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[RedDwarf]

I'm guessing the jury heard things we didn't, because he looked pretty freaking guilty.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050316/D88SBFB00.html

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

No eyewitnesses, blood or DNA evidence linked Blake to the crime. The murder weapon, found in a trash bin, could not be traced to Blake, and witnesses said the minuscule amounts of gunshot residue found on Blake's hands could have come from a different gun he said he carried for protection.

Not beyond reasonable doubt

 

[android]

Wow
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/16/blake.trial.ap/index.html

 

[whytemyke]

No eyewitnesses, blood or DNA evidence linked Blake to the crime...
Not beyond reasonable doubt

Geez... by this logic Scott Peterson should have been let off.

im just fucking around... but the guy is old and gonna die anyways. I doubt he's gonna kill anyone else, and throwing him in jail isn't going to teach anyone anything. It's just gonna cost the gummint more money cuz they'll have to babysit some old guy and keep him alive forever using our money. Hopefully someone will just rig a car accident and finish the shit.

 

[Baconäger]

You know that he's getting off when the jury deliberates FOREVER.

 

[Shogmaster]

I heard that he's planning to join OJ for a round of golf, right after he puts out a bounty for the real killer. :lol

 

[Alex Anderson]

I heard that he's planning to join OJ for a round of golf, right after he puts out a bounty for the real killer. :lol

Ha HA! Wooooooooooooooo! Funny man right here, folks.

 

[SlickWilly223]

I heard that he's planning to join OJ for a round of golf, right after he puts out a bounty for the real killer. :lol

Haha, have you ever seen the episode of South Park called "Butters Very Own Episode?" It has OJ Simpson, Gary Condit, along with John and Patsy Ramsey.

When Butters' dad was talking to a crowd of people, the camera would zoom up on each person and you would hear his dad saying ""Liar!! You know somethin' that you're not telling us, you slimy, scumbag liar!!"

Funniest shit ever, I guess you have to watch the episode though.

So you see, there was no "some Puerto Rican guy." He doesn't exist. And so the people we owe the biggest apology to are the Ramseys, Congressman Condit, and O.J. We gave you false hope for finding the person who hurt those close to you and, we're sorry. Now we're just happy we won't have to live a life of secrets. For I knew that even though some of you supported us, some others were looking at me and thinking, "You're a liar! You're a LIAR!" [points at the crowd, and Condit's fixed-grin face is shown] "You know somethin' that you're not telling us, you slimy, scumbag LIAR!!" [back to Chris] Eh you know, that's what people would say to me. And then people would see my wife at the supermarket and they would say, "Hello," but they'd be thinking, "Ah, there goes that MURDERER!" [a shot of O.J.] "You got away with MURDER you murdering, lying, waste of life!!" [back to Chris] And to me, people might say things like, [a shot of Condit] "LIAR! Tell us what you know you God-damned LIAR!!" [back to Chris] And so, to both of us, people all over town would be saying things like, [a shot of the Ramseys] "You know God-damn well what happened to your kid, so stop acting like victims, and confess, you MURDERING MURDERERS!!" [a shot of O.J.] "CONFESS!!" [a shot of Condit] "LIAR!! CONFESS!!" [back to Chris] You know, and, that's what people would be saying to us, and so, we just had to come forward and tell the truth.

 

[CrawfishPete]

x

 

[xexex]

Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
what creates my own madness
and I'm addicted to your punishment
and you're the master
and I am waiting for disaster

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth again
I am getting away with murder
it isn't possible
to never tell the truth
but the reality is I'm getting away with murder
(Getting away, Getting away, Getting away)

I drink my drink and I don't even want to
I think my thoughts when I don't even need to
I never look back cause I don't even want to
and I don't need to
because I'm getting away with murder

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth again
I am getting away with murder
it isn't possible
to never tell the truth
but the reality is I'm getting away with murder
(Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away with murder)

Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
what creates my own madness
and I'm addicted to your punishment
and you're the master
and I am craving this disaster

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth again
I am getting away with murder
it isn't possible
to never tell the truth
but the reality is I'm getting away with murder
(Getting away, Getting away, Getting away)

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth again
I am getting away with murder
it isn't possible
to never tell the truth
but the reality is I'm getting away with murder

 

[teiresias]

I heard that he's planning to join OJ for a round of golf, right after he puts out a bounty for the real killer.

