why is it if your "o.j. simpson" you can get away with murder?

Question

A laywer came to visit my school she sais if you " o.j. simpson" = rich you can get away with murder. I really never understood HOW you pay the judge, have a REALLY GOOD lawyer = liar.
that really isnt fiar, right!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

To a point, she is correct.

OJ Simpson spent over $2,000,000 on the attorneys who represented him, the Jury Selection Consultant that helped them pick the jury who acquitted him, the private investigators who dug up incriminating information about the investigating officers, and the PR person who spun the story to the press and tried to make the two victims look bad.



Of course it isn't fair, but the Justice System is bound by certain rules of law; and as long as his attorneys followed those rules, then there is nothing that the Court could do.

Answer 2

I don't know if you saw the trial or not. But I will tell you this much, if you did, you would have found O. J. Simpson not guilty. When the main witness for the prosecution ( Furman ) is asked if he found blood in Simpson's car or whether he found the bloodstained glove in the grounds of Mr. Simpson etc. The leader of the investigation, ie, Furman doesn't say yes! He claims the right to the fifth amendment !!! on every relevant question he does this. In other words he is admitting to planting the so called evidence.



Yes O.J. Simpson was at the scene , but anyone who has studied this case knows it was to get his son away from there. Racism shouldn't have been a part of this investigation, however, if the L.A. police department would have looked beyond their personal racial bigotry, they would have realised just who did commit the murders. And I think we all know it was Junior.



Why the thumbs down ! Cant you handle the truth.

Answer 3

Naturally it helps to be rich, it buys the best lawyer's money can buy. Him getting off was the jury's fault, a total bunch of idiots. Being black, I do believe played in his favor and being a famous football player also helped. The end result was the jury was totally ignorant. Anyone knows he was a actor and put on a big act of the gloves not fitting, also they naturally would be smaller as we all know when leather gets wet and dries it shrinks. Didn't help matters that Mark Furman lied and said he had never used the "n" word. Never the less, the jury wanted for some reason to find this killer innocent.

Answer 4

No, you can't pay the judge.



But it has been said a trial is determines which side has the best attorney. That is not really true, but if the facts are close. The difference between an OK atty and a great atty can make a huge difference.



Also most defendants are represented by PDs who can devout only a small amount of time to each case. OJ could afford to have a team of lawyers putting in a lot of time.

Answer 5

What you are saying is a misrepresentation.



It is true that if you have the money for a great legal defense you are more likely to get off, when charged with a crime, than if you are not that rich.



However, the OJ case was not one of judge bribery.



It was a case of it being pretty obvious that police had framed OJ. Now in my opinion, racists had framed a guy who was really guilty.



The jury had a hell of a choice to make.

Is the guy really guilty, or is thare other frame up stuff that the defense did not catch.



If I had been on that jury, faced with the evidence

* The guy looks to be guilty as hell

* The police obviously tried to frame the guy



I too would have voted to let him go, because racist cops framing people, whether they are innocent or guilty, stopping that practice is more important than letting a few guilty people go free.



Given the same evidence in court, had the police not tried to frame OJ, I would have voted him guilty.



To me, far more important than who is innocent or guilty is that the justice system be an level playing field, as best as possible.

Answer 6

Blue state where right is wrong and wrong is right, what more can you say?

Clearly, OJ is guilty of murder. The trial supposedly turned on OJ's blood soaked gloves. If they don't fit, you must acquit! Well, I can't imagine where the prosecutors had their heads at that time. The gloves were an expensive Italian make, size Extra Large. OJ couldn't get his hand into the blood soaked glove, so he must not have been guilty, right? Wrong. The manufacturer of those gloves did NOT make a pair of gloves any larger and it was shown that OJ owned a pair. He could not have owned a pair larger than the ones which he couldn't get on in the court room. Obviously, his wife's blood had caused them to shrink when they dried. Everyone knows leather that gets wet and then dries will shrink.

More than OJ's guilt and getting away with murder, I am simply amazed that women still flock to him. Are they stupid or what?

Answer 7

It wasn't just because he's wealthy, although I'm sure his "dream team" of high-priced lawyers helped. It was also because he was a major celebrity, and his fans didn't want to see him found guilty. There was also the issue of race, and there were people who actually said, "I don't care if he's guilty. If he did it and he gets acquitted, it will make up for some other black person who was falsely imprisoned." That's deeply disturbing to me. Yes, it's wrong to falsely accuse someone, but two wrongs never make a right, especially when you're talking about such a brutal murder.

Answer 8

The verdict in the OJ case was not so much a vindication of OJ as it was a censure of the LA police department and their fabricated evidence.



I feel bad for the victims families...but the LAPD needed to lose that case.



That lawyer was feeding you her ideology ... don't eat it.

Answer 9

It wasn't the judge or lawyers. It was a bunch of dumb-azz jurors.

Answer 10

Yeah he was probally guilty but he had great lawyers that helped him become innoncent

Answer 11

He hired the right lawyers.

Answer 12

It was the juror that let him free

Answer 13

nope but what is fair in this world nowdays?

Answer 14

the saying goes -



if the glove don'tt fit - you must aquite

Answer 15

it also helps to have a racist jury