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Maybe I am not comprehending what they will portray, will it be crimes committed during the disaster or will be the disaster itself as a crime.

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Murphy, for his part, added: "I want this show to be a socially conscious, socially aware examination of different types of crime around the world. And in my opinion, Katrina was a fing crime a crime against a lot of people who didn't have a strong voice, and we're going to treat it as a crime. That's what this show is all about."

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Murphy, for his part, added: "I want this show to be a socially conscious, socially aware examination of different types of crime around the world. And in my opinion, Katrina was a fing crime a crime against a lot of people who didn't have a strong voice, and we're going to treat it as a crime. That's what this show is all about."

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Well I see what direction this will go. I am sure they will have a character saying they heard bombs going off at the levee.

I think they will also do a series about the Menendez brothers trial.

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What if Jason and OJ killed them together? Does Al Cowlings have an alibi for that time period?

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If this is true, or if it was just Jason - then why was there no evidence of Jason's blood at the crime scene? I may have missed something along the way, but wasn't there only three sets of blood at the scene - Nicole's, Ron's and OJ's? I don't remember them saying there was another set of DNA there - even for an unidentified person.

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IIRC, there was some un-identified blood and also a set of footprints that could not be tied to anyone who was know to be present at the crime scene.

The interesting thing about this case was with the exception of Jonny Cochran there were really no winners in this trial at all.

Robert Shapiro came off as a slimy two faced lawyer. Chris Darden had that infamous press conference where he started crying on national television. I think that is one of the reasons that Darden has stayed out of the public eye.

Gil Garcetti and Marcia Clark reputation were damaged because they were the District Attorney's who lost a winnable case by being outclassed on national television by the Defense team. Marcia Clark is just now getting redemption with the release of this show, and being brilliantly portrayed by Sarah Paulson.

OJ became a social Pariah and lost all the fame that he had for over 30 years. The 2002 Orange Bowl is probably the only time that OJ has ever been popular in public.

The LAPD....nothing more needs to be said.
Mark Furhman.....the same.

You had to feel for Detectives Lange and Vanatter. I read a book about the LAPD rampart scandal. It said that a lot of LAPD investigators were afraid of being sucked into a high profile case because they didn't want their name and mistakes broadcasted on television like they did to the detectives and forensic scientist.


Cochran was the only winner.
Johnny Cochran went from being well known in Los Angeles to being World Famous and a pop culture reference.
He actually has a middle school named after him in Los Angeles. LA loves the stars.
https://cochranms-lausd-ca.schoolloop.com/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1305125893204

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If this is true, or if it was just Jason - then why was there no evidence of Jason's blood at the crime scene? I may have missed something along the way, but wasn't there only three sets of blood at the scene - Nicole's, Ron's and OJ's? I don't remember them saying there was another set of DNA there - even for an unidentified person.

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Nobody ever proved who those footprint or blood belonged to.

William Dear think the shoe prints and blood would belong to Jason Simpson, but he was not able to prove this.

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Hadn't heard that about American Crime Story.....

Law & Order: True Crime is reported to be working on something like this...

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/law-order-true-crime-to-focus-on-menendez-brothers-20160406

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Now that would be entertaining.

I'm late to the party, but have watched the first six episodes. With the exception of Travolta and Cuba Gooding's voice, everything has been excellent.

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We'll have to agree to disagree. I strongly believe the message here is that Robert Kardashian as a stand-up guy, while the rest of his family is rich trailer trash. If anything it's one long middle finger at the kids and Kris Jenner.

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I feel like this is right. The kids are there to build Robert Kardashian's character. Especially because the trash his kids turned out to be, they needed to show that he was a devout family man, because that probably isn't what you expect from Kim Kardashian's dad who is best friends with a double-murderer.

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I think Travolta had one of the best performances in the whole show. Nathan Lane and Courtney Vance have been awesome as well. Sarah Paulson too. Damn, the whole cast killed it IMO.

The Kardashian hate is strong. My wife watches their show and Khloe strikes me as a solid person.

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The Kardashian hate is strong. My wife watches their show and Khloe strikes me as a solid person.

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I think Travolta had one of the best performances in the whole show. Nathan Lane and Courtney Vance have been awesome as well. Sarah Paulson too. Damn, the whole cast killed it IMO.