I'll give a crap what your wonderful logical reasoning tells you about his guilt or innocence the minute you show me your PSP with an 18-bit screen.

 

[Shogmaster]

I'll give a crap what your wonderful logical reasoning tells you about his guilt or innocence the minute you show me your PSP with an 18-bit screen.

I've got just one thing to say to that comment:

Spoiler

Huh? *scratches head*

 

[ShadowRed]

Hell yeah finally a California jury that knows how to follow the law. I thought that was a thing of the past with the Scott Peters case.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

You know? He might just possibly be not guilt! I know that's a hard thing to come to grips with, but it might be true. All the evidence that I saw as very circumstantial and the case didn't have much to stand on. The media just happens to like to build these things up, especially when someone famous or semi-famous is involved. I found it interesting that the trial was one of the top few stories over the past few months, but now that he's been acquitted, it was buried further back in the pack.

 

[cvxfreak]

Hell yeah finally a California jury that knows how to follow the law. I thought that was a thing of the past with the Scott Peterson case.

I kind of thought the same thing.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Yeah, it's about time the "White Celebrity" sticks it to The Man!

Our legal system is flawed. This is not news.

 

[Xenon]

WTF..... I guess they need a picture of the guy pulling trigger.

 

[hippie]

He may or may not have done it. I'm just happy the jury acted responsibly and took the time necessary (9 days) to make their decision. The OJ decision was made by an irresponsible, mostly black (and quite racist) group of people who made their decision in about an hour. The ONLY reason OJ got off is because he's a black man who killed a couple white people and faced a black jury.

 

[Gek54]

From what I understand his late wife was a scandelous money sucking bitch who lied about or didnt know who fathered her 4 children. He only married her after they were certain the 4th child was his by DNA test. Not a big loss imo.

 

[FrenchMovieTheme]

could you never post lyrics to that crappy song getting away with murder again? thanks fella

 

[peedi]

He may or may not have done it. I'm just happy the jury acted responsibly and took the time necessary (9 days) to make their decision. The OJ decision was made by an irresponsible, mostly black (and quite racist) group of people who made their decision in about an hour. The ONLY reason OJ got off is because he's a black man who killed a couple white people and faced a black jury.

What made the OJ jury "quite racist"?

 

[Kabuki Waq]

but but he looks so evil.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

He may or may not have done it. I'm just happy the jury acted responsibly and took the time necessary (9 days) to make their decision. The OJ decision was made by an irresponsible, mostly black (and quite racist) group of people who made their decision in about an hour. The ONLY reason OJ got off is because he's a black man who killed a couple white people and faced a black jury.

You're on crack if you can ignore one of the lead detectives describing how to set black people up, or the glove not fitting. OJ got off cuz reasonable doubt. And it is reasonable that the LAPD and the prosecutors fucked up.

 

[FrenchMovieTheme]

perhaps reasonable doubt is debatable, but lets admit this man to man, no bullshit: oj simpson killed his wife and ron goldman. now, the way that the court words the requirements of a guilty charge you could (again) arguably find him not guilty, but there is no way in fuck that any sane person HONESTLY believes OJ didn't do it.


p.s. calling the jury racist and thats why he got off is ridiculous. oj got off cause he hired the best lawyers on the face of the planet. and the chewbaca defense...

 

[ManaByte]

Robert Blake walks today, and at almost the same time Scott Peterson got a new home:

 

[aoi tsuki]

Just look at that face. That's not the face of a man who kills someone. It's the face of man who gets someone else to kill someone, while sipping a brandy and smoking a Cuban, laughing maniacally as beautiful women service him.

 

[xexex]

getting away, getting away, getting away with MUR DUR ........ makes me cry tears of joyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

[DonasaurusRex]

awesome dude wrestlefest!!! ::loads up emulator::

 

[peedi]

perhaps reasonable doubt is debatable, but lets admit this man to man, no bullshit: oj simpson killed his wife and ron goldman. now, the way that the court words the requirements of a guilty charge you could (again) arguably find him not guilty, but there is no way in fuck that any sane person HONESTLY believes OJ didn't do it.


p.s. calling the jury racist and thats why he got off is ridiculous. oj got off cause he hired the best lawyers on the face of the planet. and the chewbaca defense...

