The prosecution was arrogant at the beginning, thinking that it had a chance to win, and did not have a very logical and rigorous timeline, nor did it carefully examine whether the evidence and witnesses were flawless. However, what’s more frightening is that the police’s negligence and arbitrariness in handling the exhibits, almost all of the key evidence was refuted, so the jurors agreed when they reached the final decision, regardless of whether you think Simpson is guilty or not, this trial of Simpson Neither can prove Simpson's guilt. So Simpson was eventually acquitted.
In addition, at the beginning of several episodes, there are plots about racial conflicts and discrimination against blacks. This is why Johnny Cochran, one of Simpson’s main defense attorneys, was able to incite racial sentiments to almost kill a murder case. It turned into a case of racial discrimination and framing and suppressed the prosecution everywhere, which is also an important reason for Simpson's acquittal. How ironic, so many innocent blacks, the accumulation of justice cannot be done, after Simpson, a sports star who tried his best to get rid of black identity and mixed in upper white society after becoming famous, it exploded and ultimately benefited him.
Speaking of discrimination, this drama also covers another kind of discrimination, namely sex discrimination. To the prosecutor Martha Clark. In the first three episodes, this strong, arrogant prosecutor with strange curly hair, I don’t like it at all. I even think that she was initially arrogant and did not listen to the opinions of the black co-prosecutor’s colleagues, which largely made Simpson innocent. freed. However, since the beginning of the trial, I slowly changed my outlook. Martha Clarke is considered to be a winning general among prosecutors, but she never expected that this case would have such a large social concern that even major TV stations broadcast the trial. Every day, her hair, makeup, and clothes are criticized, discussed, ridiculed, and criticized in newspapers and TV, saying that she is old-fashioned, non-feminine, and tough; she told the judge to go home at night to take care of her children and tell the judge that the trial cannot be postponed until the evening. She was ridiculed by defense lawyers; let alone her ex-husband who was more scumbag, ex-husband first sold the nude photos of their beach vacations to the media for publication in newspapers, ex-husband second accused her of using a child as an excuse in a TV interview at a critical moment. It is an irresponsible mother who fights for custody. You see, no male lawyer has been attacked in this way and has been criticized in this way.
But in the trial of this case, Martha Clark finally defended her bottom line and won respect. It was she who did not cater to the defense and turned the murder trial into a reality TV farce, although she alone could not turn the tide. It was she who resisted all malice and ridicule and insisted on completing her work. It was also she kept calling during the trial that this is not a racial discrimination case, but a murder case. The cruel murder of two victims is the focus of the case, although most people choose to participate in this reality show. In this case, she made mistakes, but in the end she was conscientious and honest.
The black defense lawyer Johnny Cochran has been promoting the black civil rights movement to fight for the rights of black people. He took the Simpson case to attract social attention to the status quo of discrimination against blacks, constantly inciting the media, and even threatening to release tapes of discriminatory remarks made by police witnesses with the threat of riots. Is this the right thing to do? When fighting for the rights and interests of disadvantaged groups, can it be done without compromise? In other words, in addition to the law, do defense lawyers have to abide by moral constraints? This is an unanswerable question, because most people watching TV cannot empathize with the anger of being discriminated against by black people, nor can it deny that once all the defendants hope that the defense lawyer will do everything they can for themselves. To some extent, this is also a means to ensure that no innocent person is wrongly sentenced to prison. The prosecution must produce flawless evidence to allow the jury to rule out reasonable doubts. This goes back to the beginning, the biggest mistake in the Simpson case is the police evidence collection.
In the end, all the onlookers, everyone watching the trial by the TV, participated in this case to fuel the flames. It is the public's curiosity, the desire for voyeurism, and the enthusiasm for public figures that turn a murder trial into a national carnival. The trial of Simpson's case lasted for one year. Later, many viewers carried a heavy burden of conscience, because deep down, they knew that if Simpson was guilty and escaped, everyone was responsible for it. However, since the reality show has become a big hit since then, if similar cases happen again, will the old things repeat themselves?
At the end of the tenth episode, everyone's ending was explained. Most of the main participants in the cases are more or less famous because of this case, both fame and fortune. The racially discriminatory police officer suspected of giving false testimony was the only person found guilty and serving a sentence in this case. Everyone, no matter what they get, will eventually face the deep-seated questioning. The two prosecutors resigned afterwards. The black defense lawyer could not answer, "You thought you changed the situation of blacks, but you did not. You just proved that rich and powerful blacks can be exonerated." Simpson was acquitted. Later, he fell to the altar and fell all the way, and was finally sentenced to 33 years for armed robbery and was not released on parole until 2017.
Is this belated justice? If it is, this karma cycle comes fairly quickly. But what about the victim? Yes, the three words "victim" only appeared when I wrote it here. Because, during the trial, the two victims were almost completely ignored by the media, defense lawyers, and the public, and they became clowns. They have been fabricated a lot of past history, true or false, drug use, abortion, promiscuity... Among them are their former friends. Victims are victims. They are not victims because they have done something wrong, they deserve to be killed. The guilty and the wrong are the murderers. Until now, this simple truth has not been universally implemented. So the final frame of the film is the photos of the two victims. Below are the years of their birth and death. One lived in his 30s and the other lived in his 20s. They were both young and beautiful when they died. It reminds us not to forget that two people have lost their lives and nothing can be saved.
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