The actual courtroom system, not the Court docket of Public Opinion, was appropriate to find soccer star Orenthal James “OJ” Simpson, who died final yr, not-guilty of homicide in 1995, so says a visitor on the Mania Podcast, hosted by Daniel Negreanu and Amanda Negreanu.
Alex Tomé, a pal of Mrs. Negreanu since childhood, has researched the double homicide case that was dubbed “The Trial of the Century” for over 20 years. He admits he cannot show the Corridor of Fame NFL operating again did not kill his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her pal, Ronald Goldman, on June 12, 1994. However, as he claimed in a prolonged interview with the GGPoker ambassador and his spouse, “the proof factors” to innocence.
The Case In opposition to OJ Simpson
Simpson was an instantaneous suspect when the 2 victims had been discovered brutally stabbed to dying exterior Nicole’s Los Angeles residence. The proof proven to jurors and introduced to Choose Lance Ito throughout pretrial hearings led most People to presume the as soon as beloved superstar was responsible.
There was robust bodily and circumstantial proof in opposition to Simpson. A bloody glove matching his DNA was left behind on the crime scene, investigators found a deep reduce on Simpson’s hand, and the “Juice” had a historical past of home violence in opposition to Nicole. Plus, a fugitive OJ taking police on a low-speed chase down the LA freeway for hours did not assist the general public notion. However Tomé, by his exhaustive years-long analysis into the case, has some considerations with how the investigation was performed.
“Are you aware who collected the proof from this crime scene? Model-new individuals who had been simply interns the week earlier than,” the podcast visitor requested.
Simpson’s high-profile and high-priced “Dream Group” attorneys, most notably Johnnie Cochran and Alan Dershowitz, painted an identical image in courtroom to defend their consumer. They portrayed one of many lead detectives, Mark Fuhrman, as a racist in hopes of convincing the jury that the proof in opposition to Simpson was planted and could not be trusted.
OJ’s attorneys even performed a recording of Fuhrman utilizing a racial epithet, and it turned out to be a key second within the eight-month trial. Tomé took his conspiracy idea on the investigators even additional. He posited why police might have planted proof.
“I feel initially that’s not what they wished to go do,” Tomé stated of the alleged crime scene failures. “However as issues began to come back to gentle and turn into obvious, they’d no selection however to juice up the case somewhat bit.”
By “juice up” the case, he is referring to police believing OJ dedicated the crime however did not have sufficient bodily proof to persuade a jury. So, the Mania Podcast visitor alleges they planted proof to bolster their case in opposition to the defendant. Tomé claims that Furhman and the opposite detectives mishandled the crime scene.
“Even the seasoned execs on this case had been dealing with proof with out gloves on,” he claims.
What In regards to the Notorious Bronco Chase?
Negreanu questioned his visitor on among the circumstantial proof. Simpson’s pal, Al Cowlings, led police on a low-speed chase by Los Angeles with OJ within the backseat of the notorious white Ford Bronco previous to his arrest. The incident precipitated People to imagine OJ’s refusal to only flip himself in to police and face homicide expenses was an act of contrition.
“How do you get from there, which is ‘I am all open,’ to being in a Bronco, proper, the place the entire world is watching you, in some loopy insane automotive chase with each police officer within the state like the place are you going, why are you doing this, and the way did it go from, you realize?” the seven-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner requested his visitor, who had simply said that OJ willingly supplied up blood samples to police.
Tomé had a response ready. He theorized as to why OJ did not simply go flip himself in instantly, suggesting that Simpson might have felt responsible concerning the homicide if he did not commit the crime.
“I feel the explanation why he pled not responsible and was so agency on it was as a result of he did not commit the crime, he didn’t kill these two folks. That is what I imagine, in his thoughts, okay, and that is an vital distinction. May you’ve gotten been concerned in against the law however not really dedicated the crime?” Tomé argued.
Proof that Factors to Innocence?
Amanda Negreanu’s longtime pal whom she grew up with in North Carolina dug into the bodily proof prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden used to show the case in opposition to the actor and soccer star. He claims there have been blood drops on the crime scene that had ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), a substance utilized in drugs to forestall blood clotting and for different functions, in them.
EDTA is a preservative dropped in a blood pattern to forestall the blood from clotting and to stay collectively, however it would not happen naturally within the blood. This has precipitated Tomé and lots of OJ Simpson case conspiracy theorists to query if the blood and different proof had been planted on the crime scene.
