[research99]

The primary mistake in the prosecution was changing the jurisdiction from a criminal court on the West Side of Los Angeles (where a jury pool would have been from more affluent areas) to a Downtown court (where the jury pool was impoverished and had a higher percentage of minorities).
The choice was made by a DA who wanted his staff to be able to work closer to their offices, or in other words in a city known for its road traffic, for greater convenience.

The jury pool chosen saw it as they wanted to see it, and never deviated even when evidence to the contrary was presented. The DA lost his next election, as I recall.

[Nepeta]

The jury pool chosen saw it as they wanted to see it, and never deviated even when evidence to the contrary was presented. The DA lost his next election, as I recall.

If you are going to think with your skin, you're going to do stupid things.

I did not believe he killed those people until the DNA evidence started rolling in. I could not believe he would be sloppy enough to murder with his children just footsteps away--what if one of them came outside looking for Mom? Would he have murdered the kid as well?

[forgotten man]

The District Attorney, Gil Garcetti, had political ambitions of running for governor. He moved the trial downtown to suck up to the blacks. Gil Garcetti’s son Eric Garcetti is the current mayor of Los Angeles. Eric Garcetti got the black vote.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The other factor I think that is worth mentioning is simply money. It really was the "Dream Team" of criminal defense attorneys--F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Shapiro, etc.--and O.J. was able to hire them, along with the jury consultants, focus groups and all the rest. What it showed was that you can literally buy "reasonable doubt." Why do people see race in the O.J. case? Because that's what tested well as a strategy. As soon as I heard the defense say, after jury selection, that they gotten the exact jury they wanted, I knew how it was going to come out.

You can also see it in the Robert Blake case--that guy was guilty as hell, but got off. And I'm sure that if Phil Spector hadn't had a long history of crazily pointing guns at women, he'd have gotten off, too. Hell, he got a hung jury in his first trial.