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-CROWD MURMUR

-All right, let's see what OJ can do.

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He's got it up, and he holds it good enough

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to get a call from the referee.

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OJ Simpson stands up

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and that one is hit hard to left.

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High enough, wind helps, and it's gone.

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Watch this.

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Tell me how many right-handers you've ever seen do this,

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pick off the five-ten.

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CHEERING

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The Juice is moving it out.

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He's got a good run going. Heading for the hurdle.

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This is going to be a good time for OJ Simpson.

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This programme contains very strong language and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your patience.

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I have just a few final instructions that I need to give

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to you before you start your deliberations on this matter.

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You are reminded that you must not be influenced

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by mere sentiment, sympathy,

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passion, prejudice,

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public opinion or public feeling.

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Both the prosecution and the defendant have a right

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to expect that you will conscientiously consider and weigh

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all the evidence,

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apply the law as I have instructed you

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and reach a just verdict regardless of the consequences.

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There's a rough rule of thumb

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for jury deliberations.

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One day of deliberation for each week of trial.

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So, we all settle in and we think, "OK,

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"we're going to be here a while."

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All the lawyers on the case were going to do something

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that first day that the jury was out,

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because everyone knew we had at least one day.

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It was Johnnie's birthday.

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He and his wife had taken a one-day excursion

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up to the wine country...

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..and I called Johnnie from the courtroom.

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I said, "Jay, Jay, we got a verdict."

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He said, "What?!"

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"We got a verdict, man."

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We reached the verdict.

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We were happy about that.

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After more than eight months of testimony,

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more than 100 witnesses and more than 45,000 pages

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of court transcripts, the jurors,

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who'd been advised not to talk about the case

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since it began, came to their decision

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over the course of a morning's work.

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We had to go home.

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That's all I got to say.

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We'd been gone a year and we had to come home.

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Being held up for nine months,

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I wouldn't want that,

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but why don't we talk about a couple of things

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that may be on our mind?

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They did not deliberate.

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I truly was offended.

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267 days.

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-That's how long the trial lasted.

-Mm-hm.

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-1,105 pieces of evidence.

-Mm-hm.

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45,000 pages of trial transcript from 133 witnesses.

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How the hell did you deliberate for three and a half hours?

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How many days was it again?

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267 days.

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266 nights.

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266 nights I went back to that room, alone.

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Wasn't able to talk to other jurors.

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Wasn't able to talk to family.

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Nobody but me and my thoughts.

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I waited till the end to come up with a decision,

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but each night that I went home

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after listening to testimony,

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I stored that.

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By the end of that trial, I knew where I was,

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and it was clear.

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OJ was extremely emotional.

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Puts his hand on the glass like you see on TV,

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and he said, "Look, guys,

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"if it's guilty,

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"I never want to see you guys again.

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"Don't come see me in prison,

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"because your lives are going to be changing,

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"and what am I going to say?

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"My life is the same as it was yesterday.

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"Same as it's going to be tomorrow.

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"Nothing will ever change.

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"So, I don't want to see you guys again, ever."

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We got there around 3:30 in the morning.

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By six o'clock, it was just very crowded.

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People everywhere,

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policemen everywhere.

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We were underneath the criminal courts building,

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in case there was trouble.

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They brought in police on horseback...

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..as if they were preparing for a riot.

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Why don't you get the fuck out of here, you fucking asshole?

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'I had reporters coming to my front door,

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'and I had really had it.'

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-Can I fucking hit him?

-No.

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I think part of me knew which way that verdict was going.

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For a trial that seemed to go on forever, the fact

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that it will end has produced a national surge of adrenaline.

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Did you have a rather sleepless night last night, Mr Garcetti?

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Sleepless night? I had my usual four hours' sleep.

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I have to fully admit, I thought he was guilty.

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I thought it was obvious he was guilty.

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So I thought the jury...agreed with me.

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And the record should reflect

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that we have now been rejoined by all the members

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of our jury panel and our alternates.

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All right, Mrs Robertson, do you have the envelope

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with the sealed verdict, please?

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-Yes, Your Honour.

-All right, would you give those to Deputy Trower?

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The judge had admonished us not to say a word,

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not to make a sound,

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not to move, not to do anything

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but sit there and listen to the verdict.

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All right, Mr Simpson, would you please stand and face the jury?

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In the matter of The People of the State of California

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vs Orenthal James Simpson,

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case number BA097211,

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we, the jury in the above entitled action,

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find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime

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of murder in violation of penal code section 187a,

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a felony upon Nicole Brown Simpson, a human being,

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as charged in count...

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It was almost like an out-of-body experience.

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I had a feeling of numbness.

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Did this really happen?

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They really did it. They acquitted him.

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They really did it. They walked him out the door.

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Johnnie is in back of OJ and Johnnie's saying,

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"Juice, you're going home," and he's putting his head against his back.

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"You're going home, Juice, you're going home!"

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It was fabulous.

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I actually thought I might pass out from shock.

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I was so astonished.

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Orenthal James Simpson,

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not guilty of the crime of murder

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upon Ronald Lyle Goldman.

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One of the young guys,

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either one of the Goldman families or the Brown family,

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he said, "Murderer, murderer."

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I was focused on Kim Goldman.

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..convicted of at least one crime of murder

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of the first degree and one or more crimes of murder

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of the first or second degree to be not true.

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It hurt me to know that I had to hurt somebody else

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like that, and I didn't want to.

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SOBBING

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My mom and dad, just stoic.

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I'm the more emotional one.

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There was this deputy there,

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and I was like, "Can I leave?"

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And she goes, "You can't leave."

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The other piece of this was that kind of moment

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of triumphant Simpson.

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I remember thinking that that gesture, that's a competitor.

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He had been through a big ordeal.

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He'd fought hard and he'd won.

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One of the jurors - I believe it was juror number six,

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a male black - stood in the jury box

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and raised his fist like this.

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What?

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This was a guy who presented as THE most mild-mannered,

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and then we find out, yeah, he was a member

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of the Black Panthers, years ago.

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Later, I was talking with the Deputy Sheriff.

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He had taken jurors to where they were released.

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So glad to be back. I feel free.

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He said, "All across this parking lot,

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"there was high fives and cheers and smiles."

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He said, "I heard it over and over.

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"That was payback for Rodney King."

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We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty

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of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon.

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Do you think that there were members

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of the jury that voted to acquit OJ

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because of Rodney King?

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-Yes.

-You do?

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Yes.

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How many do you think felt that way?

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Oh, probably 90% of them.

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90%?

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Did you feel that way?

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Yes.

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That was payback?

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Uh-huh.

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You think that's right?

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The majority of the world, or the majority of Americans,

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think that we're a group of idiots who didn't get it right.

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I think that the jury was made to be the scapegoat

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for their faults.

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It was a mistake to present Fuhrman the way they did.

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It was a mistake to let Darden get up there

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and be a part of that case.

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Had they come correct,

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had they had the right attorneys up there

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putting on the case that they need to put on,

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they would've won.

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It wasn't payback.

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THEY messed up.

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It may have been payback,

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but it wasn't payback for anything that happened recently.

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It was payback for what's happened over the last 400 years.

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It was payback for how black people are treated in America.

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I believe that that was on the minds of

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every black person in America.

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In the matter of the People of the State

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of California vs Orenthal James Simpson,

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case number BA097211...

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We, the jury in the above entitled action,

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find the defendant Orenthal James Simpson not guilty.

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CHEERING

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There was joy.

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You could hear it in the barbershop

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or the beauty salon or in the classroom at the school,

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on the streets.

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A release of breath, exhaling.

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The Juice is loose!

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He's loose! He's loose!

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Free at last, free at last.

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Thank God almighty, I'm free at last.

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It was like that day Jackie Robinson

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opened the door for black players.

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This trial tapped into the racial history of Los Angeles.

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I didn't realise how much it tapped

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into the NATIONAL pain of race relations.

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..Orenthal James...

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Orenthal James Simpson...

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Orenthal James Simpson not guilty...

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It was all so much bigger than we were.

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So much bigger.

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I think the black jubilation

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was very offensive and very hurtful.

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Who laughing now? You know who did it?

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My family did it, the races of America.

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Those films of African-Americans cheering

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and whites crying,

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it put a huge red line across society.

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Certainly, the resentment that African-Americans

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have toward whites...

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..was shocking.

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It was absolutely shocking.

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Now you know how it feels.

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We are flush with illustrations

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where we have been the victims

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of what you consider to be racial thinking.

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And that's why your moment of joy...

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..may only be a moment.

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That's why you seize your moment of joy,

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because tomorrow - sorrow.

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To actually have a black man found not guilty,

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when every other black man who's ever been

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blamed for anything like that

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or anything NEAR something like that, has been killed,

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this is indicative of progress,

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regardless of what you think about him.

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It was like, "Wow, things have changed,

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"somewhat."

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I just really hoped that,

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probably in a terribly Pollyanna-ish way,

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I really hoped we had come some distance.

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My white neighbours, people I'd grown up with all my life,

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the person I talked to every single day,

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just stopped speaking to me because of this trial.

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I received hate mail.

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They would send the hate mail to the court,

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the court would forward it to me.

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I got a lot of personal blame,

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a lot of personal threats.

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In essence, you know, "You deserve to die."

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What sort of personal toll

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did this take on the prosecutors who tried the case?

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I shake my head because I haven't been able

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to weigh it entirely,

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but the toll is immense.

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If there was anything that ever motivated me

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throughout the trial, it was the idea,

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the notion, that one day I'd have to turn to the Goldmans...

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..with the realisation that he had been acquitted.

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I am honoured to have...

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Chris was in bad shape.

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He was really devastated.

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A verdict of guilty would have been redeeming for him

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in the black community.

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You can feel this sense of brokenness within him,

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because he gave everything that he had.

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My guess is that if Chris were given the opportunity again

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to say yes or no on this case,

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he wouldn't have taken it.

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He's paid one huge price.

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This has been a hard-fought battle,

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but I want to make it as clear as I can that this trial is over.

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No-one in our community believes in murder,

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and our hearts have gone out

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to these two families from the very beginning.

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A statement from our father.

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I'm relieved that this part of the incredible nightmare

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that occurred on June 12th, 1994, is over.

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I will pursue, as my primary goal in life,

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the killer or killers who slaughtered Nicole

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and Mr Goldman.

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Whatever it takes, I'll provide.

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They are out there somewhere.

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The children.

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You did tell them?

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Yes, we told them.

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Told them Daddy's free.

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Did they say anything to you?

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They were happy.

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They love Daddy.

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We have never said anything negative about Daddy.

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People were on fire, excited about...

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finally, the criminal-justice system worked in favour

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of an African-American male.

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But everything is not about race.

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Everything is not about how we were treated

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historically in this country.

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I didn't see it as an example

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of African-Americans being free

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or we beating the criminal-justice system.

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Not for African-Americans.

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It was a victory for a rich guy named OJ Simpson,

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and I was troubled by it.

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-RADIO:

-'Now, go back in, go back in.'

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Did he give you any indication

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when he would want the children, or what would happen?

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I think he is reasonable enough to know

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that the children have a good life here.

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That they find strength and love in this house.

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'They switched over.'

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I don't think that he knows, really,

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what he wants, right now.

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'There they are, right there.

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'Bryce, go in tight.'

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'I can tell you right now he ain't coming out any time soon.

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'OK, we're going to get up, we're going to pull up high.

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'Get out of all this bullshit.'

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Yes!

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Take off your jacket.

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TV NEWS REPORT PLAYS

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You're home!

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What has the atmosphere been like at Mr Simpson's house today?

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Who is with him? What are they all doing?

