Bias In The Oj Simpson Case

The O.J. Simpson Case: The Unjustified Ruling of O.J. Simpson’s Acquittal
The brutal killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman: up until the case closed, law enforcement could not officially find the perpetrator. However, that only stands officially. In an aggressive trial from June 20, 1994 to October 3, 1995, a jury indicted and acquitted ex-husband of Nicole, O.J. Simpson, of a double murder charge for the two deaths. For background, on June 12, 1994, waiter Ron Goldman came to Nicole’s house to return her mother’s glasses, but around midnight a neighbor found Goldman and Nicole’s bodies stabbed to death. Law enforcement suspected Simpson as the killer and gathered enough evidence to charge him with the murders by June 17. After this,

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This exemplifies how people on the jury wanted to believe in Simpson’s innocence and how the defense purposefully created the jury to their advantage by utilizing the bias present within the public. Regardless of claims and assumptions in opposition, one can easily see how bias for O.J.’s innocence heavily impacted the

To start, one of Simpson’s own defense attorneys admitted that his defense team took action in attempts to manipulate the jury and the public. Defense attorney Carl Douglas admitted that the defense team actually switched much of the decor in Simpson’s home before the jury toured it, trying to paint the picture of a tarnished football hero deeply in touch with his cultural roots, and much more so than in actuality. A notable difference they made would include the replacement of a lewd, half-naked picture of his girlfriend at the time, Paula Barbieri, with African art and a photo of his mother (Finn, 2020, para. 52). This exemplifies just one of the defense’s disgusting acts in an attempt to portray Simpson as innocent. However, Simpson did not seem to care much about maintaining that image when publishing his detailed and chilling account of how he murdered Nicole and Goldman if he hypothetically did so. The first hand description of how he murdered the pair goes into extreme detail, giving information no one could have known unless at the crime scene. It also gave thoughts and reactions impossible to have unless he actually did it. In an interview taped to promote the book but never televised, the interviewer asked Simpson whether he removed his glove before grabbing