The trial and eventual outcome was such a travesty in the first place,
It wasn't a travesty. It was the legal system working
exactly as it was intended to do.
The Prosecution
failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt.
In reality, the legal system isn't about guilt or innocence. It is about how well each side plays out the 'game', that is the law. There are rules and processes and the prosecution must provide the jury with a detailed and reasonable account of why the person should be found guilty. Failing to do that, the defendant usually walks.
I'm not saying that I support the decision. I am saying that it is the Prosecution's responsibility to lay it all out in such a way as to leave only the conclusion of 'guilty'. On more then one issue, they failed to do this.
Benjamin Franklin wrote that it is better [one hundred] guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer."
That means that some guilty people will go free.
There was all kinds of outrage after the criminal trial. Shouts that something had to be changed because such an 'injustice' had occurred. What changed? Nothing. Except perhaps, prosecutors all over the country, learned to play the game of law much better.
People can lament that the jury was "stacked" in O.J.'s favor. Not so. I watched the whole thing, I'm not black. The prosecution failed in doing it's job in proving proof beyond a reasonable doubt, that he did it. There was more then one place this happened. In my opinion, however, 'the glove' did it.