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It's, as you can imagine, a very, very touching time.

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A very cheerful time for a man who's spent 15 months

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in prison and was found innocent.

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-TV:

-'..now to the criminal courts building for the prosecution,

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'whose conference is about to begin.'

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I want to hear this like a hole in the head.

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Don't even listen to it.

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How do you turn this up?

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-I'm going to bounce, you guys.

-Yeah.

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Yeah, this is the one case, you got the wrong guy

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like all those other cases you led who didn't get away.

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He invited the lawyers to come by for a drink

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and I was the first one there.

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And he was up in the bedroom.

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He said, "I wonder where Bob Shapiro is."

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I said, "Look up above you.

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"He's on television.

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"Barbara Waw-ah."

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Mr Shapiro, you said in the beginning that race

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would not be a determining part of this case,

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that you would not play the race card.

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The race card was surely played.

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Barbara, my position was always the same.

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That race would not and should not be a part of this case.

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I was wrong.

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Not only did we play the race card,

0:23:220:23:25

we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.

0:23:250:23:27

The hypocrisy of his suggesting that the decision

0:23:290:23:34

to use race was a bad one,

0:23:340:23:38

when it was the card that he stacked the deck with.

0:23:380:23:42

From the very beginning, it was his theory.

0:23:420:23:45

Would you work again on a case with Johnnie Cochran?

0:23:450:23:50

-No.

-Would you work on a case again with F Lee Bailey?

0:23:500:23:53

I will not talk to F Lee Bailey again.

0:23:530:23:55

Thank you, Mr Shapiro.

0:23:550:23:57

Everybody say "hogwash", c'mon.

0:23:590:24:00

ALL: Hogwash!

0:24:000:24:02

Come on, talk to each other a little bit,

0:24:020:24:04

come on, talk to each other.

0:24:040:24:05

Not so fast. OK.

0:24:050:24:09

Wow! Where'd we go that night?

0:24:090:24:11

Probably home and cried.

0:24:110:24:13

Probably home and cried.

0:24:180:24:20

And probably said 100 times,

0:24:210:24:23

"How did he get away with it?"

0:24:230:24:25

You don't ever get over it.

0:24:270:24:28

You don't ever get over it.

0:24:300:24:32

It doesn't go away that he can't live his dreams.

0:24:360:24:38

It's always still there...

0:24:430:24:44

..close to the surface.

0:24:460:24:48

It's always still there.

0:24:480:24:50

We actually believed that if he's found not guilty,

0:25:000:25:04

we all go back to our lives and just move on.

0:25:040:25:07

He thought he'd walk right back into it.

0:25:080:25:10

His viewpoint, "I'm back and I'm going to be playing

0:25:140:25:17

"golf every day and I'm going to be OJ and everything's fine."

0:25:170:25:20

I think he felt he could con the rest

0:25:200:25:23

of the world into believing that.

0:25:230:25:26

Here we have the top-ten ways he's searching for the real killers.

0:25:260:25:30

Number nine...

0:25:300:25:31

Yeah,

0:25:330:25:35

excellent piece of detective work.

0:25:350:25:37

I think the vast majority of the people in Brentwood

0:25:370:25:40

thought he was guilty,

0:25:400:25:42

and it became very uncomfortable for him to be here.

0:25:420:25:45

I saw him filling up his car one day,

0:25:490:25:51

and people, literally, were giving him the finger

0:25:510:25:55

and screaming insults. He filled up his car

0:25:550:25:59

and pretended he didn't hear anything and moved on.

0:25:590:26:03

I was walking the dog, and that feeling you get

0:26:040:26:06

where the hair stands up on the back of your neck

0:26:060:26:08

where you know someone's watching you,

0:26:080:26:10

and OJ's leaning out of the Rolls-Royce,

0:26:100:26:13

and I remember saying,

0:26:130:26:15

"Oh, shit."

0:26:150:26:17

I walk over to him and he gets out,

0:26:170:26:19

and we hug and we kiss.

0:26:190:26:21

He turned to me and said, "Why don't you come see me?

0:26:210:26:23

"Not too many people come to see me."

0:26:230:26:26

I said, "Sure, of course I will."

0:26:260:26:28

There was that hug goodbye,

0:26:280:26:30

and "of course I'm going to see you",

0:26:300:26:32

where he knew I was never going to see him,

0:26:320:26:34

and I knew I was never going to see him.

0:26:340:26:36

You had a pretty close relationship -

0:26:370:26:39

is that true?

0:26:390:26:41

We had the type of relationship

0:26:440:26:46

that we'd see each other a couple times a year.

0:26:460:26:49

But I wasn't one of his best friends.

0:26:490:26:53

All the black people in my life used to tell me, "Man,

0:26:550:26:57

"white America will turn on you,

0:26:570:26:59

"and they will zip up your nigger suit on you so fast

0:26:590:27:04

"and they will forget about you like that."

0:27:040:27:07

Why don't you sell the Brentwood estate,

0:27:070:27:10

go away for a little while?

0:27:100:27:11

Go where? What, do they want me to go to Africa?

0:27:110:27:14

Is that what some of those people would want?

0:27:140:27:16

Go where? I live in LA.

0:27:160:27:18

I see people... I haven't seen 'em.

0:27:180:27:19

I hear there are people in Brentwood that don't want me in Brentwood.

0:27:190:27:23

Maybe they are, but I would say this.

0:27:230:27:24

I think I've probably lived in Brentwood longer

0:27:240:27:27

than 90% of 'em. They're squatters.

0:27:270:27:29

If they don't want me in Brentwood, THEY should leave.

0:27:290:27:32

What do you say to criticism about

0:27:320:27:34

-missing your daughter's birthday?

-Hey, OJ!

0:27:340:27:36

Esquire had chosen me

0:27:380:27:40

to do a story about OJ Simpson.

0:27:400:27:42

I was interested in OJ as a pariah.

0:27:450:27:49

Don't play with OJ!

0:27:490:27:52

Go away, OJ, go away!

0:27:520:27:55

I wanted to try to find out how or whether he could uphold

0:27:550:27:58

the OJ persona in the face of public wrath and hatred.

0:27:580:28:04

Guilty! Guilty!

0:28:040:28:07

I don't think there's anybody out there

0:28:070:28:08

that won't say that wherever they met me,

0:28:080:28:10

all over this country for the last 30 years,

0:28:100:28:13

I took time, I treated you the way I wanted to be treated.

0:28:130:28:17

He's a wife-beater! Go home!

0:28:170:28:20

I don't think there's anybody out there that ever met me anywhere -

0:28:200:28:23

in airports, in ballparks, on the street -

0:28:230:28:25

that I wasn't kind to you,

0:28:250:28:27

I didn't treat you the way I thought you wanted to be treated.

0:28:270:28:32

Anybody who's ever written me, I wrote 'em back.

0:28:320:28:34

Charities that ever called me, I always sent them something,

0:28:340:28:37

at my cost.

0:28:370:28:38

I only ask you to give me that courtesy,

0:28:380:28:41

to treat me the way I treated you.

0:28:410:28:45

You ugly murderer!

0:28:450:28:47

You ugly-ass murderer!

0:28:470:28:49

I felt sorry for him, I did.

0:28:490:28:53

I just couldn't bring myself to feel

0:28:530:28:56

that he was...

0:28:560:28:58

..bad in the pure sense of the word.

0:29:000:29:03

I kept feeling like he was a victim.

0:29:030:29:05

That's all I want to do. Provide for my family, my kids,

0:29:050:29:09

and give me the opportunity and a fair shake.

0:29:090:29:11

Fuck you, OJ!

0:29:110:29:13

But I swear to you, before my God,

0:29:150:29:17

I did not commit these crimes.

0:29:170:29:21

Thank you for taking the time to listen to me.

0:29:210:29:24

The easy answer is to say that people were indignant

0:29:240:29:27

that OJ got away with murder,

0:29:270:29:29

but the level, the scope of the reaction,

0:29:290:29:32

my sense was that there was a lot of racism in it.

0:29:320:29:35

This way, please, OJ.

0:29:350:29:37

He wanted the love back.

0:29:390:29:41

He wanted to be loved again.

0:29:410:29:43

# O-O-O...

0:29:430:29:46

# J! #

0:29:460:29:47

-He is our brother.

-AUDIENCE:

-Yes!

0:29:490:29:51

C'mon, you can clap on that.

0:29:510:29:53

We have never believed that he was guilty.

0:29:550:29:58

-AUDIENCE:

-Yes!

0:29:580:29:59

He wanted acceptance from the community.

0:30:010:30:04

He knew that he was ostracized

0:30:040:30:07

by a whole number of people.

0:30:070:30:08

-Don't take a step back.

-Right!

0:30:080:30:10

You just get with God and you get ready for your comeback.

0:30:100:30:13

So, when you're...

0:30:130:30:14

I think he felt a sense of deliverance,

0:30:140:30:19

and maybe he felt that God delivered him.

0:30:190:30:21

I'm not trying to restore any image.

0:30:210:30:24

I'm not trying to get back with God what I've lost.

0:30:240:30:27

I'm trying to do one thing.

0:30:270:30:29

I'm trying to go to Heaven.

0:30:290:30:31

APPLAUSE

0:30:310:30:32

But I got criticised.

0:30:320:30:34

"How can you accept someone who is a murderer?"

0:30:360:30:39

Well, the court didn't say he was a murderer.

0:30:390:30:42

Court said he was innocent,

0:30:420:30:44

and Jesus accepted all people.

0:30:440:30:48

CHEERING

0:30:480:30:50

-CROWD CHANTS:

-OJ! OJ!

0:30:530:30:55

This is like a dream come true for me,

0:30:590:31:01

to meet Mr OJ Simpson.

0:31:010:31:04

Hug me, darling! I love you!

0:31:040:31:06

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:31:060:31:08

Let me put it on, man.

0:31:080:31:10

He said he was trying to thank the people that stuck by him,

0:31:130:31:16

but that wasn't OJ. I mean,

0:31:160:31:19

to me, it didn't ring true.

0:31:190:31:20

Listen, this thing ain't close to fitting me!

0:31:200:31:23

We'd go to Roscoe's, too.

0:31:260:31:27

Go down and eat chicken and waffles.

0:31:270:31:30

And I remember telling him, "When in the hell

0:31:300:31:33

"did you ever eat chicken and waffles before?"

0:31:330:31:36

But that's where black America went.

0:31:360:31:39

And you would hear people, "Oh, so now you're black.

0:31:390:31:42

"Now you're black."

0:31:420:31:44

C'mon up here, African.

0:31:450:31:47

We appreciate you coming out tonight.

0:31:470:31:49

I grew up in the projects, you know.

0:31:570:31:59

No-one has to tell me, "You act black."

0:31:590:32:01

I grew up in the projects, I know about being black.

0:32:010:32:03

I AM black.

0:32:030:32:05

But once I started getting over at the end of the '60s,

0:32:050:32:08

what I'd done is something that's happening

0:32:080:32:10

with a lot of black men in America.

0:32:100:32:12

You find yourself protecting your place in society.

0:32:130:32:18

You tend to think that you're immune to something.

0:32:200:32:23

You know what's happening out there is still happening,

0:32:230:32:26

but you're hoping to change

0:32:260:32:27

and you're fool... You're really fooling yourself.

0:32:270:32:30

But at this point, I'm in the community,

0:32:320:32:34

I'm trying to hang around people that I think

0:32:340:32:37

can better educate me.

0:32:370:32:39

I think I have a unique opportunity here.

0:32:390:32:41

I'd like to be able to take advantage of it,

0:32:410:32:43

and I'd like to not...

0:32:430:32:46

possibly once again let you down.

