Clifford claims that it is wrong in every case to believe without sufficient evidence. It is claimed that O.J. Simpson murdered his wife Nicole and Ron Goldman. O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of murder after a criminal trial by a Jury of 12 people. In our society we accept the court system which was set up by our constitution and the outcomes of the criminal trials that come from our court systems. The level of proof for a conviction in our criminal court system is “beyond a reasonable doubt” which is the highest standard of proof. The Jury takes an oath that it will listen to all of the evidence during the trial and without bias will examine the evidence and determine if there is sufficient evidence that O.J. Simpson had committed the crimes
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The racial tensions in LA made many people believe the police were out to get black people, this damaged the jury’s ability to listen to evidence in a fair and open minded way. OJ’s flamboyant and fun personality also clouded the Jury’s ability to analyze evidence fairly. I believe there were too many problems going on at the same time that caused the trial to get out of hand including the way that the Judge handled the media. Each one of these things which should not have affected the Jurys decision if they followed the law and the Jurys instructions, but in a trail anything can happen with a Jury. It was the overwhelming amount of evidence and events that makes me believe there is sufficient evidence to believe he has committed the …show more content…
The problem lays in the fact that this evidence put Simpson at the scene of the crime, blood evidence from the scene of the crime was recovered at Simpsons’ residence. This was not disputed by the scientific evidence but the Jury chose to believe it was planted by the LAPD in a conspiracy to frame Simpson in a few short hours involving numerous police personnel getting together and coordinating this massive frame up in such a short time period which goes beyond common sense that anyone would do this and for what reason? Which by the way would be absolutely wrong for the Jury to believe this theory to be true without sufficient evidence based on Clifford's
The racial tensions in LA made many people believe the police were out to get black people, this damaged the jury’s ability to listen to evidence in a fair and open minded way. OJ’s flamboyant and fun personality also clouded the Jury’s ability to analyze evidence fairly. I believe there were too many problems going on at the same time that caused the trial to get out of hand including the way that the Judge handled the media. Each one of these things which should not have affected the Jurys decision if they followed the law and the Jurys instructions, but in a trail anything can happen with a Jury. It was the overwhelming amount of evidence and events that makes me believe there is sufficient evidence to believe he has committed the …show more content…
The problem lays in the fact that this evidence put Simpson at the scene of the crime, blood evidence from the scene of the crime was recovered at Simpsons’ residence. This was not disputed by the scientific evidence but the Jury chose to believe it was planted by the LAPD in a conspiracy to frame Simpson in a few short hours involving numerous police personnel getting together and coordinating this massive frame up in such a short time period which goes beyond common sense that anyone would do this and for what reason? Which by the way would be absolutely wrong for the Jury to believe this theory to be true without sufficient evidence based on Clifford's