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Stephen A Smith is certain the late OJ Simpson slaughtered his spouse Nicole Brown and her buddy Ron Goldman – and declared: “The Lord will deal with him.”
The 56-year-old athletics broadcaster strike out right after Simpson’s dying from cancer aged 76 was announced by his family on Thursday. (11.04.24)
Even although the shamed previous NFL player was acquitted on the 1994 double-murder of Nicole and Ron, Stephen instructed ‘First Take’: “I know that if I was on that jury, he would’ve been the below the damn jail. I know that much.
“I think he was responsible, but I really don’t know. I’m speaking about, dependent on the proof that was positioned prior to us in the course of the demo, overseen by Judge Lance Ito, this is what we noticed on countrywide television.
“And by most accounts, you observed you believing he was guilty as hell. In the stop, that is what this comes down to.”
Stephen included Simpson’s acquittal was very likely the final result of the function of his ‘Dream Team’ protection workforce, which was spearheaded by lawyer Johnnie Cochran – as perfectly as the incompetency of prosecutors.
He claimed: “We’re also not going to fail to remember how undesirable Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden had been as prosecutors mainly because that is a test scenario of what not to do as prosecutors.
“You’ve bought a glove with blood on it that clearly shrunk over a interval of time and you explain to the gentleman to attempt on the glove.
“That’s not going to get the job done, everyone remembers that.
“I imagine about Johnnie Cochran, and Johnnie Cochran, eventually, his company went national and he became a house name as a end result of the OJ demo.”
Stephen also referred to the infamous moment in Simpson’s 11-month double-murder path when the former athlete’s hand appeared not to match into the blood-stained glove located on his home the working day he was arrested on suspicion of butchering Nicole and Ron – prompting Johnnie Cochran to say: “If it does not suit, you have to acquit.”
He additional: “Nobody will forget about that line by the late, great Johnnie Cochran.
“You don’t want to say that devoid of a substantial level of sensitivity on this particular working day towards his family members who were innocent of all that stuff.
“They had nothing at all to do with it – they simply cannot regulate his actions.
“But primarily based on his actions that we all witnessed on demo around national television for months upon months at a time, by and substantial, the belief is he’s responsible.
“So you’re not going to hear nor see an abundance of folks feeling a lot of sympathy for him now. The Lord will deal with him.”