I personally don't know whether OJ did it or not -- nor do I really care -- but are you privy to evidence the jury wasn't? How do you know he's guilty?

And OJ's lawyers had ZIP to do with him getting off. He could have had a court appointed attorney, and he'd still have seen acquittal.

You lack an understanding of the impact of celebrity.

 

[silenttwn]

If you wanna see Robert Blake at his creepiest, see Lost Highway.

 

[3rdman]

I personally don't know whether OJ did it or not -- nor do I really care -- but are you privy to evidence the jury wasn't? How do you know he's guilty?

And OJ's lawyers had ZIP to do with him getting off. He could have had a court appointed attorney, and he'd still have seen acquittal.

You lack an understanding of the impact of celebrity.

Wrong...as usual. The celebrity effect cuts both ways, just ask Martha Stewart. OJ got off because of many reasons not least of which was the complete incompetence of the prosecution team and the stupidity of the presiding judge. Cochran was smart (evil?) enough to throw the race card at Mark Furman who besides telling a few off-color jokes, was not a racist. I highly suggest to everyone to pick up a book called "Outrage" by Bugliosi. The name should be familiar as he is the man that put Charles Manson away and was also the author of "Helter Skelter." After reading that, OJ guilt is obvious, but I digress...

Anyways, back on topic, at least now Universal can now release "Lost Highway" on DVD! Whoo Hoo!!!

 

[DJ Sl4m]

OJ's lawyers had ZIP to do with him getting off. He could have had a court appointed attorney, and he'd still have seen acquittal..

:lol :lol :lol

Funniest post on G-A in a while.

 

[peedi]

Wrong...as usual. The celebrity effect cuts both ways, just ask Martha Stewart. OJ got off because of many reasons not least of which was the complete incompetence of the prosecution team and the stupidity of the presiding judge. Cochran was smart (evil?) enough to throw the race card at Mark Furman who besides telling a few off-color jokes, was not a racist. I highly suggest to everyone to pick up a book called "Outrage" by Bugliosi. The name should be familiar as he is the man that put Charles Manson away and was also the author of "Helter Skelter." After reading that, OJ guilt is obvious, but I digress...

Anyways, back on topic, at least now Universal can now release "Lost Highway" on DVD! Whoo Hoo!!!

Furman only told a few jokes sprinkled with the N-word. Oh, and let's not forget the witnesses who claimed Mark Furman used the term during apprehension of suspects. But he's not a racist.

 

[3rdman]

Furman only told a few jokes sprinkled with the N-word. Oh, and let's not forget the witnesses who claimed Mark Furman used the term during apprehension of suspects. But he's not a racist.

You judge a man by his actions not his words. I defy you to find one instance of an actual act of racism that has been proven true concerning Fuhrman.

 

[ShadowRed]

What made the OJ jury "quite racist"?

And mostly black?

You judge a man by his actions not his words. I defy you to find one instance of an actual act of racism that has been proven true concerning Fuhrman.

You judge a man by his actions not his words. I defy you to find one instance of an actual act of murder that has been proven true concerning OJ.

 

[Heezzi]

I heard that he's planning to join OJ for a round of golf, right after he puts out a bounty for the real killer. :lol

We all know that the real killer was his son.

 

[hippie]

And mostly black?

You judge a man by his actions not his words. I defy you to find one instance of an actual act of murder that has been proven true concerning OJ.

Yes, mostly black. 9 blacks, 2 whites (both females, and the only ones who initially voted guilty) and 1 hispanic. Pretty much as biased a jury as you could make. If the situation was reversed and it was an all white jury, it would have been another MLK riot. Johnny Cochran played off black America's victim mentality and lack of trust towards anybody remotely resembling a white cop and no matter what evidence was presented, they were going to find him innocent.

If every juror in every case across America used the logic used it this case, you could NEVER convict a black male of anything as you could cry racism and assume they were set up. The evidence against him was "overwhelming". If I was a family member of Nicole or Ron I would've taken matters into my own hands and killed the fucker myself. One day, rest assured, the degenerate will burn in hell.

 

[ManaByte]

The evidence against him was "overwhelming".

Which is why they found him guilty in the civil case against him.

