Some Cop Has Probably Had the OJ Simpson Murder Weapon for 18 Years

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Whooping Crabs: Apr 13, 2010; Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons

OJ is already in prison for probably the rest of his life so who cares?

Also the cop should have waited until the 25th anniversary of the murders and sold it on ebay.

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it's weird but I guess the real killer buried it on OJ's property to frame him

# ? Mar 4, 2016 21:27

Atoramos: Aug 31, 2003; Jim's now a Blind Cave Salamander!

Sheep-Goats posted:

Knife was found after the trial btw so even if the cop ran that knife up a flagpole like he should have done OJ would have been immune from further prosecution.

new evidence negates the protection of double jeopardy btw

# ? Mar 4, 2016 21:45

Darkman Fanpage: Jul 4, 2012

Quote from Nicole Brown to OJ Simpson: "What are you gonna do, nearly decapitate me?"

# ? Mar 4, 2016 22:01

FrankeeFrankFrank: Apr 21, 2005; Say word son.

This new evidence has me rethinking this whole "not-guilty" thing.

# ? Mar 4, 2016 22:08

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Atoramos posted:

new evidence negates the protection of double jeopardy btw

No it doesn't lol

The only exception is that if there is new evidence AND you're being tried by a different body (federal instead of state). New evidence can lead to a request of a new trial in the case of a guilty verdict but once you're innocent that's that.

Edit: Also you can obviously be retried if a judgement wasn't entered in the first trial (guilty/innocent).

raton fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Mar 4, 2016

# ? Mar 4, 2016 22:26

FrankeeFrankFrank: Apr 21, 2005; Say word son.

Sheep-Goats posted:

No it doesn't lol

The only exception is that if there is new evidence AND you're being tried by a different body (federal instead of state). New evidence can lead to a request of a new trial in the case of a guilty verdict but once you're innocent that's that.

Edit: Also you can obviously be retried if a judgement wasn't entered in the first trial (guilty/innocent).

So if I commit murder, and go to trial, but am found innocent due to a lack of evidence.... The next day I can call up the cops and say I threw the body in the river you stupid mother fuckers... peace out.?

I watch Forensic Files alot... and they are always finding new evidence/DNA a decade later, and then locking people up for life, I guess most cases they were never tried in the first place, but I'm pretty sure I have seen that happen.

# ? Mar 4, 2016 22:40

house of the dad: Jul 4, 2005

You can never get a retrial of anything. That's why if you get sentenced to life in prison and someone else admits to doing the crime, too bad!!!

# ? Mar 4, 2016 22:46

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# ? Mar 4, 2016 22:53

Drunk Nerds: Jan 25, 2011; Just close your eyes; Fun Shoe

FrankeeFrankFrank posted:

So if I commit murder, and go to trial, but am found innocent due to a lack of evidence.... The next day I can call up the cops and say I threw the body in the river you stupid mother fuckers... peace out.?

I watch Forensic Files alot... and they are always finding new evidence/DNA a decade later, and then locking people up for life, I guess most cases they were never tried in the first place, but I'm pretty sure I have seen that happen.

Quoting this post in case its not ironically trying to be bad

# ? Mar 4, 2016 23:05

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gigawhite posted:

You can never get a retrial of anything. That's why if you get sentenced to life in prison and someone else admits to doing the crime, too bad!!!

Is my sarcasm detector just broken?

# ? Mar 4, 2016 23:10

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

ALERT: Confirmed as OJ's knife as it has 'OJ 2, Nicole 0' scratched on it.

# ? Mar 4, 2016 23:20

wane tendo: Mar 19, 2005; Buglord

someday, the powers that be will release his prank TV show on Netflix. then, and only then, will the juice finally be loose, free to flow across our palates and sustain us through these dark times

# ? Mar 4, 2016 23:35

Bonzo: Mar 11, 2004; Just like Mama used to make it!

FrankeeFrankFrank posted:

So if I commit murder, and go to trial, but am found innocent due to a lack of evidence.... The next day I can call up the cops and say I threw the body in the river you stupid mother fuckers... peace out.?

