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Gee Will, I guess I am one of those baby boomers who never could get enough of The Andy Griffith Show. I guess Matlock gave us something to hold on to in the 80s and 90s. I will definitely check out the Kathy Bates version. My bandwagon postseason teams will be the Brewers and the Royals. I won't die on a cross for them, like I would for the Cardinals, but they will make the MLB postseason interesting for me.

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I'm hoping the Will Smith as a good luck charm helps the Royals!

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I can’t allow myself to root for the Brewers as long as Bud Selig is alive and kicking…

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I listen to a lot of jazz, but System of a Down has also been in my rotation lately.

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The Court TV docuseries OJ25 (2020) is the best and most truthful account of the trial.

https://www.vulture.com/2016/04/oj-juror-people-v-oj-simpson-right-and-wrong.html

I guess maybe black people cheering was less about O.J. and more about the politics of the LAPD at the time, police brutality. A lot of their catharsis was bigger than O.J. I can understand that. But at the end of the day, two people were murdered.

I think most people thought we based our decision on race. Race never came up in the topic of our deliberation, or even how the LAPD treated black people.

Like, regarding Fuhrman, none of his comments really …

The thing with Fuhrman was once his credibility was shot, you really could discount anything he said. He was definitely a liar — he lied on the stand — and when he came back to the court, he took the fifth on everything. Why would you trust anything he said? He was the detective that found all this evidence: the blood on the Bronco, on the back fence, on the glove … all of that created reasonable doubt.

Was there a moment in particular during the trial that really swayed your decision towards reasonable doubt?

Yeah, when they started talking about the blood evidence. There was, like, a milliliter of blood they couldn’t account for. And they found blood on the back fence of Nicole’s condo, and that particular blood also had the additive in there. That additive is only found in [a test tube of blood], so why would the blood sample on that back fence contain that additive unless somebody took the blood from the test tube and placed it there?

Do you think O.J. was framed?

I don’t know if he was necessarily framed. I think O.J. may know something about what happened, but I just don’t think he did it. I think it was more than one person, just because of the way she was killed. I don’t know how he could have just left that bloody scene — because it was bloody — and got back into his Bronco and not have it filled with blood. And then go back home and go in the front door, up the stairs to his bedroom … That carpet was snow white in his house. He should have blood all over him or bruises because Ron Goldman was definitely fighting for his life. He had defensive cuts on his shoes and on his hands.

O.J. only had that little cut on his finger. If [Goldman] was kicking to death, you would think that the killer would have gotten some bruises on his body. They showed us photos of O.J. with just his underwear just two days after, and he had no bruises or anything on his body.

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Comments from an African American forum:

“Let's not be naive. It will also always be a part of pop culture because we live in a racist, white supremacist society. White America thinks that it is fine that they murder black people all day every day and get away with it. But this is the first high profile case we ever really saw where a black person (allegedly) murdered a white person and got away with it.

Make no mistake. They don't give a flying fµck about Nicole Brown and neither do I. White women like her get abused and murdered every day by their own people. Nobody would still be talking about this case with such fervour if the racial element didn't exist. Maybe when they care this much about black people getting murdered, I will have some fucks to give.”

“I don’t want to hear about all the mistakes the prosecution made. I want to know how he killed two people without a bruise, scratch or cut on his body.

How did he managed to rush home in his bronco and only have two drops of blood in/on the car?

How did he manage to have a cut on his hand but not on the glove?

Lastly, how did he managed to do all that stabbing and not manage any cuts to the glove?

Oh and manage to pull all of this off, and catch a flight. How?

This would better help me understand the “miscarriage of justice” everyone purports to have occurred.”

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Maybe Wynn could check the direction the chlorine is headed from Conyers. Great to see a young person get excited about learning new things.

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Isn't it wonderful watching children blossom? Enjoy the ride!

Tough night last night for both the Illini and your Bulldogs. That '94 game was brutal. We were up 21-0...

Go Dodgers!!

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Love System, “Toxicity”, and I’m 69 years old. Guess I’ll try Matlock too.

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Yet another superb column - thank you. And, because I kind of have to as a State College native and Penn State alum, I’ll add: Go Penn State! 🦁 🏈 💙

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