In the spirit of him having died and the pure curiosity from someone who was not alive during this trial; why was there such a racial divide in the OJ trial? I’ve seen a bunch of photos of people reacting to the verdict when it came out and in a lot of them every white person is upset while every black person is happy.
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The simple answer is: Because the defence lawyers did their job. The jury was majority afro-american, and the lawyers defense strategy was tailored towards that.
Hostile prosecution, planting of evidence, arguing that the police were racially motivated because the victim was white while the suspect was black etc. All of these arguments resonated with Black America at the time, a black america that was so used to the government actively trying to smear prominent black americans that they were quite willing to believe that this was just another case of that.
In the civil trial the prosecution was a lot better prepared at dismantling these arguments and prepping their expert witnesses.
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