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>OJ was acquitted, after all Do you know something that the jurors don't? Reasonable doubt. That's how the system works.
by hnnewguy 12y ago
>OJ was acquitted, after all
Do you know something that the jurors don't? Reasonable doubt. That's how the system works.
- esrauch 12y ago> Do you know something that the jurors don't? This is weird question, because in OJ's case we know a lot of things that the jurors didn't. Part of the critique of the prosecutors in the case was that they decided not to enter a lot of material things into evidence (e.g. the entire Bronco chase). Also, there are a lot of things that happened since then that the jurors did not know (because they didn't happen yet). He did write a book that was a description of himself committing the murders (but it is "hypothetical").
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- dragonwriter 12y ago> OJ was unanimously found guilty by the jury in his civil trial. Civil trials don't find guilt, they find liability. And, aside from the difference in evidentiary standards (beyond a reasonable doubt vs. preponderance of the evidence), the actual fact question in a criminal murder charge is substantially different than that in a civil wrongful death charge -- one can be liable for wrongful death on the same pattern of facts under which one would not be guilty of murder.