The People vs O.J. Simpson...American Crime Story... (3 Viewers)

[gk5717]

The toughest exam I ever took took only a few seconds, it was at the urologist!
Gary

 

[jazzeum]

The toughest exam I ever took took only a few seconds, it was at the urologist!
Gary

Trust me: it's more than a few seconds :redface2:

 

[gk5717]

Watched Episode 2 last night, still great TV but nothing new about the case I didn't already know.
I was afraid they would make OJ out as a sympathetic victim in this series but my take so for is every thing is neutral.
Never watched Mad Men, started last night on Netflix, another great show except I think I will have lung cancer with all the smoking going on before I'm done.
Gary

 

[hotel3alpha]

The toughest exam I ever took took only a few seconds, it was at the urologist!
Gary

All,

Oh Good Lord Gary! Fellas, that was the toughest class I ever took, but certainly not the toughest exam. Hmmmm, the toughest exam? Well, it was not a scholastic one, nor a urology one like Gary...ouch. The Texas Real Estate license exam was harder than some college classes at UT, but the majority of paper test I took we alright.

I think the toughest exam I ever took was my Shodan exam in Aikido in Kashima, Japan in front of some of the oldest Japanese Aikido Masters alive at that time. Plus, as the only American testing for that rank I was testing in front of some 200 plus practitioners who were all Japanese waiting to see what mistake I would make during my test. If I made a mistake in my 1 plus hour exam, it was not held against me, but it was a direct reflection of my immediate master Major Yamamoto. Ugh, the pressure to perform flawlessly. I threw up the night before. You must understand that the test is in Japanese both verbally and physically. The directions are in Japanese, the techniques are in Japanese and you are to take orders in Japanese. Simply put, the masters yell out what hold, throw or technique that want you to perform and send out a "semeru" to attack you and you must do it to perfection. Then they send another and another and another and another and before you know it you have like 6 guys attacking you at once. And that is where you practically die from exhaustion.

If you give up you fail. They know the threshold as they have been there before. If you prove that you can continue on and defend yourself and until your last breath then the top Master yells "OWARIMAS" which means your finished. You assume the position of seiza, bow to the masters and hobble off the tatami mats. I did, and passed out in the sweltering July heat of the Kashima Budokan.

But I earned my Shodan in Aikido from the Masters in Japan. A child hood dream come true.

John from Texas

PS: So, yes I missed the OJ trial, but as you can see I was busy doing something else during that time.

 

[mikemiller1955]

is it just me or has anybody noticed the similarities in the cast characters to the real life players...

obviously not a coincidence...

 

[mikemiller1955]

more...

 

[gk5717]

I think the close resemblance helps make this series what it is.
Gary

 

[BLReed]

I think the close resemblance helps make this series what it is.

Yeah, Cuba Gooding Jr was right on. With the main title role that is so important. Also the white Bronco
was an excellent portrayal.

 

[mikemiller1955]

Yeah, Cuba Gooding Jr was right on. With the main title role that is so important. Also the white Bronco
was an excellent portrayal.

Mr. Reed...

I actually thought Cuba Gooding was the least similar...

OJ was 6'1"s tall...

Gooding is 5'10"s tall...

in one scene...

he is dwarfed by Travolta...

but that's just his physique...not his facial similarity...

 

[BLReed]

I actually thought Cuba Gooding was the least similar.....

No kidding!

 

[mikemiller1955]

an interesting update in the real life case...

3/4/2016

LAPD investigating knife allegedly found on O.J. Simpson's property

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...ing-knife-allegedly-found-oj-simpson-property

perhaps a bogus news report or not authentic...

however...

still enjoying the tv drama...

Cochran is portrayed as a brilliant...shrewd...stop at nothing...to win this case attorney...

Darden seems completely over matched by Cochran...

the court scene where Darden tried to bar the defense from questioning Mark Fuhrman about his previous use of the N-word...
and Cochran quickly shut him down...
was fantastic...

I was also never aware of Cochran refurnishing OJ's house to make him look like a better defendant...

Clark is still blindly over confident...

 

[jazzeum]

Before you guys get going on this, OJ cannot be retried even if it turns out that he used this knife to commit the murders. Double jeopardy has attached. However, a case could be made for the Feds trying him for violating the civil rights of the victims.

 

[mikemiller1955]

Before you guys get going on this, OJ cannot be retried even if it turns out that he used this knife to commit the murders. Double jeopardy has attached. However, a case could be made for the Feds trying him for violating the civil rights of the victims.

Brad...

the knife story hasn't any validity of yet...

this could be a big hoax...

 

[jazzeum]

Just in case it does.

 

[gk5717]

Seen the story on the news tonight about the knife. If the TV series was not on that story would not even have been reported.
Mike I too never knew they redecorated Simpsons house for the walk thru.
I just realised the guy playing Mark Thurman was the guy that played the goofy, juvenile acting probe fireman on Rescue Me.
Gary

 

[BLReed]

If the TV series was not on that story would not even have been reported.

Exactly. That and a news dump typical of slow Fridays. A ratings bump nothing more, nothing less.

I'd give my expertise, but it is already covered in all the news reports.
i.e. getting around double jeopardy protection by accusing him of a federal civil rights violation. The statute of limitations has
certainly passed on any such violation. Then there is years of no chain of custody. Oh yes and DNA testing on an extremely rusted
and stained item.

Add another knife to the several knives that have been turned in through the years. Watch eBay, maybe the one will come up for auction.

 

[gk5717]

Watched the latest episode last night, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. Have to say I really felt sorry for Marcia Clark after watching it.
I don't remember the nude pictures.
Gary

 

[mikemiller1955]

Watched the latest episode last night, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. Have to say I really felt sorry for Marcia Clark after watching it.
I don't remember the nude pictures.
Gary

Gary...

I was in mid summer rush when this case first opened...and I do not remember that either...still...poor Marcia...she was overwhelmed and villainized by he media...disliked by all...

 

[Combat]

This circus goes on and on. There is yet another OJ show on the way to prove his innocence! You see these same type of "empty the jails" shows professing the innocence of just about anyone ever accused of a crime. They are often based on the kind of dishonest and incomplete analysis that they are allegedly trying to expose. Shameless:

"Hard Evidence: O.J. Is Innocent," a true-crime docuseries, will be executive produced and narrated by Martin Sheen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The new series will air on the Investigation Discovery channel and investigate claims that Simpson was responsible for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson was found innocent in the 1995 criminal trial but found liable in a civil case two years later.
"Hard Evidence" will offer an alternative theory and possible new evidence, based on decades of work by William C. Dear, a private investigator who wrote the 2012 book "O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It."

 

[gk5717]

Let's assume now that we have one last episode, that this series is as close to the truth that one can expect. I know it is the defense attorneys job to try to obtain a not guilty verdict for his client but with this case to use the race card as Johnny Cochoran has done is in my mind wrong. As was said Simpson is on trial not Mark Furman.
I have come to loathe Cochoran and to be quite honest I'm glad he met his maker at a early age. A well deserved fate.
Brad and Louis I know you are not criminal defense attorneys but what is your take?
Gary