0:32:460:32:49

-Thank you.

-Oh, thank you!

0:32:490:32:50

I was at home in New York. The phone rang.

0:32:550:32:59

And a voice said, "Hey, it's OJ.

0:33:000:33:03

"I'm not done talking to you.

0:33:030:33:05

"I don't know why, but I talk to you like you're my shrink or something."

0:33:050:33:10

He said to me, "Let's say I committed this crime.

0:33:100:33:15

"If I killed her, it had to have been

0:33:150:33:17

"because I loved her very much, right?"

0:33:170:33:19

Every time he spoke about Nicole,

0:33:220:33:25

it was this mix of affection...

0:33:250:33:28

..irritation,

0:33:290:33:31

indignation and kind of wanting to prove to the person

0:33:310:33:34

he's speaking to...

0:33:340:33:37

..that she was impossible.

0:33:380:33:40

He's not wired like everybody else.

0:33:430:33:45

He never wept for Nicole - or the kids.

0:33:460:33:51

Like, "My kids are going to have to grow up without their mom."

0:33:520:33:55

The Browns had Sydney and Justin.

0:33:560:33:58

We'd have to transfer the kids,

0:33:580:34:00

so they can go and spend the weekend with their dad,

0:34:000:34:03

and it's their dad and I'm respecting that.

0:34:030:34:06

Before, we were talking about a conversation

0:34:080:34:10

you had with Judy in the last month or so,

0:34:100:34:13

down in Laguna.

0:34:130:34:14

OJ told the psychologist that Justin

0:34:160:34:18

had been calling him,

0:34:180:34:19

for him to come down to watch him play basketball.

0:34:190:34:22

And the psychologist said, "Well, if that's the case, you should go."

0:34:220:34:26

I did not know until after all this happened

0:34:280:34:31

that the Browns didn't know that OJ was coming down.

0:34:310:34:34

We walked into the gym and we watched Justin warm up.

0:34:380:34:42

Judy walks in, she sits behind me,

0:34:420:34:46

and she says, "I want to talk to you."

0:34:460:34:48

And I think she referred to me as a coward or gutless

0:34:480:34:50

or something like that.

0:34:500:34:52

And she said something about, uh...

0:34:520:34:55

OJ controlling me.

0:34:550:34:58

Then Lou walked up.

0:34:580:34:59

He started in on me, about, uh, "Nobody wants him down here."

0:35:010:35:06

He said something about a scene. I said, "There's no scene here."

0:35:060:35:09

I said, "If anybody's making a scene here, it's Judy.

0:35:090:35:12

"OJ hasn't done anything."

0:35:120:35:14

The kids were taken away from my mom on Christmas Eve.

0:35:260:35:29

That was devastating.

0:35:290:35:31

Sydney would say, "I want to go..."

0:35:330:35:35

uh, to her grandparents,

0:35:350:35:37

and he said, "They don't want you. They want you for the money.

0:35:370:35:40

"They want you for the child support. That's why they want you."

0:35:400:35:43

It was strained.

0:35:450:35:46

One night, I went to Rockingham.

0:35:500:35:53

And we're drinking Rolling Rock beer outside...

0:35:550:35:59

..and he was smoking pot.

0:36:000:36:03

He was looking around the backyard,

0:36:050:36:09

reliving all the different events that had happened there.

0:36:090:36:13

And I just asked him, "What happened June 12th?"

0:36:170:36:21

And he asked me what I thought happened.

0:36:240:36:27

I said, "I have always thought you probably did it."

0:36:290:36:35

I said, "I know what you told AC.

0:36:350:36:37

"You know, that you went there,

0:36:370:36:38

"but you just went to see what was going on,

0:36:380:36:42

"but you didn't take a knife."

0:36:420:36:43

He shook his head...

0:36:470:36:50

and he said, "Yeah."

0:36:500:36:51

And he said that if she wouldn't have opened the door

0:36:510:36:54

with a knife, she'd still be alive.

0:36:540:36:55

I believed that for the longest time.

0:37:030:37:06

And then I...

0:37:070:37:09

He went there to kill her.

0:37:100:37:12

He went there to kill her because of how she made him feel.

0:37:150:37:19

Being rejected, that she didn't need him.

0:37:200:37:23

And then, of course, the Marcus factor.

0:37:230:37:25

I'm better than you.

0:37:270:37:28

He was seeing

0:37:280:37:30

Marcus was him,

0:37:300:37:32

you know, 15 years younger.

0:37:320:37:35

And I guess the part that bothers me about it...

0:37:450:37:47

..is he left...

0:37:490:37:51

..the kids upstairs...

0:37:530:37:54

..to walk out.

0:37:560:37:57

They could've walked out and found their mom like that.

0:37:570:38:00

I die tomorrow, I would know without a doubt that he did it.

0:38:040:38:08

Not even a slight maybe that he didn't.

0:38:090:38:13

We had a year to file the civil suit.

0:38:160:38:19

We wanted a court of law to say, "You did it."

0:38:190:38:23

OJ Simpson is back in the news this morning.

0:38:250:38:28

He wanted his deposition in the wrongful death lawsuits

0:38:280:38:30

kept secret, but a judge in Santa Monica

0:38:300:38:33

ruled Wednesday that his testimony will not be sealed.

0:38:330:38:36

The judge also ruled it will be videotaped.

0:38:360:38:40

Present is plaintiff Frederick Goldman.

0:38:470:38:50

-Swear the witness.

-Would you raise your right hand, please?

0:38:500:38:53

'I wanted to be in the room when the deposition'

0:38:530:38:56

was being taken.

0:38:560:38:58

-..so help you God?

-I do.

0:38:580:38:59

To be able to say, "We're after you."

0:38:590:39:03

Do you recall an incident when you chased her?

0:39:030:39:05

-No.

-Grabbed her?

0:39:050:39:07

-No.

-Threw her into the walls?

0:39:070:39:10

-No.

-Threw all of her clothes out the window into the street?

0:39:100:39:14

-No.

-And bruised her?

-No.

0:39:140:39:16

-You don't recall any of that?

-No.

0:39:160:39:18

Listening to him was everything from disgust

0:39:180:39:23

to astonishment.

0:39:230:39:25

HE MOUTHS

0:39:250:39:26

-Excuse me?

-I said, "Don't answer."

0:39:260:39:28

-He whispered something, Mr Baker.

-No, I did not.

0:39:280:39:31

-I didn't, uh...

-You mouthed something.

0:39:310:39:33

I think I'm allowed to mouth something to myself, aren't I?

0:39:330:39:36

What did you mouth?

0:39:360:39:37

He was cocky.

0:39:370:39:39

He was never forthcoming with anything.

0:39:390:39:43

We are back on the record now.

0:39:450:39:46

He'd be smiling,

0:39:460:39:48

like the whole thing was a joke.

0:39:480:39:50

What's that paper there for?

0:39:500:39:52

Well, I... I designed a golf hole that he's going to play,

0:39:520:39:55

a course he's going to play, and I was just telling him about a hole

0:39:550:39:58

that's on that golf course.

0:39:580:40:00

And that's how seriously he was taking it.

0:40:000:40:02

Did you ever buy shoes that you knew were Bruno Magli shoes?

0:40:020:40:06

No.

0:40:060:40:08

How do you know that?

0:40:080:40:10

Cos I know if Bruno Magli makes shoes that look like the shoes

0:40:100:40:14

they had in court that's involved in this case,

0:40:140:40:16

I would have never worn those ugly-ass shoes.

0:40:160:40:18

He'd lied about everything.

0:40:180:40:21

There's not an honest bone in his body.

0:40:210:40:23

You were sort of obsessed

0:40:230:40:24

with her having that relationship with Keith, right?

0:40:240:40:27

No.

0:40:270:40:29

-Didn't bother you at all?

-Her with Keith, with Marcus,

0:40:290:40:32

with any of 'em, didn't bother me at all.

0:40:320:40:33

-Not at all?

-No.

0:40:330:40:35

He's lived a life of fraud and being a fake

0:40:350:40:41

for God knows how many decades,

0:40:410:40:43

to a point where I think he just believes his own bull.

0:40:430:40:47

I gotta take a leak.

0:40:470:40:49

Mr Cowlings, I'm going to ask you to look at...

0:40:540:40:57

..this picture.

0:40:590:41:00

It's been previously marked as exhibit number 45.

0:41:000:41:03

Ask if you recognise that picture.

0:41:060:41:10

45.

0:41:120:41:13

-Yes.

-And who do you recognise that to be?

0:41:150:41:18

Nicole.

0:41:220:41:24

And does that appear to be the way

0:41:250:41:28

that Nicole looked when you went over there

0:41:280:41:30

that early morning time...

0:41:300:41:32

Hey, man, you give me a break.

0:41:320:41:34

The OJ Simpson civil case gets under way today.

0:41:390:41:41

The families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are suing him.

0:41:410:41:44

This time, the judge is keeping cameras out of the courtroom.

0:41:440:41:49

I truly, truly, truly wish it had been televised.

0:41:490:41:53

It was a totally different dynamic.

0:41:540:41:57

No longer the killer and his attorneys

0:41:570:42:00

in charge of the courtroom.

0:42:000:42:02

It was the system at work.

0:42:020:42:06

Meanwhile, the jury's going to look very different in this case.

0:42:060:42:09

You're coming out of a different area. You're coming out of

0:42:090:42:11

the Santa Monica area, instead of downtown Los Angeles,

0:42:110:42:14

and, obviously, the make-up of your jury pool is going to be different.

0:42:140:42:18

Basically, they just repeated the case that we presented,

0:42:210:42:25

but they had Simpson.

0:42:250:42:28

They could call him to the witness stand

0:42:280:42:30

and cross-examine him.

0:42:300:42:32

One of the things that came up was if he owned the shoes.

0:42:320:42:36

Bruno Maglis. Because the footprints of those shoes

0:42:360:42:40

were at the crime scene.

0:42:400:42:42

-You thought those were ugly-ass shoes.

-Yes.

0:42:420:42:45

Really?

0:42:450:42:47

Wrong, liar.

0:42:470:42:49

Not only did we see photographs of him wearing

0:42:490:42:52

the ugly-ass shoes,

0:42:520:42:54

we were then able to compare it to the footprints

0:42:540:42:57

at the crime scene.

0:42:570:42:58

And we're right back to...done.

0:42:580:43:02

Rare shoes.

0:43:030:43:05

Only 299 pairs sold in this country.

0:43:050:43:07

OJ Simpson said that he'd never own the shoes,

0:43:070:43:10

and yet he was forced to admit that that was him

0:43:100:43:13

in the picture.

0:43:130:43:14

It was like watching a little child

0:43:140:43:17

getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

0:43:170:43:19

All it did was reaffirm what I knew,

0:43:200:43:23

in my heart,

0:43:230:43:25

and that was - he was a murderer.

0:43:250:43:27

Time to turn our attention to the OJ Simpson civil case.

0:43:270:43:30

The jury is expected to begin deliberations today.

0:43:300:43:33

In a civil trial, all you have to prove

0:43:350:43:37

is that they're guilty by a preponderance of the evidence.

0:43:370:43:40

That means more likely than not.

0:43:400:43:41

51% is enough.

0:43:410:43:43

It's a very low standard of proof.

0:43:430:43:45

Completely different than the criminal trial.

0:43:450:43:48

A very brief interruption, everybody.

0:43:500:43:52

In case you haven't heard the news until now,

0:43:520:43:54

there has been a verdict in the OJ Simpson

0:43:540:43:55

civil trial in California.

0:43:550:43:57

And between 35 and 45 minutes from now,

0:43:570:44:00

everybody will be back in the courtroom in Santa Monica

0:44:000:44:02

to hear the verdict.

