@@mechengr1731 A couple of instances of how the whole case was bungled: The way Nichole and Ron's bodies were handled likely destroyed trace evidence. At least Nichole's body was turned over wiping away/smearing blood stains on her back, I believe she was found laying on her stomach. When an officer collected blood from OJ, rather than take the sample directly to the lab, he admitted to having gone to the crime scene first. This allowed for the speculation of evidence being planted. There many other instances of how badly the evidence was handled in this case.
@@PeteOttonnot to mention, once OJ gave them the blood sample, it gave them plenty opportunities to mess around with it. And low and behold, 1.5cc's of OJs blood went missing from his blood reference
I vividly remember that day as I couldn't believe the verdict. One of my older black colleagues who had grown up in South Carolina in the 60's and 70's told me "how many times did black people get unfairly convicted?" I told him that two wrongs didn't make a right, but he brushed it off. I realized then the full extent of the damage of American racism.
Part of the problem is Wealth, the justice system is structured to protect the wealthy and torture the poor, this was an outlier in how that phenomena usually interescts with race. It's also a manifestation of the cultural devaluing of women's lives, and in this case it intersected with race in a horrifically novel way.
If you weren't in the courtroom everyday with the jurors, looking at all of the evidence, you have no way of knowing how much faulty and manufactured evidence they heard and saw
Just so we're clear - there was no Justice in this case, because it's the worst of both scenarios, where the families of Nicole and Ron do not get to see the justice of their presumed murderer OJ being sent to jail to atone for his crimes, BECAUSE the justice system failed to give OJ a fair trial to begin with. Thus, the State had to choose between the individual justice of these two families versus the Justice of the entire legal system - and unfortunately it has to push the families of the victims aside, and choose to keep its legal system pure to avoid violating justice for everyone else. However: Suggesting that OJ does not deserve appropriate treatment by the legal system because he committed a crime, even as heinous as murder, is indicative of how American society treats black victims of injustice in general. Surely you are familiar with white excuses of police brutality, ex. "He was selling cigarettes, he's a thug, the cop had to defend himself," or "He was resisting arrest, he deserved to die," or "She was dating a thug and was there, she deserved it," or "If black people don't want to be killed by police, they should stop committing crimes." Millions of Black people have been murdered because of the belief embedded in American culture that exists to subjugate Black people to injustice: that Justice is a privilege, that it "should" be taken from you if you commit a crime, or if a cop believes you committed a crime, or if a white person believes you committed a crime... But that is not Justice, that is Revenge, and we have a Justice system, not a Revenge system. The fact is that Justice is a fundamental right and shouldn't be taken from you by the State under any circumstances, regardless of your crimes. The sanctity of the Bill of Rights, specifically its sixth amendment, that all Americans have the Right To A Fair Trial, supersedes our criminal law, because a state choosing to violate its citizens' rights would be a worse act of violence than letting a murderer go free.
I know this is two years old, but I’m really glad you made the decision to stop the TikTok makeup routine and just deliver your content straight to the camera. You’re smart, articulate, talented, and knowledgeable; you don’t need a gimmick.
If the video is just taking with no visuals other than the person talking, I rarely watch the speaker very closely. She's actually alot better than I would be at delivering a coherent and even captivating dialog while applying makeup. Granted, I've never applied makeup, but still.
I was in college during the trial. The importance of it being just 2 years after the LA riots can't be overstated. There were a lot of people who were on OJ's side just to prove they weren't racist. I remember Michael Moore (the documentary filmmaker) had a show called TV Nation at the time. He had an episode where he, and a bunch of other people, chanted "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit." He has said as recently as 2013 that he still thinks Simpson wasn't guilty. Of course, the backlash to his acquittal of murder probably made it much easier to get a conviction on all charges when he was tried for robbery in 2008.
I think you're misreading the black response. They didn't want oj off as revenge, they believed that police plant and abuse evidence routinely. Fuhrman bragged about planting evidence on camera and now people act like it's impossible. The blood evidence was clearly manufactured and mishandled.
@@Meng776 Did you respond to the wrong comment? Because I wasn't talking about the Black response or revenge at all. I was commenting on liberal white people supporting OJ as performative anti-racism.
I think he was guilty but what I would stress is that Ferman was a racist scumbag and a dishonest cop. The defense didn't make him look bad. He was legitimately bad. What is sad is the LA PD learned nothing from this case and they still hire white supremist. I saw an image recently of a bicycle cop with a nazi eagle tattoo.
@@Meng776 Two things are possible at the same time: 1) the police mishandled evidence and the verdict was the correct one, 2) the man who wrote _If I Did It_ was confessing after the fact when he knew nothing could be done about it.
I'm not sure if you've seen it but Nicole's family has since obtained the rights to OJ's book titled "If I Did It", which details the whole story of him killing her. They changed the cover of the books so that the "if" is almost impossible to see, so it looks like what it is aka a confession. Absolutely brilliant!
It's an eerie interview. He lies Often in the interview but basically confesses. Watch Oj made In america. Her boyfriend Keith said oj didn't just watch them through window having sex. He busted in and took Nicole in other room and was screaming at her. Keith said she came out white as a ghost and terrified. You can hear oj screaming on the 911 tape months later about her sucking Keith's d in the living room. He was stalking her for the longest time. He was the textbook definition of a battered. That verdict still pisses me off.
@@LeejaMiller I thought the same thing when I saw this. I'm like, "oh, poor Leejah, that'll be so much research and probably a 2 part video." So much work and SO much speculation to dig through vs the sparse facts. Genuinely, good luck if you decide to make that video. 🤞👍
We have no idea who killed Jon Benet but DNA proved she was not killed by any member of her family. She had been sexually assaulted and semen was found in her underwear
Actually he wrote the manuscript and the families of Ron and Nicole received all the royalties. The families won a substantial judgement against OJ in a separate civil case and the book was counted against this.
Unfortunately, that's what happens when corrupt and racist cops handle a case, and mishandle evidence. His isn't the only case. Jon Benet Ramsey's case still hasn't (and likely, never will be) been solved. When you tramp through the scene and touch things without gloves, coupled with the parents trying to cover it up, it makes it hard to close a case. With OJ, misplacing, losing, and trying to fabricate evidence, makes it hard to prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt.
@@jaybee4118 he was actually in jail from 2008 to 2017 (for robbery) so I think some people may have heard "released on parole" in 2017 and just assumed it was for the murder.
It's so funny like being a black man, I feel a little fraudulent when I say/Think "He obviously did it" like to some extent its kind of taboo to admit to such a fact. Like I just remember my mom (who was pregnant with me at the time) was like "the streets were rejoicing when the won the case" ... but like ... lol
The support for OJ back then reminds me of the support for Trump now. It was/is based on identity. Both are sheer grifters who would sell their own mother to the highest bidder. Both essentially lived their lives as a kind of performance art and both will do anything to avoid prison. America moved on from OJ quickly but sadly given Fox and the Mercers and Newsmax etc, here we are still with Trump.
This was such a public spectacle of a case - I was in high school in Baltimore at the time, and there was literal cheering in the cafeteria when the news came out that he was acquitted. People just could not believe that he could be guilty; he had a pretty clean image before this. Now, of course, I think public perception is very different, and he hasn't done anything to help his image over the last few decades. I always felt the worst for their kids.
Wrong. They KNEW he was guilty. But that verdict represented for blacks as a “fuck you” to the justice system that has been unfair to black Americans. During that time… especially in L.A. cops were known to be abusive and racist. District Attorneys were known to give black defendants harsher sentences. So here was a black man on trial for killing 2 innocent white people… and got off! To them it was retribution for all. The white people who lynched blacks and got away with it.
Public perception ain't changed one damned bit! Black folk knew OJ did it waaaaay, way back then!🙄 Even if you buy that Mark Furman was a dirty, racist cop, which he was... He couldn't have made ALL OF THAT CRUCIAL, KEY, FORENSIC & BIOLOGICAL/DNA EVIDENCE! He just couldn't have! What I didn't understand was the black community's undying support for him. He wasn't exactly fighting for black justice! He preferred white women. His best friends were mostly white. And he went right back to that after his acquittal! OJ suffered a terrible case of white adjacency IMO.
The reaction to the verdict was very divided along racial lines. When the verdict was announced , blacks cheered while whites (and most anybody with a brain) had their mouths open in disbelief.
I came for your explanation of this case.. and stayed for the fact you just beat your face, in a black top and not a stitch of fallout happened. That's TALENT!
Came here from #freebritney and Drag Race contract to find you effortlessly doing your make up whilst talking clearly and concisely without a script. Subscribed. x
I love your channel sm. I had a biology teacher once explain to us that he had been on medication for RA and allegedly instructed to stop taking the meds by his legal team in the weeks leading up to the glove episode so that his hands would swell temporarily.
