I'm guessing you must not have been have been born yet when this trial happened or are too young to know about it. Hopefully you aren't choosing to ignore the truth
it's something I've read real lawyers' analyses of.
CTLM posted...
They were GOOD. They charged millions and were well respected.
uh-huh...
the point is that the attitude that these are some "dream team" of lawyers and that that somehow makes the defense's job so hard is BS. OJ's lawyers didn't do anything amazing. the media creating a narrative of impossibly good defense lawyers does have an effect, making everyone think they're doing an amazing job when they aren't. this biases the jury, making them more ready to accept the defense's arguments than they should be.
So you think they did nothing? You think they just sat around and laughed, playing on their gameboys all day? It's not like they didn't use every advantage they were handed. It isn't as though the prosecution was such so incompetent that they had to declare a mistrial.
The defense did their jobs, putting on a show at numerous points (everybody remembers the glove speech) and OJ got to walk away a free man. They convinced the most important people at that time of his innocence: the jury.
I don't know what you use or how you gauge the level of amazing defense but last time I checked, when you're being accused of a double homicide and you're a free man? That's pretty amazing. Especially when so many people believe you're guilty
evidence was handled like shit at the scene.
the glove didn't fit because it was stored improperly, and the blood caused the leather to shrink ---