O.J. Simpson Trial Goes To Jury After Closing Arguments

Get this: O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder exactly thirteen years ago today. Now, with his trial over, a new jury must spend the anniversary deciding whether he’s guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping. Awkward!

Unsurprisingly, the prosecution wasn’t afraid to touch on the reasons for O.J.’s lack of popularity. Said prosecutor Chris Owens, “The kind of arrogance … that would make them think they could come in and get away with this kind of crime and that nobody would report it and they thought they could spin it that, ‘It’s all OK; It was my stuff.’” And why does he think he can get away with a crime? Hmmmmm.

The defense—also unsurprisingly—chastised the attempt to turn this into some sort of karmic retribution. “Every cooperator, every person who had a gun, every person who had an ulterior motive, every person who signed a book deal, every person who got paid money — the police, the district attorney’s office, is only interested in one thing: Mr. Simpson.” See, it’s f*ck with The Juice day, and everybody’s celebratin’.

So now the jury has to decide whether O.J. thinks he’s above the law, if these Vegas dudes were trying to exploit him, or—here’s a possibility—both. Normally in celebrity court cases, it’s easy for the defense to pile on “reasonable doubt” until the jury decides they don’t know anything about anything, but the potential timing of the verdict underlines how hard it will be for anyone to look at this case separate from their take on what went down thirteen years ago.

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