0:44:020:44:04

Just to remind people, we are in Washington today.

0:44:040:44:06

Helps our audience.

0:44:060:44:08

My employers have decided that some time ago that the President's

0:44:080:44:11

address to the nation is what's important to the future,

0:44:110:44:14

and is fascinated, I guess to be honest, as we all are

0:44:140:44:17

about the OJ Simpson verdict.

0:44:170:44:19

Our bosses have made the decision, so let's go back.

0:44:200:44:23

APPLAUSE

0:44:230:44:25

We must pursue a deeper dialogue with China.

0:44:320:44:36

I'm told people are assembling

0:44:360:44:38

in the courtroom and that they expect

0:44:380:44:40

to be able to read this verdict within moments.

0:44:400:44:43

OJ looks straight at the court

0:44:450:44:47

and she read the answer, yes,

0:44:470:44:49

that Simpson was liable for the death

0:44:490:44:51

of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

0:44:510:44:54

This jury was unified in their decision.

0:44:540:44:56

There was no question that he had committed these acts,

0:44:560:45:00

and he was totally responsible beyond any doubt.

0:45:000:45:03

It was amazing.

0:45:040:45:07

Finally had a court say, "You're responsible for Ron's death."

0:45:070:45:12

Our family is grateful

0:45:120:45:16

for a verdict

0:45:160:45:18

of responsibility, which is all we ever wanted,

0:45:180:45:22

and we have it, thank God.

0:45:220:45:26

CHEERING

0:45:260:45:28

Simpson was found liable to the tune of 8½ million.

0:45:330:45:38

And the jury isn't finished yet.

0:45:380:45:40

On Thursday jurors will return to hear testimony

0:45:400:45:42

about additional punitive damage.

0:45:420:45:44

Guilty!

0:45:440:45:46

Total - 33 million.

0:45:460:45:48

We were so shocked at the figure.

0:45:500:45:55

It was astonishing.

0:45:550:45:57

But what people don't realise about a civil trial

0:45:570:46:02

is that a judgment is a piece of paper,

0:46:020:46:08

and that is what you get.

0:46:080:46:11

Then it becomes the creditor's responsibility

0:46:110:46:15

to figure out a way to collect on it.

0:46:150:46:18

Do you have a moral obligation to pay any of that?

0:46:180:46:21

I don't feel I have a moral obligation to pay,

0:46:210:46:23

because morally I've done nothing wrong.

0:46:230:46:26

I think I have a legal obligation

0:46:260:46:28

when I have money to pay.

0:46:280:46:30

I wish I could sign a 50 million contract

0:46:300:46:32

and give them whatever they have to give,

0:46:320:46:34

if I knew I could get it back on appeal.

0:46:340:46:37

Oh, he knew he'd never pay.

0:46:370:46:39

Because the system wanted to make certain

0:46:390:46:41

that they got everything he had,

0:46:410:46:44

they brought in the guy that handles the estates

0:46:440:46:46

of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and James Dean,

0:46:460:46:51

to say that OJ was in that same class,

0:46:510:46:55

that he would make that kind of money for the rest of his life.

0:46:550:46:58

As his agent, I'm sitting there... Not going to happen.

0:46:590:47:03

Those people didn't murder anybody,

0:47:030:47:05

or at least in the perception of America,

0:47:050:47:07

he didn't murder anybody.

0:47:070:47:09

It became our goal to be after him

0:47:120:47:16

for the rest of his life.

0:47:160:47:18

He's going to always know that we're right behind him,

0:47:180:47:22

looking over his shoulder, trying to figure out a way to get him.

0:47:220:47:25

In other news this morning, OJ Simpson is being ordered to

0:47:290:47:32

turn over some precious belongings to satisfy the judgment

0:47:320:47:35

against him in his civil lawsuit.

0:47:350:47:36

The half-million-dollar inventory includes

0:47:360:47:38

Simpson's golf clubs

0:47:380:47:40

and his Andy Warhol silkscreen of himself.

0:47:400:47:42

Simpson will have seven days to turn over the items to be sold.

0:47:420:47:46

We had received a fax in the office.

0:47:470:47:50

Sheriff's Department needed to know where to park

0:47:510:47:54

these two giant moving trucks.

0:47:540:47:57

So, we knew the day before that they were coming

0:47:570:48:00

to seize these various items.

0:48:000:48:02

There was quite a few people.

0:48:080:48:10

His family and friends moving stuff out

0:48:100:48:13

and taking it to different homes.

0:48:130:48:15

OJ was out playing golf.

0:48:150:48:17

Deniability.

0:48:180:48:20

Sheriff's Department, they were coming through the gates

0:48:220:48:25

at eight o'clock or seven o'clock or something.

0:48:250:48:27

As they were coming in, I was leaving.

0:48:280:48:31

Literally, gates were open at the same time. I left.

0:48:310:48:35

I had his collectibles, personal items,

0:48:350:48:37

Tiffany lamps, a carpet.

0:48:370:48:40

A bunch of stuff went out to a storage unit

0:48:400:48:43

in south San Francisco, but it was scattered.

0:48:430:48:45

I mean, just all over.

0:48:450:48:47

It was like a biblical flood carrying away everything.

0:48:470:48:50

He lived a materialistically lavish life,

0:48:520:48:55

but that wasn't what was most important.

0:48:550:48:58

When they wanted his mother's piano, that rocked his foundation.

0:49:000:49:03

They wanted her house up in Potrero Hill.

0:49:030:49:06

Those things bothered him.

0:49:060:49:08

It bothered me when they started taking

0:49:080:49:10

things that I didn't think was just.

0:49:100:49:13

OJ, the congratulations of all of us

0:49:130:49:16

-for your impeccable character.

-Thank you, Mr Cosell.

0:49:160:49:19

Thank you, Mr Simpson.

0:49:190:49:20

How do you take away his Heisman?

0:49:200:49:22

That was who he was when I was innocent

0:49:240:49:28

and he was innocent.

0:49:280:49:29

-Was that Heisman given to you?

-No, it wasn't given to me.

0:49:340:49:37

I basically just took it.

0:49:370:49:39

I had an arrangement with Mr Simpson,

0:49:410:49:43

where I would be paid X amount of money

0:49:430:49:45

or I could take it out in memorabilia.

0:49:450:49:47

So I took the Heisman and a few other items...

0:49:470:49:49

..I figured were mine.

0:49:500:49:52

The IRS has filed a lien against OJ Simpson's

0:49:550:49:58

Brentwood mansion.

0:49:580:50:00

It says he owes more than 685,000 in back taxes,

0:50:000:50:04

interest and penalties.

0:50:040:50:06

I haven't made any payments in quite a while.

0:50:070:50:10

I love the house - my kids were born there.

0:50:100:50:12

I lost a daughter there.

0:50:120:50:14

We had some great times there but it's gone,

0:50:140:50:16

and now I gotta find someplace else

0:50:160:50:18

to have some great times, you know, move on.

0:50:180:50:21

The last day at Rockingham,

0:50:240:50:26

it was kind of an odd, surreal day.

0:50:260:50:30

For me, it was emotional.

0:50:520:50:53

And for OJ, I guess he had kind of mentally checked out,

0:50:560:51:00

where it wasn't.

0:51:000:51:02

Hey, Mike.

0:51:020:51:03

I want you to go over there and shoot over the fence,

0:51:030:51:08

walk through the gate, so I can give you the old...

0:51:080:51:11

He's like, "OK, now go outside of the gate,"

0:51:110:51:13

like I'm a tourist, and I'm sneaking in through his gate,

0:51:130:51:15

filming him taking the flag down.

0:51:150:51:18

Because the tabloids were paying, like, 150 grand,

0:51:190:51:22

200 grand, crazy money.

0:51:220:51:23

Hey, this is private property.

0:51:230:51:26

C'mon, man, look.

0:51:260:51:28

C'mon, man, gimme a break.

0:51:280:51:30

C'mon, guy, c'mon.

0:51:300:51:32

Putting the flag up, taking it down, putting it up,

0:51:350:51:37

taking it down.

0:51:370:51:39

Him folding it and trying to get emotional,

0:51:400:51:43

where he's tearing up.

0:51:430:51:45

Hey, come on, this is...

0:51:480:51:49

He's really working it, tearing up.

0:51:490:51:51

Oh, man, that's real classy.

0:51:520:51:55

Take care.

0:51:550:51:56

Everybody's chasing OJ for a story today.

0:52:250:52:28

Do an interview, do an interview.

0:52:280:52:30

I need you to do an interview. I'm going to dog you out bad, too.

0:52:320:52:36

I'm going to pimp ya!

0:52:360:52:37

I needed a challenge.

0:52:390:52:41

I said, "I can promote anybody, anything, it doesn't matter."

0:52:410:52:44

So, my attorney came back and he said,

0:52:440:52:46

"I got just the thing for you, it's OJ Simpson."

0:52:460:52:48

I'm like, "Well, that's a challenge."

0:52:480:52:50

I'm like "Hm."

0:52:500:52:52

I put him in a world where he was happy again.

0:53:030:53:06

Then, when I saw what happened,

0:53:060:53:08

I said, "We should just get a camera and film this."

0:53:080:53:11

-Cheers, OJ.

-Cheers.

0:53:110:53:14

I think that there are people offended now that you're here.

0:53:140:53:17

You know, I would think that the ones who were offended

0:53:170:53:20

maybe tuned into another channel.

0:53:200:53:22

-I don't know, that's just a guess on my part.

-Yeah.

0:53:220:53:24

I would like to think that the majority of your listeners

0:53:240:53:27

would not be offended.

0:53:270:53:29

I know you'd like to think that, OJ, but I'm not sure.

0:53:320:53:36

First, I just want to say, it's interesting to have you here.

0:53:360:53:40

Thank you.

0:53:400:53:41

You know, he was still famous.

0:53:410:53:43

And fame, infamy...

0:53:430:53:45

OJ, I was told not to ask you about the incident.

0:53:460:53:48

-Is there any reason why?

-What incident?

0:53:480:53:51

The incident with Nicole.

0:53:510:53:52

-Cos there's nothing to talk about any more.

-OK. Cos you were proven innocent...

0:53:520:53:56

Because I was innocent, I was proven innocent,

0:53:560:53:58

-and once we open that we're back into the...

-Yeah.

0:53:580:54:01

It's, what, seven years now?

0:54:010:54:02

-It's over and over and over...

-Yeah.

-..you know?

0:54:020:54:06

I mean, life goes on.

0:54:060:54:07

We talk about OJ as though

0:54:070:54:10

the story is OJ.

0:54:100:54:13

So, when you travel and when you're walking

0:54:130:54:17

down the street and things like that,

0:54:170:54:19

what type of reaction do you get from people?

0:54:190:54:22

The story is OJ and us.

0:54:220:54:26

-The exact reaction, maybe a little more emotional...

-OK.

0:54:260:54:29

..than I got 15 years ago.

0:54:290:54:30

If you took a walk with me down the street,

0:54:300:54:32

you'd be amazed. I don't care where I go, white, black, wherever I go,

0:54:320:54:35

everybody's terrific.

0:54:350:54:36

The different people, watching their reactions

0:54:400:54:42

was quite amazing.

0:54:420:54:44

That's why I played football. I won...

0:54:450:54:48

Hey, you stay gorgeous.

0:54:480:54:49

-Precious.

-Precious? Spell it for me.

0:54:520:54:55

Oh, my, God, it's really OJ Simpson.

0:54:550:54:57

In our town. He's really here.

0:54:570:54:59

He was addicted to fame.

0:55:140:55:15

And the reality is, the music didn't stop.

