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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
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.
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http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/project...ranscript.html
That site has several of the excerpts.
While I agree that the blood evidence was likely way too complicated for the jurors to understand, the LAPD did such a horrific job of protecting the crime scene against contamination that regardless of the results, it's easy to dismiss it altogether.
Additionally, to the this day, I have a very difficult time believing that OJ carried out the murders alone. Ron Goldman wasn't an old, tiny guy. He was young and physically fit. Unless he walked in after OJ killed Nicole, it's difficult to imagine that a 48 year old man in OJ's physical condition would only walk away with a nick on his middle knuckle. I'm not saying that it's impossible but it's difficult to believe he could pull that off, head home as quickly as the prosecution suggested, shower, get to the airport in time to make his flight and not crack. IMO, it just doesn't add up.
From my perspective, in all likelihood, the LAPD framed a guilty man.