I only read one book, 'outrage the five major reason OJ Simpson got away with murder' by Vincent Bugliosi where he basically said it was the total incompetence of the prosecution as the reason Simpson got away with murder.
Correct ! I would like to add however that Judge Ito was on the side of the defense. He would often cut off Marcia Clark mid-sentence, and he made nasty, uncalled for remarks towards her, while allowing Simpson to show the jury the marks on his knees due to an operation, and also allowing the farcical glove scene. Pure deception, and a mockery of the word Justice.
Never thought Marsha was very good but later found out her ex husband was fighting her over every aspect of their divorce while she was trying to prosecute the case of a lifetime, might have taken its toll.
The Casual Criminalist covered this trial as well, and it sounded like she was doing her best but Darden was basically helping poke holes in their case, unknowingly or knowingly. Also, their case rested mainly on DNA evidence; however, their expert witness was too technical. He was a scientist, not a people person. Whereas the defenses expert was very personable and engaged with the jury. Idk, I was born in '94, so I only know what I can gleam from online sources and pop culture. Also, I don't know if true or not, but didn't some of the jurors admit that this was partially as payback for Rodney King?
@@mechengr1731if CSI had been a thing of the 90’s, I think the DNA evidence would have meant more (like no way the 1 in million person was the murderer, allegedly)
Its so sad how he definitely did this and got away with it. Her poor family, and her life cut short while he runs free and the man to no one ever talks about him but he was just innocently delivering glasses and oj killed him to I just can't believe it
I'm not saying this to be confrontational or "but what about x." I believe it's worth mentioning, though, that _every_ group of victims and viewers - Rodney King and his loved ones, and their rollercoaster of emotion from what seemed like irrefutable video proof (and finally, too, after a few centuries without the possibility of such luck as that case had, without any chance of a bystander recording VHS of even a single incident of the consistently reported police abuse, that never got justice) - only for the community to be let down _again,_ dealt blatant injustice... That, plus the _other_ huge case, where the Korean shop owner murdered a young black girl for attempting to purchase a bottle of orange juice - a clear case of bigotry, where despite video that made it appear ironclad, the killer got off with _probation;_ she literally got zero prison for child murder. I always wondered if maybe the LA authorities decided to "let the black community have a win," essentially, by taking advantage of the opportunity to allow someone black to get away with violence against white folks; many black people seem to view it that way, regardless. But cumulatively, even without the riots, that all adds up to a ton of needless and undeserved death and suffering.
Also let's not forget about the case of Emmitt till a 15yr old black child who was brutally murdered by white people who got off SCOTT FREE....imagine what Emmitt till family felt...
@@FoxMacLeod2501 Uh huh... See, when OJ was acquitted that showed them all he we felt when our friends and loved ones were murdered like that with no justice in sight. They don't want to look at those things though.
I agree that the prosecution messed up, your points are all good. The context of LAPD's very poor history of corruption, violence, racial injustice, etc. is absolutely essential. I would probably take it a step further and speculate that the jury did "jury nullification" (I think that's the right term) - where the jury thinks there's something unjust about the prosecution and decides to vote not guilty despite evidence to the contrary. I mean, it's happened in reverse SO many times in which white defendants who seemed clearly guilty esp. of racially motivated violence were found not guilty by all-white juries.
DNA technology was fairly new at the time and the lab technicians really talked down to the jury, which didn't help prosecutors. Had this trial occurred a few years later I think the jury would have found OJ guilty.
@@chuyesque this trial was in 1994 and DNA had been around since the mid-late 80s. I was around then and most folks knew about DNA. My Mom was part of the initial jury pool but she was eliminated during voir dire because my family has strong USC connections (OJ had won his Heisman playing there and was one of our most famous alumni). Not understanding DNA wasn't what got OJ off-- 30 years on it's easy to forget how he did it. An earlier poster mentioned the Rodney King riots in 1992, and this was an important factor in the verdict. It was a combination of a legal dream team, underlying racial tensions and a lying jackass of a homicide detective (Mark Fuhrman) against a deep/rich history of LAPD corruption (the Rampart Division scandal was just a few years after this and many, many other corruption cases had preceded the verdict). Also Nicole wasn't a very sympathetic character. This was someone who barely finished high school and had never really worked but given her looks got to spend two decades living in a golden cage in one of LA's most expensive neighborhoods. Chris Rock even did a standup bit about OJ being wrong to do it but Rock "understood" that OJ resented Nicole's friends and lifestyle. Given all of these it was easier to get OJ off than it might otherwise appear now.
Don’t forget he wrote a book about the whole crime. It’s called “If I Did It” but the “If” is super small and tucked and is easily overlooked so the cover pretty much looks like the title is “I Did It” and he gives an entire play-by-play of the murders and how he left and stuff, and he ends that chapter with reminding us that this is all hypothetical. In Simpson's account, Nicole charges at him like "a banshee," falling and smacking her head on the concrete. When Goldman drops to a "karate stance", Simpson loses it. In what amounts in almost anyone's book as a confession, Simpson writes: "Then something went horribly wrong, and I know what happened, but I can't tell you how." Later, in a taped interview to promote the book that was never aired on television, Simpson (according to a partial transcript obtained by the New York Times) said that after "this guy kind of got into a karate thing...I remember I grabbed the knife." Asked in the interview whether he removed his glove before grabbing the knife, Simpson replied, "You know, I had no conscious memory of doing that, but obviously I must have because they found a glove there." ALSO. Their children were literally sleeping upstairs while their mom and Ron Goldman were murdered right outside... The whole thing is just so tragic and horrible.
If I remember correctly, the “if” in the title of the book was so small because the Goldman family got control of it as a part of the settlement before it was released and they were the ones that made it small so it read that way.
Leeja: "I'm a lawyer but I'm not your lawyer" Me: * cries * I wish I had a lawyer that explained things as neatily as she does, without making everything super complicated and making me feel like an idiot. T
years ago when I first dove into this case I made the mistake of looking at the crime scene photos that shit gonna be burnt into my brain for the rest of my life 😔😔😔 10/10 would not recommend
First, I'm a 71 year old white male...OJ was a phenomenal running back. He was loved by sports fans and admired for exploding out of the poverty cycle. When I first heard about the murders I thought, "Not OJ. There's no WAY he did this." But it wasn't long before I was thinking, "Man, this doesn't look good. I hope he didn't do it." Within a few weeks I was convinced of his guilt, and I remain convinced. The prosecutors were incredibly inept. They were light years less capable than the defense attorneys. When they made a big deal out of the "gotcha" glove, I knew they were morons. Any gardener, construction worker, rodeo performer, golfer----anyone who has ever worn a leather glove that has gotten wet and then it dried OFF OF THE HAND knows that it will shrivel smaller than a guy's nut sack who fell into an icy pond. Johnny Cochran knew it. That's why he came up with his little rhyme. It was brilliant. Succinct, memorable, and coupled with the visual of OJ trying to cram his hand into it, devastating to the prosecution's case. The glove "got" them, not OJ. My take away from that trial was, "Wow! With enough money and fame even a black guy can get away with a crime." One small step for blacks. One giant leap for our two-tiered legal system.
No it doesn't. Class and race are closely intertwined in our society. And class does not supercede race. Black people with money face as much racism as their poor counterparts.
Damn a lot work goes into cheekbones. In my opinion, when Mark Fuhrman gave testimony, the trail was a lost cause. It was more than a homicide or murder trail represented all injustices that were going on in LA and LA Police Department at that time.
I was five years old at the time of the trial and my parents would watch the news every evening and I just remember this being on the news EVERY SINGLE DAY
OJ also knew ahead of time that Darden was going to do it, so he didn't take hos arthritis medication for several days before trying on the gloves. A few days later, Darden tried to find a replica glove, but that was basically closing the barn door after the cows had already gotten out.
I was 12-13 when this happened and you recapped it so well! It was such a bizarre thing to live through (and my view on everything has changed so much over the years.)
The problem with the blood is that once his blood was legally drawn, the detective did not enter it into the evidence chain properly, he took the blood vials back to the crime scene, and to Oj's house. As an attorney you should have picked up on that.
I’d like to hear you speak about the Casey Anthony case. More specifically, what legally was presented that proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that she did not do it. It has baffled me for years and I’d love to hear your input on it.
Ooo well they don’t have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she did NOT do it, it’s the prosecution’s job to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she DID do it. So the defense was able to add a tiny bit of doubt as to whether or not she did it and that’s all it takes.
