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Fuhrman had to take the fifth when asked if he planted evidence. The jury got it right, how could they with a clear conscience convict when Furhman basically admitted planting evidence? It was clear OJ did it but the police fucked up so bad the jury had no choice but to vote not guilty.

To me it looked like if the LAPD left the evidence to speak for itself OJ would have been convicted but they were so used to bolstering cases through fraudulent evidence they fucked themselves when a decent defense team was involved. OJ getting away with murder is on them, not the defense, not the judge, not the prosecution or the jury, it is their fault.

Fuhrman should have been prosecuted for what he had done.

Judge Ito did a pretty decent job with what he was handed. From my perspective and what I believe to be the jurors OJ was guilty but there was no way to know what was good evidence and what was the LAPD planting evidence to bolster the case against a clearly guilty person. If Furhman could honestly say he never planted evidence I think OJ would have been convicted despite the problems.

In fairness to Fuhrman, he was essentially required to plead the fifth to that question, as he had already done so to a question as to whether he had lied in his earlier testimony.  A witness cannot jump back and forth between using the protection of the fifth amendment and not, essentially only answering those questions that they want to.  The defense would have known this, and by forcing him to invoke the fifth amendment with their previous question, were then able to force his response to their provocative questionas about planting evidence.  It doesn't MEAN anything about whether he may have planted evidence or not - but it sure makes an impression on the jury, which was the real reason the defense called him back to the stand.  Any defense with the opportunity to raise such a doubt (especially in a case where the handling of evidence is being called into question) would have done so. Mark Fuhrman was found guilty of perjury in 1996.

Mike

One of the gloves and shoe prints also present.

If this case was open/closed and OJ went away for murder, we would have never had the Kardashians. Think about that.

As someone who loved doing a good interrogation, that transcript makes me so angry

Sure they can, at the Federal level.

Charge him with Conspiracy to Violate a Person's Civil rights.

Happened to the cops who beat up Rodney King. They were acquitted at the local level and the DOJ got convictions for 2 of the 4 cops for federal civil rights charges.

Are you joking? They tore the evidence collection to pieces. Yeah, they had him dead to rights but you fuck up the handling and a good attorney will destroy it.

Even my old man, who worked homicide cases and HATED OJ, said the prosecution was fucked.

Just finished OJ Made in America documentary. Amazing insight and his former agent telling about OJ confessing to him while high was

I watch the latest documentary also. According to what some of the jurors said it was basically a case of jury nullification. Mainly due to the attitudes and treatment of blacks by the LAPD over the past few years. One juror went as far to say that OJs not guilty verdict was a direct result of the Rodney King beating.