Anonymous wrote:The news coverage is giving me PTSD. It’s so hard to convey to people not alive or aware of how all consuming the trial was. The networks led with the trial every single evening for a year. CNN had coverage 24/7. It was exhausting.

+1. I was in high school and the school played the verdict (radio) over the PA.

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Anonymous wrote:The news coverage is giving me PTSD. It’s so hard to convey to people not alive or aware of how all consuming the trial was. The networks led with the trial every single evening for a year. CNN had coverage 24/7. It was exhausting.

Agree.

I remember where I was when the verdict was announced. I was a 2nd year law student at UVA Law. I remember that many of the Black law students had gathered to hear the verdict and a huge cheer went out when it was read. I was shocked and stunned. Shocked that the verdict was "not guilty" and stunned that these fellow students -- who I thought looked at the case like I did -- they had studied criminal law and were taking Evidence as a class, they were smart/logical and at a pretty good law school --- they cheered when I thought it was a miscarriage of justice.

It was very surprising to me. They weren't people who followed OJ as a football player. They weren't people who had been in jail and wanted OJ to stick it to the man as a proxy for their legal revenge. It took me awhile to realize that while I thought we were on the same team ("team" being "law students"_ --- they actually had a bigger commitment/tie/attachment to the racial "team" victory that OJ represented.

It was a really shocking moment for me to see fellow law students CHEERING for a murderer being set free. OJ represented a victory over racism to them. We all came to law school to learn law, but we look at it through the glasses of our past experiences.

I was in graduate school getting my MA and applying to law schools when the trial and verdict happened. I was stunned by the reaction and considered not going to law school but ultimately went.

I was so naive then, about the law and about race relations in this country. Looking back now I am not even the tiniest bit surprised by the reaction of much of the black community, including law students and lawyers, to the verdict. It sadly wasn’t about Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown at all - it was about centuries of injustices suffered by black Americans.

If you have never seen it I highly recommend the excellent documentary OJ: Made in America. It puts OJ’s life and crimes and acquittal in the context of American race relations and especially policing which had long been corrupt in Los Angeles County, as well as across the nation. OJ’s jury reacted to the evidence in the context of racist cops like Mark Fuhrman and likely some sense of wanting to preserve a black icon who succeeded across racial lines, including his marriage to a white woman.

The whole OJ trial of the century episode was a fitting reckoning for a racist nation and racist injustice system. We are still struggling with the same original sins and as I sit here 30 years older from the young idealistic woman who watched coverage of the murders to the now jaded woman who went on to be a public defender and prosecutor and then quit entirely in the face of the soul crushing reality of our broken injustice system, I don’t hold much hope for us finding our way to better ground.

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Anonymous wrote:The news coverage is giving me PTSD. It’s so hard to convey to people not alive or aware of how all consuming the trial was. The networks led with the trial every single evening for a year. CNN had coverage 24/7. It was exhausting.

Agree.

I remember where I was when the verdict was announced. I was a 2nd year law student at UVA Law. I remember that many of the Black law students had gathered to hear the verdict and a huge cheer went out when it was read. I was shocked and stunned. Shocked that the verdict was "not guilty" and stunned that these fellow students -- who I thought looked at the case like I did -- they had studied criminal law and were taking Evidence as a class, they were smart/logical and at a pretty good law school --- they cheered when I thought it was a miscarriage of justice.

It was very surprising to me. They weren't people who followed OJ as a football player. They weren't people who had been in jail and wanted OJ to stick it to the man as a proxy for their legal revenge. It took me awhile to realize that while I thought we were on the same team ("team" being "law students"_ --- they actually had a bigger commitment/tie/attachment to the racial "team" victory that OJ represented.

It was a really shocking moment for me to see fellow law students CHEERING for a murderer being set free. OJ represented a victory over racism to them. We all came to law school to learn law, but we look at it through the glasses of our past experiences.

and since then what have you done to ensure white male criminals don't walk the street simply because they have good lawyers?

Fred Goldman:
“The only thing I have to say is that today is just a further reminder of how long we have missed my son, how long he’s been gone, and the only thing that is important today are the victims,” Goldman says. “That’s it. I have nothing else to say.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/oj-simpson-death-fred-goldman-ron-goldman-reaction-1235002715/

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Anonymous wrote:We also have OJ to thank for the Kardashians. That’s his second biggest crime.

What do you mean?

One of OJ's defense attys was the Kardashian's father (who is now deceased).

Anonymous wrote:We also have OJ to thank for the Kardashians. That’s his second biggest crime.

What do you mean?

Anonymous wrote:My in-laws knew Simpson. I'll be back in 48 hours.

Please come back!! 👀

Anonymous wrote:The news coverage is giving me PTSD. It’s so hard to convey to people not alive or aware of how all consuming the trial was. The networks led with the trial every single evening for a year. CNN had coverage 24/7. It was exhausting.

Agree.

I remember where I was when the verdict was announced. I was a 2nd year law student at UVA Law. I remember that many of the Black law students had gathered to hear the verdict and a huge cheer went out when it was read. I was shocked and stunned. Shocked that the verdict was "not guilty" and stunned that these fellow students -- who I thought looked at the case like I did -- they had studied criminal law and were taking Evidence as a class, they were smart/logical and at a pretty good law school --- they cheered when I thought it was a miscarriage of justice.

It was very surprising to me. They weren't people who followed OJ as a football player. They weren't people who had been in jail and wanted OJ to stick it to the man as a proxy for their legal revenge. It took me awhile to realize that while I thought we were on the same team ("team" being "law students"_ --- they actually had a bigger commitment/tie/attachment to the racial "team" victory that OJ represented.

It was a really shocking moment for me to see fellow law students CHEERING for a murderer being set free. OJ represented a victory over racism to them. We all came to law school to learn law, but we look at it through the glasses of our past experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:We also have OJ to thank for the Kardashians. That’s his second biggest crime.

LETS NEVER FORGET THIS!!!

TRUTH!!

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Anonymous wrote:Will his brain be tested for CTE?

That would be interesting.

Did they know about CTE then? I don't remember when Dr's started making the connection.

I think the first link between football players and brain damage was about ten years after the murders.

Anonymous wrote:Will his brain be tested for CTE?

That would be interesting.

Did they know about CTE then? I don't remember when Dr's started making the connection.

Anonymous wrote:We also have OJ to thank for the Kardashians. That’s his second biggest crime.

LETS NEVER FORGET THIS!!!

We also have OJ to thank for the Kardashians. That’s his second biggest crime.

The news coverage is giving me PTSD. It’s so hard to convey to people not alive or aware of how all consuming the trial was. The networks led with the trial every single evening for a year. CNN had coverage 24/7. It was exhausting.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if this will bring the Goldman family a sense of peace or closure.

There is no closure or peace when a loved one is murdered. I'm sure you mean well but it is a stupid and insensitive thing to say. As for Simpson. I'll be back in 48 hours!

You misunderstand. Obviously they’ll never be at peace about Ron’s murder. The question is whether they have a sense of closure in regards to OJ, now that he’s longer living his best life and walking around as a free man.