@@LeejaMiller And they are not hounding her like they did OJ. Do not get me wrong but there is a double standard here and no one is aware of it. A white man woke up next to a dead black woman after meeting her on the internet. He said she used drugs when there was no history of drug use. The police were like Cool he is a nice white guy so we will accept his word. Her family had to beg for an investigation into her death. Which lead to them saying OH YEA THAT GAL DIED FROM AN OD OH THE F WELL. Nothing fishy here people. While WHITE Americans are still crying about OJ was found NOT GUILTY. When we died you dont care. But when you die it shows what animals and beast we are if given an opportunity.
Love the vid, just wanted to point out (because lay people get confused sometimes) "citing irreconcilable differences," is the only thing you check as your reason for divorce in CA; it doesn't actually mean anything. The only other box you can check is for mental or physical incapacity, which has to be proven. Tabloids constantly make a big deal about this and people look way too far into it, but it's just the way you divorce in CA (and some other states, but called something slightly different, depending on the state). So, for others here, whenever you hear/see this in high profile divorces - it doesn't mean anything about their marriage, just standard divorce procedure.
I was very young during this trial so I don’t remember it. Would love you to do something similar for the Casey Anthony trial. That was a big one in my childhood.
Oh gods, even seeing that in your post had my blood boiling again. I remember following that case and losing my mind at the decision. At the very least, she was involved. After seeing all of the evidence, it was more likely that the boyfriend was the perpetrator, but her hands are far from clean. Made me sick and just furious about our justice system, and the stupid way the defense handled it. If they had pushed for lower charges (like accessory to murder) there's a much highly likelihood they would have convicted, but they pushed the murder 1 so hard and not beyond a reasonable doubt, hence failure.
If you wanna know what happened... He wasn't the only one there. He literally went on tv & described how it went down! And the best/worst part? Because of his acquittal, he could go on national TV tomorrow & literally confess, (the tv thing was *supposed to be,* IDFK, hypothetical or some bullshit.) AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT COULD BE DONE TO HIM!💯
I lived in Boston as a international brown student during the murder and civil trials. I was surprised how America was divided during the murder trial along racial lines. My impression of America as being a multiracial rainbow nation quickly shattered as I began to notice peer groups along race and noticed a different interests and culture between African Americans and whites. The 90s was a period where African Americans are trying to fight systemic racism and how race is viewed as a culture. I can remember there was this concept of proud or be proud of being « black ». On the other side from a White media, some whites and some Asians I knew there was racial stereotyping, you had a book called « Bell Curve » criticism of any advantages African Americans were able to obtain like affirmative action was unfair and that any other demands were unreasonable. Ebonics and the 1000 man March was also really debated. Rodney King, Latasha Harlins and the fact that OJ was a big sports and entertainment celebrity who crossed the racial barrier and was an icon among African Americans did impact the trial. If you watch « OJ: Made in America » you will discover that the mistrust between the LAPD and African Americans, the violence the LAPD uses against African Americans and the fact that African Americans cannot get justice through courts when they are the victims dates back to a lot longer than the Rodney King 1991 incident. The outcome shocked and is still debated. Many people are still upset. At the same time I think the civil trial corrected what went wrong in the murder trial which I would not be surprised if civil trials have not done that in other cases. All the facts came out, new evidence was presented notably of OJ wearing the Bruno Magli Shoes. Most Americans came to the conclusion he was guilty after the civil trial. For the 2007-2008 Vegas incident most legal experts say OJ got a tougher sentence than he deserved.
I agree with both juries. Beyond reasonable doubt is a really high standard, and with Furman pleading the 5th on whether he planted evidence in the case, that's reasonable doubt right there
Fuhrman pled the 5th right after being caught committing Perjury (that he was later convicted of), with the rebuttal evidence being a tape where he was constantly saying the N word (the rebuttal), and bragging about falsifying evidence (the reason he pled the 5th, as any other answer would open the door to that part of the tape). At that point, since Fuhrman had been alone (a violation of forensic procedure) with all the evidence and some of a blood sample of OJ going missing before evidence was found, all the evidence was suspect, and reasonable doubt existed for everything except the glove.
This whole thing was such a travesty of justice its crazy. Lots of people didnt actually care if he was guilty, they knew he was, but in their mind, it was the cops vs black people, and whether he did it or not, there was a sentiment that if oj won against the police, it was a win for black people. Nicole's justice was sacrificed on the altar of the police vs black people who paradigm, and it's just extremely tragic.
I don’t think it was Nicole justice vs « black people » it was just about one black man who killed his wife then used and manipulated the black community to get him out of what he did so in way there’s 3 victims in this case first Nicole then her friend Ronald Goldman and the black community for being manipulated by OJ. And i don’t think they all knew cause a lot of them thought it was something made up by people who wanted to ruin is reputation so they had sympathy for him but putting all the black community in the same bag by saying they all knew isn’t a fair thing to say.
@@evlinboo9071 I actually think the media manipulated white people here. Have you ever read the Fuhrman tapes? The guy was one of the dirtiest cops in America. The evidence simply doesn't fit. Black people didn't know if he was guilty, but they knew there was reasonable doubt. They knew evidence had been manipulated. White people even today ignore the massive holes in the forensics evidence. It's some weird confirmation bias thing where their brains won't hear it.
@@evlinboo9071 The black community was not being manipulated. They were just happy to see the Justice System work the other way for once, with the best attorneys money can buy manipulate the system to acquit OJ.
Maybe if the cops didn’t have a history in this country for harassing, beating and killing black people maybe the community wouldn’t be against the police!
A dangerous one to tackle; much respect to you for pinning it down. I think we all know the truth. Sadly her life and Ron’s still deserve justice to this day and it’s unfortunate they didn’t receive it & neither did Rodney King. Hopefully that is something we can all agree on regardless of race. 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
I remember the moment very, very well. Everyone was glued to the television, and the reaction to the verdict spoke volumes. In an instant, the personal bias of each person was laid bare.
If you want to hear a much more in depth talk about this case in terms of the people involved to the actual court proceeding, that You're Wrong About is a podcast that covered it in a lot of detail! its multiple episodes that are all about 1-2 hours long and sheds a lot of light on the situation.
@@vlad6331 I personally watch it on podtail but I'm pretty sure any website that hosts podcasts will have it (like apple podcasts, spotify, art19, etc)
My elementary school teacher took all us 4th graders to the library where the only TVs were, plugged it in, and we sat and waited for the verdict. When he was found not guilty she literally screamed! The OJ trial was so huge I remember it so so well as a part of my childhood. I can't think of a case since that reached that level of fame and 24hr coverage. We watched the verdict live, he was on the cover of every magazine for a year, on TV all night all the time. I think it was the beginning of the 24hr news cycle.
I remember being in like the first or second grade, and the teachers had wheeled the TV into the classroom to watch the trial. I can also remember the Menendez trial...that one was crazy.
Hi Leeja. I'm a new subscriber as of last week. I was really excited to watch your segment about the OJ trial, as I hoped that you might cover the issue surrounding the glove found in OJ's front yard, in detail. Anytime I watch a show about his trial, no one ever brings up what Marcia Clark should have done to prepare for the possibility of OJ trying on the glove. Furman allegedly found the sole bloody glove (rt hand) behind the guest house. However, Kato Kaelin testified that he saw a glove in the front yard, as he was leaving that following morning, but thought nothing of it, figuring either OJ or one of his workers had dropped it. The sprinklers were on, so he assumed it was wet. Now, you figured out how exposure to the elements can shrink a leather glove, but in every interview I've heard Marcia speak, she never considered how exposure to the elements could alter it. If she did, she didn't take it seriously, nor was she bright or wise enough to have a back up plan when the defense wanted OJ to try it on. For example, using a textile expert to testify how much leather can shrink when exposed and drenched with blood and water. And, purchasing the exact same style and size of gloves from where OJ had purchased the original. I firmly believe that if she had done this, he would have been found guilty, because the new gloves would have slipped onto his hands. If he feigned it, it would have been obvious. Instead, the glove in evidence had in fact shrunk, as he barely got it over his fingers. You could see how tight it was on his hands. Every juror who was interviewed afterwards had pointed to the glove as their primary reason for their decision to find him innocent.
