Crime And Punishment In The OJ Simpson Trial

OJ Simpson in 1994 killed his wife, and a jury of his peers found him innocent. This trial brought to light the fact that many athletes are involved in crime. The case was viewed on June 12, 2014 twenty years after OJ Simpson was accused of murdering his wife. This time the outcome was different. More than fifty- three percent of black Americans found Simpson guilty. The percent of white Americans who believed that Simpson was guilty jumped from sixty-eight percent to eighty-nine percent. The overall percent of Americans back when the crime happened who believed that Simpson was guilty was sixty-six percent and today it has jumped to eighty-three percent. This could have changed the way the trial went twenty years ago; Simpson might have been

Ray Rice was on the Baltimore Ravens from 2013 to 2014, until his contract was terminated, when the video of the incident was shown on the website of TMZ. Ray Rice went to court and pleaded not guilty to the charges of aggravated assault. Rice has to go to a pretrial intervention program and once he completes the program all of the charges pressed against him will be dropped. Rice may not face any punishment in the criminal justice world, but because of his actions they cost him his career on the Baltimore Ravens football team and who knows if another team will pick him

Many teenagers lookup to these athletes, and they want to be just like them when they grow up and these athletes making mistakes like possession of drugs is not something adolescents should be seeing their idols do. What makes it worse is that it is so easy for the athletes to get off the hook because of all the money and fame that they have. Any kind of fines or bonds that these athletes need to pay in order to get released from jail is like a normal individual paying five dollars for a sub at subway. The amount of money they have to pay is barely anything to them. Athletes need to realize that they are being watched by millions and millions of people every day. Making bad decisions is not something those individuals should be witnessing, they should see their favorite hockey player or their favorite football player making good and wise decisions. Like doing random acts of kindness; visiting kids at hospitals, making a random donation to a charity, anything that can be viewed as good news and not something that they can be sent to jail for. Athlete’s even famous people in general need to realize they are no longer normal people, if they screw up and commit a crime millions of people watch them and see them get off so easily because they have the money to pay the fines and the bail bonds. Kids watch this everyday and they start to think that if their favorite athlete can do