This episode would have been bargained down to a misdemeanor with a possible one year jail term if it were not for OJs notoriety.
It was a comedy of errors with OJ motivated to retrieve his property, not to steal additional property.
OJ was not a product of a ghetto family. His mother was a registered social worker with a Master's degree in social work, and she was employed in a professional capacity.
That said, OJ doesn't seem to have been the brightest bulb on the tree. And his conditioning as a celebrity may have caused him to think that he had more freedom of action than most people. But for the LA incident, I suspect that he would have plea bargained this out and received a year of unsupervised probation.
The case seems to have been overcharged and possibly some of the counts on which he was convicted may not be supported by the evidence. It's unlikely that all of the counts would be overturned, and OJ faces some hard time for felony convictions.
That aside, OJs lawyer did raise the prospect of his inability to secure an unbiased jury and he referred to disquieting answers on the jury questionnaires. It's unlikely, but this is the only basis on which all of the convictions could be reversed. Any possibility of this aspect being seriously considered would depend on the nature of his pretrial objections to the composition of the jury. I suspect that he did not paper it out sufficiently as would be retrospectively required.
OJs short on money and plumb out of friends, it seems. Charges of "racism" have become so common that it's analogous to "the man who cried wolf," used so often and so inappropriately as the last defense of the inculpated scoundrel that the claims are ignored even when they might be valid.
You'll need to formulate a new plan, Celisary. Being black doesn't confer a license to engage in criminal behavior without consequences. That was phase 2. Now it's phase 3 time.