I have watched all of your videos and held onto this one for when I had time to really take it all in. My mom was going to school to be a paralegal during the trial and while Court TV was always on in our house I wasn't allowed to be in the room for parts of it. (I was in seventh grade when the verdict was read so I didn't really know much about what was going on.) I watched The People vs OJ Simpson but I had never considered that the glove had been frozen and unfrozen several times. That makes a lot more sense now! I've commented this before, but thank you for explaining everything in a clear way that is simple to follow and understand. I often struggle with comprehension but your videos are great! Also the makeup technique is neat :)
The glove test always stymied me, even during the trial. Of course, I was not aware of the expansion and contraction during the forensic examination (although I clearly should have been). All I could see was having Simpson put on the latex gloves first. Simple logic says that his own gloves wouldn’t fit over the latex gloves, thereby making Cochran’s remark a self-fulfilling prophecy. (I’m grateful to now hear the explanation for the latex gloves.) Darden, however, did know about that, and yet he insisted on performing the test anyway, even going over Clark’s head to do so. Regrettably, the case turned on both the glove test and Fuhrman’s perjury. Those unforced errors go directly to the district attorney’s office, which clearly had a solid case without them. As for the field trip to the Simpson residence, that was an unforced error committed directly by the police department. Clearly, knowing that this was the residence of their prime suspect, they should have cordoned it off as a crime scene from the time of his arrest until the end of the trial. Not doing so allowed Shapiro and Company to go in and perform their little redecorating job in order to garner sympathy from the jury. In the final analysis, however, it ultimately came down to the defendant’s public reputation on and off the field-from his football career to the rental car commercials (even now, I can still see him running across the airport terminal) to his work as a color commentator on NBC. Consequently, I stand by what I said when the verdict was announced: “The jury was star struck.”
Loving the video, I like how casually you are putting makeup and talking about the most famous case 🤣🤣 great idea 😁 can’t wait to see more videos like this! Subscribed!
If anyone has ever watched that special from a few years back with a 2006 interview with OJ that wasn't released at the time that I believe was to promote his "If I Did It" book. He gives a hypothetical confession and it's really wild.
The other issue with the glove, was that OJ was taking anti inflammatory drugs to fight his arthritis, one of his lawyers had him stop taking these, so his hands swelled up.
Trump and diet Coke 🤨? Are you sure about that🤔? Trump doesn't seem like the diet Coke kind of man. If anything he is most likely the kind of man who would make fun of men who drink diet Coke, new Coke or any cola soda 🥤 for that matter.
Please do a video on Jeffrey Robert MacDonald. Here's what I remember about it: Army physician, and stationed in North Carolina. . One night his wife and both daughters were murdered (trying to keep this as brief as possible)... . He was charged with their deaths, and injuring himself to appear that he fought off the attackers. Here's where it gets really weird... . Each person in the family had a different blood type. This easily allowed the crime scene to be investigated. . Please please please do a GRWM video on this. . Thank you, and I enjoy the videos : - )
Hi Leeja! Greetings from Queensland, Australia! Would you consider offering your thoughts on the "College Admissions Scandal"? As someone who watched this from afar with little understanding of how the US college system works, the "news" stories we saw over here were often more focused on the celebrity status of those involved than on what they actually did. Even with my limited knowledge of the process I would have to assume that a student attending college on a Sports scholarship and then never playing that sport would have to raise eyebrows pretty quickly, right? Anyway, just thought this would be an interesting case for you to look at.
Goldman fought with the attacker. He tore up his knuckles fighting. O.J. had no bruises of his body and the police took pictures of his torso. Nobody ever brings this up.
If I remember right, the prosecution was declaring that he planned this murder, while also calling it a crime of passion. That creates an inconsistency, because he couldn't be both when the crime was being committed.
I was pretty young, I wanna say like 8. But I remember the whole thing just because my name was similar enough to Nicole's that I got called Nicole Brown Simpson by kids trying to bully me. Kids are wild man
Isn't it strange how 20/30 years later the same issues are popping up all over again same narrative etc....we as a people should've evolved waaaay back yet here we are. Sad don't you think?
Wow! Have your video's come a long way. This is good, don't get me wrong, but the work you're producing now is on a whole other level. Quitting that law firm was a great decision.
I remember that some gas stations would allow you to watch the trail while you pumped your gas. I have yet to see a trail that high profile have that happen again.
It's not possible that oj did it. Goldman fought the attacker, he even had bruised knuckles and knife cuts to his legs and shoes. Oj didn't have a single bruise and there were 6 people on the flight with oj who testified that he didn't have a cut on his hand. In fact, lead detective Lange had the Chicago police go to OJs hotel and they saw the blood in a sink with broken glass and said oj was downstairs in lobby looking for a bandaid. The evidence really doesn't fit. The fact that these police managed to get OJs blood on the scene is terrifying.
Oh and let's not forget how they botched the blood evidence. When the cops first visited OJ's residence they didn't find some blood evidence. However, they took some blood from OJ for testing. They later went back and visited OJ's resident and found additional blood, but that was only after some of the blood that was taken from OJ was missing and not accounted for. This gave the defense the ammunition to say some of the blood evidence was planted. This case changed the way crime scenes were treated everywhere because the cops did such a bad job contaminating them. It was also strange how one bloody glove was found at the scene of the crime and one was found at OJ's residence. But no murder weapon. It was difficult to see how one untrained person, who had never killed anyone in the past alone could kill two people that expertly, astutely get rid of the murder weapon, but somehow conveniently leave one bloody glove at the scene and one bloody glove at his house. Based on the the Mark Furman testimony, who after that became a regular on Fox News, and the evidence everyone was left thinking there was a high probability that evidence was planted. What I wanted to know, but was never examined at the time was: was there a cut on the glove that matched the cut on OJ's finger? But apparently, I was the only one in the country asking that question at that time.
I remember studying the OJ Simpsons case in my forensic science class. I couldn’t believe how botched the evidence was.
Botched as in how it was collected, or botched in how it was presented?
@@mechengr1731Both, probably
@@mechengr1731 A couple of instances of how the whole case was bungled: The way Nichole and Ron's bodies were handled likely destroyed trace evidence. At least Nichole's body was turned over wiping away/smearing blood stains on her back, I believe she was found laying on her stomach. When an officer collected blood from OJ, rather than take the sample directly to the lab, he admitted to having gone to the crime scene first. This allowed for the speculation of evidence being planted. There many other instances of how badly the evidence was handled in this case.
Supposedly, one of the cops found a fingerprint in blood on the gate. But when the technicians came to collect evidence it was gone.
@@PeteOttonnot to mention, once OJ gave them the blood sample, it gave them plenty opportunities to mess around with it. And low and behold, 1.5cc's of OJs blood went missing from his blood reference
I vividly remember that day as I couldn't believe the verdict. One of my older black colleagues who had grown up in South Carolina in the 60's and 70's told me "how many times did black people get unfairly convicted?" I told him that two wrongs didn't make a right, but he brushed it off. I realized then the full extent of the damage of American racism.
Part of the problem is Wealth, the justice system is structured to protect the wealthy and torture the poor, this was an outlier in how that phenomena usually interescts with race. It's also a manifestation of the cultural devaluing of women's lives, and in this case it intersected with race in a horrifically novel way.
If you weren't in the courtroom everyday with the jurors, looking at all of the evidence, you have no way of knowing how much faulty and manufactured evidence they heard and saw
That’s kind of disgusting, using an actual problem that’s against the black community as a leverage to make you seem as the victim is really sick
Just so we're clear - there was no Justice in this case, because it's the worst of both scenarios, where the families of Nicole and Ron do not get to see the justice of their presumed murderer OJ being sent to jail to atone for his crimes, BECAUSE the justice system failed to give OJ a fair trial to begin with. Thus, the State had to choose between the individual justice of these two families versus the Justice of the entire legal system - and unfortunately it has to push the families of the victims aside, and choose to keep its legal system pure to avoid violating justice for everyone else.
However:
Suggesting that OJ does not deserve appropriate treatment by the legal system because he committed a crime, even as heinous as murder, is indicative of how American society treats black victims of injustice in general. Surely you are familiar with white excuses of police brutality, ex. "He was selling cigarettes, he's a thug, the cop had to defend himself," or "He was resisting arrest, he deserved to die," or "She was dating a thug and was there, she deserved it," or "If black people don't want to be killed by police, they should stop committing crimes."
Millions of Black people have been murdered because of the belief embedded in American culture that exists to subjugate Black people to injustice: that Justice is a privilege, that it "should" be taken from you if you commit a crime, or if a cop believes you committed a crime, or if a white person believes you committed a crime... But that is not Justice, that is Revenge, and we have a Justice system, not a Revenge system.
The fact is that Justice is a fundamental right and shouldn't be taken from you by the State under any circumstances, regardless of your crimes. The sanctity of the Bill of Rights, specifically its sixth amendment, that all Americans have the Right To A Fair Trial, supersedes our criminal law, because a state choosing to violate its citizens' rights would be a worse act of violence than letting a murderer go free.
@@rhi3864 I agree but what does that have to do with what they said
he clearly was innocent even by today's standards
@@ah2522 lmao k
@@kaitlynm9463 thanks for agreeing with me!
I know this is two years old, but I’m really glad you made the decision to stop the TikTok makeup routine and just deliver your content straight to the camera. You’re smart, articulate, talented, and knowledgeable; you don’t need a gimmick.
