Blame Prosecutors For OJ Debacle, Not the System

Criminology Prof Mike Adams says he could retire if he had a dollar for every time he’s heard the word “broken” to define the criminal justice system, but he doesn’t agree. Recently, it’s been used to describe the process that led to a not guilty verdict in OJ Simpson’s murder trial, and less convincingly, led to his parole from a Nevada prison. According to Adams, the system worked just the way it was supposed to. It allowed incompetent prosecutors to make a series of stupid decisions, and gave the judge the authority to instruct the jury incorrectly at the murder trial. He cites chapter and verse for those allegations, but also claims, without any evidence, that none of the OJ jurors had an IQ “above room temperature,” and says that if the trial had been held in Santa Monica, where intelligent people live, the verdict would have been guilty.