re: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story series long thread

One on one with Chris she is very likeable in the show at least

Anybody else wondered if their frickin?

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I have always wondered if the post-trial lives of the big OJ defense team had anything to do with Karma.

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I've thought the same.

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The only likable attorney character on this show is Darden.

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I'll get crushed for saying this, which is why I'm not putting it on Facebook, but I can't help but like Johnnie Cochran in this series. He's a smart, tough S.O.B. who is doing everything he can for his client. And he tried to do Darden right by warning him about Mark Fuhrman. (I think that really happened) Robert Kardashian comes across as a decent human being who was a really good friend to O.J.
F. Lee Bailey and Robert Shapiro seem like pompous, lazy stuffed shirt types.

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They are just destroying Shapiro's character. He's got to be fuming.

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And they made him a clown by casting Travolta and pan-caking his face

The guy playing Cochran is nails.

If anybody has ever read "if I did it", it's the only thing that gives any insight as to what OJ's mind frame was like at the time of the murders.

The way he describes it, Nicole was bat shite crazy psycho...pretty much to the point of harrassment. I think she kept pushing his buttons and he eventually snapped in a fit of rage.

That doesn't excuse the actions of OJ though. a lot of folks have dealt with bat shite crazy chicks and haven't murdered them. Poor Ron Goldman, who was just returning a pair of lost eyeglasses left at Mezzaluna, was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and when confronted by OJ, kind of borderline provoked him (in the eyes of OJ).

As OJ described it, the entire scenario was-in his mind-a repeat incident of a previous sexual encounter Nicole had with another guy while the kids were upstairs asleep. He claims he took the knife from the Bronco just to scare the shite out of Nicole, but when Goldman showed up, he says he snapped and blacked out. When he came to, he was covered in blood and both of them were dead.

I can't wait til OJ dies so we can discover in the autopsy if he suffered from CTE.

Dateline NBC currently airing the 2 hour "The People vs. O.J. Simpson: What the Jury Never Heard" for those of you that were too young to have witnessed it. Sorry for the late notice. Might be able to find it on demand.

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Poor Ron Goldman who was just returning a pair of lost eyeglasses

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Huh?

He was sleeping with Nicole and driving OJ's Ferrari around town.

As Chris Rock said alluding to this..."you can leave a baby in the coat-check room and a restaurant won't return it to you unless you come and get it."

From LA Times, 1994...

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Some of Goldman's friends said he was merely returning a pair of sunglasses Nicole Simpson had left at the nearby restaurant where he worked as a waiter.

But Goldman, 25, also had an increasingly close relationship with 35-year-old Nicole Brown Simpson, whom he had exercised with, accompanied to dance clubs and often met for coffee and dinner during the past month and a half.

Six weeks ago Goldman was driving the Ferrari, with its highly recognizable L84AD8 license plate.

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Bump.

20 minutes to showtime

The Goldman family spun the returning sunglasses story because they didn't want it out because that somewhat taints the picture they wanted to tell - and the press ran with it...it was a better story that he was just a do-gooder and wasn't driving OJ's car around town and sleeping with his ex-wife.

He was still probably in the wrong place at the wrong time, I doubt OJ sought him out...but he wasn't in the wrong place because he was returning sunglasses to some stranger...that's weirdest misdirection I can't believe Joe public bought.