OJ Sentencing

onebadbeast · #1 12-05-2008, 12:55 PM

got to admit, looking at this mere shell of a man, actually feel kind of sorry for him

GBBob · #2 12-05-2008, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by onebadbeast

got to admit, looking at this mere shell of a man, actually feel kind of sorry for him

Imagine if he really didn't kill his wife?? Not that I do, but what if?

ahhhhh...never mind...No one writes a book called "How I did It" unless they are guilty, nuts or both

robfla · #3 12-05-2008, 01:09 PM

if i did it

GBBob · #4 12-05-2008, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by robfla

if i did it

I know

MaTH716 · #5 12-05-2008, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by onebadbeast

got to admit, looking at this mere shell of a man, actually feel kind of sorry for him

screw him! He's another guy who had the world by the balls and F'ed it up. He gets away with murder and still finds another away to get in trouble. Let him rot in prison for the rest of his life.

Antitrust32 · #6 12-05-2008, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by MaTH716

screw him! He's another guy who had the world by the balls and F'ed it up. He gets away with murder and still finds another away to get in trouble. Let him rot in prison for the rest of his life.

Have no pity for someone who can brutally murder his ex-wife and an innocent bystander while his children are sleeping upstairs.

Hope he stays in for at least ten years. Tho I dont know how much abuse he will take... a man like OJ has to be able to hold his own in a fight. And we already know he has no problem stabbing people.

robfla · #7 12-05-2008, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Tho I dont know how much abuse he will take... a man like OJ has to be able to hold his own in a fight. And we already know he has no problem stabbing people.

I have to think he will be in protective custody, in seclusion from other inmates. At least at the beginning. Which is good, because that is by far a worse place to be. 23 hours by himself, then one hour for recreation.

I read somewhere that he has been in Protective Custody since his incarceration and that his co-defendant was in PC and asked to be put back in regular population because he couldn't take the solidarity.

cowgirlintexas · #8 12-05-2008, 01:59 PM

15yrs = 5 actual...At least he got something...

somerfrost · #9 12-05-2008, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by cowgirlintexas

15yrs = 5 actual...At least he got something...

Why am I posting this? I must be a complete idiot but...what the hell!
Did OJ kill his wife and her friend?
Everybody has an opinion but the jury found him not guilty,
Had I been on that jury I would have voted likewise...Mark Furhman (sp?) made it impossible to convict him.
Is he an idiot? His actions since the crime scream "YES"
But...if we incarcerated folks for being idiots....
This latest crime is hardly worth a long sentence...
Our legal system don't state that it's ok to "get even" or balance the scales...
He should have been sentenced solely on the merits of this conviction...
Was he?
Even if he is guilty of murder...he didn't get away with anything...he simply avoided man's law...I believe there is a higher justice.
I also believe that it is better to let a guilty man go free than to punish an innocent man...isn't that a cornerstone of our system?
I find no joy in this....I find the man pathetic, yes...distasteful, but I don't get the vulturistic joy of some...

TheSpyder · #10 12-05-2008, 02:40 PM

If you hold the same litmus test for saying he was not guiltly of murder because of the results of the muder trial to the results of this trial, why can you not accept the decision?

The judge clearly stated before sentencing that the verdict and sentence was based solely on the results of this trial. He was guilty of like 10 different things. It's not my fault he screwed up.

That's justice baby!

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

Why am I posting this? I must be a complete idiot but...what the hell!
Did OJ kill his wife and her friend?
Everybody has an opinion but the jury found him not guilty,
Had I been on that jury I would have voted likewise...Mark Furhman (sp?) made it impossible to convict him.
Is he an idiot? His actions since the crime scream "YES"
But...if we incarcerated folks for being idiots....
This latest crime is hardly worth a long sentence...
Our legal system don't state that it's ok to "get even" or balance the scales...
He should have been sentenced solely on the merits of this conviction...
Was he?
Even if he is guilty of murder...he didn't get away with anything...he simply avoided man's law...I believe there is a higher justice.
I also believe that it is better to let a guilty man go free than to punish an innocent man...isn't that a cornerstone of our system?
I find no joy in this....I find the man pathetic, yes...distasteful, but I don't get the vulturistic joy of some...

letswastemoney · #11 12-05-2008, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