Tomé claims he was “advised by a dude” who has inside details about the homicide that Nicole had advised OJ over the cellphone the night time of the incident that she wanted him to cease by her residence as a result of “there are a few dudes lurking round my home.”
“I do know what they need, you realize who they’re, we have to settle this,” Tomé stated of what Nicole allegedly advised OJ throughout the cellphone name.
Negreanu then requested what “I do know what they need” meant.
“Cash,” Tomé responded.
He then introduced up Nicole’s shut pal Faye Resnick, who by no means testified in courtroom. Resnick, who has over 215,000 Instagram followers, had a highly-publicized cocaine habit on the time, and Tomé believes a drug associated debt might have performed into the double homicide.
Resnick’s third husband, Paul, claims he known as Nicole days earlier than the homicide involved that his now ex-wife’s drug downside had gotten uncontrolled. She even stayed at Nicole’s rental in June 1994 earlier than being satisfied to verify right into a drug rehab middle simply three days previous to the double murder.
“They had been there to gather Faye Resnick’s debt, in response to this idea,” Tomé stated of the dialog he had with the particular person supposedly in-the-know.
He claims the debt Resnick owed some drug sellers was within the $30,000 to $50,000 vary, though he admits he’s solely estimating and would not know the precise quantity. OJ, a rich superstar, may have simply paid off the debt, however Tomé says he did not need to cope with it as he was centered on preparing for the Chicago journey.
However, because the podcast visitor claims, OJ went over to Nicole’s home on the request of his ex-wife. Tomé, sharing a narrative he was advised by his supply, says that Simpson arrived on the scene the place he noticed “two dudes” arguing with Nicole earlier than they brutally stabbed her. OJ then, in response to this story, tried to defend her, and that’s how he ended up with a reduce on his finger.
Goldman, who was returning a pair of glasses to Nicole, then supposedly arrived and tried to assist however ended up getting fatally stabbed within the course of.
Poker Star Asks a Legitimate Query
Tomé then claims that after seeing useless or dying our bodies on the bottom and a scene filled with blood, OJ shortly bolted from Nicole’s residence in panic. He did not stick round to assist his dying spouse and even name 911, and the seven-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner desires to know why.
“If that is all true, why did not OJ say so? Why did not OJ say there have been two males there that stabbed Nicole in entrance of me?” Negreanu requested.
“Why was that not a part of the protection?”
Tomé believes “to take action can be extra hurtful to him, in his thoughts,” when it comes to public notion, not his prison case. His argument is that OJ did not need the general public to know he’d been wherever close to the crime scene or that he simply left the victims there to die.
OJ flew to Chicago that night time, which made many, together with police, query if he was skipping city after killing his ex-wife. However it was additionally assumed that the journey was a spur-of-the-moment choice, when in reality he, as Tomé defined, had deliberate it months upfront as a part of an obligation with Hertz, the automotive rental firm he promoted within the early Nineteen Nineties.
“You’ve already paid to your limo to choose you up at a sure time, and quarter-hour earlier than that you just determine to go homicide two folks. Let’s not overlook, he was charged with homicide within the first-degree, which implies he deliberate it out,” he argued.
First diploma homicide requires premeditation, however premeditation is outlined as a person considering, for any size of time, an motion after which subsequently appearing it out. So, OJ may have dedicated premeditated homicide after, say, discovering that one other man had gone over to his ex-wife’s home, even when he knew a limo driver was coming over to take him to the airport minutes later.
“Him being there was unhealthy, unhealthy in so some ways. He was sponsored by Hertz, he had a job at NBC, all of that s**t goes away,” Tomé stated.
Simpson was discovered not responsible on each counts of homicide on Oct. 3, 1995, however he was discovered answerable for wrongful dying at a 1997 civil trial. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million to the households of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, which he by no means did. OJ was, nevertheless, convicted in 2008 of theft and kidnapping stemming from a sports activities memorabilia incident at Palace Station on line casino in Las Vegas.
The previous Buffalo Payments operating again obtained a sentence of 9 to 33 years in a Nevada jail. He was granted parole and launched at midnight on Oct. 1, 2017, the day of the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip. Simpson, who all the time denied murdering his ex-wife and her pal, handed away from most cancers in April 2024.