I was just thinking this
If the video is just taking with no visuals other than the person talking, I rarely watch the speaker very closely.
She's actually alot better than I would be at delivering a coherent and even captivating dialog while applying makeup. Granted, I've never applied makeup, but still.
I was in college during the trial. The importance of it being just 2 years after the LA riots can't be overstated. There were a lot of people who were on OJ's side just to prove they weren't racist. I remember Michael Moore (the documentary filmmaker) had a show called TV Nation at the time. He had an episode where he, and a bunch of other people, chanted "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit." He has said as recently as 2013 that he still thinks Simpson wasn't guilty.
Of course, the backlash to his acquittal of murder probably made it much easier to get a conviction on all charges when he was tried for robbery in 2008.
There were alot of people rooting for acquittal simply because he was black too. I've seen a lot of wild interviews
I think you're misreading the black response. They didn't want oj off as revenge, they believed that police plant and abuse evidence routinely.
Fuhrman bragged about planting evidence on camera and now people act like it's impossible. The blood evidence was clearly manufactured and mishandled.
@@Meng776 Did you respond to the wrong comment? Because I wasn't talking about the Black response or revenge at all. I was commenting on liberal white people supporting OJ as performative anti-racism.
I think he was guilty but what I would stress is that Ferman was a racist scumbag and a dishonest cop. The defense didn't make him look bad. He was legitimately bad. What is sad is the LA PD learned nothing from this case and they still hire white supremist. I saw an image recently of a bicycle cop with a nazi eagle tattoo.
@@Meng776 Two things are possible at the same time: 1) the police mishandled evidence and the verdict was the correct one, 2) the man who wrote _If I Did It_ was confessing after the fact when he knew nothing could be done about it.
Love the way she is able to talk so clearly and concisely while putting make up on
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Yep she has an excellent, fast brain
I'm not sure if you've seen it but Nicole's family has since obtained the rights to OJ's book titled "If I Did It", which details the whole story of him killing her. They changed the cover of the books so that the "if" is almost impossible to see, so it looks like what it is aka a confession. Absolutely brilliant!
Everybody already knew OJ did it by the time the cover was changed.
@@andreah6379 sure, but it's still a small victory for her family
It's an eerie interview. He lies Often in the interview but basically confesses. Watch Oj made In america. Her boyfriend Keith said oj didn't just watch them through window having sex. He busted in and took Nicole in other room and was screaming at her. Keith said she came out white as a ghost and terrified. You can hear oj screaming on the 911 tape months later about her sucking Keith's d in the living room. He was stalking her for the longest time. He was the textbook definition of a battered. That verdict still pisses me off.
Please give your take on the JonBenet Ramsey murder! Who did it, how the crime scene was contaminated, etc.
Love your content!
Thank you!!!! Ugh that’s such a hard one!!! Who knows!!!!
@@LeejaMiller I thought the same thing when I saw this. I'm like, "oh, poor Leejah, that'll be so much research and probably a 2 part video." So much work and SO much speculation to dig through vs the sparse facts. Genuinely, good luck if you decide to make that video. 🤞👍
Why would we care about JonBenet Ramsey? Oh yea another dead white female the whole world has to care.
We have no idea who killed Jon Benet but DNA proved she was not killed by any member of her family. She had been sexually assaulted and semen was found in her underwear
the fact that OJ wrote a book called If I Did It It's just so bizarre to me. Innocent people don't do that.
Actually he wrote the manuscript and the families of Ron and Nicole received all the royalties. The families won a substantial judgement against OJ in a separate civil case and the book was counted against this.
Leeja: lists the evidence found
Me: *screaming into the abyss* he wasn’t convicted?!?!
I was 22 when the trial was on. It feels really weird that there’s now people who don’t know he wasn’t convicted. I’m so old! 😂
@@jaybee4118 I been knew about this but that’s still one of my main questions. So much evidence yet free
Unfortunately, that's what happens when corrupt and racist cops handle a case, and mishandle evidence. His isn't the only case. Jon Benet Ramsey's case still hasn't (and likely, never will be) been solved. When you tramp through the scene and touch things without gloves, coupled with the parents trying to cover it up, it makes it hard to close a case. With OJ, misplacing, losing, and trying to fabricate evidence, makes it hard to prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt.
@@jaybee4118 he was actually in jail from 2008 to 2017 (for robbery) so I think some people may have heard "released on parole" in 2017 and just assumed it was for the murder.
That's what happens when politics are more important than justice. Goes both ways ya know
It's so funny like being a black man, I feel a little fraudulent when I say/Think "He obviously did it" like to some extent its kind of taboo to admit to such a fact. Like I just remember my mom (who was pregnant with me at the time) was like "the streets were rejoicing when the won the case" ... but like ... lol
The support for OJ back then reminds me of the support for Trump now. It was/is based on identity. Both are sheer grifters who would sell their own mother to the highest bidder. Both essentially lived their lives as a kind of performance art and both will do anything to avoid prison. America moved on from OJ quickly but sadly given Fox and the Mercers and Newsmax etc, here we are still with Trump.
This was such a public spectacle of a case - I was in high school in Baltimore at the time, and there was literal cheering in the cafeteria when the news came out that he was acquitted. People just could not believe that he could be guilty; he had a pretty clean image before this. Now, of course, I think public perception is very different, and he hasn't done anything to help his image over the last few decades. I always felt the worst for their kids.
Wrong. They KNEW he was guilty. But that verdict represented for blacks as a “fuck you” to the justice system that has been unfair to black Americans. During that time… especially in L.A. cops were known to be abusive and racist. District Attorneys were known to give black defendants harsher sentences.
So here was a black man on trial for killing 2 innocent white people… and got off! To them it was retribution for all. The white people who lynched blacks and got away with it.
Public perception ain't changed one damned bit! Black folk knew OJ did it waaaaay, way back then!🙄
Even if you buy that Mark Furman was a dirty, racist cop, which he was... He couldn't have made ALL OF THAT CRUCIAL, KEY, FORENSIC & BIOLOGICAL/DNA EVIDENCE! He just couldn't have! What I didn't understand was the black community's undying support for him. He wasn't exactly fighting for black justice! He preferred white women. His best friends were mostly white. And he went right back to that after his acquittal! OJ suffered a terrible case of white adjacency IMO.
The reaction to the verdict was very divided along racial lines. When the verdict was announced , blacks cheered while whites (and most anybody with a brain) had their mouths open in disbelief.
Lol I was in high school in Baltimore @ City when this verdict came out and while we cheered then I feel completely different now.
Speaking of baltimore... ravens
I came for your explanation of this case.. and stayed for the fact you just beat your face, in a black top and not a stitch of fallout happened. That's TALENT!
Came here from #freebritney and Drag Race contract to find you effortlessly doing your make up whilst talking clearly and concisely without a script. Subscribed. x
same, talk about skills!
Yeah me too. ;-)
gurl same, i live for this type of content!
Sameee
Wait, you're not my lawyer?😆
Sterling Brown, Sarah Paulson, and Courtney Vance absolutely killed it on People v OJ.
They really did, outstanding cast
Agreed, David Schwimmer played a good Shapiro too
@@andu1854 *Kardashian
I love your channel sm. I had a biology teacher once explain to us that he had been on medication for RA and allegedly instructed to stop taking the meds by his legal team in the weeks leading up to the glove episode so that his hands would swell temporarily.
I only read one book, 'outrage the five major reason OJ Simpson got away with murder' by Vincent Bugliosi where he basically said it was the total incompetence of the prosecution as the reason Simpson got away with murder.
Correct ! I would like to add however that Judge Ito was on the side of the defense. He would often cut off Marcia Clark mid-sentence, and he made nasty, uncalled for remarks towards her, while allowing Simpson to show the jury the marks on his knees due to an operation, and also allowing the farcical glove scene. Pure deception, and a mockery of the word Justice.
Never thought Marsha was very good but later found out her ex husband was fighting her over every aspect of their divorce while she was trying to prosecute the case of a lifetime, might have taken its toll.
The Casual Criminalist covered this trial as well, and it sounded like she was doing her best but Darden was basically helping poke holes in their case, unknowingly or knowingly. Also, their case rested mainly on DNA evidence; however, their expert witness was too technical. He was a scientist, not a people person.
Whereas the defenses expert was very personable and engaged with the jury.
Idk, I was born in '94, so I only know what I can gleam from online sources and pop culture.
Also, I don't know if true or not, but didn't some of the jurors admit that this was partially as payback for Rodney King?