0:55:180:55:22

Where do you want to do this?

0:55:220:55:23

I don't know, you're good with the white women, not all black women.

0:55:230:55:26

Hey, I'm good with the sisters, too, baby.

0:55:260:55:28

If you didn't already have a kid and a man

0:55:280:55:30

-out there that's bigger than me...

-Oh, please, OJ.

0:55:300:55:32

-I've got a hair weave.

-Oh, you're here. See, he's in here.

0:55:320:55:35

Forget what I just said.

0:55:350:55:37

But you know what, OJ? Not for nothing,

0:55:370:55:40

good black don't crack and you certainly do look good.

0:55:400:55:43

You want to catch yourself, right?

0:55:470:55:49

I don't know, OJ.

0:55:490:55:51

I don't know.

0:55:510:55:53

Something takes over when you're in his presence.

0:55:530:55:58

He's taking you away

0:55:580:56:01

from the sordid dark reality,

0:56:010:56:03

but you're sitting across from somebody

0:56:030:56:05

who probably committed murder.

0:56:050:56:07

OJ, I don't know what I...

0:56:090:56:11

I see you enjoying it. I see you enjoying it, baby. Talk to me!

0:56:110:56:14

Because I got truth on my side.

0:56:140:56:16

All that goes away and there's just a sense

0:56:190:56:21

of wanting to believe him and go with him

0:56:210:56:25

to this place where everything is still OK.

0:56:250:56:28

The truly righteous are not the self-righteous,

0:56:300:56:32

just remember that. I read that in the Koran.

0:56:320:56:34

OJ, I want to say I don't like you, I can't stand you.

0:56:340:56:37

I want to call you names, I want to throw you right out of here,

0:56:370:56:40

but you know what?

0:56:400:56:42

Your husband's watching, you better watch.

0:56:440:56:47

You've done it to me. Can I invite you to a party?

0:56:470:56:49

Sure, I'll be there.

0:56:490:56:52

His friends would call it the OJ effect.

0:56:520:56:54

They would say, "Yeah, you got OJed."

0:56:540:56:57

Being OJed is being charmed.

0:56:570:57:00

The confusion that you feel after you've been in his presence.

0:57:000:57:04

I don't think he was not guilty,

0:57:040:57:06

but I was in touch with the fact that I wanted

0:57:060:57:08

to think he was not guilty.

0:57:080:57:10

OJ, damn you, I like you.

0:57:100:57:13

-Thank you.

-Damn you!

0:57:130:57:15

Damn you!

0:57:160:57:17

Damn you.

0:57:200:57:21

No!

0:57:210:57:23

Oh, my gosh, he hugged me!

0:57:230:57:25

Damn you, OJ. Damn you, OJ Simpson, you're charming.

0:57:260:57:29

Well, thank you.

0:57:290:57:31

He can get into your head.

0:57:310:57:33

And you'll like him.

0:57:340:57:36

There's no way around it.

0:57:360:57:38

I didn't know OJ the murderer.

0:57:450:57:48

I was in jail at the time when the thing happened.

0:57:480:57:50

I remember OJ the hero.

0:57:520:57:54

Playing football as a ten-year-old,

0:57:540:57:56

saying "I'm OJ Simpson", running with the ball.

0:57:560:57:58

I remember OJ the charming movie guy.

0:57:580:58:02

Police! Throw down your guns!

0:58:020:58:05

The mega-hero growing up.

0:58:050:58:07

OJ crashed the national baseball card show in Chicago,

0:58:090:58:13

and was sitting at a table signing autographs,

0:58:130:58:16

and there was a line around the aisle for him

0:58:160:58:19

until the promoters came and threw him out.

0:58:190:58:22

He was charging, I think, 150 an autograph.

0:58:220:58:26

So, that's what made me think, you know,

0:58:260:58:28

"Hey. This could be worth it."

0:58:280:58:31

We'd hire him to sign 200 autographs.

0:58:330:58:35

What do you got there, you got another 80 items?

0:58:350:58:38

You know, put the TV on the USC game and I'll take care of them.

0:58:380:58:41

I liked the guy.

0:58:410:58:43

Public appearances, he'd get 50 to 100 grand.

0:58:450:58:49

It was a matter of him hiding from the Goldmans.

0:58:490:58:52

He had a team of people to make sure that any money

0:58:530:58:57

he could get was going to be protected.

0:58:570:59:01

They would form some phoney company

0:59:010:59:04

and funnel the money through that.

0:59:040:59:07

Then he moved to Florida.

0:59:070:59:10

His home suddenly became untouchable.

0:59:100:59:13

His pension was untouchable already, by law.

0:59:130:59:17

South Beach, Miami.

0:59:190:59:21

Nobody judges you there.

0:59:210:59:23

Nobody said "murderer".

0:59:230:59:25

They just wanted to touch him.

0:59:250:59:27

So, he was living large.

0:59:270:59:29

Living large.

0:59:290:59:31

You rolling?

0:59:310:59:33

NEWS INTRO MUSIC

0:59:330:59:34

Right now, OJ Simpson

0:59:340:59:36

is a fugitive of justice.

0:59:360:59:39

OJ Simpson, football legend, has just become

0:59:390:59:43

the prime suspect in a double murder.

0:59:430:59:45

'Oh, God, Florida was just like a nightmare.'

0:59:450:59:49

I hate everything about Florida,

0:59:500:59:52

everything that's happened in Florida.

0:59:520:59:54

# In the trial of the century

0:59:540:59:58

# Lies a hero's destiny

0:59:581:00:02

# Tell me, OJ, what's it going to be?

1:00:021:00:05

# Every man wants to be made

1:00:051:00:09

# In the trial of the century

1:00:091:00:12

# Lies a hero's destiny... #

1:00:121:00:14

That's my drink. Whose drink is this?

1:00:141:00:16

-That's yours.

-That's yours up there.

-Motherfucker.

1:00:161:00:19

That motherfucker had the nerve...

1:00:191:00:21

In Florida, his group of friends

1:00:211:00:24

was much different.

1:00:241:00:26

Did you get that set up?

1:00:261:00:27

We gotta get some more money out of them.

1:00:271:00:30

Week before Christmas.

1:00:301:00:32

They weren't the Lynn Swanns and the Rosey Griers.

1:00:321:00:35

Yo, fucking with our game, man.

1:00:351:00:37

He hung around with anybody that was more thuggish.

1:00:371:00:41

-The lower people.

-'Why don't y'all put the camera down?'

1:00:411:00:43

But to the lower people, he was like the Godfather.

1:00:431:00:46

You fucking with our golf game, OK?

1:00:461:00:48

We out here to have a good time and you're fucking with our game.

1:00:481:00:51

Because of that, his head grew.

1:00:511:00:53

When OJ crossed over into the dark side,

1:01:021:01:06

I guess that's probably where I came in at, you know?

1:01:061:01:09

Cos I'm no celebrity.

1:01:091:01:11

I'm no football star or baseball star, you know.

1:01:111:01:13

I was a regular guy, but he seemed to like me.

1:01:131:01:17

I started liking to hang out with OJ because of the perks.

1:01:171:01:21

We went to strip clubs, went to nightclubs.

1:01:211:01:24

We'd drink and check out the girls,

1:01:241:01:27

and there was always an ample amount of women around.

1:01:271:01:30

He said, "You know what's crazy is I'm getting more girls now.

1:01:341:01:37

"Now I got bad-boy image and I was never a bad boy."

1:01:401:01:44

"I have to wonder, 'What are they thinking?'

1:01:441:01:46

"because I was accused of murdering my wife."

1:01:461:01:50

Since I've been in Miami, I've gone out with a Cuban girl,

1:01:521:01:54

a Venezuelan girl and a white girl.

1:01:541:01:57

You only see the white girl in the media,

1:01:571:01:59

and they all look like Nicole from what they say.

1:01:591:02:02

At the time I started chronicling him,

1:02:031:02:05

he was involved with his girlfriend, Christie Prody,

1:02:051:02:10

and the first time I saw her drive in in a convertible...

1:02:101:02:14

I know, baby.

1:02:141:02:15

..I did a double take, because from a distance,

1:02:151:02:17

she looked like a spitting image of Nicole.

1:02:171:02:20

He's fine, he's fine.

1:02:201:02:22

I believe in this man.

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He was going down,

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and what I mean by that is he had no interest

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in getting to either safer ground or higher ground,

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if it existed.

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He was going to go to, essentially, decadence.

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LAUGHTER

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They're talking about me, baby!

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Christie Prody, the cocaine and then she'd get clean,

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and then he couldn't get her coked up enough.

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I asked him, "Why? You know she can't stop.

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"You can do coke for a couple of days and then stop. She can't.

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"She will keep doing coke."

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I say, damn!

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He said, "Yeah, but when she does this she gets me more girls

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"than I get myself."

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We gotta get some close-ups of the crotch.

1:03:091:03:11

Can't be pimpin' without some crotch shots.

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The only crotch that matters around here, that crotch right there,

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you understand what I'm talking about? Got to hide this here.

1:03:151:03:18

I gotta big sheet of paper here, so don't even worry about it.

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You know, the public has to identify with an athlete.

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You can be in awe of an athlete,

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and there's many athletes out there

1:03:251:03:26

that you in awe of, but you want to feel a part of that person.

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I think people view me as a certain way

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and I don't want to let them down.

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Are you any different than you were ten years ago?

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20?

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30?

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I'm just the way I've always been.

1:03:461:03:49

I look at myself and think I'm a good guy.

1:03:491:03:52

I truly believe, in the most part,

1:03:521:03:54

that you get what you deserve in this world.

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If you allow things to happen to you,

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they will happen to you.

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You think OJ's a good-looking guy?

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If I liked guys, I'd do him.

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Oh, God.

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LAUGHTER DROWNS SPEECH

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He would go in make-up and spoof people,

1:04:101:04:14

like "you've been Juiced" or whatever the hell it was.

1:04:141:04:17

Oranges from OJ.

1:04:171:04:18

OJ, right here.

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C'mon, help the Juice, I'm kind of down and out.

1:04:201:04:22

It was like

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going and seeing the two-headed cow at the circus or something.

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The freak show.

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# Why do people wonder about my intentions?

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# Why do people ask me so many questions

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# 'Bout how I made it to the top

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# 'Bout all the times I made those defensive stops?

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# See the only way I live my life is large

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# And I got the most games with 200-plus yards. #

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OJ said, "If 90% of America thinks I'm a killer,

1:04:471:04:50

-"who gives a

-BLEEP

-what else they think?"

1:04:501:04:52

I got Juiced!

1:04:521:04:54

And I said, "Well, what about your kids?"

1:04:541:04:58

Living your life like some 24-year-old

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multimillionaire punk ass, hit every strip club you can,

1:05:011:05:04

have all the threesomes you can.

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Don't care about what lives you're ruining,

1:05:061:05:09

what your kids are seeing, what they're experiencing.

1:05:091:05:12

You don't care.

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Because it's all about you.

1:05:131:05:14

I finally walked away after the last time

1:05:161:05:20

I saw how he treated his kids.

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And when I really started looking back on everything,

1:05:231:05:27

I said, "What in the hell did I do?"

1:05:271:05:30

And with somebody that I grew up admiring and idolising.

1:05:301:05:35

OJ may not have a conscience.

1:05:381:05:40

He may not pay for killing two people,

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but I sure in the hell pay for helping him get away with it.

1:05:451:05:49

I pay.

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New outrage tonight over OJ Simpson.

1:05:591:06:02

Simpson is trying to sell books,

1:06:021:06:04

and he's doing it in ways that have vividly revived

1:06:041:06:07

memories of the murders and his acquittal.

