Because Singular is a vocal advocate in the belief that Simpson was framed, I will at times respectfully engage with his Twitter and will challenge his ideas. I will post more in-depth looks at those ideas here. Let's look at a recent post regarding one of his main theories. I responded, though yet haven't seen a follow-up.
Does he provide a reason for it being moot?
The FBI was called in to refute this allegation. True. Roger Martz was contacted to "refute" this allegation. This is from the letter he received from Rockne Harmon:
"We would like you to test these items for the presence/absence of EDTA in order to refute the possibility that the stains on the sock, item 13, could have come from Nicole's reference sample, 59 or 72. Similarly, we would like you to test item 117 to refute the possibility that it could have come from Simpson's reference sample, no. 17."
Some have interpreted this as meaning that Martz had an obligation to refute it. He did not, and explicitly said so in his testimony. Should the letter perhaps have been worded differently? I think so, but I'm guessing that it was sent like this because the very idea of EDTA being in the samples seemed very unlikely in the first place.
If they had been able to do that, the prosecution would have called FBI Agent Roger Martz as a witness.
What? The EDTA argument was the defense team's argument. Why in the world would the prosecution call a witness to rebut a position that they never advocated for in the first place? And regardless of who called Martz as a witness, his report prior to taking the stand explained that he did not identify EDTA. His testimony subsequently supported this as well. Does the fact that he was subpoenaed by the defense and not the prosecution mean he was lying? How? Martz had already met with Marcia Clark prior to his testimony and explained that there was no EDTA in there, so this makes zero sense.
They couldn't do that because EDTA was in the blood.
They...couldn't call Roger Martz as a witness because EDTA was in the blood? Well, except, you know...he said the exact opposite and all when actually put on the stand.
Game over.
Indeed Stephen. But maybe not in the way you think it is.
Still refusing to watch the Court TV docuseries OJ25 aka the actual trial instead of biased documentaries and TV shows, and still spreading lies about the trial and seething about the verdict I see.
ReplyDelete2016 Vulture interview with juror Sheila Woods:
I guess maybe black people cheering was less about O.J. and more about the politics of the LAPD at the time, police brutality. A lot of their catharsis was bigger than O.J. I can understand that. But at the end of the day, two people were murdered.
I think most people thought we based our decision on race. Race never came up in the topic of our deliberation, or even how the LAPD treated black people.
Like, regarding Fuhrman, none of his comments really …
The thing with Fuhrman was once his credibility was shot, you really could discount anything he said. He was definitely a liar — he lied on the stand — and when he came back to the court, he took the fifth on everything. Why would you trust anything he said? He was the detective that found all this evidence: the blood on the Bronco, on the back fence, on the glove … all of that created reasonable doubt.
Was there a moment in particular during the trial that really swayed your decision towards reasonable doubt?
Yeah, when they started talking about the blood evidence. There was, like, a milliliter of blood they couldn’t account for. And they found blood on the back fence of Nicole’s condo, and that particular blood also had the additive in there. That additive is only found in [a test tube of blood], so why would the blood sample on that back fence contain that additive unless somebody took the blood from the test tube and placed it there?
Do you think O.J. was framed?
I don’t know if he was necessarily framed. I think O.J. may know something about what happened, but I just don’t think he did it. I think it was more than one person, just because of the way she was killed. I don’t know how he could have just left that bloody scene — because it was bloody — and got back into his Bronco and not have it filled with blood. And then go back home and go in the front door, up the stairs to his bedroom … That carpet was snow white in his house.
He should have blood all over him or bruises because Ron Goldman was definitely fighting for his life. He had defensive cuts on his shoes and on his hands. O.J. only had that little cut on his finger. If [Goldman] was kicking to death, you would think that the killer would have gotten some bruises on his body. They showed us photos of O.J. with just his underwear just two days after, and he had no bruises or anything on his body.
Comments from an African American forum:
“Let’s not be naive. It will also always be a part of pop culture because we live in a racist, white supremacist society. White America thinks that it is fine that they murder black people all day every day and get away with it. But this is the first high profile case we ever really saw where a black person (allegedly) murdered a white person and got away with it.
Make no mistake. They don’t give a flying fµck about Nicole Brown and neither do I. White women like her get abused and murdered every day by their own people. Nobody would still be talking about this case with such fervour if the racial element didn’t exist. Maybe when they care this much about black people getting murdered, I will have some fucks to give.”
“I don’t want to hear about all the mistakes the prosecution made. I want to know how he killed two people without a bruise, scratch or cut on his body.
How did he managed to rush home in his bronco and only have two drops of blood in/on the car?
How did he manage to have a cut on his hand but not on the glove?
Lastly, how did he managed to do all that stabbing and not manage any cuts to the glove?
Oh and manage to pull all of this off, and catch a flight. How?
This would better help me understand the “miscarriage of justice” everyone purports to have occurred.”