a 26-page survey used to cull 12 jurors and six alternates from a pool of 500 prospects. "I was surprised that we got all the counts," he said. "But it wasn't an accident that the jury wound up looking like that."
Snappy lede from the Miami Herald's own Evan Benn, who contrasts the Las Vegas courtroom scene to the one 13 years ago in L.A.:
"Thirteen years after a rhyming defense attorney, a racist cop and a spacey houseguest highlighted the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the former football star again finds his fate in the hands of a jury.
But this time, South Florida's most recognizable resident might not leave the courtroom a free man."
-- Shelby Grad
Photo: Daniel Gluskoter, Associated Press
* A story link in the post has been updated.
It's about f time that murder get a slip up and get 3 hots and a cot. I will enjoy even more when he get abused in the slammer by his home boys. Next Jacko will join him..................................
Posted by: love prision | October 04, 2008 at 05:20 PM
A tragic ending for a former star and role model. Life has its way of changing people, rather than people changing life.
Posted by: Malsol Kraskes | October 04, 2008 at 05:22 PM
Now he is not rich anymore. Therefore, he is guilty.
Posted by: Singing Bowls | October 04, 2008 at 08:35 PM
Gotcha you murdering bastard. I guess you thought you could just kill two people, ruin the American legal system, and brag about it in a tasteless book! Don't drop the soap you lowlife.
Posted by: itzabout time | October 05, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Gotcha you murdering bastard. I guess you thought you could just kill two people, ruin the American legal system, and brag about it in a tasteless book! Don't drop the soap you lowlife.
Posted by: itzabout time | October 05, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Gotcha you murdering bastard. I guess you thought you could just kill two people, ruin the American legal system, and brag about it in a tasteless book! Don't drop the soap you lowlife.
Posted by: itzabout time | October 05, 2008 at 10:16 PM