1:06:071:06:10

Judith Regan, a sort of powerhouse publisher,

1:06:111:06:14

told me about this project.

1:06:141:06:17

"It's OJ Simpson and we're going to try to get a confession."

1:06:171:06:21

How could I not do it?

1:06:211:06:22

They were willing to give him

1:06:251:06:27

700-plus thousand dollars...

1:06:271:06:29

as an advance.

1:06:291:06:32

At that point, he not only needed the money, but thought

1:06:321:06:35

in a while people would be less interested.

1:06:351:06:37

You know, on some level, he felt he was being forgotten.

1:06:391:06:42

Like the years had gone by.

1:06:421:06:44

Fame's a terrible beast.

1:06:461:06:48

You know, when you get a taste of that and people forget you,

1:06:481:06:51

it's very hard.

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I needed to sit down with him and get his story,

1:06:541:06:57

and it was emotionally difficult for him.

1:06:571:07:01

He goes, "I'll tell you this.

1:07:011:07:03

"If I did it, I couldn't have done it alone."

1:07:031:07:06

So there was someone else there?

1:07:061:07:08

And he said, "There might have been."

1:07:081:07:12

And it was like he was playing this little game with me,

1:07:121:07:14

but it wasn't a particularly clever game.

1:07:141:07:18

Then he told me about the ride home, up the alley.

1:07:181:07:21

I assumed he made a right and stopped at the traffic light,

1:07:211:07:24

because I'd heard that somebody saw him.

1:07:241:07:26

He said, "No, no, I didn't stop at that traffic light.

1:07:261:07:29

"I went up the alley and took a left,

1:07:291:07:31

"and went up Gretna Green to San Vicente and on home."

1:07:311:07:35

And then he saw the look on my face.

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He says, "That's the way I would have gone,

1:07:381:07:40

"you know, had I done it."

1:07:401:07:42

To me there was no doubt about it.

1:07:421:07:44

He wasn't making this stuff up.

1:07:441:07:46

I got there thinking he was a murderer,

1:07:461:07:49

and I left there more convinced than ever

1:07:491:07:51

that he was a murderer.

1:07:511:07:52

To give a voice to a murderer

1:07:531:07:58

is beyond imagination.

1:07:581:08:00

Everybody is more than willing to jump in

1:08:001:08:03

and play his game,

1:08:031:08:05

because it's money for him and then it was going to be

1:08:051:08:09

money for them.

1:08:091:08:11

Well, we wanted to put an end to it.

1:08:111:08:14

Disgusted by money for blood,

1:08:141:08:16

millions pressure publisher Rupert Murdoch,

1:08:161:08:19

who fires the executive in charge and kills the book.

1:08:191:08:22

As the largest debtor, we got the rights to the book.

1:08:241:08:28

So, we read it and we were shocked.

1:08:281:08:32

It was as close to the confession as you could ever get.

1:08:331:08:37

We made one change and one change only - the title of the book.

1:08:391:08:43

We took the word "if" and made it very small,

1:08:431:08:46

and laid it into the letter I.

1:08:461:08:50

So it was If I Did It.

1:08:501:08:53

We were hearing all over the place,

1:08:551:08:56

we were wrong for doing it.

1:08:561:08:59

But you know what? It was, "OK, so you think we're wrong. So what?"

1:08:591:09:03

It's all about money.

1:09:031:09:04

How much money is it going to take

1:09:041:09:07

to make you guys happy?

1:09:071:09:08

It's not going to bring Nicole or Ron back.

1:09:081:09:11

That book was inexplicable.

1:09:111:09:14

He was thinking, "I'm not going to say I did it,

1:09:141:09:16

"but I'm not going to not say I did it."

1:09:161:09:18

So, it's this whole kind of striptease that goes on,

1:09:181:09:21

and everybody's complicit in it.

1:09:211:09:23

Like any murder story, a few more twists.

1:09:231:09:27

But now, in a twist...

1:09:271:09:29

In a bizarre twist, the Goldman...

1:09:291:09:30

What I think I found most disturbing...

1:09:301:09:32

-OJ...

-OJ Simpson's...

-OJ Simpson...

-OJ Simpson...

1:09:321:09:35

..it's the audience and our appetite for that kind of stuff.

1:09:351:09:39

Unlike most murder stories, this one still lacks

1:09:401:09:42

the chapter everyone expects...

1:09:421:09:44

Justice.

1:09:451:09:47

Elvis, get your pelvis away from me.

1:09:511:09:54

The Vegas chapter is where everything just gets

1:09:571:09:59

so damn sordid.

1:09:591:10:02

I can't sit here and authoritatively tell you

1:10:031:10:06

what went down in Vegas,

1:10:061:10:09

because it's too convoluted.

1:10:091:10:11

Mike Gilbert had been pilfering OJ's stuff throughout.

1:10:131:10:17

You know, Mike's got his eye on the memorabilia,

1:10:171:10:20

the historical value, the money,

1:10:201:10:23

and OJ's just running.

1:10:231:10:26

That's what OJ does, right? He runs.

1:10:281:10:31

And in his wake, there's all this stuff,

1:10:311:10:34

and all these people are picking up the stuff.

1:10:341:10:38

I got a call. It was Al Beardsley.

1:10:381:10:40

He's this 6'6",

1:10:441:10:46

300lb OJ fanatic,

1:10:461:10:49

saying "Tom, I saw you on TV with the Anna Nicole Diaries.

1:10:491:10:53

"I got something even better.

1:10:531:10:54

"I have all the stuff from OJ's trophy room.

1:10:541:10:57

"He didn't pay his bills - his agent stole them."

1:10:571:11:00

Beardsley told me that a majority of the stuff was in Vegas.

1:11:051:11:08

Called OJ,

1:11:081:11:10

OJ said, "Look, Tom, this is not memorabilia.

1:11:101:11:13

"These are personal artefacts

1:11:131:11:14

"that were stolen from me.

1:11:141:11:16

"My football that I was holding in my arms

1:11:161:11:18

"when I rushed for 2,000 yards.

1:11:181:11:21

"The ring from my wife who died,

1:11:211:11:23

"that I was going to give to my daughter."

1:11:231:11:26

He kept talking about a photo signed by J Edgar Hoover.

1:11:261:11:29

J Edgar Hoover said he was a big fan, a fine young man.

1:11:291:11:33

"Everyone thinks nothing bad happens to me.

1:11:331:11:35

"Here I am being robbed.

1:11:351:11:36

"Why don't we show the world that I have to go

1:11:361:11:39

"by myself to get my stuff back?"

1:11:391:11:41

He says, "I was invited to a wedding in Vegas.

1:11:411:11:43

"I can be in Vegas."

1:11:431:11:45

If I Did It was due to be released on the day of the wedding

1:11:471:11:50

that he was there.

1:11:501:11:52

So I said, "OJ, great.

1:11:521:11:54

"Sign 200 books for me."

1:11:541:11:56

He goes, "Fuck, no."

1:11:561:11:57

I go, "Dude, you're asking me to help you with this shit."

1:11:591:12:02

And he says, "I'm going to write on the books

1:12:021:12:04

" 'I didn't write this' and then I'll sign it OJ Simpson."

1:12:041:12:07

I said, "That's good enough for me. I'll take that."

1:12:071:12:10

A free inscription, too.

1:12:101:12:11

I met him at the Palms, at a pool party at the Palms.

1:12:131:12:17

OJ was wearing sunglasses

1:12:191:12:22

and he was every bit

1:12:221:12:25

the celebrity you would think he would be before the murders.

1:12:251:12:29

Girls were coming up to him, like, young girls.

1:12:321:12:34

"Are you OJ? Can I take a picture?"

1:12:341:12:37

Sitting on his lap, and he had his own cabana,

1:12:371:12:40

with a dozen people in it.

1:12:401:12:42

"Hey, Juice."

1:12:421:12:43

Like, weaselly guys, like, "Hey, Juice, can I get you a drink?

1:12:431:12:46

"Hey, Juice." And he was sitting there telling stories

1:12:461:12:48

and joking around, and we were all laughing.

1:12:481:12:50

I ended up going up to his room.

1:12:521:12:53

He said, "Listen.

1:12:551:12:56

"These people stole my stuff, and they know they stole it.

1:12:561:12:59

"We're going to shock the hell of those guys.

1:12:591:13:01

"I'm going to have my buddies coming over,

1:13:011:13:03

"and, man, they're going to shit their pants when they see us."

1:13:031:13:07

Know what I remember about that?

1:13:171:13:19

I'm up in his room, watching on TV.

1:13:191:13:22

There's this pretty, beautiful brunette that comes out.

1:13:221:13:24

He said, "That's my goddaughter. Her name is Kim."

1:13:241:13:28

I am so excited to do my reality show.

1:13:281:13:30

She said, "I have a show about my family."

1:13:301:13:33

-It's me and my whole family.

-What's it called?

1:13:331:13:35

It's called Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

1:13:351:13:37

"My dad was such a great lawyer.

1:13:371:13:39

"He got OJ off the hook for murder."

1:13:391:13:42

OJ's like, "That's bullshit. He was a family friend."

1:13:421:13:44

He's, like, yelling at the TV. "Baby, your dad was shit."

1:13:441:13:48

I'm like, this is weird. I didn't know what the hell a Kardashian was.

1:13:481:13:51

"That show ain't going to last two weeks," OJ goes.

1:13:541:13:57

We get to the Palms. Simpson's there.

1:14:141:14:17

He started talking about some guys

1:14:171:14:19

who stole from him,

1:14:191:14:22

and he wanted to show some strength.

1:14:221:14:26

He wanted to be intimidating.

1:14:261:14:29

He wanted me to come along with him as security

1:14:291:14:31

since I was a licensed firearm holder.

1:14:311:14:33

And because I considered him a friend,

1:14:331:14:36

I decided I would help him.

1:14:361:14:37

At that time, I had a lot of OJ Simpson memorabilia.

1:14:401:14:44

Thousands of pieces.

1:14:441:14:46

Al Beardsley said, "Hey, I've got a buyer

1:14:461:14:49

"that wants to buy OJ Simpson memorabilia,

1:14:491:14:52

"and he wants to buy a lot of it.

1:14:521:14:54

"He'd like to meet at the Palace Station."

1:14:541:14:56

I think a lot people go there for quick fixes.

1:15:001:15:02

You don't spend a lot of money, but you can get a lot done.

1:15:021:15:06

I loaded everything into my truck.

1:15:061:15:08

I was transporting over 100,000 worth of memorabilia.

1:15:081:15:12

Beardsley met me, took me inside,

1:15:121:15:15

I meet Tom Riccio for the first time.

1:15:151:15:18

He says, "Yeah, my buyer will be here in a little while.

1:15:181:15:23

"Can I see what you got?"

1:15:231:15:24

I show him photographs, footballs.

1:15:241:15:28

This is all the stuff I've paid OJ to sign over the years.

1:15:281:15:32

He says, "Is this all there is?"

1:15:321:15:34

I said, "Yeah."

1:15:341:15:36

He said, "I thought there was going to be

1:15:361:15:37

"a bunch of OJ's personal memorabilia."

1:15:371:15:40

I said, "This is all there is."

1:15:401:15:42

Along with that, I brought along some other stuff.

1:15:421:15:46

He was pushing Pete Rose stuff.

1:15:461:15:50

Joe Montana lithographs.

1:15:501:15:52

I'm like, "Dude, he's not interested. He's an OJ fan.

1:15:521:15:55

"He wants OJ's personal..."

1:15:551:15:56

"Yeah, but if he's interested in OJ, he's going to want Joe Montana."

