The true courtroom system, not the Court docket of Public Opinion, was appropriate find soccer star Orenthal James “OJ” Simpson, who died final 12 months, 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 Towards OJ Simpson
Simpson was a right away suspect when the 2 victims had been discovered brutally stabbed to dying exterior Nicole’s Los Angeles house. The proof proven to jurors and offered to Choose Lance Ito throughout pretrial hearings led most Individuals to presume the as soon as beloved superstar was responsible.
There was sturdy 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, via his exhaustive years-long analysis into the case, has some issues 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 legal professionals 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 principle on the investigators even additional. He posited why police could have planted proof.
“I believe initially that’s not what they needed to go do,” Tomé stated of the alleged crime scene failures. “However as issues began to return to gentle and turn out to be obvious, they’d no selection however to juice up the case slightly 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 Concerning the Notorious Bronco Chase?
Negreanu questioned his visitor on a few of the circumstantial proof. Simpson’s pal, Al Cowlings, led police on a low-speed chase via Los Angeles with OJ within the backseat of the notorious white Ford Bronco previous to his arrest. The incident triggered Individuals to imagine OJ’s refusal to simply flip himself in to police and face homicide fees was an request for forgiveness.
“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 already know?” the seven-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner requested his visitor, who had simply said that OJ willingly provided 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 could have felt responsible concerning the homicide if he did not commit the crime.
“I believe 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 essential distinction. Might you will have 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 medication to stop blood clotting and for different functions, in them.
EDTA is a preservative dropped in a blood pattern to stop the blood from clotting and to stay collectively, but it surely would not happen naturally within the blood. This has triggered 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 evening of the incident that she wanted him to cease by her house as a result of “there are a few dudes lurking round my home.”
“I do know what they need, you already know who they’re, we have to settle this,” Tomé stated of what Nicole allegedly advised OJ through 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 could 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 drawback had gotten uncontrolled. She even stayed at Nicole’s apartment 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 principle,” Tomé stated of the dialog he had with the individual 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 take care of 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 lifeless or dying our bodies on the bottom and a scene stuffed with blood, OJ rapidly bolted from Nicole’s house in panic. He did not stick round to assist his dying spouse and even name 911, and the seven-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner needs 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 could be extra hurtful to him, in his thoughts,” by way of public notion, not his felony 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 evening, which made many, together with police, query if he was skipping city after killing his ex-wife. Nevertheless it was additionally assumed that the journey was a spur-of-the-moment determination, when in truth he, as Tomé defined, had deliberate it months prematurely as a part of an obligation with Hertz, the automotive rental firm he promoted within the early Nineties.
“You’ve already paid to your limo to choose you up at a sure time, and quarter-hour earlier than that you simply resolve to go homicide two folks. Let’s not overlook, he was charged with homicide within the first-degree, which suggests 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 performing 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 capturing on the Las Vegas Strip. Simpson, who at all times denied murdering his ex-wife and her pal, handed away from most cancers in April 2024.