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To me Travolta was the weakest of the bunch with Cuba Gooding Jr a close second.

You can't be held responsible for who your parents are.

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I think Travolta had one of the best performances in the whole show. Nathan Lane and Courtney Vance have been awesome as well. Sarah Paulson too. Damn, the whole cast killed it IMO.

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Sounds like you'd like Serial season 1, Kellso, if you think a snitch's word is a great way to send a guy to prison for life.

Thinking that the prosecution didn't prove its case is a fair opinion. But it doesn't mean he's innocent or Jason did it. . Their criminalist made mistakes and the cop who found a key piece of evidence was a racist. If they didn't call him the defense would have and then it would have looked worse. If he'd just said "I probably have said the n word, I'm ashamed of it, but it had nothing to do with my police work that night. I liked OJ. I covered for him in the past" that bomb could have been defused.

The show's closing arguments were succinct and eloquent, but as I recall both sides went on for hours. The show gave highlights which benefitted the viewers. The jurors endured days of testimony from all these witnesses, broken up by hours or days in rooms away from the court room while motions were argued. They were done by the end.

The "missing blood" had been debunked. The lab tech didn't ever wrote down how much blood was drawn. She just said I usually take around this much. The defense jumped on that and raised doubt. And it doesn't explain how they found OJ's blood at Bundy before he returned from Chicago!!!

The scene was bloody but it got bloodier after the killer left as Nicole bled out 90% of her blood volume by the neck wound, the last wound of the attack.

If you're going to speculate that he should have had more bruises, then you can speculate that maybe he doesn't show bruises well. Many African-Americans don't. He DID have a huge cut on his hand that he couldn't explain. There was no broken glass in his hotel room as he alleged. He changed his story multiple times about that.

But if he was wearing those gloves, they didn't have a cut on them that matches his finger cut.

The left glove was left at Bundy, the same cut the hand was on while he took the right away from the scene. Plausible it came off during the struggle before the cut.

Just watched the episode. What was up with the overbearing use of the color green in the courtroom. It is bathed in green light.

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Sounds like you'd like Serial season 1, Kellso, if you think a snitch's word is a great way to send a guy to prison for life.

Thinking that the prosecution didn't prove its case is a fair opinion. But it doesn't mean he's innocent or Jason did it. . Their criminalist made mistakes and the cop who found a key piece of evidence was a racist. If they didn't call him the defense would have and then it would have looked worse. If he'd just said "I probably have said the n word, I'm ashamed of it, but it had nothing to do with my police work that night. I liked OJ. I covered for him in the past" that bomb could have been defused.

The show's closing arguments were succinct and eloquent, but as I recall both sides went on for hours. The show gave highlights which benefitted the viewers. The jurors endured days of testimony from all these witnesses, broken up by hours or days in rooms away from the court room while motions were argued. They were done by the end.

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Most criminal cases are solved by the use of confidential informants. Most prosecutors will typically plea bargain with a murder suspect if they do not have a witness or murder weapon. The DA's office might not want to take a chance that an OJ like acquittal could happen.


IF the perp knows he is guilty it is better to take 40 years with the chance of getting out in 20 years then it is to risk life in prison. Very few people charged with murder will ever have the chance of hiring an attorney the caliber of Johnnie Cochran.

We can all sit here and speculate, but its all just guess work. None of us know what really happened. That is what happens when there are no witnesses and no murder weapon.

The whole idea is that you most convict beyond a reasonable doubt. I have doubts. There are things about this murder that have never made sense to me.

Ronald Goldman was 6-1 and 200 something pounds, and apparently an expert in Tae Kwan Do. He had massive defensive wounds on his hands and feet. The story was always that he put up a great fight before succumbing to his injuries.
OJ should have looked like he got in a fight. I would expect bruises and scratches on him.

The blood is still the thing that I come back to. If OJ killed not one...but two people then he should been covered in blood.. All the blood found in his car and at his property were small drops. Where would he have cleaned all of this blood off?

I think OJ was at the crime scene, but Im not convinced he committed the murder.

If Marcia Clark produces a murder weapon with OJ's prints on it, or has a witness that saw OJ at the crime scene arguing with the deceased......that would have gone a long way in securing a conviction.

