O.j Simpson

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‘I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me’

(Paul Beaty/AP) - Oprah Winfrey talks with Paula Zahn at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's Cable Show 2011..

Oprah Winfrey wants to interview O.J. Simpson on the Oprah Winfrey Network to help put the network on the ratings map — on the condition that he promises to use the opportunity to say he killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.

“I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me,” Winfrey told an enthusiastic crowd of cable industry suits attending the National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention in Chicago, according to news media reports...

O.J Simpson has confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he murdered his former wife, it has been reported.
The talk show host made headlines recently saying that one of her regrets was never having got the shamed former sportsman to confess to the killing.
And it appears her wish may well have come true with reports Simpson has already told one of her producers in an interview from jail that he knifed ex-wife Nicole in self-defence – a confession he will now repeat to the talk show queen during a spectacular televised sit down interview. …
“He told the producer: “Tell Oprah that yes, I did it. I killed Nicole, but it was in self-defence. She pulled a knife on me and I had to defend myself”,’ the insider was quoted as saying.

As anyone with any training at all in self-defense law can tell you, the protection of the law ends when the threat does.  Even assuming that this version of events is true (after sixteen years of honing a story to fit the evidence), once the knife was out of Nicole’s hands, there is no case for self-defense — and that doesn’t even begin to address the issue of Ron Goldman, who was there by chance.  Furthermore, given Simpson’s history of violence against Nicole, she had a good reason to arm herself in self-defense, at her own home when Simpson arrived late at night with no notice at all.  And even more to the point, self-defense attacks don’t involve dozens of stab wounds and a near-decapitation, as Nicole suffered at the hands of her murderer.
Besides, the first act in self-defense is retreat — an option Simpson never chose, if indeed he didn’t go to the house with murder on his mind in the first place.  Southern California isn’t exactly an area where gloves are de rigueur fashion, especially in June when the murders took place (the low temperature for June 12, 1994 in LA was 59 degrees).  What part of “giving her a piece of my mind” involved putting on leather gloves?

Don’t expect those invested in Simpson’s professed innocence to apologize for their participation in race-baiting on his behalf, even if Simpson actually does confess to the murders, a guilt that practically everyone who actually reviewed the evidence with any intelligence assigned to Simpson from the beginning.  The only people who argued otherwise did so for their own purposes, not from a sense of justice for the victims of the crime — and the families that have had to live with the cruelty of both the deaths and the public reaction to them.. bulger