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Fuck O.J.!!
Seriously, this guy is a plague. If you haven’t heard the story, here’s the skinny - the Juice has a book coming out at the end of the month called “If I Did It.” And FOX has gone back to its low-sinking norms by agreeing to air a two-hour special, timed with the book’s release, called “If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened.” O.J. is going to use this opportunity to tell “for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes.”
So yeah, he’s a despicable plague.
Of course, I’m sure this FOX special will have maaaaaad ratings. The books sales, however, will probably buh-low.
Anyway, I bring it up here because the obvious question is, what’s the legal consequence? Of course, the Bill of Rights (the Fifth Amendment, to be exact) protects folks from being tried for the same crime twice. That’s the whole “double jeopardy” business you’ve surely heard of before, and which was the title and ostensible focus of Ashley Judd’s ridiculous 1999 movie. However, as explained in more depth over at Slate, there is a chance that the feds could go after the Juice with civil rights violations or that someone else could go after him for fraud. Of course, neither of these are very likely.
Now, QuizLaw does not endorse murder. Buuuuuut…if we were to endorse murder, here’s how we might do it: we might suggest that someone watch O.J.’s TV special as an instructional video. And then we might suggest to this same someone that practice makes perfect, and who better to tell them if they’re doing it right than their video instructor himself.
You know, if we did that sort of thing.
