When I heard the original verdict 13 years ago, I was not surprised. At that time, I felt like the prosecutors failed to remove reasonable doubt. It seemed to me that the entire case was “OJ was there when the murders happened, therefore OJ was the murderer.” My questions were, and still are: “How does one man kill two people with a knife?” and “How does one of the most recognizable men in Los Angeles drive across the city without being noticed.” From everything I saw, the evidence suggested that more than one person was involved. Even OJ implied that when he mentioned the “real killers.” The prosecutors didn’t address this. They overplayed the DNA evidence and ignored some very real weaknesses in their case.

“Jack Dunphy” may not like it, but guilty parties are set free on a regular basis. That is actually why some many African-Americans were happy to see this verdict. I usually have little sympathy for any racially based arguments, but I understand this one. In any trial, there are four possible outcomes: a guilty party is convicted, an innocent party is acquitted, a guilty party is acquitted, or an innocent party is convicted. The hope is that only the first two outcomes will occur. For the other two options, incorrect acquittals are considered the price we pay to avoid wrongful convictions. Of course, the system is not perfect and innocent people still go to jail. Unfortunately, too many black people feel like they get all the wrongful convictions and white people get all the incorrect acquittals. All that is a long way of saying that some black people were happy to see proof that an innocent verdict is possible for a black defendant, even if the innocent verdict is undeserved.

One is that people like to celebrate another’s misfortune. Perhaps you’d like to go back to the days of medieval justice with public humiliation.

Second, sixfingers has the right to speak his mind without tolerating the childish personal insults.

Grow up!