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O.J. Simpson's ghost writer calls him a 'murderer'

slate.com — "I was sitting in a room with a man I knew to be a murderer and I let him hang himself. There was talk he was going to do this as a straight confession." A working title for the book at one point was not 'If I Did It', but 'I Did It'. The title was suggested by Simpson himself. What do you have to do in this country to get yourself thrown in jail?

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  • whiskeymb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+52Simpson was already found not-guilty of murder. He can not be re-tried for that crime (in his case). So, he can admit all he wants to killing her and it won't matter.

    The fact is that OJ Simpson will be put in jail for tax evasion before he ever gets put in jail for the murder of Nicole Simpson.
    • MattJF317, on 10/12/2007, -21/+4O.J. Simpson a murderer?

      -This just in-

      DUH!
    • JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -32/+26Simpsons did it!
    • T4z3R, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14I think he would be arrested for the confession, but he never took the stand so it wouldn't be perjury. The only thing they could get him for is a false testimony or something. Which is easy time.
    • T4z3R, on 10/12/2007, -12/+0Bury
    • Raftysworld, on 10/12/2007, -25/+1http://diggmirror.com
    • nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6^^ really?

      http://duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/O_J_Simpson_s_ghost_writer_calls_him_a_murderer/
    • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18The biggest question in my mind is why someone hasn't vigilante'd the guy yet. I know if my child was killed like that I'd hunt the ***** down that did it and make sure he pays, particularly after the justice system failed the way it did.
    • CannedMango, on 10/12/2007, -21/+15You've been watching "Double Jeopardy" too much...

      A person can't be tried for the same crime twice *unless* there is new evidence discovered that was not previously available. I think a confession would be tantamount to having new evidence.
    • 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -22/+76"What do you have to do in this country to get yourself thrown in jail?"

      apparently, in america you just have to be poor. The poorer you are, the easier it is to throw you in jail. ***** this ***** country,

      (this will probably be the most dugg down comment ever!)
    • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32"A person can't be tried for the same crime twice *unless* there is new evidence discovered that was not previously available. I think a confession would be tantamount to having new evidence."

      That's not true at all. You cannot be retried for the same crime after you're found innocent, except:

      "There are two exceptions to the general rule that the prosecution cannot appeal from an acquittal. If the earlier trial is proven to be a fraud or sham, double jeopardy will not prohibit a new trial. In Harry Aleman v. Judges of the Criminal Division, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, et al., 138 F.3d 302 (1998), an appeals court ruled that a man who bribed his trial judge and was acquitted of murder was allowed to be tried again, because his bribe prevented his first trial from actually putting him in jeopardy. The other exception is that prosecutors may appeal when a trial judge sets aside a jury verdict for conviction with a judgment notwithstanding the verdict for the defendant. A successful appeal by the prosecution would simply reinstate the jury verdict, and so would not place the defendant at risk of another trial."
    • thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14@4degrees

      No. To get thrown in jail you have to commit a crime and be really dumb about it.
    • danbuscaglia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Double jeopardy comes from the 5th amendment ("nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.") In Fong Foo v. United States, the SC made it impossible to be retried for a crime you were acquitted of, regardless of new evidence. At first, this only applied to federal cases, but was extended to state cases (murder) through incorporation of the 14th amendment in Benton v. Maryland.
    • skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Will somebody just snipe him already? Put it on rotten.com for bonus points.
    • Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -19/+39We all know that OJ was guilty. However, the all-black jury was on his side since he merely killed "a white bitch."

      Digg me down for "racism" but it's true and someone needed to say it.
    • Jagdwulfe, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Actually he can be tried again for the murder if he confesses to it. We had this discussion when he first broached the idea of the book interview. The State of CA can't go after him but the Federal Goverment can.
    • teknotant, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11If my daughter was murdered by a man that flaunted his freedom in such a way, there would be no need to bring the judicial system into this. A trip to the gun locker would do just fine.
    • DogmaticAtheism, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2To answer the question: you just have to be poor.
    • pegisys, on 10/12/2007, -11/+10"We all know that OJ was guilty. However, the all-black jury was on his side since he merely killed "a white bitch." "

      that's not it, it was the racist cop, just about every black person, myself included, has ran across a racist person of authority(be it cop, teacher, or bank teller) that you really can't do anything about, they probably let OJ go just to piss off Mark Fuhrman
    • parax, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5@Elranzer

      Black jurors were important element in the case, only because they were able to sympathize with the potentially biased law enforcement.

