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Thassodar
lemm.ee

Now he can rest knowing his wife's killer is dead.

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moodyreply
lemmings.world

He was acquitted, meaning it couldn't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty.

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IphtashuFitzreply
lemmy.world

He was proven liable in the civil trial. The additional evidence uncovered by the lawyers in that case was damning. Civil trials typically don’t require a unanimous verdict, but it was unanimous in this case.

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davel [he/him]
lemmy.ml

The Juice is out of juice 🤷 What a waste of our collective time and attention that piece of shit was.

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Pretzillareply
lemmy.world

Except that mistake from the prosecution is what got him acquitted

Of fucking course blood soaked then dried and shrunken leather gloves tried on over high grip exam gloves won't fit.

The prosecution should have spent the $100 for a new pair in the same size, then broken them in on some big killer-sized hands before giving them to him to try on.

Christopher Dardan got played by the defense goading him into it. Pity the fool.

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UnfortunateDoorHingereply
aussie.zone

Person who was charged and put on trial for murder died. It's a legal term. Journalists can get sued for defamation for blatantly calling someone who is not convicted a rapist or murderer. You can safely call OJ an armed robber and kidnapper though.

That's why the talking heads on tv tend to dance around the terminology and say "allegedly" and "accused of"

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SkyezOpenreply
lemmy.world

Legally. "Found innocent" is a legal conclusion and factually incorrect.

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IphtashuFitzreply
lemmy.world

Criminal trials don’t find defendants “innocent”. They find them not guilty, which is a huge difference. It means the prosecution didn’t bring forward enough evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The presence of doubt means they weren’t found guilty. Not that they were found innocent.

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wildncrazyguy
kbin.social

I really hope he donated his brain to science. The man went from world famous to villain in a single car chase. It's rare that people fall from grace so far, so quickly. I am not excusing his heinous acts, but I will say it would make a lot more sense, in my mind, if this man's anger and impulsivity was predicated on a TBI.

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kromemreply
lemmy.world

For people out of the loop:

One of the first studies to investigate the rates of TBI in offender populations was conducted by Slaughter, Fann, and Ehde (2003) who reported the rate to be 87% in a county jail setting. Schofield et al. (2006) then reported the TBI prevalence in all offender populations to range from 25-87% and, later, Williams et al. (2010) documented the prevalence of TBI in those settings to be 65%. In a more recent study, Ferguson, Pickelsimer, Corrigan, Bogner, and Wald (2012) found that 65% of male inmates, and 72% of female inmates, reported at least one TBI resulting in a change in consciousness. Finally, some of the current authors studied the incidence of TBI in a mental health transition unit at a county jail and found the incidence of TBI among a sample of offenders with a co-morbid mental illness to be 96% (Gafford, McMillan, Gorgens, Dettmer, & Glover, 2015).

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Conyakreply
lemmy.tf

Why? He killed his wife in a fit of rage. There wasn’t anything special going on in his brain. A lot of pro athletes end up doing heinous crimes.

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p5yk0t1km1r4gereply
lemmy.world

Spare me the virtue signaling pseudo higher than thou bullshit. OJ is a killer and profited off of it. He deserves worse.

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Decoy321reply
lemmy.world

You keep repeating that like it's true. It isn't. Being acquitted of charges is nowhere near the same as being proven innocent.

We're talking about a motherfucker who wrote a book about how he did it and titled it "if I did it."

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IphtashuFitzreply
lemmy.world

The book about the civil trial, Triumph of Justice, is actually a good read. Among other things it goes over the additional evidence uncovered to help prove he committed the murder. Evidence like photographs of him clearly wearing the shoes whose prints were found at the murder scene. The same shoes he described as “ugly ass” and said he would never wear. He was photographed wearing them in front of thousands of people as he walked across a football field before a game.

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frippareply
lemmy.ml

Well he was world famous, I'm not from the US myself but most genX and older (~40+) knew about him and his trial at least superficially

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