I'm a cynic - I'm not THAT big of a cynic.

Nobody's gonna come out and say "we did it because we were too dumb to know any better..."

But if 20 years after the fact they can claim that they were doing so to send a message and because they were stupid, well why wouldn't they?
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If it happened today, Minnesota would have blamed Nicole.
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He finally ran outta juice.
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Now he is free to find the real killers.
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They sure are saying the quiet part out loud now:

CUNY professor Marc Lamont Hill says OJ Simpson killed 2 people, but his acquittal was 'correct' and 'necessary' to fight racism https://t.co/5yrRNj3JBy

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 12, 2024

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Yep, because the one thing that the acquittal accomplished was a reduction in racism.
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I bet the casket fits...
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But that's not their goal. They just wanted a W.
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I went back this weekend and watched OJ Made in America, which to me is the best 30 For 30 ever and arguably one of the greatest documentaries ever made, and I still to this cannot believe the LAPD, Marcia Clark, and Chris Darden got the easiest slam dunk case of all time handed to them on a silver platter and still all somehow found a way to fumble it away and fuck it up....
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I saw a doc years ago in which one of the assisting prosecutors said that Clark/Darden were so certain of a conviction before the trial started that they just never prepared for the unexpected. Basically they were overconfident and presumed the outcome.


They also never took into account the racism aspect. It never really occurred to them that the jury would be as biased as they were.
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Makes all the sense in the world...I think they thought they could show up, go through the motions, and voila a guilty verdict.

Darden's glove gaffe is like the biggest dumb ass idea in the history of the U.S. court system...
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Seen today where O.J's attorney who said a few days ago that the Goldman's would get nothing now says he's changed his mind and is going to pay them. Kinda interesting
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I don't think he said he is going to pay. He said he would accept the claim against the state and then let the Nevada legal system take care of it. I think Vegas is a state that makes it very difficult to collect civil debts....the reason he was living there and Florida.
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Well Vegas ain't a state....

And collecting a civil debt isn't the same as making a claim on the estate. Even if they have difficult garnishment mechanisms (they really don't from my reading of them), a claim against an estate is an entirely different animal. And if he has the assets to open an estate, as a judgment creditor the Goldman's will be considered a priority claim.

If there's much to get at all, they'll get something out of it. But people holding that kind of debt usually get pretty cagey about not accruing equity in property and spending their resources as they get them. They live as high as they can by and large.

I'd be surprised if there's much left to get ahold of.
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He should pay them. Their son is dead and a court gave them money for it and OJ skated out of ot for bullshit reasons.
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