      If you think black people culturally approve of killing white people, you may not be a racist, but your knowledge level leaves something to be desired. He was acquitted for many reasons. Tantamount among them is that the jury became confused by ping-pong rulings. The jury was shown evidence that was later ruled inadmissible, hearing testimony that was thrown out, and hearing stories about evidence being tainted. At the end of the day, the jury probably couldn't keep track of which evidence was "real" and which evidence was ruled faulty. Most of the jurors probably could not say he was guilty "beyond reasonable doubt", even if they had strong feelings. The standard for a criminal prosecution is not "guilty because we strongly believe he did it"

      Black people don't band together to make sure other people of the same race go free. We have just as strong moral convictions as the next person. It's comments like yours that broaden the racial divide. Black people are not so ignorant the only way we could possibly form a decision is if we just chime in with "whatever the black guy says I agree with." The jurors probably believed they made the best decision they could given the information available to them.
    • ray901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@parax
      "He was acquitted for many reasons. Tantamount among them is that the jury became confused by ping-pong rulings. The jury was shown evidence that was later ruled inadmissible, hearing testimony that was thrown out, and hearing stories about evidence being tainted. At the end of the day, the jury probably couldn't keep track of which evidence was "real" and which evidence was ruled faulty"

      That, and the glove didn't fit. That sealed it for me.

      /should not be required
    • flashboy131, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@teknotant
      If my daughter was murdered by a man that flaunted his freedom in such a way, there would be no need to bring the judicial system into this. A trip to the gun locker would do just fine.

      agreed. LAPD might look the other way.
    • gwinerreniwg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm of the opinion that someone should release a copy of this book to the general public as a pirated or free PDF to prevent ANYONE from profiting from this sick and tragic event. It appalls me that someday when the controversy dies down a bit, someone is going to profit from this book. Give it away for free and dilute it's value.
  • michaelaranda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19See? Our judicial system works just fine...
  • g4r3thw, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4"What do you have to do in this country to get yourself thrown in jail?"
    that's an interesting question.
    • eggo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18You're going to start a blog now, aren't you?
    • adinb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Apparently you have to have cancer (or other chronic medical condition) and belong to a medical marijuana group.
    • leehar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Smoke pot
      Be Poor
      Show up at a UC library and refuse to show student ID
      Protest the WTO
      Strike as a union member
      Occupy right-of-way near the pResident's compound
      Decline to be interrogated at a police roadblock
      Commute by bicycle during a Critical Mass Rally
      Attempt to vote in certain areas of certain states
  • bwjacket, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25If the glove don't fit... you get away with murder and then a decade later attempt to profit off of the story of your slain victims by writing what would have been the most disgusting book in recent memory.

    OJ Simpson - official candidate for Worst Person Ever.
    • adinb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I think the Nazi's, Bolsheviks, Khmer Rouge (and a long list of petty dictators) still have him beat.

      But not by much.
    • coldstatue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2not to mention that that glove-modeling session was some of the worst acting I've ever seen... and the media didn't even point that out at the time, they just said, "*****, it doesn't fit."

      I can make a glove look like it doesn't fit me.
  • CancerBomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24"O.J. Simpson's ghost writer calls him a 'murderer'"

    O.J.'s ghost writer and everyone else.
  • IamBobX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11You know O.J. might have a future in Politics
  • oldman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Funny he was O.K with woring with a murderer. Getting paid to write about the murderers excuses, but now that he's out of a job He is a MURDERER! Oh No!
    • Culled, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8That's exactly how I feel he calls him a murderer but that doesn't stop him from profiting from it. It makes me sick.
    • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8He got paid regardless. The guy's ok in my book, he was able to coerce details from O.J. to finally give the retards in this country enough evidence to change their opinions.
  • Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5actually the army of the 12 monkeys did it...
  • BonerMachine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19What do you have to do in this country to go to jail? Smoke pot.
  • flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Orentho the bus driving murderer.

    The juice, a murderer?! Nah...........
  • MrTRiX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Source en.wikipedia.org:

    The phrase "double jeopardy" stems from the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb." This clause is intended to limit prosecutorial abuse by the government in repeated prosecution for the same offense, as a means of harassment or oppression. It is also in harmony with the common law concept of res judicata, which prevents courts from relitigating issues and claims that have already been the subject of a final judgment.

    There are three essential protections included in double jeopardy: protection from being retried for the same crime after an acquittal; protection from retrial after a conviction; and protection from being punished multiple times for the same offense.

    This law is occasionally referred to as a legal technicality, because it allows defendants a defense that does not address whether the crime was actually committed. For example, were police to uncover new evidence conclusively proving the guilt of someone previously acquitted, there is little they can do because the defendant may not be tried again (at least, not on the same or substantially similar charge) Fong Foo v. United States, 369 U.S. 141 (1962).

    Though the Fifth Amendment initially applied only to the federal government, the Supreme Court has ruled that the double jeopardy clause applies to the states as well, through incorporation by the Fourteenth Amendment. (Benton v. Maryland.)

