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keefriff99
Take the emotion out of it...and I realize it's not easy given what a horror of a human being he is:
He's being paroled for his participation in a very stupid botched robbery where he was trying to steal back sports memorabilia.
He was acquitted for murder, so this parole is NOT about that.
Strange how the article doesn't mention his defense of the man referenced in Midnight Rambler.Quote
dmay
Here's an interesting read on F. Lee Bailey, one of O.J.'s lawyers. He still believes in The Juice.
[www.townandcountrymag.com]
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Cooltoplady
He will win the next Presidential election.
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Cooltoplady
He will win the next Presidential election.
LOL might be better than what we have now
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keefriff99
Take the emotion out of it...and I realize it's not easy given what a horror of a human being he is:
He's being paroled for his participation in a very stupid botched robbery where he was trying to steal back sports memorabilia.
He was acquitted for murder, so this parole is NOT about that.
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The Sicilian
As a sports figure, OJ Simpson was the greatest running back in the history of the game that I've ever seen. Prior to the original case he was a great sports ambassador for the City of Buffalo.
I'm well aware...I was 16 years old and watched the trial on CNN with my family every night while eating dinner. I just don't support mob justice.Quote
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keefriff99
Take the emotion out of it...and I realize it's not easy given what a horror of a human being he is:
He's being paroled for his participation in a very stupid botched robbery where he was trying to steal back sports memorabilia.
He was acquitted for murder, so this parole is NOT about that.
nope. i'm in the neighborhood where two young people got sliced up; and the city nearly burned down. it's filled with emotion; he got away with murder. yes i do understand the legalities regarding this sentence, and if he's got the go ahead, that is that; I'm not personally outraged or anything. but if you were here you know that it hurt; and that kind of hurt has had big-media all over it time and time again; the murders become blood-lust entertainment and we get Kardashian trash dumbing down a generation or two...ok i'm an old bloviating over-opinionated surly cat, but you know...when you hear it; and it's all around you and everyone you know...and it's not a thrill or something you covet, or advertise, or get noticed for; just saying it's a real thing that touches you when someone local gets it. there are non-famous people that have gone down hard around here; and recently; it has an effect. i do appreciate the legalities of this specific case; and it tha'ts the way it works ok...i mean...ok...but ty for letting me express myself.
Interesting read. The guy is quite the scoundrel...a likeable scoundrel, but a scoundrel.Quote
dmay
Here's an interesting read on F. Lee Bailey, one of O.J.'s lawyers. He still believes in The Juice.
[www.townandcountrymag.com]
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Hairball
My older brother had an apartment in Brentwood right down the street from Nicole Simpson at the time of the murders.
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keefriff99I'm well aware...I was 16 years old and watched the trial on CNN with my family every night while eating dinner. I just don't support mob justice.Quote
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keefriff99
Take the emotion out of it...and I realize it's not easy given what a horror of a human being he is:
He's being paroled for his participation in a very stupid botched robbery where he was trying to steal back sports memorabilia.
He was acquitted for murder, so this parole is NOT about that.
nope. i'm in the neighborhood where two young people got sliced up; and the city nearly burned down. it's filled with emotion; he got away with murder. yes i do understand the legalities regarding this sentence, and if he's got the go ahead, that is that; I'm not personally outraged or anything. but if you were here you know that it hurt; and that kind of hurt has had big-media all over it time and time again; the murders become blood-lust entertainment and we get Kardashian trash dumbing down a generation or two...ok i'm an old bloviating over-opinionated surly cat, but you know...when you hear it; and it's all around you and everyone you know...and it's not a thrill or something you covet, or advertise, or get noticed for; just saying it's a real thing that touches you when someone local gets it. there are non-famous people that have gone down hard around here; and recently; it has an effect. i do appreciate the legalities of this specific case; and it tha'ts the way it works ok...i mean...ok...but ty for letting me express myself.
And frankly, I'm more outraged about the thousands of people (many of color) who have been wrongfully imprisoned by corrupt police and prosecutors over the decades. Stories of men walking out of prison after 30-40 years because DNA evidence exonerated them...
As ridiculous as the entire O.J. saga was, the prosecution got what it deserved for its complete ineptitude, not to mention for being stupid enough to put a known fascist (the FUHRER-man (thank you, Robin Williams)) on the stand.
I feel nothing but sadness for the Brown and Goldman families...they're the ones who often get lost in the tabloid sensationalism.
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Hairball
My older brother had an apartment in Brentwood right down the street from Nicole Simpson at the time of the murders.
