PJ,
If what you’re saying about O.J. being found not guilty is true, and those in disagreement must, therefore, be rejecting the jury system, then conversely, you must believe that there has never been a jury mistake in all the “not guilty” verdicts returned by juries. The point of most of these posts is the opinion that a generally sound American jury system still gets it wrong from time to time. A “not guilty” jury verdict does not mean that it was proven that the defendant did not commit the crime. Rather, it only indicates that, in a court of law, the jury (whether mistakenly or accurately) decided that the case was not made “beyond a reasonable doubt.” That’s a far sight from that verdict proving some kind of objective innocence. By the way, what do you do with the civil trial verdict? There, he was found civilly liable.