    Jeopardy attaches in a jury trial once the jury and alternates are impanelled and sworn in. In a non-jury trial, jeopardy attaches once the first evidence is put on, which occurs when the first witness is sworn.
  • DeFex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4not be a celebrity or rich . thats how you get thrown in jail.
    it is no accident. It is very plain to see there are different classes. and i am sure it is no accident.
    • Hypersapien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or male

      You forgot about Martha Stewart
    • Palehorse68, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Martha Stewart just had crappy legal advice. She could have avoided jail time if her lawyers had just told her to admit to the insider trading and pay a fine.
  • erikf, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3OJ Simpson could have confessed on the stand in court, he still would have been set free for two reasons:
    1)The state was terrified of the you-know-whos rioting and burning down their own communities, again, the 'hoods that whitey just paid for to be rebuilt.

    2)He was set free because the jury had 8 blacks and 2 hispanics, an Indian and a white woman, and we all know only white males can be guilty because whitey is responsible for everything evil.
  • evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5"What do you have to do in this country to get yourself thrown in jail?"

    be poor.
  • noah45, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Q: when is a ghost writer not a ghost writer
    A: when you know there's a ghost writer.
    • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Because we all really believed OJ's literate enough to crank out a novel on his own.
    • computerdude33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm confused... this is like one of those money riddles I never get.
    • SuperJdynamite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Because we all really believed OJ's literate enough to crank out a novel on his own."

      According to the documentary "The Naked Gun", OJ is challenged by assembling even the simplest of jigsaw puzzles.
  • mikefitz2, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3And in this topic all the poor hippie Mac users come out of the woodwork to stick up for their poor brothers!
    • computerdude33, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2And in this thread I digg you down for bringing a completely unrelated topic into this discussion!
    • JMnet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Didn't this happen over ten years ago? Why do we have to go back to this BS "Trial of the Century" every time the 24 hour news cycle runs out of another blond girl to chase down?

      Get over it! If the guy really did commit these crimes...I bet he is just eating this publicity up.
  • champsampson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I don't care if the DNA evidence is 10 million to 1 indisputable...

    "If the glove don't fit, you MUST acquit."
    • Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2actually, i think i was about 8 during all of this but i still remember them saying its like 4 billion to 1 chance that it wasn't him... which means there might be 1 other person in the entire world (could be somewhere in Qatar) that shares similar enough DNA.

      f*cktards.
    • JoeNapalm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
      Actually, it was more like 1 in 96 billion.

      So it must have been aliens.

      -Jn-
  • Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"What do you have to do in this country to get yourself thrown in jail?"
    Get convicted by a jury of his peers
  • Darph.Bobo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10O.J. Simpson's ghost writer calls him a 'murderer...
    ===============
    And so does anyone with a functioning brain cell.
  • heresy0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Its called reasonable doubt. The fact that OJ Simpson is a free man (however screwed up that is) is a credit to our system.
  • dougbell, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1He sliced that white bitch like a Christmas ham.
    • coldstatue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2blocked
    • nixr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@dougbell

      How does a neanderthal like you even figure out how to turn the computer on much less navigate to a website? Don't you have some whittling to do?
  • sathias, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6His next book...

    "How I would have touched those children" by Michael Jackson
  • dave1021, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Gee, the ghost writer who was probably promised a piece of the pie is now sitting on "hours" of recordings of OJ? This interview is simply him dangling for another book contract, which he probably hasn't gotten yet because the lawyers at other publishing houses look at those tapes as proprietary to the previous project.

    Meanwhile, Mr. Ghostwriter can't really say much due to contractual obligations, so the Slate whore makes it up.

    I'm sick to death of the whole OJ thing. But I think I'm even more sick of the sharks swimming around hoping for some OJ cash than I am of OJ...
  • lando3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1where does it say OJ wanted to call the book "I did it" ?
  • leehar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1What do you have to do in this country to be thrown in jail?
    easy,
    BE POOR
  • BillyG123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I just KNEW that bastard would be rubbed off within a week of the trial ending, UNBELIEVABLE!

    We don't play that here in the South!
  • szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Couldn't they prosecute him for attempted murder, assault, perjury? If you stab somebody, you certainly committed assault, and if you murder somebody you obviously attempted to murder them. Unfortunately though I believe the reason they cannot do this is that the statute of limitations has passed for most offenses he committed, other than the obvious murder charge which he was already wrongly acquitted of.
  • v3rb4t1m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool
  • RoughKilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OJ IS NOT A MURDERER, THOSE ***** BLOODY GLOVES DIDN'T FIT HIM, PLUS HE WAS AWAY IN CHICAGO WHEN THE MURDER HAPPENED. AND MARK FURMAN IS A ***** RACIST, U'D KNOW THAT IF YOU HEARD THE TAPES OF HIM.
  • happyhedonist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am white. I don't believe OJ did it. There were gloves, specs of blood on a sock, tainted blood evidence. Also, if he got someone else to do it, I think there would be a major opportunity for that person to squeal.

    This case has very, very strange factors. OJ making a book -- and all this speculation that he DID IT -- is pure speculation because no book has been released.

    This guy has no means to make a living and probably went with what he could go. Furman fked himself by getting caught on "TAPE" saying he sets up black people. As lead investigator, that's enough for me.

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