1:15:561:15:59

A lot of the things that OJ thought that I had were actually

1:16:011:16:04

in the storage unit in San Francisco,

1:16:041:16:06

that was lost to an auction.

1:16:061:16:08

But we had several lockers.

1:16:091:16:11

The one in Hanford, Bruce emptied it out,

1:16:111:16:13

and he's been selling it for, like, ten months.

1:16:131:16:16

Mike took it from OJ,

1:16:171:16:20

Fromong takes it from Mike.

1:16:201:16:22

Now it turns into the Marx brothers.

1:16:221:16:24

Everybody is now acting like a lunatic.

1:16:241:16:28

I'm alone in the room with Bruce Fromong, and Al Beardsley.

1:16:291:16:32

Beardsley is a bit of a nut.

1:16:321:16:34

He went to prison for stalking.

1:16:391:16:41

OJ's phone, he calls.

1:16:421:16:44

They're like, "All right, we'll be there in 15 minutes."

1:16:441:16:47

After about an hour, they're all getting antsy.

1:16:471:16:49

They're like, "What's going on? This is bullshit." Blah, blah, blah.

1:16:491:16:52

It really seemed like a drug deal.

1:16:521:16:54

We got to the hotel, we had to wait for some more guys.

1:16:561:17:01

When all the other guys showed up...

1:17:091:17:11

..they didn't look like the most ferocious men.

1:17:121:17:16

It was a mismatched bunch.

1:17:171:17:19

One of them was a frumpy-looking white dude,

1:17:191:17:22

which, like, "What the hell is he doing here?"

1:17:221:17:24

One of them was an older black guy

1:17:241:17:27

that looked like he could have been a librarian.

1:17:271:17:29

I never met so many con men at one time,

1:17:311:17:33

but everybody was trying to get money.

1:17:331:17:35

Every one of them guys

1:17:351:17:36

had something up for Simpson.

1:17:361:17:38

Them guys got confused where the room was.

1:17:401:17:42

They was on the elevator going up and down.

1:17:421:17:44

The room was, like, 12 something, but it was on the bottom floor.

1:17:441:17:48

It wasn't on the 12th storey.

1:17:481:17:50

It was like a weird maze.

1:17:501:17:52

It was dumb.

1:17:531:17:55

This whole situation was a very dumb situation.

1:17:551:17:58

At the final stage, everyone met at that hallway

1:18:001:18:04

where the room is.

1:18:041:18:06

They said, "They got guns?" I go, "No.

1:18:081:18:11

"You guys got guns? Dude, do you guys got guns?"

1:18:111:18:15

Room 1203.

1:18:171:18:18

I don't think I'll ever forget that room number.

1:18:201:18:23

Simpson asked me to look menacing,

1:18:241:18:27

so I had my gun out,

1:18:271:18:29

and he was getting angrier and angrier.

1:18:291:18:31

Riccio pulled the key out, opened the door,

1:18:331:18:36

and we walked in the room.

1:18:361:18:38

I'm on the phone talking.

1:18:391:18:42

The door opens very quickly.

1:18:421:18:44

The men that were in the room

1:18:441:18:45

were pretty damn surprised to see us,

1:18:451:18:48

and they were even more surprised to see Simpson.

1:18:481:18:50

I'm seeing OJ.

1:18:541:18:56

It had been quite a while since I'd seen OJ.

1:18:561:18:59

He had always been friendly,

1:18:591:19:01

but this guy had a face on him that was just a rage.

1:19:011:19:04

He's yelling and screaming, I'm yelling and screaming.

1:19:091:19:12

I'm telling the guys to move over,

1:19:121:19:14

do this, do that.

1:19:141:19:15

I had no idea who was in the room, then.

1:19:161:19:18

No-one briefed me on anything.

1:19:181:19:20

I pushed one of the guys into the bathroom,

1:19:201:19:23

and told him not to come out of it.

1:19:231:19:26

It was a crowded room.

1:19:261:19:27

I guess there was a guy in the bathroom.

1:19:271:19:29

One or two of them were over by Beardsley.

1:19:291:19:32

Beardsley's, like, in love with OJ, so he seems almost happy to see him.

1:19:321:19:36

"Hey, OJ."

1:19:361:19:37

And OJ looks at him.

1:19:371:19:38

"OJ, I thought we were friends. "I thought we were cool."

1:19:411:19:44

The guy with the gun, he hits me in the shoulder

1:19:451:19:48

and it knocked me backwards against the chair.

1:19:481:19:51

Then he put the gun in my face, you know, kind of gangster style.

1:19:511:19:56

I said something to the effect,

1:19:561:19:58

"You guys are lucky we're not in LA, or you'd all be laying down.

1:19:581:20:01

"I'll shoot your ass."

1:20:011:20:03

I couldn't believe I said it,

1:20:031:20:04

but it was just something that I said.

1:20:041:20:07

Then I started saying, "Bag stuff up."

1:20:101:20:12

What OJ called his stuff, everybody called his stuff,

1:20:121:20:14

I called it junk.

1:20:141:20:16

Boxes of pictures, some ties.

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They're pushing the stuff back to him. "Here, OJ."

1:20:191:20:21

"What do you think you can do, stealing my shit,

1:20:211:20:23

"blah, blah, blah, blah",

1:20:231:20:25

and they're all apologising, pushing it back.

1:20:251:20:27

Then, the guys started taking pillowcases

1:20:271:20:29

and stuffing Pete Rowe stuff and Joe Montana.

1:20:291:20:32

Like, "Wait a minute. That's not your stuff."

1:20:321:20:34

So, the first minute went exactly as OJ scripted it.

1:20:381:20:42

The next three or four turned into an armed robbery.

1:20:421:20:46

He took my phone and I had just gotten it.

1:20:511:20:53

And I go, "OJ, don't take my phone. I just got it."

1:20:531:20:55

He takes it, he says, "I'll leave it at the desk."

1:20:551:20:58

And OJ left.

1:20:581:21:00

I went up to the front desk, and I said,

1:21:041:21:07

"I need security, I was just robbed by OJ Simpson."

1:21:071:21:10

And they started laughing.

1:21:101:21:11

911, emergency.

1:21:111:21:13

I was just robbed by OJ Simpson

1:21:131:21:14

and four other black men at gunpoint.

1:21:141:21:17

We need the police here right away, ma'am.

1:21:171:21:19

You don't have to keep telling me that.

1:21:191:21:21

That's why I'm getting the descriptions for the officers.

1:21:211:21:24

"Four black men and OJ Simpson" is not enough.

1:21:241:21:26

I'm going to need to know what they were wearing.

1:21:261:21:28

The cops showed up and they were really lax about it.

1:21:281:21:32

They were like, "So, you were robbed, OJ Simpson.

1:21:321:21:35

"Who else was here, Al Cowlings?"

1:21:351:21:37

Once we got back over to the Palms,

1:21:391:21:42

first thing he said, "There was no gun.

1:21:421:21:44

"There was no gun."

1:21:441:21:46

So, right then I knew he had some shit with him.

1:21:491:21:53

He's trying to get ready to set up all this

1:21:531:21:55

good OJ Simpson look to make himself look legitimate.

1:21:551:22:01

-Hello, guys.

-Hi!

-Hi, how's it going?

-All is well.

1:22:011:22:05

You're trying to put your actor face back on.

1:22:051:22:08

You're trying to put your pitch man face back on.

1:22:081:22:10

God bless. Hey, guys. Take care. Happy weekend.

1:22:101:22:14

But he's not fooling me.

1:22:141:22:17

When I got home that day,

1:22:191:22:21

I told my wife, "I think I just did a robbery."

1:22:211:22:24

The first thing she asked me is, "Did you have your gun?"

1:22:241:22:27

I was like, "Yeah."

1:22:271:22:28

I was just fighting the reality of the answer,

1:22:281:22:31

and I knew

1:22:311:22:32

that the cops were going to get involved,

1:22:321:22:35

and I knew because it was Simpson

1:22:351:22:36

that it was going to get huge.

1:22:361:22:39

Later on, I went back to the Palace Station,

1:22:421:22:45

back to the room where the recorder was.

1:22:451:22:48

You recorded that whole thing?

1:22:491:22:52

I recorded it because there was

1:22:521:22:54

a bunch of idiots going in a room

1:22:541:22:56

and I didn't know what was going to happen.

1:22:561:22:58

I wanted to make sure it was documented.

1:22:581:23:01

The police were searching the room.

1:23:011:23:03

The one six-inch area where the recorder was,

1:23:031:23:06

they didn't find it.

1:23:061:23:07

As I'm putting it in my pocket,

1:23:071:23:10

the cop's like, "Get your shit

1:23:101:23:12

"and get the F out of here, right now."

1:23:121:23:14

If you woke up and heard that OJ Simpson

1:23:171:23:19

is back in the news and under arrest,

1:23:191:23:21

rest assured it's not Groundhog Day.

1:23:211:23:24

This time, though, he's in a jail cell in Las Vegas

1:23:241:23:27

after a confrontation, apparently caught on tape.

1:23:271:23:31

No Johnnie to save you this time, OJ!

1:23:311:23:33

Two hours after the arrest, I got a hold of Harvey Levin.

1:23:331:23:37

I ended up selling the tapes for 150,000.

1:23:371:23:40

I was heartbroken by it.

1:23:471:23:50

OJ, what were you thinking?

1:23:511:23:54

What were you thinking?

1:23:551:23:58

Are you kidding me?

1:23:581:24:00

Are you kidding me?

1:24:001:24:01

You just walked away from a double murder and you do this?

1:24:031:24:06

All rise.

1:24:081:24:09

This District Court is now in session. The honourable...

1:24:111:24:15

I was looking at 12, 13 years in prison,

1:24:151:24:19

and I didn't want any part of that.

1:24:191:24:24

I wanted zero part to do with that.

1:24:241:24:26

I started thinking, if I testify, I could clear myself up,

1:24:271:24:31

and if I don't testify I'm going to be a fool.

1:24:311:24:34

-..the truth, so help you God?

-I do.

-Have a seat, please.

1:24:341:24:37

As far as a street code not to talk on a witness stand,

1:24:381:24:41

there's a bunch of guys in prison right now,

1:24:411:24:45

all over the country, behind the code.

1:24:451:24:49

They gave their life up for the code,

1:24:491:24:52

but I wasn't going to jail for no OJ Simpson.

1:24:521:24:56

Not me.

1:24:561:24:57

If I'd have went to jail from him,

1:24:571:24:59

think he would have come to visit me? No!

1:24:591:25:02

You think he would have gave me commissary? No.

1:25:021:25:05

Excuse my expression, but fuck him.

1:25:051:25:07

This case was something built

1:25:081:25:11

from a grain of salt

1:25:111:25:14

into a mountain of salt. You know what I mean?

1:25:141:25:17

Count two, conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

1:25:171:25:19

Guilty. Count three...

1:25:191:25:22

CJ Stewart went to jail for not taking the deal.

1:25:221:25:25

Even though I think I did nothing wrong,

1:25:251:25:28

and I still contend to this day I did nothing wrong

1:25:281:25:30

with the OJ thing.

1:25:301:25:32

Could I have spent the next couple of years

1:25:321:25:34

defending myself against something that I don't think I did?

1:25:341:25:37

Yes.

1:25:371:25:39

So, I told my lawyer, "Before I do anything, get me immunity."

1:25:391:25:42

Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,

1:25:421:25:45

-and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

-I do.

-Please be seated.

1:25:451:25:48

OJ got duped.

1:25:481:25:50

OJ got duped by Tom Riccio.

1:25:501:25:52

Tom Riccio lied to OJ Simpson.

1:25:521:25:55

He said,

1:25:551:25:56

"I know someone that's got thousands of pieces of your memorabilia."

