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OJ Simpson: I'm Innocent! But If I Did It.....
2006-11-15
It's nice to see that he's taking time off from playing golf to honor the memory of his children's mother in such a sensitive, caring way....
Fox plans to broadcast an interview with O.J. Simpson in which the former football star discusses "how he would have committed" the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, for which he was acquitted, the network said.

The two-part interview, titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened," will air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29, the TV network said.

Simpson has agreed to an "unrestricted" interview with book publisher Judith Regan, Fox said. "O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes," the network said in a statement. "In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the murders he has vehemently denied committing for over a decade."

The interview will air days before Simpson's new book, "How I Got Away With It: Thank You, Johnnie Cochran!" "If I Did It," goes on sale Nov. 30. The book, published by Regan, "hypothetically describes how the murders would have been committed."
Lovely. Just in time for the Christmas shopping season. Put it on your list now.
In a video clip on the network's Web site, an off-screen interviewer says to Simpson, "You wrote 'I have never seen so much blood in my life.'"

"I don't think any two people could be murdered without everybody being covered in blood," Simpson responds.

Simpson, who now lives in Florida, was acquitted in a criminal trial of the 1994 killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in 1997 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Goldman family.

Messages left with Simpson and his attorney Yale Galanter were not immediately returned.
Cue up the music for "He Had It Comin'" from "Chicago"....
Posted by:Swamp Blondie

#8  Various sources over the years had claim that NJICOLE's family hasn't gotten anything from Simpson despite the civil verdict. Iff true, this is becuz OJ, despite the later civil verdict, was found NOT GUILTY OF MURDER ERGO OJ DOES NOT HAVE TO PAYOUT FOR A CRIME HE IS, BY DEFINITION, NOT GUILTY NOR RESPONSIBLE FOR. IOW, the Browns only get what $$$ 's OJ + his Attys voluntarily or by MUTUAL CONSENT want to give them. WHATEVER OJ MAKES FROM THIS SHOW, HOWEVER DISTASTEFUL, IS HIS OWN PROFIT/REVENUE TO WHICH OJ TECHNICALLY DOES NOT HAVE TO SHARE WITH ANYONE, UNLESS HE CHOOSES TO. "Judgement" is just Hollyweird = Urban Myth hype > wouldn't surprise me at all iff he's doing this show only for Hollyweird/MSM-specific celebrity politix + keep his name high-profile in the medias. UNLESS I'M READING SOMETHING WRONG, SHORT OF A NEW COURT BATTLE ANDOR A PUBLIC OJ CONFESSION TO NICOLE'S MURDER, THE BROWNS WILL CONTINUE TO GET LITTLE TO NUTHING FROM OJ.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-11-15 22:36  

#7  Various sources over the years had claim that NJICOLE's family hasn't gotten anything from Simpson despite the civil verdict. Iff true, this is becuz OJ, despite the later civil verdict, was found NOT GUILTY OF MURDER ERGO OJ DOES NOT HAVE TO PAYOUT FOR A CRIME HE IS, BY DEFINITION, NOT GUILTY NOR RESPONSIBLE FOR. IOW, the Browns only get what $$$ 's OJ + his Attys voluntarily or by MUTUAL CONSENT want to give them. WHATEVER OJ MAKES FROM THIS SHOW, HOWEVER DISTASTEFUL, IS HIS OWN PROFIT/REVENUE TO WHICH OJ TECHNICALLY DOES NOT HAVE TO SHARE WITH ANYONE, UNLESS HE CHOOSES TO. "Judgement" is just Hollyweird = Urban Myth hype > wouldn't surprise me at all iff he's doing this show only for Hollyweird/MSM-specific celebrity politix + keep his name high-profile in the medias. UNLESS I'M SOMETHING WRONG, SHORT OF A NEW COURT BATTLE ANDOR A PUBLIC OJ CONFESSION, THE BROWNS WILL CONTINUE TO GET LITTLE TO NUTHING FROM OJ.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-11-15 22:35  

#6  ..An interesting thought from Mark Evanier (http://www.newsfromme.com/)

"...Of course, this is being logical and very little about this case has ever been logical. Simpson could be so punchy and reckless by now, he might not be operating with an ounce of sense or even consistency in his guilty noggin. That recent "hidden camera" show he did suggests a man who doesn't know what he's doing...or maybe doesn't care. But he does have that huge judgment hanging over his head, and Fred Goldman has stated several times that he would waive it if Simpson would just confess. O.J. stands to make something like 3.5 million for the interview and book, and that's a pretty big invitation for the Goldmans to haul his murdering ass back into court to try and claim that money. To confess without confessing — assuming he doesn't go the route described above and turn the "confession" into an argument for innocence — doesn't make a lot of sense just from that standpoint. To confess for real might enable him to keep that 3.5 mil, or at least to put Fred Goldman on the defensive if he goes after the money. ("Hey, the guy promised to drop that if I confessed and I've confessed.")..."

Ther's another point brought up there that no one seems to have caught:

"...A lot of people are expecting this to be a confession in which Simpson will explain how he did it but without explicitly admitted that he did it. I don't know why they assume this. He could well "tell all"...but he could also decide to make the explanation of how he killed those two people too complex and full of things that could not have happened. In other words, this could be an attempt to argue his innocence by saying, in effect, "Look...even if I tried to confess, the confession doesn't fit with the known facts..."

Given the distinct possibility that the facts may have been so badly botched as to have kept OJ well clear of a 'guity' verdict in the first place, he might well be able to convincingly confess and his details NOT match what the LAPD came up with.

Mike



Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-11-15 14:16  

#5  Nope, Excalibur. If you acquit, you're full of sh!t.....
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-11-15 11:43  

#4  In all fairness, gentlemen, the wookie did not fit. They had to acquit.
Posted by: Excalibur   2006-11-15 10:09  

#3  I just do not understand why it is someone hasn't popped him by now. He should have had an accident, or choked on a pork rib by now.

Posted by: Mick Dundee   2006-11-15 09:21  

#2  Unless I miss my guess, the money he'll make from the show and book will go to the victims' families, toward their civil suit award against him... right?

That said, it doesn't get much more tasteless and craven than this, IMO.

/Yes, I live a Sheltered Life in Sin City
Posted by: .com   2006-11-15 08:50  

#1  Dem ugly ass shoes? Wouldn't have wore dem again...
He wants to confess so bad he can taste it.
Posted by: Da Juice   2006-11-15 08:44  

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