 

[peedi]

Yes, mostly black. 9 blacks, 2 whites (both females, and the only ones who initially voted guilty) and 1 hispanic. Pretty much as biased a jury as you could make. If the situation was reversed and it was an all white jury, it would have been another MLK riot. Johnny Cochran played off black America's victim mentality and lack of trust towards anybody remotely resembling a white cop and no matter what evidence was presented, they were going to find him innocent.

If every juror in every case across America used the logic used it this case, you could NEVER convict a black male of anything as you could cry racism and assume they were set up. The evidence against him was "overwhelming". If I was a family member of Nicole or Ron I would've taken matters into my own hands and killed the fucker myself. One day, rest assured, the degenerate will burn in hell.

American prisons are teeming with black men put away by predominantly white juries. I don't see you complaining about how "biased" they were.

 

[ShadowRed]

Yes, mostly black. 9 blacks, 2 whites (both females, and the only ones who initially voted guilty) and 1 hispanic. Pretty much as biased a jury as you could make. If the situation was reversed and it was an all white jury, it would have been another MLK riot. Johnny Cochran played off black America's victim mentality and lack of trust towards anybody remotely resembling a white cop and no matter what evidence was presented, they were going to find him innocent.

If every juror in every case across America used the logic used it this case, you could NEVER convict a black male of anything as you could cry racism and assume they were set up. The evidence against him was "overwhelming". If I was a family member of Nicole or Ron I would've taken matters into my own hands and killed the fucker myself. One day, rest assured, the degenerate will burn in hell.

Lemming? More biased, why because they are black? Abyhow it's obvious from your post what type of person I'm talking to so there is no need to continue to argue with your brand of ignorance.

 

[hippie]

American prisons are teeming with black men put away by predominantly white juries. I don't see you complaining about how "biased" they were.

So then, what is your suggestion? Maybe we should simply do away with the criminal justice system all-together and take matters into our own hands. Of course, then the same problems would exist.

I have my doubts that the prisons are over-flowing with innocent people, though. I'm sure it happens from time to time with both blacks and whites (possibly more blacks), but the fact is, a disproportional number of crimes are committed by blacks and until that in itself is changed, the stereotypes will continue to exist. Show me where these black men who were put away by white juries were done so unjustly. Not just unjustly, but unjustly more often than whites.

 

[hippie]

Lemming? More biased, why because they are black? Abyhow it's obvious from your post what type of person I'm talking to so there is no need to continue to argue with your brand of ignorance.

So you're telling me that.....

white jury would have been= racist
black jury= fair

Blacks are EVERY BIT as racist as whites in this country, if not more so because society tolerates it to such a large extent.

 

[peedi]

So then, what is your suggestion? Maybe we should simply do away with the criminal justice system all-together and take matters into our own hands. Of course, then the same problems would exist.

I have my doubts that the prisons are over-flowing with innocent people, though. I'm sure it happens from time to time with both blacks and whites (possibly more blacks), but the fact is, a disproportional number of crimes are committed by blacks and until that in itself is changed, the stereotypes will continue to exist. Show me where these black men who were put away by white juries were done so unjustly. Not just unjustly, but unjustly more often than whites.

No, I spoke to your implicit condemnation of predominantly black juries. It's obvious you believe blacks are incapable of objectivity, that they're are bound by an allegiance to skin color rather than the truth. I say you're wrong. More than that, I say everything you've stated borders on racism. Those black jurors spoke. You refuse to respect their judgement, disregarding their right to interpret the "evidence" as they saw fit.

To you, a negro on a jury is a-ok, provided he complies with his master's wishes. If that negro starts to think for himself, there's a problem. That lies at the heart of white America's unhinged preoccupation with OJ's acquittal.

 

[hippie]

No, I spoke to your implicit condemnation of predominantly black juries. It's obvious you believe blacks are incapable of objectivity, that they're are bound by an allegiance to skin color rather than the truth. I say you're wrong.

Bingo, the same way someone would argue that an all-white jury in the South would be incapable of objectivity. Of course there's exceptions to this but taken as a whole, this is more or less what I believe.

More than that, I say everything you've stated borders on racism. Those black jurors spoke. You refuse to respect their judgement, disregarding their right to interpret the "evidence" as they saw fit.

