https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1469148259381747713
Cernovich
@Cernovich
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Unbelievable until you read it, then it seems inevitable that Garcetti rigged the OJ case.
Really - read all of this
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Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
· Aug 23, 2020
We are approaching the 25th anniversary of the verdict of “not guilty” in the OJ Simpson trial. Why did OJ go free? Simply put, because DA Gil Garcetti intentionally lost the case. A thread. 1/
https://twitter.com/dilanesper/status/1297642386340712448
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
He argued to LA’s Black communities that they had gotten a raw deal from prior “law and order” prosecutors, and that he would do better. At the time, Garcetti was also touted as a possible future mayor (a position his son eventually achieved). 15/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
At the time, the Mayor of LA was a conservative Republican, Richard Riordan, so the possibility that a prosecutor like Garcetti might put together a coalition of Blacks along with some moderate Democrats to run against Riordan was conceivable. 16/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
So Garcetti knew the score. He feared civil unrest if Simpson was convicted, and he also knew that a conviction would mean the end of his political career as Blacks would blame him for it. 17/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
On the other hand, he obviously couldn’t just refuse to charge a double murderer. So what he had to do was look like he was trying while ensuring Simpson’s acquittal. And that’s exactly what he did, through multiple decision. 18/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
The first major decision was to ensure a jury of Simpson’s peers did not judge him. 19/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
Under the US Constitution (through a provision that, admittedly, has not been “incorporated” in the states and thus did not apply to the Simpson prosecution), you are supposed to be tried in the district where the crime occurred. 20/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
The purpose of this is common sense- it is supposed to be a jury of your “peers”. In many cases, this requirement is protective of defendants. 21/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
For instance, a really easy way of getting even more innocent Black people convicted or sentenced severely would be to move their trials out of their own communities and try them in the white suburbs. 22/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
In the federal system, that’s clearly unconstitutional, and it would be despicable if a state court system did this either. 23/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
But the “vicinage” requirement also protects the rights of the public. A classic example of this is the Simi Valley jury that acquitted the Rodney King cops. That beating occurred in Lake View Terrace, a relatively unpopulated area. 24/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
The nearest population centers are Sylmar and San Fernando, both diverse communities. A jury out there would have been very diverse. Instead, it was moved to Simi Valley, a lily-white community where a lot of cops lived. 25/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
And clearly guilty defendants were acquitted as a result. 26/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
OJ Simpson had lived in Brentwood, in West LA, in an all-white neighborhood, for almost two decades before the murder. Those were his peers. Note this isn’t an all-encompassing Bernie-bro “class not race” argument. 27/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
There are wealthy Blacks who live in places like Crenshaw, in judicial districts whose jury pools would create juries like the OJ jury. The issue is that the “jury of your peers” is produced by where you live. 28/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
That’s what it says in the Constitution, and that’s the correct principle. OJ Simpson decided he was most comfortable living in the world of rich white people. 29/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
And yet Gil Garcetti decided OJ would be tried by people from communities he would never live in, and never interact with. 30/
Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Aug 23, 2020
Gil Garcetti decided to try Simpson in Downtown LA, where he we would be assured a jury filled with working class Blacks who would, according to the jury research and consistent with what their community leaders were urging, acquit him. 31/
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