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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: hmaly who wrote (142847)2/20/2002 1:45:08 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1578303
 
The court won't let you try to prove OJ is guilty, because OJ was already tried and found innocent.
Period. Even if incriminating evidence shows up later, the court won't allow you to use it. That would be
subjecting OJ to double jeopardy. If the state can't retry OJ with new evidence, why would they allow you.
And if you can't retry OJ, the original verdict will still stand, which means you lose.

Double jeopardy only applies to criminal convictions. If I could show that a preponderance of evidence showed that he did kill 2 people I would successfully defend myself without opening OJ up to any criminal prosecution.

Besides OJ doesn't have to prove his innocence. You must prove he is guilty, and you won't be given
a chance to do that.

OJ would have to prove that I am lying (by a preponderance of evidence standard, not beyond all reasonable doubt) if he was to successfully sue me for libel or slander.

but it did decide that OJ did wrongfully kill 2 people. <<<<<

Agreed, that you can say. But wrongful death is a long way from murder.

I was talking about stating the facts. Murder is a legal interpretation. The facts (in my opinion) are that OJ killed two people. By saying "OJ did it", I would be saying that he did kill them, which is the same thing that the civil court found to be true. If the civil court case never happened I would have a slightly more difficult time defending myself from a slander or libel suit but I could use the same type of evidence that the plaintiffs used in their suit to defend myself against the suit by OJ.

Tim
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