I watch Forensic Files alot... and they are always finding new evidence/DNA a decade later, and then locking people up for life, I guess most cases they were never tried in the first place, but I'm pretty sure I have seen that happen.

Let me tell you about Mel Ignatow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Ignatow

quote:

... murdered his former girlfriend, Brenda Sue Schaefer, in 1988. The case was controversial because Ignatow was acquitted of the charge, but photographs proving his guilt were uncovered after the trial. Under the legal principle of double jeopardy, however, Ignatow could not be tried a second time for the murder. He was, instead, convicted and jailed for perjury in his grand jury testimony for the case on several occasions.

quote:

Six months after Ignatow's acquittal, a carpetlayer working in Ignatow's old house, which had been sold to fund his defense, pulled up a length of carpet in a hallway. Under it he found a floor vent containing a plastic bag, taped to hold it inside the vent. Inside the bag was the jewelry Schaefer had taken with her on the night of her disappearance, and three rolls of undeveloped film. When developed, the film showed Ignatow torturing and raping Schaefer, just as Shore had described. Ignatow's face was not in the pictures, but body hair patterns and moles matched him perfectly.

Ignatow was brought to trial for perjury based on his grand jury testimony. Knowing that he could not be retried for the murder because of double jeopardy, Ignatow confessed in court at his perjury trial. He turned to Schaefer's brothers in court and said that he had killed her, but claimed that she had died peacefully.

Ignatow served five years of an eight-year sentence for perjury. The state later prosecuted him on perjury charges for testimony he gave in a case against Schaefer's employer for threatening to kill Ignatow if he didn't reveal where Schaefer was. He was sentenced to nine years for that perjury charge. Ignatow was released from prison for the second time in December 2006. He returned to Louisville, living in a home four miles from the house where he murdered Schaefer.

# ? Mar 4, 2016 23:44

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

Bonzo posted:

Let me tell you about Mel Ignatow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Ignatow

American Dream (tm)

# ? Mar 4, 2016 23:58

Cyks: Mar 17, 2008; The trenches of IT can scar a muppet for life

FrankeeFrankFrank posted:

So if I commit murder, and go to trial, but am found innocent due to a lack of evidence.... The next day I can call up the cops and say I threw the body in the river you stupid mother fuckers... peace out.?

I watch Forensic Files alot... and they are always finding new evidence/DNA a decade later, and then locking people up for life, I guess most cases they were never tried in the first place, but I'm pretty sure I have seen that happen.

Jesus Christ dude they even made a Hollywood movie featuring Ashley Judd about this. I think it was called... A Time to Kill.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 00:14

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

FrankeeFrankFrank posted:

So if I commit murder, and go to trial, but am found innocent due to a lack of evidence.... The next day I can call up the cops and say I threw the body in the river you stupid mother fuckers... peace out.?

if you are American this is loving shameful as poo poo

# ? Mar 5, 2016 00:15

Germstore: Oct 17, 2012; A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

OJ will be judged by god. Unfortunately god loves Naked Gun.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 00:40

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

gigawhite posted:

You can never get a retrial of anything. That's why if you get sentenced to life in prison and someone else admits to doing the crime, too bad!!!

New evidence can open a trial if the verdict is guilty. The term is double jeopardy, not "no reversies." Once the verdict is innocent you can't be retired under the same jurisdiction for the same crime.

raton fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Mar 5, 2016

# ? Mar 5, 2016 04:20

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

FrankeeFrankFrank posted:

So if I commit murder, and go to trial, but am found innocent due to a lack of evidence.... The next day I can call up the cops and say I threw the body in the river you stupid mother fuckers... peace out.?

I watch Forensic Files alot... and they are always finding new evidence/DNA a decade later, and then locking people up for life, I guess most cases they were never tried in the first place, but I'm pretty sure I have seen that happen.

Yes. They will jail you for perjury though.

E: Oh someone already posted that one famous case

# ? Mar 5, 2016 04:23

Burt Sexual: Jan 26, 2006; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Switchblade Switcharoo

Good article on the double jeopardy thingy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ormer-property/

He didn't testify so no perjury either. State trial?

# ? Mar 5, 2016 17:38