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Originally Posted by Tango
The whole thing is crazy. OJ hasn't really paid anything for his crime. Instead, WE, the buying public are supposed to help pay off OJ's judgement! Gimme a break. The sentencing should have involved something other than a financial cost. I don't have the wisdom to figure out the right penalty for him, but it should involve cleaning bathrooms forever, or something else menial, something that involves his time, since he was responsible for the lose of precious life time of two individuals.
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Oh Lord - I just cannot resist -- OJ owes the state and the public nothing. The state did not convict him in a criminal proceeding. Like it or not, he is innocent in the eyes of the law. Whether people believe differently is irrelevant from a legal point of view. If one does not like that, then change the US Constitution's sanctioning of double jeopardy.
He was, however, found responsible in a civil court, which has different standard of proof and different penalties from criminal court. That finding of liability resulted in a monetary award to the aggrieved parties.
The two are wholly mutually exclusive.
As for the we the public paying off the civil judgment - don't but the book no matter the publisher - that is the only power of this that an unrelated individual has
I will not buy this book.