Why am I posting this? I must be a complete idiot but...what the hell!
Did OJ kill his wife and her friend?
Everybody has an opinion but the jury found him not guilty,
Had I been on that jury I would have voted likewise...Mark Furhman (sp?) made it impossible to convict him.
Is he an idiot? His actions since the crime scream "YES"
But...if we incarcerated folks for being idiots....
This latest crime is hardly worth a long sentence...
Our legal system don't state that it's ok to "get even" or balance the scales...
He should have been sentenced solely on the merits of this conviction...
Was he?
Even if he is guilty of murder...he didn't get away with anything...he simply avoided man's law...I believe there is a higher justice.
I also believe that it is better to let a guilty man go free than to punish an innocent man...isn't that a cornerstone of our system?
I find no joy in this....I find the man pathetic, yes...distasteful, but I don't get the vulturistic joy of some...

I actually agree with this....

If the jury in that murder case proclaimed he was innocent, then that should have no influence on this case. But I believe it did influence the jury....

Yes he probably did it but...it sets a dangerous example by where people that are actually innocent will never be fully cleared of their name.

Payson Dave · #12 12-05-2008, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

Why am I posting this? I must be a complete idiot but...what the hell!
Did OJ kill his wife and her friend?
Everybody has an opinion but the jury found him not guilty,
Had I been on that jury I would have voted likewise...Mark Furhman (sp?) made it impossible to convict him.
Is he an idiot? His actions since the crime scream "YES"
But...if we incarcerated folks for being idiots....
This latest crime is hardly worth a long sentence...
Our legal system don't state that it's ok to "get even" or balance the scales...
He should have been sentenced solely on the merits of this conviction...
Was he?
Even if he is guilty of murder...he didn't get away with anything...he simply avoided man's law...I believe there is a higher justice.
I also believe that it is better to let a guilty man go free than to punish an innocent man...isn't that a cornerstone of our system?
I find no joy in this....I find the man pathetic, yes...distasteful, but I don't get the vulturistic joy of some...

fwiw..
Somer for the most part I don't see alot (some but not a lot) that I disagree with in your post....it does seem like you are saying that there was some "get even" or "balancing of the scales"..... that might be your opinion, but not necassarilly fact....
Your statement regarding "the latest crime is hardly worth a long sentence".... is also opinion that seems to be stated a bit more like "fact"

anyhoo....perhaps some see "justice" differently than you..... maybe even some see karma as a form of "higher justice"....and that may explain the "vulturistic joy" that seems to be bothering you.

somerfrost · #13 12-05-2008, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Why am I responding to this? I must be a complete idiot but...what the hell!
Did OJ kill his wife and her friend?
Everybody has an opinion but the jury found him not guilty,
even though the evidence was overwhelming, he was found guilty in a civil trial, has made no restitution as per the civil suit and later co-authored a book talking about "If" he had done it.
Had I been on that jury I would have voted guilty...
Is he an idiot? His actions before, during and since the crime scream "YES"
But...if we incarcerated folks for being idiots....Then there would be no one posting here.
This latest crime is hardly worth a long sentence...but, since he's such a scumbag, who cares?
Our legal system doesn't state that it's ok to "get even" or balance the scales...
But, since he essentially got away with the brutal murdering of 2 people, who cares? What goes around comes around.
So now he can add thief to his growing resume of why he's a piece of s.hit.
I believe there is no higher justice. He literally got away with murder once. He's paying a little restitution back now.
I also believe that it is better to let a guilty man go free than to punish an innocent man...isn't that a cornerstone of our system?
However, nothing about Simpson is innocent and he's getting a small slice of what he should be getting.
I find a lot of joy in this....I find the man pathetic and distasteful, but I don't get how someone could defend Simpson. At some point it's best to step off the soapbox and just let scumbags get what is coming to them, instead of making it about some "cause" no one cares about.

Who cares? I do, you don't...pretty much end of discussion...the old soapbox reference again, but you're standing on one also..."no one cares"...perhaps in your world, in mine a lot of folks do....so, I'm fine with my world, I'm sure you are fine with your's. One point though, I'm not defending Simpson...I find him as pathetic as you do, but the Constitution gives equal rights to all of us...even someone like Simpson.

Scav · #14 12-05-2008, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by cowgirlintexas

15yrs = 5 actual...At least he got something...

5 until he is ELIGIBLE for parole. I was watching CNN on lunch and the way they were talking was that he was doing 9-10 guaranteed.

CNN said "Parole is a gift, and ANYTHING you have done can be used against you in a parole hearing"