You can call it whatever you want. I believe it's less of a racial issue and more of a cultural issue, though. And they didn't use any judgement. Thus why he was later found guilty. This case was about as slam-dunk as you can get for a prosecutor in a murder case.

To you, a negro on a jury is a-ok, provided he complies with his master's wishes. If that negro starts to think for himself, there's a problem. That lies at the heart of white America's unhinged preoccupation with OJ's acquittal.

First, don't put words into my mouth. Secondly, what lies at the heart of the OJ acquittal was that it was one of the greatest injustices in recent history. And it was done by preying off black America's own prejudices.

 

[peedi]

Bingo, the same way someone would argue that an all-white jury in the South would be incapable of objectivity. Of course there's exceptions to this but taken as a whole, this is more or less what I believe.

The difference being, of course, all-white juries, only half a decade ago, regularly sent black men to jail for merely glancing at white women. Oftentimes, they ignored due process, stringing up black men and hanging them. That is historical FACT, a reality suffered by black men that CANNOT be deleted from the annals of white America's insidious past. You've yet to offer a single shred of proof that all-black juries -- or predominanty black -- deliberately acquit black defendants, when presented with incontrovertible evidence of guilt. The OJ example doesn't justify your stance, as there was enough ambiguity surrounding the integrity of the evidence recovered, along with Furman's racism, to allow OJ's lawyers to cast reasonable doubt in the minds of those jurors.

You can call it whatever you want. I believe it's less of a racial issue and more of a cultural issue, though. And they didn't use any judgement.

They were too stupid to weigh the evidence and arrive at a sufficient judgement, then? Black jurors aren't intelligent enough to divest themselves from racial association and convict a black defendant.

First, don't put words into my mouth.

Re-read what you've written.

Secondly, what lies at the heart of the OJ acquittal was that it was one of the greatest injustices in recent history.

A mild injustice, if that, in light of countless travesties of justice visited upon innocent black men by a racist justice system.

The fiery rage that singes the heart of OJ's detractors stems from a racist presumption of guilt, a belief that any black man accused of murdering two whites must be culpable.

Dubiously recovered evidence and an unequivocally racist cop does not a conviction make.

 

[evil ways]

So, turns out Beretta didn't do that shit.

 

[Dilbert]

Now wait a minute. You can't, at the same time, claim that predominantly white juries have been racist AND claim that there is no evidence that predominantly black juries have been racist. If one group of human beings has been biased along racial lines, then surely it's possible for another group.

 

[peedi]

Now wait a minute. You can't, at the same time, claim that predominantly white juries have been racist AND claim that there is no evidence that predominantly black juries have been racist. If one group of human beings has been biased along racial lines, then surely it's possible for another group.

I look at the historical context of that period, understanding the climate from which routine convictions of black males were bred. I would never suggest the possibility doesn't exist that an all-black jury would purposely acquit a black defendant, however there is no shred of evidence to support the charge, much less the idea that it is a widespread phenomenon.

Is it not clear that hippie is asserting that predominantly black juries perfunctorily acquit a black defendant, in spite of evidence to the contrary? That's all I'm arguing against.

 

[3rdman]

And mostly black?










You judge a man by his actions not his words. I defy you to find one instance of an actual act of murder that has been proven true concerning OJ.

Are you kidding??? How about his well known history for beating her? How about his famous jealousy? Her bruises? How about the loss of the civil trial? I hate to be arguementative for that sake of it, but you don't know the facts. Simple as that.

Did you know that 12 hours after the murder, the police interviewed him and in that interview, he couldn't get anything straight. The cut on his hand, the events of the previous night, his whereabouts. When the police told him that he was a suspect, he wasn't even surprised. Now here's the part that'll kill ya'. The dipshit prosecuters didn't even introduce it into evidence!

Like I said, if any of you are at all interested in the real case against OJ, read "Outrage." I won't contribute to this thread anymore...everytime OJ comes up, arguements are always drawn across racial lines and nothing ever comes of that...just like Johnny Cochran intended.

 

[hippie]

.

Look, I'm not going to argue this any further because you obviously don't get it. You're dillusional if you think that OJ got off for any reason other than the jury being black. He was guilty and every sound mind in America knew it and knows it today, unless they're completely ignorant of the facts.

"As ye sow, so shall ye reap"