He caught her cheating on him so he killed both her and her boyfriend.
Now, I'm not saying it was the right thing to do and he shouldn't have been punished for it.
But it was a rage killing based on emotion. It's not as if he was a psychopath who killed at random.
If he had confessed, second degree murder, maybe 30 years. Jealous husband syndrome.
No.
I still don't think it was a premeditated murder & that it was, indeed, a rage murder.
But even still, there was no justification for it. Period.
No justification. But Simpson is not the psychopath we've been told. If not for Nicole's affair, the world be mourning OJ today as a dead sports hero.
shareBoth him & Nicole cheated on each other, both during their marriage, & their (supposed) "reconciliation".
It was a toxic, & dysfunctional relationship from the get-go.
He had an affair with Tawny Kitaen: https://popcultmaster.com/2021/06/03/fawning-over-tawny/
shareAnd he was seeing Nicole while he was still married to his first wife.
AND, when he first met her, Nicole was 17!
This might sound controversial to some, but I'm going with nah.
shareYou are little confused. They were divorced for almost 2 years at this point, and living separate lives. So regardless of her Relationship with Goldman, it wasn't cheating. O.J had a girlfriend of his own at the time. Paula Barberi. She testified at the trial. So they weren't married, and O.J didn't live there. So it's difficult to call it a crime of passion, when he had no reason to be there in the first place.
Is it understandable from the divorce settlement side of things where she got half a million dollars, 10 grand a month in child support the house etc etc,. Yes, I can see that breaking a man, but it still doesn't justify it.
I'm never confused. This is a rhetorical exercise.
He could afford the child support. This was about love and jealousy.
I know they were already divorced but I still call it a crime of passion. O.J. was literally stalking his ex wife, he obviously COULD NOT let go. There's no justification for murder but most people without a personal connection can see how and why their relationship escalated to murder. Plus, there's a lot of pre-meditation, the hat, gloves, the previous stalking and abuse.
Yet you're right if you confess your sins and apologize profusely you have a much better chance to get a shorter sentence and eventually/ultimately come away from it a better person. O.J. did none of this.