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Originally Posted by GTOguy
I disagree. It has come out that approximately 90% of the jury wanted payback for what they perceived a injustice in the Rodney King trial just prior. They had been shown only the beating portion of the tape (not the attack King instigated on the cops) and assumed it was racism. (Like they assume everything else is). Black celebrity kills two white people? HELL YES. That's the real reason, nothing as logical as bad evidence.
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Part of the same problem. Several jurors admitted that they never seriously considered that OJ was guilty, so saying there was a one in a billion chance it wasn't him was good enough for them. Basically, that trial was won at jury selection, as many are.