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No wonder people don't like lawyers

posted 8 years ago by TrapperKeeper
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I finished watching this yesterday. I have to say that I was pretty disgusted with the defense attorneys and the jurors in the case. The attorneys that were making it into a civil rights case to get things away from the overwhelming evidence. How they went into his house and replaced the photos of him with black people to make him look like he was part of the black community. I understand they have a job to do but I think it just goes to show why people don't like lawyers. Especially defense ones who will do whatever it takes to win a case and get a murderer off.

Then you have the jury members who clearly were going to let him off. The deliberated for only a few hours. Their minds were made up. You had them admit that it was payback for Rodney King. The one guy was a member of the black panthers earlier in life and raised his fist after the verdict was read. Even if the prosecution was the best team they still lose the case. They all acted like they had no shame at all and were proud of what they did. I honestly think if this case happened this year the same thing would happen if the jury had the same mix of people in the same numbers.

[–] haynese_98 8 years ago

Thankfully OJ just couldn't help himself and ended up the last decade in prison anyway.

Shall we play a game?

[–] Melissaslist 8 years ago

Agree, their defense was just a con game. If you make it so that the ONLY thing people are able to think about is race or planted/tainted evidence than nothing the prosecution presents will make one hellova difference. They ALREADY created reasonable doubt, but in a very unfair and manipulative manner. Beyond unprofessional. They should have been held in contempt for the tactics they used. I'm not saying the defense should have lost. I'm saying if you win win fairly. If you lose lose fairly based on the facts of the case.If anyone was on the jury they would have fallen prey to this manipulation and they knew it.
This should be unlawful. I did not see the defense as lawyers. I saw them as sleezy con artists.

That said; indeed OJ got off probably in large part because of race relations in the U.S/Rodney King...But after he was nabbed for the hotel robbery they majorly threw the book at him (33 years!). Of course this very lengthy sentence had little to do with THIS crime and everything to do with the fact that he "got away with murder".

[–] decarus427 8 years ago

I definitely think that lawyers should not be able to confuse the jury about what reasonable doubt is. The lawyer who talked about the collection of the blood evidence just kept saying it is contaminated and if one piece of evidence is contaminated there is doubt and that is not what reasonable doubt means.

To confuse the jury about how they are to make there ruling should not be allowed.

[–] Melissaslist 8 years ago

Agree.

[–] BirdmanT7 8 years ago

I finished watching this yesterday. I have to say that I was pretty disgusted with the defense attorneys and the jurors in the case. The attorneys that were making it into a civil rights case to get things away from the overwhelming evidence.

I agree and I was also disgusted with with defense attorney and people like Carl Douglas who sit back now and brag what they did, he is just low life and LA is full of lawyers that are like that. I am just as disgusted with district attorney's office attorney such as Marcia Clark, who is suppose to be a civil servant, who got sucked into that vortex of the media circus to not only get a 3 Million dollar book deal, then to quit her job and work for ET as a reporter and join the very Hollywood media circus that polluted this entire trial. Where is the integrity in someone like that?. Isn't that a hypocrisy that she is constantly cashing in on the OJ Simpson's trial?, even her interview on this documentary or any talk show she gets on TV that she gets paid; where she contributes to the BS that is already out there. Do you see "Christopher Darden" doing that?.

I respect Darden for not appearing on any of these talk shows that every time there is a OJ tv movie or documentary to show up and say more dumb sh*t like Marcia Clark to cover the dumb mistakes of the Police LAPD. But you sure see that jerk "Mark Fuhrman" show up to clear his name on every talk show, because he is broke. We all know the defense team played the race card game to win this trial but at the same you can not ignore the dumb mistakes that were made from the very beginning of discovering the bodies by having all those people walking in and out on all that blood, by putting blanket over the victim with stab wounds, by taking a blood of a suspect back to the crime scene. It's just seems like this documentary really focused on what the defense did but not what the LAPD did and yet the film's theme was that LAPD's history abuse contributed to all the problems that is still happening to this day.

[–] mzlove 8 years ago

I read somewhere years ago that this trial ruined Marcia Clark's career. She is a rape survivor, and tackled all her cases as a prosecutor as an advocate for victims. She took the loss personally and was ticked at Fuhrman and the forensics people who botched the case for her. Before this case, she'd had a very good track record. It's unfortunate this trial turned out the way it did.