@mechengr1731 yes. You are correct on all points, including the Rodney King payback
@@mechengr1731if CSI had been a thing of the 90’s, I think the DNA evidence would have meant more (like no way the 1 in million person was the murderer, allegedly)
Its so sad how he definitely did this and got away with it. Her poor family, and her life cut short while he runs free and the man to no one ever talks about him but he was just innocently delivering glasses and oj killed him to I just can't believe it
I'm not saying this to be confrontational or "but what about x." I believe it's worth mentioning, though, that _every_ group of victims and viewers - Rodney King and his loved ones, and their rollercoaster of emotion from what seemed like irrefutable video proof (and finally, too, after a few centuries without the possibility of such luck as that case had, without any chance of a bystander recording VHS of even a single incident of the consistently reported police abuse, that never got justice) - only for the community to be let down _again,_ dealt blatant injustice...
That, plus the _other_ huge case, where the Korean shop owner murdered a young black girl for attempting to purchase a bottle of orange juice - a clear case of bigotry, where despite video that made it appear ironclad, the killer got off with _probation;_ she literally got zero prison for child murder.
I always wondered if maybe the LA authorities decided to "let the black community have a win," essentially, by taking advantage of the opportunity to allow someone black to get away with violence against white folks; many black people seem to view it that way, regardless.
But cumulatively, even without the riots, that all adds up to a ton of needless and undeserved death and suffering.
Also let's not forget about the case of Emmitt till a 15yr old black child who was brutally murdered by white people who got off SCOTT FREE....imagine what Emmitt till family felt...
I am not sure he did it, but probably was involved.
He got away with it, because of the lying police that you all love so much. I never encountered one who doesn't lie.
@@FoxMacLeod2501 Uh huh... See, when OJ was acquitted that showed them all he we felt when our friends and loved ones were murdered like that with no justice in sight. They don't want to look at those things though.
How about covering Dan White's "Twinkie Defense" for the murder of Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone in San Francisco?
please do this one!
Oh god this one makes me so mad
I agree that the prosecution messed up, your points are all good. The context of LAPD's very poor history of corruption, violence, racial injustice, etc. is absolutely essential. I would probably take it a step further and speculate that the jury did "jury nullification" (I think that's the right term) - where the jury thinks there's something unjust about the prosecution and decides to vote not guilty despite evidence to the contrary. I mean, it's happened in reverse SO many times in which white defendants who seemed clearly guilty esp. of racially motivated violence were found not guilty by all-white juries.
man, I can just imagine the poor female prosecutor shooting death glares at the idiot who gave OJ the glove to try on
I don't think that it was jury nullification so much as it was prosecutors and police doing a bad job.
DNA technology was fairly new at the time and the lab technicians really talked down to the jury, which didn't help prosecutors. Had this trial occurred a few years later I think the jury would have found OJ guilty.
@@chuyesque this trial was in 1994 and DNA had been around since the mid-late 80s. I was around then and most folks knew about DNA. My Mom was part of the initial jury pool but she was eliminated during voir dire because my family has strong USC connections (OJ had won his Heisman playing there and was one of our most famous alumni). Not understanding DNA wasn't what got OJ off-- 30 years on it's easy to forget how he did it. An earlier poster mentioned the Rodney King riots in 1992, and this was an important factor in the verdict. It was a combination of a legal dream team, underlying racial tensions and a lying jackass of a homicide detective (Mark Fuhrman) against a deep/rich history of LAPD corruption (the Rampart Division scandal was just a few years after this and many, many other corruption cases had preceded the verdict). Also Nicole wasn't a very sympathetic character. This was someone who barely finished high school and had never really worked but given her looks got to spend two decades living in a golden cage in one of LA's most expensive neighborhoods. Chris Rock even did a standup bit about OJ being wrong to do it but Rock "understood" that OJ resented Nicole's friends and lifestyle. Given all of these it was easier to get OJ off than it might otherwise appear now.
Yes, but 2 wrongs doesn't make it right. 😔
Don’t forget he wrote a book about the whole crime. It’s called “If I Did It” but the “If” is super small and tucked and is easily overlooked so the cover pretty much looks like the title is “I Did It” and he gives an entire play-by-play of the murders and how he left and stuff, and he ends that chapter with reminding us that this is all hypothetical.
In Simpson's account, Nicole charges at him like "a banshee," falling and smacking her head on the concrete. When Goldman drops to a "karate stance", Simpson loses it. In what amounts in almost anyone's book as a confession, Simpson writes: "Then something went horribly wrong, and I know what happened, but I can't tell you how." Later, in a taped interview to promote the book that was never aired on television, Simpson (according to a partial transcript obtained by the New York Times) said that after "this guy kind of got into a karate thing...I remember I grabbed the knife." Asked in the interview whether he removed his glove before grabbing the knife, Simpson replied, "You know, I had no conscious memory of doing that, but obviously I must have because they found a glove there."
ALSO. Their children were literally sleeping upstairs while their mom and Ron Goldman were murdered right outside... The whole thing is just so tragic and horrible.
If I remember correctly, the “if” in the title of the book was so small because the Goldman family got control of it as a part of the settlement before it was released and they were the ones that made it small so it read that way.
@@jaybee4118 I'd forgotten that part
Her family sued and had the rights of the book taken from him then altered the cover. White people power must be nice.
Doesn’t explain the knife wounds to Nicole. So she “fell” and then he stabbed her and slit her throat. Ok makes sense 🤦♂️
Leeja: "I'm a lawyer but I'm not your lawyer"
Me: * cries *
I wish I had a lawyer that explained things as neatily as she does, without making everything super complicated and making me feel like an idiot. T
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Watch the Legal Eagle and Learn Law Better channels here too.
years ago when I first dove into this case I made the mistake of looking at the crime scene photos
that shit gonna be burnt into my brain for the rest of my life 😔😔😔
10/10 would not recommend
I am a litigation paralegal and I appreciate how you explained the process so everyone can understand.
I'm a guy from Serbia, no idea why am I watching a lawyer talking about US criminal law while doing make-up but I really enjoyed it. Subscribed!
First, I'm a 71 year old white male...OJ was a phenomenal running back. He was loved by sports fans and admired for exploding out of the poverty cycle. When I first heard about the murders I thought, "Not OJ. There's no WAY he did this." But it wasn't long before I was thinking, "Man, this doesn't look good. I hope he didn't do it." Within a few weeks I was convinced of his guilt, and I remain convinced. The prosecutors were incredibly inept. They were light years less capable than the defense attorneys. When they made a big deal out of the "gotcha" glove, I knew they were morons. Any gardener, construction worker, rodeo performer, golfer----anyone who has ever worn a leather glove that has gotten wet and then it dried OFF OF THE HAND knows that it will shrivel smaller than a guy's nut sack who fell into an icy pond. Johnny Cochran knew it. That's why he came up with his little rhyme. It was brilliant. Succinct, memorable, and coupled with the visual of OJ trying to cram his hand into it, devastating to the prosecution's case. The glove "got" them, not OJ. My take away from that trial was, "Wow! With enough money and fame even a black guy can get away with a crime." One small step for blacks. One giant leap for our two-tiered legal system.
Class supersedes race in our society, every time.
@@R4ks0 Are you equating "class" (social status) with wealth?
@@R4ks0
Very true... Look at justice, uncle thomas...
No it doesn't. Class and race are closely intertwined in our society. And class does not supercede race. Black people with money face as much racism as their poor counterparts.
I have to thank you even before I listen. Living through this was terrible - I think we still suffer from this trial
I always wondered how O.J. treated his first wife Marguerite.
There's an outstanding documentary about the L.A. Riots of 1992 called LA92.
Damn a lot work goes into cheekbones. In my opinion, when Mark Fuhrman gave testimony, the trail was a lost cause. It was more than a homicide or murder trail represented all injustices that were going on in LA and LA Police Department at that time.
Great video i remember the chase and interrupting TV. Oh what we have now. :)
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I was five years old at the time of the trial and my parents would watch the news every evening and I just remember this being on the news EVERY SINGLE DAY
I was in film school at Georgia State University when this was happening. The film professors and students called it (all the coverage) the OJ Show
I’d love to hear you talk about trademark disputes that have had major impacts
If it doesn't fit it must acquit, THATS WHERE JINKX MONSOON GOT IT
OJ also knew ahead of time that Darden was going to do it, so he didn't take hos arthritis medication for several days before trying on the gloves. A few days later, Darden tried to find a replica glove, but that was basically closing the barn door after the cows had already gotten out.
I was 12-13 when this happened and you recapped it so well! It was such a bizarre thing to live through (and my view on everything has changed so much over the years.)
The problem with the blood is that once his blood was legally drawn, the detective did not enter it into the evidence chain properly, he took the blood vials back to the crime scene, and to Oj's house. As an attorney you should have picked up on that.
She admitted at the beginning she's a trademark lawyer, not a criminal lawyer.
