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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The overwhelming media narrative on this most notorious murder case is not just that OJ did it, but that the evidence of his guilt is overwhelming. Whether it is Oscar winning documentaries or an all star mini-series, the narrative is clear - OJ Simpson was a violent wife-beater who snapped one night and brutally hacked to death his ex-wife.

The not guilty verdict at Simpson’s trial in 1995 was not because of evidence of his innocence, but because the predominantly black jury were hoodwinked by a slick defense team shamelessly playing up on allegations of racism within the Los Angeles police.

Much of that trial, which spanned hundreds of hours of testimony, is lost down the memory hole. We see the same clips endlessly in countless documentaries about the case, the theatrics of OJ and the gloves that did not fit, the colourful Kato Kaelin and the exposure of Mark Fuhrman’s racism; but much of the evidentiary minutia is forgotten.

It is undeniable that the defense teams contentious racism strategy was decisive in the verdict. Police detective Mark Fuhrman, pivotal in collecting key evidence against Simpson, was a self avowed genocidal racist who carried a swastika with him and boasted about planting evidence.

The LA police themselves were embroiled in a whole series of ethics scandals, from the beating of Rodney King to the Ramparts corruption scandal. In light of the racial animus of the time, it is not hard to see why the allegations that the police had framed a black icon like Simpson resonated so strongly with the jury.

Today this racial subplot is dismissed as a smokescreen to hide OJ’s obvious guilt, but beyond the now familiar arguments of both sides on the subject lay some compelling reasons to believe Simpson may be innocent after all.

This evidence is rarely mentioned in the endless verbiage on the subject, replaced almost entirely with the prosecution's narrative that Simpson was a violent domestic abuser who tried to hack his wife's head off in a fit of rage.

[/quote]Exactly. He was a 100 percent guilty. [/quote]

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