R.I.P. O.J.. I hope you made peace with your maker before you passed.
Side story:
I was interning at the time of the trial, and even the legally minded blacks at the courthouses were insisting that O.J. was innocent, something I had not expected. It wasn't even a question of them claiming insufficient evidence, but was an absolute insistence on his innocence. Every single bit of evidence was dismissed by them, regardless of the foundation laid out for the evidence, as if they were defense attorneys rather than prosecutors and court staffers.
Then there was the one woman who I got to agree with the validity of every significant piece of evidence (long story as to how I accomplished that). We're sitting, and talking about the case. At the end, I list off the evidence, piece by piece, in a timeline that established how O.J. had done it, to the point where she no longer had any "Yeah, but" left. Her response once we'd gotten to that point?
"You're right, the evidence is clear, but he's still not guilty."