I’d like to hear you speak about the Casey Anthony case. More specifically, what legally was presented that proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that she did not do it. It has baffled me for years and I’d love to hear your input on it.
Ooo well they don’t have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she did NOT do it, it’s the prosecution’s job to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she DID do it. So the defense was able to add a tiny bit of doubt as to whether or not she did it and that’s all it takes.
@@LeejaMiller And they are not hounding her like they did OJ. Do not get me wrong but there is a double standard here and no one is aware of it. A white man woke up next to a dead black woman after meeting her on the internet. He said she used drugs when there was no history of drug use. The police were like Cool he is a nice white guy so we will accept his word. Her family had to beg for an investigation into her death. Which lead to them saying OH YEA THAT GAL DIED FROM AN OD OH THE F WELL. Nothing fishy here people. While WHITE Americans are still crying about OJ was found NOT GUILTY. When we died you dont care. But when you die it shows what animals and beast we are if given an opportunity.
Love the vid, just wanted to point out (because lay people get confused sometimes) "citing irreconcilable differences," is the only thing you check as your reason for divorce in CA; it doesn't actually mean anything. The only other box you can check is for mental or physical incapacity, which has to be proven. Tabloids constantly make a big deal about this and people look way too far into it, but it's just the way you divorce in CA (and some other states, but called something slightly different, depending on the state). So, for others here, whenever you hear/see this in high profile divorces - it doesn't mean anything about their marriage, just standard divorce procedure.
You’re such a great storyteller, and your editing and humor are both fantastic!
I was very young during this trial so I don’t remember it. Would love you to do something similar for the Casey Anthony trial. That was a big one in my childhood.
Oh gods, even seeing that in your post had my blood boiling again. I remember following that case and losing my mind at the decision. At the very least, she was involved. After seeing all of the evidence, it was more likely that the boyfriend was the perpetrator, but her hands are far from clean. Made me sick and just furious about our justice system, and the stupid way the defense handled it. If they had pushed for lower charges (like accessory to murder) there's a much highly likelihood they would have convicted, but they pushed the murder 1 so hard and not beyond a reasonable doubt, hence failure.
If you wanna know what happened... He wasn't the only one there. He literally went on tv & described how it went down! And the best/worst part? Because of his acquittal, he could go on national TV tomorrow & literally confess, (the tv thing was *supposed to be,* IDFK, hypothetical or some bullshit.) AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT COULD BE DONE TO HIM!💯
I was 19 and living in a single parenting house and we watched this EVERYDAY
I lived in Boston as a international brown student during the murder and civil trials. I was surprised how America was divided during the murder trial along racial lines.
My impression of America as being a multiracial rainbow nation quickly shattered as I began to notice peer groups along race and noticed a different interests and culture between African Americans and whites.
The 90s was a period where African Americans are trying to fight systemic racism and how race is viewed as a culture. I can remember there was this concept of proud or be proud of being « black ».
On the other side from a White media, some whites and some Asians I knew there was racial stereotyping, you had a book called « Bell Curve » criticism of any advantages African Americans were able to obtain like affirmative action was unfair and that any other demands were unreasonable. Ebonics and the 1000 man March was also really debated.
Rodney King, Latasha Harlins and the fact that OJ was a big sports and entertainment celebrity who crossed the racial barrier and was an icon among African Americans did impact the trial.
If you watch « OJ: Made in America » you will discover that the mistrust between the LAPD and African Americans, the violence the LAPD uses against African Americans and the fact that African Americans cannot get justice through courts when they are the victims dates back to a lot longer than the Rodney King 1991 incident.
The outcome shocked and is still debated. Many people are still upset.
At the same time I think the civil trial corrected what went wrong in the murder trial which I would not be surprised if civil trials have not done that in other cases.
All the facts came out, new evidence was presented notably of OJ wearing the Bruno Magli Shoes. Most Americans came to the conclusion he was guilty after the civil trial.
For the 2007-2008 Vegas incident most legal experts say OJ got a tougher sentence than he deserved.
I agree with both juries. Beyond reasonable doubt is a really high standard, and with Furman pleading the 5th on whether he planted evidence in the case, that's reasonable doubt right there
Fuhrman pled the 5th right after being caught committing Perjury (that he was later convicted of), with the rebuttal evidence being a tape where he was constantly saying the N word (the rebuttal), and bragging about falsifying evidence (the reason he pled the 5th, as any other answer would open the door to that part of the tape).
At that point, since Fuhrman had been alone (a violation of forensic procedure) with all the evidence and some of a blood sample of OJ going missing before evidence was found, all the evidence was suspect, and reasonable doubt existed for everything except the glove.
I remember this, but I didn’t know about all of the evidence… How did he get off? Just because of shrunken leather gloves? That’s insane!
Every time I watch something about the case o get so upset because he got away with this heinous crime.
This whole thing was such a travesty of justice its crazy. Lots of people didnt actually care if he was guilty, they knew he was, but in their mind, it was the cops vs black people, and whether he did it or not, there was a sentiment that if oj won against the police, it was a win for black people. Nicole's justice was sacrificed on the altar of the police vs black people who paradigm, and it's just extremely tragic.
I don’t think it was Nicole justice vs « black people » it was just about one black man who killed his wife then used and manipulated the black community to get him out of what he did so in way there’s 3 victims in this case first Nicole then her friend Ronald Goldman and the black community for being manipulated by OJ. And i don’t think they all knew cause a lot of them thought it was something made up by people who wanted to ruin is reputation so they had sympathy for him but putting all the black community in the same bag by saying they all knew isn’t a fair thing to say.
@@evlinboo9071 I actually think the media manipulated white people here. Have you ever read the Fuhrman tapes? The guy was one of the dirtiest cops in America. The evidence simply doesn't fit.
Black people didn't know if he was guilty, but they knew there was reasonable doubt. They knew evidence had been manipulated. White people even today ignore the massive holes in the forensics evidence. It's some weird confirmation bias thing where their brains won't hear it.
@@evlinboo9071 The black community was not being manipulated. They were just happy to see the Justice System work the other way for once, with the best attorneys money can buy manipulate the system to acquit OJ.
Maybe if the cops didn’t have a history in this country for harassing, beating and killing black people maybe the community wouldn’t be against the police!
A dangerous one to tackle; much respect to you for pinning it down. I think we all know the truth. Sadly her life and Ron’s still deserve justice to this day and it’s unfortunate they didn’t receive it & neither did Rodney King. Hopefully that is something we can all agree on regardless of race. 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
I remember the moment very, very well. Everyone was glued to the television, and the reaction to the verdict spoke volumes. In an instant, the personal bias of each person was laid bare.
If you want to hear a much more in depth talk about this case in terms of the people involved to the actual court proceeding, that You're Wrong About is a podcast that covered it in a lot of detail! its multiple episodes that are all about 1-2 hours long and sheds a lot of light on the situation.
Where is this podcast?
@@vlad6331 I personally watch it on podtail but I'm pretty sure any website that hosts podcasts will have it (like apple podcasts, spotify, art19, etc)
I thought you were telling her she was wrong. My brain couldn't comprehend the title of the podcast for a sec
My elementary school teacher took all us 4th graders to the library where the only TVs were, plugged it in, and we sat and waited for the verdict. When he was found not guilty she literally screamed! The OJ trial was so huge I remember it so so well as a part of my childhood. I can't think of a case since that reached that level of fame and 24hr coverage. We watched the verdict live, he was on the cover of every magazine for a year, on TV all night all the time. I think it was the beginning of the 24hr news cycle.
Wow, watching you talk about this while doing your brows is… so impressive.
Considering moving to the US and getting into legal trouble just to hire you as my lawyer.
Make it trademark trouble, rather than murder. #toptip
that’s cute!
Damn. Shoot your shot, my guy lol.
I remember being in like the first or second grade, and the teachers had wheeled the TV into the classroom to watch the trial. I can also remember the Menendez trial...that one was crazy.
Hi Leeja. I'm a new subscriber as of last week. I was really excited to watch your segment about the OJ trial, as I hoped that you might cover the issue surrounding the glove found in OJ's front yard, in detail. Anytime I watch a show about his trial, no one ever brings up what Marcia Clark should have done to prepare for the possibility of OJ trying on the glove.
Furman allegedly found the sole bloody glove (rt hand) behind the guest house. However, Kato Kaelin testified that he saw a glove in the front yard, as he was leaving that following morning, but thought nothing of it, figuring either OJ or one of his workers had dropped it. The sprinklers were on, so he assumed it was wet.
