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I've had too much time on my hands the past two weeks because both of my children came down with the stomach flu in consecutive weeks. Because of that, I re-read every testimony given in the OJ trial, as well as his interview with the detectives pre-trial.
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One of these days I'll have to go back through the transcripts. I'm sure something I have access to can get them. It's been probably about 10 years since I've really looked at them at all. Perhaps time will have softened my irritation somewhat as I certainly recall thinking that we had some dense damn jurors on our hands the last time I looked at it.
I still think the biggest issue was the novelty of DNA evidence. Nobody had a damn clue what they were talking about. I recall some of the post-trial interviews with jurors where they flat out said they disregarded it because it was too complicated.
Like I said - if they flat out didn't think they could trust the evidence because of problems with the investigation, that's one thing. But if they were just looking to send a message (and there were definitely indications that they were), that's a miscarriage of justice.