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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Wednesday, March 02, 2016 - 6:21 pm 
It really is. He died a few years ago, and I wonder if he was alive whether he'd let them show him like that (or maybe he wouldn't have a say?).
The thing with emptying Nicole's house and redecorating OJ's house was so bad. The whole show is really aggravating me, if they really did what it seems like they did then it was even more of a miscarriage of justice than it appeared at the time, because it as so manipulated.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Wednesday, March 02, 2016 - 6:27 pm
In the book, Jeffrey Toobin reports on Cochran's philandering, so there's a good chance we'll see that portrayed in an upcoming episode. He apparently kept a mistress for many years while still married to Mrs. Cochran.
The redecorating of the Rockingham house actually happened (Toobin reported on that in the book, too).
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Wednesday, March 02, 2016 - 7:30 pm
I heard EW does recaps and also puts what really happened vs what they are showing. Its so hard to find articles on their site so if anyone finds those recaps pls share. ty!!!
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Wednesday, March 02, 2016 - 10:25 pm
I found it
http://www.ew.com/recap/the-people-v-oj-simpson-american-crime-story-episode-5/2
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, March 02, 2016 - 10:55 pm
Thanks Pamy. I just do not understand how ITO allowed the jury to still visit the 'crime scene' once it had been staged and items removed and replaced, once Marcia brought it to his attention. What a farce! Ito was useless. Couldn't someone have called for a mistrial or whatever and asked for the case to go to the Supreme Court or whatever?
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Wednesday, March 02, 2016 - 11:59 pm
Thanks for the link, very interesting and useful. I wonder how much Toobin can be trusted though?!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, March 03, 2016 - 12:18 am
That's an excellent point Kitt. Marcia Clark seems okay with this version so it must be fairly accurate, is how I see it.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Thursday, March 03, 2016 - 10:39 am
Toobin covered the trial from start to finish for the New Yorker magazine, which historically has had a respected reputation for being very vigorous with their fact-checking. That doesn't mean everything he wrote was 100% accurate, but I'm guessing he got pretty close to that.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Thursday, March 03, 2016 - 12:02 pm
Good to know, thanks! I was still in the UK when the trial was on, we saw parts of it on tv but I can't even remember how, it seems like there was a show on it daily but can't think what it would have been. Then of course the big highlights (like the glove and "if it doesn't fit you must acquit") were on our news.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Thursday, March 03, 2016 - 8:06 pm
and WHY did the jurors need to go to both houses?? Is that done in trials? I think Ito just wanted to go there
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Friday, March 04, 2016 - 7:21 am
This is an interesting developmnt
http://m.tmz.com/#article/2016/03/04/oj-simpson-knife-found-murders-nicole-brown/
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Friday, March 04, 2016 - 9:06 am
I heard that this morning. Wow. just wow. 1998.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, March 04, 2016 - 11:54 am
looking at crime scenes can be allowed but it definitely is NOT the norm - and its ridiculous that they allowed it after the scene(s) were cleaned up (not that you want to see the blood etc but still - see what was actually there) ... i can see going to OJ's house to see the outside where they found one glove but to look at the whole house???? no reasoning there.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, March 04, 2016 - 1:38 pm
Thanks Legal. I REALLY appreciate your expertise and input.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, March 04, 2016 - 2:08 pm
I said at the time of the trial that whether I believed he did it or not, he was getting off because the prosecution had too many holes not to meet that beyond a reasonable doubt threshold. Watching the series you wonder how did he get off but that is why there are lawyers on both sides. You can have the same facts but how you deliver them to the target audience is what it's really about. Johnnie Cochran had that gift of being a good storyteller...something I think the great lawyers possess.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, March 04, 2016 - 2:39 pm
As just an ordinary person watching it on TV daily for pretty much the entire trial, I had no problem with the prosecution's case and was shocked shitless when he got off. I hate that it's not about justice but who has the fancier, faster-talking lawyer and the slanted demographics of jury selection.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Friday, March 04, 2016 - 2:53 pm
Yeah... what Mame said...
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Wednesday, March 09, 2016 - 12:00 pm
Recap https://www.yahoo.com/tv/the-people-v-oj-simpson-american-crime-story-164820443.html
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, March 09, 2016 - 12:47 pm
Love those recaps. Thx again Legal. 
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 3:04 pm
Yup they are good to read.
Sarah Paulson is sooo good in this role.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 7:41 pm
I guess they needed the humor in the episode's title..was not a easy few days for Marcia, Marcia, Marcia..
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 8:15 pm
I'm actually going to be depressed when this show ends. I almost wish they would have filmed it to watch daily for 8 mo!!
Legal, love those recaps, The captions to the pics LMAO! its Razzle dazzle hour bwhoahahhahaaa
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 10:23 pm
When is the series over?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 10:26 pm
Mame, it's ten episodes, and finishes on April 5 with an episode titled "The Verdict".
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 8:59 am
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/the-people-v-oj-simpson-american-crime-story-141903608.html
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