Now, you figured out how exposure to the elements can shrink a leather glove, but in every interview I've heard Marcia speak, she never considered how exposure to the elements could alter it. If she did, she didn't take it seriously, nor was she bright or wise enough to have a back up plan when the defense wanted OJ to try it on. For example, using a textile expert to testify how much leather can shrink when exposed and drenched with blood and water. And, purchasing the exact same style and size of gloves from where OJ had purchased the original. I firmly believe that if she had done this, he would have been found guilty, because the new gloves would have slipped onto his hands. If he feigned it, it would have been obvious. Instead, the glove in evidence had in fact shrunk, as he barely got it over his fingers. You could see how tight it was on his hands. Every juror who was interviewed afterwards had pointed to the glove as their primary reason for their decision to find him innocent.
I have watched all of your videos and held onto this one for when I had time to really take it all in.
My mom was going to school to be a paralegal during the trial and while Court TV was always on in our house I wasn't allowed to be in the room for parts of it. (I was in seventh grade when the verdict was read so I didn't really know much about what was going on.)
I watched The People vs OJ Simpson but I had never considered that the glove had been frozen and unfrozen several times. That makes a lot more sense now!
I've commented this before, but thank you for explaining everything in a clear way that is simple to follow and understand. I often struggle with comprehension but your videos are great! Also the makeup technique is neat :)
The glove test always stymied me, even during the trial. Of course, I was not aware of the expansion and contraction during the forensic examination (although I clearly should have been). All I could see was having Simpson put on the latex gloves first. Simple logic says that his own gloves wouldn’t fit over the latex gloves, thereby making Cochran’s remark a self-fulfilling prophecy. (I’m grateful to now hear the explanation for the latex gloves.) Darden, however, did know about that, and yet he insisted on performing the test anyway, even going over Clark’s head to do so.
Regrettably, the case turned on both the glove test and Fuhrman’s perjury. Those unforced errors go directly to the district attorney’s office, which clearly had a solid case without them.
As for the field trip to the Simpson residence, that was an unforced error committed directly by the police department. Clearly, knowing that this was the residence of their prime suspect, they should have cordoned it off as a crime scene from the time of his arrest until the end of the trial. Not doing so allowed Shapiro and Company to go in and perform their little redecorating job in order to garner sympathy from the jury.
In the final analysis, however, it ultimately came down to the defendant’s public reputation on and off the field-from his football career to the rental car commercials (even now, I can still see him running across the airport terminal) to his work as a color commentator on NBC. Consequently, I stand by what I said when the verdict was announced: “The jury was star struck.”
Loving the video, I like how casually you are putting makeup and talking about the most famous case 🤣🤣 great idea 😁 can’t wait to see more videos like this! Subscribed!
Thank you thanks for watching!!!
If anyone has ever watched that special from a few years back with a 2006 interview with OJ that wasn't released at the time that I believe was to promote his "If I Did It" book. He gives a hypothetical confession and it's really wild.
I have read a few books on this. I remember watching it on tv. OJ did it.
Your brow work is phenomenal 😍 as an Australian Law student, im so glad to have discovered your content! Absolutely in love
Omg ty!!!
Aaand I'm addicted to your videos
YESSSSS WELCOME
Hearing about this case genuinely made my stomach sick. He is a sick POS.
Your channel is gonna get a lot of subs; 6 months you’ll be at 100k. Great channel.
The other issue with the glove, was that OJ was taking anti inflammatory drugs to fight his arthritis, one of his lawyers had him stop taking these, so his hands swelled up.
I would always ask in this order who, why, when and where of course you want to know who did it
Would LOVE to hear an analysis of the documentary “The Staircase!” Absolutely love your videos!!
ooooo yes please I second this motion
Leejah: "The most famous trial of the century."
Trump: "Hold my diet coke."
Trump and diet Coke 🤨? Are you sure about that🤔? Trump doesn't seem like the diet Coke kind of man. If anything he is most likely the kind of man who would make fun of men who drink diet Coke, new Coke or any cola soda 🥤 for that matter.
Then again when she said, "The most famous trial of the century "she meant the twentieth century 😊.
LIVING for this channel.
I know this isn’t the point but would love to see a list of your makeup products used too!
Great makeup tutorial!
Well done. If it doesnt fit ... Thank You for explaining that very well. It takes a lawyer to explain lawyer strategies.
This lady is biased and wrong about alot of the facts, and she never mentioned the planted evidence, like the blood on the sock and back gate
Please do a video on Jeffrey Robert MacDonald. Here's what I remember about it:
Army physician, and stationed in North Carolina.
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One night his wife and both daughters were murdered (trying to keep this as brief as possible)...
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He was charged with their deaths, and injuring himself to appear that he fought off the attackers. Here's where it gets really weird...
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Each person in the family had a different blood type. This easily allowed the crime scene to be investigated.
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Please please please do a GRWM video on this.
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Thank you, and I enjoy the videos : - )
OK so the makeup bit totally helped me stomach the gruesome details 😬
What if one of your clients watches this video..
Hi Leeja! Greetings from Queensland, Australia! Would you consider offering your thoughts on the "College Admissions Scandal"? As someone who watched this from afar with little understanding of how the US college system works, the "news" stories we saw over here were often more focused on the celebrity status of those involved than on what they actually did. Even with my limited knowledge of the process I would have to assume that a student attending college on a Sports scholarship and then never playing that sport would have to raise eyebrows pretty quickly, right? Anyway, just thought this would be an interesting case for you to look at.
I made a statement on this in my recent AMA video! Thanks for watching!!
Great video.
Wasn't the McMartin Preschool trial way longer (also in Cali), I think it's the longest trial in US history...? Also a messed up case.
Goldman fought with the attacker. He tore up his knuckles fighting. O.J. had no bruises of his body and the police took pictures of his torso. Nobody ever brings this up.
Your channel deserves way way way more views and subscribers. Quality!
If I remember right, the prosecution was declaring that he planned this murder, while also calling it a crime of passion. That creates an inconsistency, because he couldn't be both when the crime was being committed.
Interesting because I had heard they had NOT found any blood except one drop on OJs car.
I watched this whole thing. He is guilty as f
“...to discuss who you’re gonna call...” and my mind immediately thought GHOST BUSTERS
Same
Sorry if this is weird but can you do a video on the death of Brian wells? That case is soooo interesting
I was pretty young, I wanna say like 8. But I remember the whole thing just because my name was similar enough to Nicole's that I got called Nicole Brown Simpson by kids trying to bully me. Kids are wild man
Could you do another look...with the focus on Judge Ito? love to see your thoughts on the handling of the trial by the bench.
This was the trial that got me interested in law when I was a child
I was hanging out with Blue Clues at the time so not really on my radar. Love that vid and the look tho.
Isn't it strange how 20/30 years later the same issues are popping up all over again same narrative etc....we as a people should've evolved waaaay back yet here we are. Sad don't you think?
I'd like to see you talk about the George Zimmerman trial, or maybe Kyle Rittenhouse. Speaking of messed up.
Wow! Have your video's come a long way. This is good, don't get me wrong, but the work you're producing now is on a whole other level. Quitting that law firm was a great decision.
I remember that some gas stations would allow you to watch the trail while you pumped your gas. I have yet to see a trail that high profile have that happen again.
This was an excellent series! Selma Blair was fantastic as Kris Jenner and David Schwimmer was so impressive as Robert Kardashian.
I was 13 at the time and it was the biggest thing that happened at the time. This was a great retelling of the story.
Jon Benet, the saddest case that never was
It's not possible that oj did it. Goldman fought the attacker, he even had bruised knuckles and knife cuts to his legs and shoes.
Oj didn't have a single bruise and there were 6 people on the flight with oj who testified that he didn't have a cut on his hand. In fact, lead detective Lange had the Chicago police go to OJs hotel and they saw the blood in a sink with broken glass and said oj was downstairs in lobby looking for a bandaid.
The evidence really doesn't fit. The fact that these police managed to get OJs blood on the scene is terrifying.
Oh and let's not forget how they botched the blood evidence. When the cops first visited OJ's residence they didn't find some blood evidence. However, they took some blood from OJ for testing. They later went back and visited OJ's resident and found additional blood, but that was only after some of the blood that was taken from OJ was missing and not accounted for. This gave the defense the ammunition to say some of the blood evidence was planted. This case changed the way crime scenes were treated everywhere because the cops did such a bad job contaminating them. It was also strange how one bloody glove was found at the scene of the crime and one was found at OJ's residence. But no murder weapon. It was difficult to see how one untrained person, who had never killed anyone in the past alone could kill two people that expertly, astutely get rid of the murder weapon, but somehow conveniently leave one bloody glove at the scene and one bloody glove at his house. Based on the the Mark Furman testimony, who after that became a regular on Fox News, and the evidence everyone was left thinking there was a high probability that evidence was planted. What I wanted to know, but was never examined at the time was: was there a cut on the glove that matched the cut on OJ's finger? But apparently, I was the only one in the country asking that question at that time.