http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/04/television.simpson.reut/index.html Fox, NBC to air O.J. Simpson interviews June 12 marks 10 years since wife's murder Friday, June 4, 2004 Posted: 8:51 AM EDT (1251 GMT) LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Ten years after the double murder for which he was acquitted but left a virtual pariah, O.J. Simpson says in a television interview that he is angry at his slain ex-wife and hopes to star in a new TV reality show. "There are times I am angry at her," the former football star said in comments Fox News Channel planned to air Thursday night from his recent interview with Greta Van Susteren, who covered Simpson's 1994-95 trial on charges of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Excerpts of the interview, conducted in a Florida hotel, were released by the cable channel on Thursday. "There are things that she could be doing with the kids better than I, you know? When, it's emotional stuff, especially with my daughter, I am angry with her," Simpson, 56, said of his former wife. "I am angry that she found herself hanging out with the group of -- who are these people?" Acquitted of murder charges in the June 12, 1994, double slaying but later found liable for their deaths in a civil trial, Simpson has steadfastly maintained his innocence, insisting his ex-wife fell victim to a shadowy world of crime and drugs surrounding a group of friends she cultivated before her death. Since families of the murder victims were awarded $33.5 million in damages in 1997, Simpson and his children have retreated into seclusion, living near Miami on a $4 million pension that is exempt from civil court judgments. Asked by Van Susteren about reports of his involvement in an upcoming reality show, Simpson said, "it's a takeoff on something called 'Punk'd,' " an MTV hidden-camera show featuring Ashton Kutcher pranks on celebrities. "It's me doing gags as Juice ... what they call 'juicing' people." Simpson earned the nickname Juice during his legendary career as a running back in the National Football League. Ranking the chances the show will come to fruition on a scale of one to 10, Simpson said, "It's seven or eight, that it's gonna happen." He also expressed sympathy for two other celebrities facing high-profile criminal cases at the moment -- pop singer Michael Jackson and basketball star Kobe Bryant -- saying he considers both innocent until proven guilty. A Fox News spokesman said it is believed to be Simpson's first sit-down network TV interview since on-camera appearances with Fox News and NBC in late July 2000. The interview is slated to run in full during next Monday's edition of "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren." Although Van Susteren was the first to land a Simpson interview for the 10th anniversary of the murder case, NBC sought to beat Fox News to the punch with a special "Dateline NBC" edition on Friday featuring its own Simpson interview with Katie Couric that will be taped earlier in the day. But Fox later said it would present clips from its interview during Van Susteren's show Thursday night and again throughout the day Friday. Segments of Couric's interview also will be shown Monday morning on NBC's "Today" show.
Well I remember hanging out with the "Juice" in Miami and the people we were with weren't exactly Saints. He keeps doing this to himself and I don't know why.
"I'm telling you Juice, she's screwing around on you. And if I were in your Bruno Malis, I wouldn't stand for it."
What do you think his kids think. One day they are going to look the case over thoroughly. And try to make up their minds. It's only human nature. I just wonder what is going to go through their minds.
This article is just continuing proof of OJ's insanity. Talk about narcisim, the dude cuts his wife's head off and then he's mad at her for not being around to nurture his kids. The OJ case is a great argument for the return of vigilanteism.
"There are times I am angry at her" does not equal "he is angry at his slain ex-wife." The latter sounds like he harbors this great resentment while the former expresses an admission of occassional weakness where he gives in to frustrations caused by her death.
Why? Why is this one case, in the hundreds of cases that rich people buy their way through our justice system, a call for vigilanteism.
Because he was black and she was a beautiful white girl. No because of OJ's noteriety, the whole world followed every detail of this case. We who watched learned more about the criminal justice system than we ever did in high school civics. And although he was as solidly, obviously guilty as any case ever brought before any court and he got away with it because of outside issues. So really I was just expressing my exasperation with our criminal system. We allow lawyering to prevail over facts. Somehow we have decided that zealous defense should include obfuscation, deception and the indictment of system rather than an attempt to ascertain the truth. If the defense wants to propose criminality on the part of the police as part of their defense, the trial should be suspended and the culpability or lack thereof proven first. Just introducing the possiblity of criminal behavior on the part of the police to establish reasonable doubt with out the burden of proof provides the defendant an easy out. So no, I don't think the good people of Westwood should have stormed the courthouse and strung OJ up. But maybe they should have strung up Johnnie Cochran.
I understand you were expressing your anger at the criminal justice system, but this happens all the time. The justice system could use reform, but really I feel it worked the way it was set up to. The better representation you have, the better your chances are. And that's the saddest thing about it, it worked the way its supposed to. If you don't believe that than you're fooling yourself.
I have nothing to add to this thread... except to let Gene know that he has an incorrect spelling of Chrissy's name in his sig. Carry on...
The thing that gets me the most is that poor people get railroaded by the justice system everyday in this country because they don't have quality representation and no one wants to change that but as soon as someone famous beats the justice system its a tragedy.
I thought there was going to be a quote from him like: "Of course I'm angry at her...that's why I killed her!" Oops!
I think he was set up and he did it. But the bottom line, the jurors just got fed up. It was impossible to convict given the trial as it was held. I mean at one point they were getting blood stain testimoney from the guy who was stealing stuff out of oj's car at the impound lot. I think the jurors did the right thing. It was impossible to convict. All of that said, and as crazy as the trial was, I learned lot by watching.
I probably didn't watch as much as the trial as you did, but that's the way I felt also. What gets me is that people act like he cheated. They get mad at Johnnie Cochran. What's he supposed to do, not his best.
