QUOTE:| QUOTE:Okay... A have a dumb question here about double-jeopardy cases... Say that Simpson really admitted that he killed his wife and her lover (not just hypothetically) then nothing happens? Like the case is just closed and over forever? |
You cant be put to trial for the same thing twice. So he could shout it out to the world and he's protected by law.
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Well, it's a little different than that actually. You cannot be tried CRIMINALLY twice for the same crime. OJ was acquitted in his criminal trial. Not "found innocent" as so many like to say, but "not guilty" meaning the state of California did not sufficiently prove to this very ignorant jury that OJ Simpson murdered Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. In a criminal court, where you can lose your freedom and, on very rare occasions, your life, it is deemed fair that if acquited, you cannot be subjected to another trial even if more evidence comes to light or even if you are so willfully arrogant as to admit your crime. But then... You can then be tried in a CIVIL court for having been LIABLE (as opposed to GUILTY) for a crime and forced to pay money. This usually doesn't happen because not that many murderers (or others accused of violent crime) have any money. Hence, it is not double jeopardy. Two types of courts/two types of punishments. So far, OJ has escaped both punishments even after having been legally liable for the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown and ordered to pay something like $30,000,000. He still earns cash money none of it officially on the books and cheats his way out of paying. The two surviving families continue to dog him trying to get him to pay up. So far -- not a dime. Oh, and one more thing... It was never established that Ron Goldman was Nicole's 'lover' and in fact, has been pretty assiduously argued by all who knew the two of them otherwise. Maybe -- just maybe -- that June evening in 1994 would have altered that fact, had not OJ come by and stabbed the two of them to death. But now we'll just never know. Susan
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Ben Franklin
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