OJ Simpson cannot escape fate, found guilty in Vegas crimes |
Would call it cosmic justic that OJ Simpson is finally going to face some prison time.
It’s just utterly bizarre that OJ Simpson is found guilty on all counts on the 13th anniversary of the not guilty verdict in his murder trial. Completely, and utterly bizarre. Maybe even symmetrical. Numerically weird, and everything else.
I long ago lost respect for the once great football star. Even if you think he didn’t kill his first wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman, the fact that he’d have anything at all to do with a book called "If I Did It" should have been deserving of declaring a mistrial the first time around and retrying him. OJ, come on man, think about your children.
Soon he’ll be behind those bars that eluded him for 13 lucky years. This would all make a good episode of the Twilight Zone. Enter Rod Serling epilogue: "Picture of solitary jail cell waiting for one incorrigible OJ Simpson. He could have lived his second chance among shadows and substance, but instead chose a life inside … the Jailhouse Zone."
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OJ’s story will definitely go down as one of the more bizarre in our culture’s history.
Comment by Melanie — October 4, 2008 @ 1:34 pm PST
I couldn’t agree more with Melanie. At the time of the trial’s end, I recall being sickened by how many were happy. Now it seems that everyone I know (regardless of age, race, or gender)thinks he was guilty and is thrilled to see him heading to jail. Bizarre, indeed.
Comment by jennifer — October 5, 2008 @ 6:40 pm PST
jennifer - I wasn’t happy when OJ was found innocent in 1995. I think he got off because it was poorly prosecuted and there was a racist cop involved. Most people I recall talking to at the time thought it was a “money buys you freedom” verdict with the whole dream team stuff.
What is bizarre is why OJ didn’t take his freedom to heart and disappear into the woodwork of society. His apparent arrogance wouldn’t let that happen. Hanging around with criminal types carrying guns to places where his memorabilia is being traded is the last place on earth he should have been.
Comment by TDavid — October 6, 2008 @ 10:32 am PST