Bill Cosby Guilty!

[Rev. Rye]

Really, the confluence of all of these points I mentioned points to the limitations of juries. You give them the information in the case, and they fit it into the schemas they have set up to interpret the world around them. Any one of these points is weak on its own, but together, it shouldn't be hard to see why someone would believe the jury made the wrong decision. I mean, sure, Mark Fuhrman is, to say the least, an unsavory character, one who lied under oath, and one can't potentially rule out the possibility that the LAPD is capable of tampering with a crime scene and planting evidence to support the case against their preferred perp.

However, the issue of whether or not the LAPD are potentially capable of such an act is not exactly the question that needs to be asked (Seriously, the Rampart Scandal a few years later proved they very much were). The question is: did they actually do such a thing in this case?

And here's another hypothesis as to why OJ got off, from Alan Dershowitz, member of the defense: a form of jury nullification where the jurors probably believed he actually was guilty, BUT, because they believed the cops tried to frame him, decided they couldn't, in good conscience, vote him guilty because of that tainted evidence. Not sure if that's true or not, but it is interesting.

Naturally, despite all the ink spilled on this case, so many details are about as clear as mud, and there's a lot of interesting hypotheses. Which one is totally correct, nobody knows, but there's a lot of interesting points of view to potentially grasp.

And since I got notification that Huggy Bear is responding to my posts, I can only assume that the block function does not work both ways.