I believe that prior behavior can be a predictor of future criminal behavior. Jason Simson was on probation for attacking a former manager with a knife. He had also attacked an ex girlfriend with a knife and cut off her hair.
He was a chef that carried a bag of knives to and from work every day. His father hired a defense attorney for him the day after the murder.

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What about OJ's prior behavior of beating the victim? She placed photos of his abuse in a safe deposit box. Shortly before the murders he went to lawyers to threaten turning her into the IRS. This prior behavior is less relevant to you than the fact Jason owned knives?

The cops never found the murder weapon because he got rid of it, along with the bloody clothes. The duffel bag he carried with him in the car, that he would not allow Park or Kato to touch, didn't come back with him from Chicago.

Kellso, you would have expected OJ to have wounds, yet ignore that he had a massive cut on his hand that he HAD NO EXPLANATION FOR. At the time and even in the civil depositions he couldn't come up with a story to explain that cut.

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What about OJ's prior behavior of beating the victim? She placed photos of his abuse in a safe deposit box. Shortly before the murders he went to lawyers to threaten turning her into the IRS. This prior behavior is less relevant to you than the fact Jason owned knives?

The cops never found the murder weapon because he got rid of it, along with the bloody clothes. The duffel bag he carried with him in the car, that he would not allow Park or Kato to touch, didn't come back with him from Chicago.

Kellso, you would have expected OJ to have wounds, yet ignore that he had a massive cut on his hand that he HAD NO EXPLANATION FOR. At the time and even in the civil depositions he couldn't come up with a story to explain that cut.

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How many times had OJ ever attacked someone with a knife?
Guys gets into the fights with their wives/girlfriends all the time. That does not necessarily make them murderers. The prosecution made it sound like OJ Simpson was the only guy in the world who ever had an unhealthy relationship with an ex.

Marcia Clark and Chris Darden f**cked this case up, and got beat by a better team of lawyers. For the past 20 years they have used the media to try and shame people into believing their story. They have masterfully used the media to take the focus off of them messing up this case.

If you don't believe their story of what happened then you are an idiot who sides with wife beaters.

Marcia Clark made this case about domestic abuse. OJ beat and stalked Nicole and because of that this makes him a double murderer. I don't necessarily buy that. I personally know people in toxic relationships very similar to OJ and Nicole. Especially party people who do cocaine and get around a lot.

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The fact that Jason Simpson was on probation for attacking the manager of the restaurant where he worked with a knife,
- had previously scalped a girlfriend with a knife
-had previously tried to choke another girlfriend to death
- carried knives with him everyday to and from work
-Had been stood up by Nicole the night of the murders.

Yes. That is more relevant than OJ Simpson prior behavior of abuse.

Last night I stumbled across a Howard Stern interview with Christopher Darden back in 1996, I think it was. It was interesting to hear but nothing too ground breaking. But it was funny to hear him multiple times dodge the direct questions about banging Marcia Clark.

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And yet none of Jason's DNA was found at the crime scene. OJ's was.

Clark and Darden clearly made mistakes. They've owned up to that. They also clearly had a jury who did not trust the LAPD and who did not think domestic violence was a big deal. The judge made a lot more mistakes.

OJ was also snubbed by Nicole the day of the murders. He was also dumped by his girlfriend that day. He had a history of stalking Nicole and reacting violently when she was with other men.

You're not going to convince me, and i'm not going to convince you. To say that women aren't killed by their abusers is naive though. Abusive partners are typically the killers of murdered women

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Huh? Broad statement or did you mean to say that of murdered women that were in abusive relationships the majority of the time it was the spouse?

It's a completely different topic but I grew up all around abusive men. None of them actually committed any other crime except for being ****ty boyfriends/spouses. Their confrontations were just with their spouse. They didn't fight other people nor did they ever carry weapons. It was common in my upbringing back then.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/08/oj-made-america-trailer-espn

Trailer out for 30 for 30s seven hour documentary this summer. Supposed to be excellent, which is generally the case with 30 for 30.

I simply meant that domestic violence is a significant cause of death for women this country, and that in many cases when a woman is murdered, it's the intimate partner who did it.

Not all abusers escalate to killers. And many on the jury share your experiences of growing up around abuse or experiencing it themselves - they expressed they didn't think it was a big deal, or meant that it might mean he could escalate from beating Nicole to murdering her.

Nicole also didn't call a victim's hotline shortly before the murders to express concern about her stepson.