I lived on Gorham Avenue at the time, just up the street from her condo. I moved across the street (to the corner of Bundy and Gorham) two weeks after the murders, and still live here today. The neighborhood was crazy in the ensuing weeks/months - people in their cars making full stops in busy traffic in front of her condo to catch a glimpse (of nothing!)...people posing and smiling for photographs at the murder scene...tour buses passing by constantly. A bizarre time.
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dmay
Here's an interesting read on F. Lee Bailey, one of O.J.'s lawyers. He still believes in The Juice.
[www.townandcountrymag.com]
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hopkins
great; kill the mother of your own two kids; and savagely slice a younger person returning her stuff from his job, to death...
,,,, cuz she forgot it down the road from her place...
... lose a civil trial and hide the money; get popped for threatening others after setting them up for potential gun-play...
...cause tremendous backlash of actual black people who are getting set up and down the river over b.s....and let the riots begin.
He drives that Bronco to timbuktoo threatening to off himself; he should have possibly been encouraged to weigh the benefit/damage ratio of that paradigm.
oops.
man oh mn; this guy is gonna fk up as soon as he's out.
just think; if not for this murderous egghead you would have never, no one would have EVER heard the name Kardishian; never mind have to look at all those gross chicks all the time. dohhh. it's a sin to even see his name in the press....tho some of my friends FB threads are making Mel Brooks look like Oliver...ohboy; something about his 'impending discharge' heh heh; he was caught making love to himself on camera in the lockup...doh...please rush this in and OUT of the news cycle. What a disgrace.
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Hairball
Wow...you were neighbors with my brother! I think we've both said it before - it's a small world! I remember the circus around the neighborhood...even nightly newscasts had reporters out there for weeks/months! A bit off topic, but wonder if you remember the Liquor Barn up on San Vicente...that's where we used to stock up on mass quantities of beer, etc.! The Honey Baked Ham I worked at in the mid-'80's was was on Princeton and Wilshire - I don't think it's there any more.
Crazy to think OJ will be roaming the streets again freely...makes you question the justice system with regards to him being acquitted for murder.
My father was a victim of a violent crime and lost his life in '75 when I was 12 (happened at his office building in Westwood we talked about a while back - Monty's, etc). The murderer was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and was sentenced to six months in a psychiatric mental health facility. I can relate very well to how the Goldman's feel, and stand with them every step of the way in their pursuit of some sort of closure which will never fully happen no matter what. They have to live with the horrible memory for the rest of their lives, while the person responsible roams around freely...eating, sleeping, breathing, etc.
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Hairball
Wow...you were neighbors with my brother! I think we've both said it before - it's a small world! I remember the circus around the neighborhood...even nightly newscasts had reporters out there for weeks/months! A bit off topic, but wonder if you remember the Liquor Barn up on San Vicente...that's where we used to stock up on mass quantities of beer, etc.! The Honey Baked Ham I worked at in the mid-'80's was was on Princeton and Wilshire - I don't think it's there any more.
Crazy to think OJ will be roaming the streets again freely...makes you question the justice system with regards to him being acquitted for murder.
My father was a victim of a violent crime and lost his life in '75 when I was 12 (happened at his office building in Westwood we talked about a while back - Monty's, etc). The murderer was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and was sentenced to six months in a psychiatric mental health facility. I can relate very well to how the Goldman's feel, and stand with them every step of the way in their pursuit of some sort of closure which will never fully happen no matter what. They have to live with the horrible memory for the rest of their lives, while the person responsible roams around freely...eating, sleeping, breathing, etc.
I do remember the Liquor Barn on San Vicente...I shop there all the time, but it's a CVS now. Honey Baked was still around until the last few years, but is now a bank. Back in the '80s, there was a cool record store just a couple doors down from there called "Off The Record" - for a brief time they had bootlegs, and I remember coming across a 3-LP set of the Stones' Hampton concert there during the summer of '82. I didn't buy it because I had taped the show off the radio (plus it was like 30 bucks!), but I sure wish did!
I'm so sorry about your dad - how awful for you and your family. As for OJ, I do feel if he had been tried before a jury of his actual peers (meaning in Santa Monica instead of Downtown), he would have been found guilty. Who knows what will happen next, but unfortunately I doubt he'll keep a low profile...narcissist as he is, he'll be in the public eye as much as possible. But maybe he'll finally track down the real killers, most likely on a golf course somewhere.
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duke richardson
way, way OT..