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OJ Simpson mostly-white jury thought he was guilty of murder

Calcutta News.Net
Sunday 5th October, 2008

A poll has been taken amongst the jurors on the OJ Simpson armed robbery trial, with half saying they thought he was also guilty of killing his former wife.

Five of the 12 jurors disagreed with the 1995 verdict that cleared Simpson of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

The other jurors claimed to be uncertain or would not respond to the question.

On Friday, the Las Vegas jury of three men and nine women convicted Simpson and his co-defendant Clarence Stewart of all charges stemming from a botched hotel room raid a year ago.

The jury contained 11 white people and one Hispanic.

The poll questions were made public by the court.

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Sexy Tyson
10-05-08, 09:16 PM

OJ Simpson mostly-white jury thought he was guilty of murder

I think he’s guilty in both cases. Finally justice will be served!! When you do wrong sooner or later you get exactly what you deserve.

Leebee
10-05-08, 11:07 PM

Regardless of his guilt or innocence, it would have been difficult to find 12 impartial jurors in the US for this trial. Of course they have an opinion on his former trial. And in the US they can now make money on the “talk-show circuit” explaining exactly why they ruled the way they did. I expect they saw their chance to “right a wrong” and took it. Unfortunately now they have voiced their opinion on the murder trial, they have given his defense a valid argument against his conviction on this armed robbery charge. Yet again, he may be acquitted. Karma ? I think not ! Time will tell.

suzyq
10-06-08, 03:59 PM

id’k,

Outstanding person? You have got to be on something. This guy is a murderer.

iamthewalrus
10-05-08, 11:19 PM

Oh No

Now who is going to go out and hunt for the “real killer”??? Thats what good old OJ said he was going to do. Was he looking for the “real killer” in Las Vegas?? I’m sure this is all a mistake. This poor innocent just cant get a break. Scumbag.

armchair Judge
10-05-08, 11:46 PM

If i were the judge and jury

if i was d judge i would throw everybody in las vegas in jail including OJ , the police, the Jurors, judges and everybody else in the system just for being there.white black and yellow all would be incarcerated for life with no chance of parol.Life and a day would be the verdict.a follow up would be to throw everybody in L.A. behind bars next including all the celebrities and drug addicts who run the system and turn the wheel.Hollywood would be in lock down and i would revoke everybodys right to a fair trial just because they lived in or around las angeles a city of miscreant angels.OJ really opened my eyes to the judicial system and i am proud to be the best armchair judge in america.All Guilty!!!!! as charged.Abandon hope all ye who enter my courtroom.the price of your entry is sin.

Anonymous
10-05-08, 11:55 PM

i'dk

i don’t know if he did it or not, but a fair trail should be given to everyone no matter their history. the media made a circus out of the situation who gets a fair trail out of that. OJ is an outstanding person who deserves a least a fair trail.

waltky
10-06-08, 01:47 AM

Granny says dat’s cause dey knowed he was guilty...
;)
Simpson jury: We didn’t need witnesses to convict
Oct 6, `08 - Jurors who convicted O.J. Simpson of armed robbery and kidnapping said Sunday that they did not trust witness testimony and instead relied on recordings and other documented evidence to convict the former football star.

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It might have been a waste for prosecutors to give plea deals to several Simpson co-defendants in exchange for their testimony, since the jury did not rely on it, foreman Paul Connelly said. Seven members of the 12-person jury agreed to the extraordinary news conference two nights after the verdict was announced because they said they were being hounded by reporters. They answered questions for an hour in the same courtroom where Simpson and Clarence “C.J." Stewart were convicted of robbing two memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a hotel room.

The jury listened repeatedly to recordings made by collectibles dealer Thomas Riccio - the host of the hotel confrontation, who was granted immunity - and felt they heard things that had not been fully transcribed by police, juror Michelle Lyons said. But jurors could not trust the credibility of witnesses who were given plea deals, Lyons said. “We felt we could not rely on that witness testimony," she said.

Simpson, 61, was famously acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. He was later found liable for the deaths in a civil case. He had claimed in the robbery case that he was trying to reclaim mementos stolen from him.

The jurors all denied they wanted to punish Simpson for past wrongs. One panelist, Dora Pettit, said she prayed for him before and after the case. “I think he’s an ordinary man that made a bad decision," she said. “I prayed for him and Stewart and the attorneys. I don’t have any ill feelings, and if they walked out tomorrow, so be it."

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Dondu
10-06-08, 01:45 PM

Oh Jay!

You can get away from murder once, you can get away from murder twice, soon your lucky race will bail out from you. Oh Jay, get a life after you serve your time.

Anonymous
10-06-08, 08:36 PM

suzyq;107484:
id’k,

Outstanding person? You have got to be on something. This guy is a murderer.



Everylast white man in america is a murderer where the justice for the native american african or asian you killed misused and abused not to mention the pimping out of all women including your own spare me your twisted morality and justice. Give your home to a native american or job to a black and let a jury of mexicans judge your sons and i might begin to believe your human.

koolkat01
10-07-08, 08:44 AM

if the jurors were so smart..then why didn’t they cosider the fact that having a recorder there was for the soul purpose of setting him up..i dont carry one when im at the antique furniture store...besides..he who is without sin..be the first to cast a stone at o.j. ...or anyone else for that matter

Anonymous
10-07-08, 10:35 AM

Excuse me

Unregistered;107546:
Everylast white man in america is a murderer where the justice for the native american african or asian you killed misused and abused not to mention the pimping out of all women including your own spare me your twisted morality and justice. Give your home to a native american or job to a black and let a jury of mexicans judge your sons and i might begin to believe your human.



What kind of twisted moronic bull crap is this?
So now we are to be held responsible for the sins of our fathers?
Listen up idiot your about to get schooled!


Do you think the Africans lived in peace and never robbed raped murdered or pillaged each other?
They still live like animalsthree hundred years later!

Do you think American Indians never did the above to each other?
I got news for you they brutalized each other in every way possible!
Mexico and its plan of San Diego!
Look it up you twisted moron.
Lets talk about them Asians for a second!
China and Japan have been at war since time began need I remind you what the Japanese did to Chinese people during World War II?

I have never pimped out anyones kids including my own if thats your normal mode so be it...scumbag.
By the way I’m part Cherokee please let me know where you live and when you will be leaving your hovel so I can move in.
Also let me know what boat you will be hopping on and going back to where ever your forefathers came from.
From the looks of your post you have a lot of counseling you need please seek it before you pop off to the wrong person and they smash your face.

koolkat01
10-07-08, 08:47 AM

you may not be a robber or a murderer...but im confident we all have something in our lives that we need grace for...so let god be true..and every man a liar...yeah that means you too

sa_woman
10-08-08, 10:28 AM

oj

all white jury, 1 hispanic who kisses white ass= guilty verdict.
It’s a set up, how many robbery victims are prepared to record the whole scenario??
He was acquitted of murder, so What does it have to do with this case???? You can’t be convicted twice...just set up.

oj the sexond
10-08-08, 03:57 PM

not guilty

free oj he is not guilty

Anonymous
10-08-08, 04:15 PM

Where you there?

oj the sexond;107917:
free oj he is not guilty



Do you have a brain in your skull?
OJ deserves much more then he will get.
Move on past the skin color issue already.


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