1:25:561:26:00

He set OJ Simpson up.

1:26:001:26:02

Oh, yeah, Tom Riccio's a rat.

1:26:021:26:05

Who did I rat on? Did I rat on anybody here?

1:26:051:26:07

Name a person I ratted on.

1:26:071:26:09

Not that I have anything against ratting -

1:26:091:26:11

if it would help the world, I'll rat.

1:26:111:26:13

But I didn't rat on anybody.

1:26:131:26:16

Riccio says that it was OJ Simpson

1:26:161:26:18

who was giving the orders in the room.

1:26:181:26:20

OJ was definitely in charge.

1:26:201:26:22

I mean, I don't know what you'd call...

1:26:241:26:27

Maybe I did rat out some people.

1:26:271:26:28

I don't know, maybe I did with the OJ thing, maybe I did.

1:26:281:26:31

-All right, so I'm a rat.

-HE CHUCKLES

1:26:311:26:33

Thomas Riccio, their star witness,

1:26:341:26:37

one of my favourite people ever.

1:26:371:26:39

I was in Las Vegas and I was reporting

1:26:391:26:41

for Entertainment Tonight about the trial.

1:26:411:26:45

Such a weird confluence of events.

1:26:451:26:48

How does this happen?

1:26:481:26:50

So, I was watching the preliminary hearing...

1:26:501:26:52

..and at lunch break we were in the cafeteria

1:26:531:26:57

and he showed up there.

1:26:571:26:59

"It's OJ." And walked by.

1:26:591:27:03

"Mr Simpson." "Ms Clark."

1:27:031:27:06

It was weird.

1:27:061:27:07

13 years to the day after OJ Simpson was acquitted

1:27:081:27:12

in the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson,

1:27:121:27:14

and her friend, Ronald Goldman,

1:27:141:27:16

OJ was found guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery

1:27:161:27:19

in a Las Vegas courtroom Friday night.

1:27:191:27:22

What happened to Mr Simpson, to me...

1:27:271:27:31

He was being selfish.

1:27:341:27:36

He's been in a lot of pain.

1:27:371:27:39

Pain medication, drinking,

1:27:391:27:42

trying to control everything goes on in his life,

1:27:421:27:46

in his relationship, his finances.

1:27:461:27:48

And it wasn't as good as it used to be.

1:27:501:27:55

You know? It wasn't as great.

1:27:551:27:58

The whole big picture, his life,

1:27:581:28:00

he was just tired.

1:28:001:28:01

He's street,

1:28:031:28:06

and OJ, regrettably,

1:28:061:28:10

reverted back to Galileo High School.

1:28:101:28:14

You know?

1:28:141:28:16

He reverted back to Hunter's Point.

1:28:161:28:18

Sorry.

1:28:221:28:23

I feel, like, apologetic to the people

1:28:271:28:30

of the state of Nevada.

1:28:301:28:31

I've been coming to Nevada since 1959.

1:28:311:28:35

I worked summer jobs here for my uncle in '60 and '61.

1:28:351:28:39

I've been coming ever since

1:28:391:28:41

and I've never gotten into any trouble.

1:28:411:28:43

People have always been fine to me.

1:28:431:28:45

When I came here, I came here for a wedding.

1:28:451:28:47

I didn't come here to...

1:28:471:28:49

I didn't come here to reclaim property.

1:28:501:28:54

I was told it was here.

1:28:541:28:56

I called my kids and I told them I had a chance

1:28:561:28:59

to get some of our property back.

1:28:591:29:01

We've called the police and asked what to do.

1:29:011:29:04

They told us what to try to do.

1:29:041:29:06

You could never find out who was selling it.

1:29:061:29:08

This was the first time I had a opportunity

1:29:081:29:11

to catch the guys red-handed who had been stealing

1:29:111:29:14

from my family.

1:29:141:29:16

I wasn't there to hurt anybody. I just wanted my personal things,

1:29:161:29:19

and I realise now it was stupid of me.

1:29:191:29:21

I'm sorry.

1:29:211:29:23

I didn't mean to steal anything from anybody

1:29:231:29:25

and I didn't know I was doing anything illegal.

1:29:251:29:27

I thought I was confronting friends

1:29:271:29:29

and retrieving my property.

1:29:291:29:33

That guy, he should have been the model citizen.

1:29:331:29:36

Should have been in church every week.

1:29:371:29:40

Should have been helping kids.

1:29:401:29:41

Instead, he did more to hurt African-American

1:29:411:29:43

young men and boys

1:29:431:29:45

by putting on this charade.

1:29:451:29:48

He kept pushing the envelope.

1:29:481:29:51

You know? And why wouldn't he?

1:29:511:29:53

I mean, if I got away with everything,

1:29:531:29:56

time after time after time...

1:29:561:29:58

Hey, I'm a god.

1:29:581:30:01

All right, for Mr Simpson.

1:30:031:30:05

All right, Mr Simpson, I'm going to sentence you as follows.

1:30:091:30:14

Count one, conspiracy to commit a crime,

1:30:141:30:17

one year in the county jail.

1:30:171:30:19

Count two, conspiracy to commit kidnapping,

1:30:191:30:22

a minimum term of 12 months, max term of 48 months

1:30:221:30:24

in the Nevada Department of Corrections.

1:30:241:30:26

Count three, conspiracy to commit robbery,

1:30:261:30:28

a minimum term of 12 months, max term of 48 months,

1:30:281:30:31

in the Nevada Department of Corrections.

1:30:311:30:33

Count four, burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon,

1:30:331:30:36

a minimum term of 26 months...

1:30:361:30:39

I went to an inner-city high school,

1:30:391:30:42

and our football team was terrible,

1:30:421:30:45

but our fighters were good,

1:30:451:30:48

and we might lose the fourth quarter of the ball game,

1:30:481:30:51

but we were going to win the fifth quarter after the game.

1:30:511:30:54

The fight.

1:30:541:30:56

So, it's called the fifth quarter.

1:30:561:30:59

Count five, the first-degree kidnapping with use

1:30:591:31:01

of a deadly weapon,

1:31:011:31:03

a fixed term of 15 years, parole eligibility beginning

1:31:031:31:06

after five years.

1:31:061:31:07

Count six, the first-degree kidnapping with use

1:31:071:31:10

of a deadly weapon,

1:31:101:31:12

a fixed term of 15 years.

1:31:121:31:15

That was, at most, a two-year crime dripping wet.

1:31:151:31:19

The judge in that case

1:31:201:31:23

held the jury out until 11 o'clock

1:31:231:31:27

on a Friday night, 13 years to the day...

1:31:271:31:31

..of OJ Simpson's verdict on October the 3rd.

1:31:321:31:37

That, in my mind, was not a coincidence.

1:31:371:31:42

Robbery with use of a deadly weapon,

1:31:421:31:44

a minimum term of 60 months.

1:31:441:31:47

A maximum term of 180 months.

1:31:471:31:51

Count eight, robbery with use of a deadly weapon,

1:31:511:31:53

a minimum term of 60 months, a max term of 180 months,

1:31:531:31:56

in the Nevada Department of Corrections.

1:31:561:31:59

The assault with a deadly weapon.

1:31:591:32:02

A minimum term of 18 months,

1:32:021:32:05

max term of 72 months,

1:32:051:32:07

in the Nevada Department of Corrections.

1:32:071:32:09

And the 33-year sentence

1:32:091:32:12

reflecting the 33 million

1:32:121:32:15

in the civil verdict was no coincidence.

1:32:151:32:19

That concludes today's sentencing.

1:32:201:32:22

And that was the fifth quarter.

1:32:221:32:25

They got back at OJ for winning our case.

1:32:251:32:30

-Thank you.

-Thank you, judge.

-Thank you very much. We're adjourned.

1:32:301:32:33

He didn't kidnap anybody.

1:32:351:32:37

Nobody was moved or tortured or hit and beat up.

1:32:371:32:39

There wasn't none of that. He got played by the book.

1:32:391:32:43

In the legal term of the law, when he said,

1:32:431:32:46

"Nobody leaves this room," that is kidnapping.

1:32:461:32:49

That wasn't about justice.

1:32:501:32:52

They wanted the guy that got away with murder in 1994.

1:32:521:32:57

Here's the thing about it.

1:32:591:33:01

The guns are the thing about it.

1:33:011:33:04

They put guns to people's heads.

1:33:041:33:06

Someone could have died there.

1:33:061:33:08

The legal elements of the case were there.

1:33:081:33:10

Did the jury hammer him because of the murder trial?

1:33:101:33:15

Wouldn't surprise me.

1:33:161:33:17

That is...

1:33:191:33:20

That is white justice in America, man.

1:33:211:33:23

Listen, I think anybody who is happy

1:33:271:33:30

that any human being is going to be stuck in a cage

1:33:301:33:34

is a horrible person.

1:33:341:33:36

This is not a happy day for anybody.

1:33:361:33:39

We're thrilled.

1:33:401:33:41

It's kind of a bittersweet moment,

1:33:411:33:44

knowing that that SOB is going to be in jail

1:33:441:33:47

for a very long time.

1:33:471:33:48

And he's going to be where he belongs,

1:33:521:33:54

with others of his kind.

1:33:541:33:56

And he can complain there.

1:33:561:33:58

Look, I voted "no" then.

1:34:041:34:08

Then he's a stupid ass to go out there

1:34:081:34:11

and get into some more shit.

1:34:111:34:13

Somewhat.

1:34:171:34:19

But deep in my heart,

1:34:191:34:22

I done what I felt was right at that time.

1:34:221:34:26

-CHANTING:

-Free OJ!

1:34:261:34:29

Back then, we took care of our own.

1:34:291:34:33

Now, you're on your own, Joe.

1:34:331:34:36

A lot of people gave a lot.

1:34:381:34:41

-CHANTING:

-We want justice!

1:34:411:34:43

But ultimately, it was all a waste.

1:34:431:34:47

He wasn't deserving.

1:34:471:34:49

My main concern is a black man's image

1:34:501:34:53

and the beating that it's taken.

1:34:531:34:55

OJ reached the top of the mountain.

1:34:581:35:00

And when he fell off,

1:35:021:35:04

it should not reflect on black people at all.

1:35:041:35:07

It should reflect on OJ.

1:35:071:35:08

He had everything.

1:35:111:35:13

He had adoration.

1:35:141:35:16

You hear the crowd.

1:35:161:35:17

Men loved him, women loved him, children loved him.

1:35:171:35:21

That's the way it should be.

1:35:211:35:23

I mean, how many people go through life like that?

1:35:231:35:25

When you're running the ball, it's joy.

1:35:251:35:30

This is the natural state of things.

1:35:301:35:32

For somebody like OJ Simpson, who came from where he came,

1:35:321:35:37

to have accomplished what he accomplished,

1:35:371:35:40

to have that brutal fall from grace -

1:35:401:35:44

it's really an American tragedy.

1:35:441:35:46

I don't know how I ended up here.

1:35:501:35:52

I just don't know how I ended up here.

1:35:521:35:55

I thought I lived a great life.

1:35:561:35:59

I thought I treated everybody well.

1:35:591:36:01

I went out of my way to make everybody comfortable and happy.

1:36:011:36:03

I felt the goodness in myself

1:36:041:36:07

and the goodness I gave people.

1:36:071:36:08

I don't feel any goodness in myself right now.

1:36:081:36:11

I feel empty.

1:36:121:36:14

I feel totally empty.

1:36:141:36:16

I felt I have some last thing I gotta say to somebody.

1:36:181:36:21

Please remember me as the Juice.

1:36:231:36:24

Please remember me as a good guy.

1:36:241:36:26

Please.

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