In all sincerity, I agree, Val. I’m not smart enough to figure out what went wrong, but I do wonder if she threw so much stuff at the jury they just lifted their hands and cried Uncle (or, “Not Guilty”).

The bloody glove thing was pretty stupid too, but I think there was just WAAAAY too much to absorb in a way that didn’t engage the jury.

Well, except for me to say I believe the prosecution lost the OJ trial…now let’s move on.

Yep. And do people still use the term “the blacks”? I thought that went out years ago.

But there is a point in there somewhere, IMO. I watched the whole of the OJ trail and while the verdict (again, IMO) clearly reflected something other than consideration of the factual evidence, it did seem like there was so much information to absorb that I wonder if some of the jurors just gave up trying. A very interesting consideration for Casey’s trail, perhaps?

my dear linda pope..

do not worry i will ‘get’ you

“The blacks on that jury would not have convicted OJ regardless of what evidence they heard.”

You left out IMO since clearly that is Not a factual statement. The jury collectively, whatever race some of them were, did not convict OJ IMO because the defense brilliantly played the race card and then produced eveidence of the prosecutions star witness lying about being a racist. If you want to blame the ‘blacks’ on the jury for the OJ verdict i believe you need to level equal blame with fuhrman.

Welcome to the Hinky Meter. Thank you so much for your kind words. I look forward to reading your thoughts in the future.

I sincerly hope the closing of that thread wasn’t from my initial comment.
If it was, I am sorry; it was not my intent.