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Originally Posted by Vegas Vic
He got off because Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden did a horrible job of prosecuting him. Darden's decision to have OJ try on the glove was especially egregious. They also botched the situation with Fuhrman, opening up the opportunity for Cochran to deflect the jury's attention from the facts of the murder to Fuhrman being a racist.
Interestingly, the LA cops were pals with OJ before the murders went down, and in fact they had always looked the other way on the prior domestic violence incidents. He lived a life of luxury and privilege, and shunned African American causes until after the trial, where they rallied by his side.
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the case was the jurors buying into the ludicrous allegations that OJ was framed and the evidence was planted. So we're to believe that law enforcement officers from three separate jurisdictions, many of whom had never even met each other before that fateful night, planted hundreds of pieces of evidence and risked their careers and potential prison time to frame a guy they had always liked.
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You're right about the prosecution messing it up and OJ's wealth and celebrity providing benefits others are not offered. But the mistrust in police played a role in the verdict. The jury even said so.
It was a case of whether you believed the police or OJ. To many OJ had been seen as nothing but a lovable guy. The police had decades of criminal activity, planting evidence, and lying to the public. It was a miscarriage of justice, but that's what happens when people don't trust law enforcement in a community.