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If one more person asks either Chris or Marcia if they slept together, the entire country may hear my scream. I DON'T CARE! We complain that the trial focused on everything but the brutal murders of Ron and Nicole, yet we are doing the same thing. Marcia and Chris, either answer the damn question or tell them to stop asking. Your coy smiles and comments are wearing thin IMO.

I have to admit that I did start to laugh when they said Peggy reprimanded him for writing KKK on a Martin Luther King poster. Frankly, I am giggling now. Unbelievable. To the poster who couldn't remember Peggy's reaction to Furhman's name, she hesitated and looked distressed when she saw it. Ito was turned away from her and did not see her reaction, but he would have known there was a problem if he had been facing her.

I think the "there" in that instance was the bathroom, meaning Howard just stunk up the place.

We took our boys, and we all loved it! They immediately asked if they could go back and also get it on DVD when it comes out. We spent a lot of time saying things like, "Remember when . . .!" One of my favorite parts was watching how hard she had to work to get through the academy. "Perseverance" is our family motto, and that scene will be talked about in the future. I remember getting settled into my first job and feeling just like she did, especially on days that weren't so great. I had family close by, but still the feeling as you come home alone to your new place that doesn't feel like yours yet. . . I shipped Judy and Nick. The biggest laugh in our theatre was Mr Big's first lines. I have no idea what he said because everyone exploded with laughter. So much great stuff in there!

I also wonder if someone could have tried to Jerry-rig a TV to get contraband channels, maybe arguing they just wanted to watch a sporting event and wouldn't hear the news. Probably safer to say no to all the TV's, but you have to give people stuff to do if you are going to deny them access to the outside world and to talking with each other.

One of my bosses refused to see Mrs. Doubtfire because he had friends hire a nanny who murdered their child. After her arrest the police discovered the nanny was actually a man. I have never been able to watch the movie after hearing that.

Thanks for your service, Gam2. It does seem like there should be a rule allowing someone who served on a capital murder case to opt out of future service.

I also found a 1995 article. From that reporter's perspective, Fung shook the prosecution's hands and then Cochran approached him with a hand outstretched. Fung was surprised, but shook it and then the rest of the defense lined up. The reporter said the bailiffs were taken by surprise, as they hadn't allowed OJ to shake hands with anyone else. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-04-19/news/9504190183_1_simpson-defense-team-defense-lawyers

I think this has already been mentioned, but they actually conflated two instances because her breakdown happened the day after she was dismissed. His remark was tone-deaf, but I thought he was commenting on Marcia's argument that the juror be removed because she lied on her juror questionnaire. His point, as I took it, was that she didn't technically lie because she wasn't the victim of a crime in the eyes of the law in 1988. Bailey strikes me as the guy who always has to think he is the smartest person in the room, and I took his remark as, "I know the history of California law better than you." My favorite moment of the night, even considering DS's amazing job as RK (but I always thought DS was the strongest by far on Friends). I can't believe after everything that happened, Marcia didn't continue getting rid of jurors and pushing for a mistrial. She knew the prosecution was tanking. Once again the dream team was two steps ahead of her. Regarding the jury, I would have been angry, too, if the deputies spoke to me the way they showed on television. In the opening scene, was the deputy not going to let them eat because they were five minutes late to dinner?!? Did they really all have to agree on one television show? I cannot imagine one day of someone barking orders at me like I am a naughty five year old, much less eight plus months. I also thought it didn't make sense that they didn't want jurors to talk about the trial, but they let them sit at small tables during meals. I would think discussions about the trial and alliances were happened under the deputies' noses if the show's depiction is accurate.

Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt had negative chemistry in Twister, probably because Helen Hunt rarely makes a character she portrays likeable.

An earlier post described the Catholic Church's condemned movie list as "ex cathedra," which is incorrect. "Ex cathedra" (commonly known as papal infallibility) only applies in very specific situations to matters of faith and has only been invoked twice, both regarding doctrine about Mary. A list of bad movies doesn't rank that high on the church's to do list! I remember a family friend taking me to see "Ice Castles" and then apologizing to my devout Catholic mother for the language. I can't remember now, but if the prevalent epithet was "GD" in an otherwise family film, that might have been enough in the 70's to get the dreaded C rating.

All I can say is, "Gig 'Em, Aggies!" Sometimes it really is just survive and advance.

Bernadette said Edited because I am not sure if I have to add spoiler tags for an episode that has already been shown, but is after this one. Just being careful here.

But wouldn't we have to believe that if we believe, like Fred Goldman does, that RK disposed of evidence for OJ?

In the 90's we still had to go through metal detectors and carry-ons went through one as well. I always forgot I had mace in my purse-can't tell you how many I tossed when I flew. If the knife were in the garment bag and it were carry-on, they would have found it either when he left California or left Chicago.

There are several explanations for the gloves: 1. The gloves would have fit, but OJ stopped taking his medicine, which caused his hands to swell, and he was holding his fingers in ways to make it impossible to put the gloves on. 2. They gave OJ latex gloves to put on first, and those gloves caused the gloves in question not to fit. 3. The gloves had been wet with blood and (I've heard) were frozen, and leather shrinks when wet. Or what FozzyBear said.

I know security was looser then, but I would think airport security would have seen the knife in the scan. Was the garment bag a carry-on?

Read Scott Turow's take on the case. He basically said when the prosecution takes that long to put on its case, it actually can backfire with the jury. You say this like it's a hypothetical when we know that time and time again police have done exactly this. The Innocence Project is one of many groups that have uncovered these exact situations, and it seems like the unjustly imprisoned are typically poor, black, and mentally challenged in some way. I wish there was as much outrage for them as against OJ. You would think, but we know they didn't. They didn't follow procedure for booking all the crime scene material, they lied under oath, they released the crime scene too quickly, they did a horrible job questioning OJ in the beginning. This is one of those cases that turns my stomach because I think it brings out the worst in everyone. I feel blessed that I am religious; justice may have been denied in this lifetime, but that doesn't mean justice will never happen.

But all it took was one of the two jurors who thought he was guilty being brave enough to demand a full discussion. That's why I give them the biggest side-eye.

I thought the miniseries did a disservice to the prosecution. For a show that has been so sympathetic to Marcia, they made her look petulant this time. Chris didn't make a pass; she should have kissed him if she wanted something to happen. Then suddenly she refuses to speak to him and, when she does, treats him like an underling instead of a trusted colleague. I feel like the amped-up drama did a huge disservice to the facts. It should have been clear that Judge Ito required the latex gloves. Or did he encourage having OJ try on the original gloves to begin with? And I also thought they showed Darden touching the gloves as he examined the detective. Now with OJ we see him putting on latex gloves? The show really muddied the facts for their narrative on this one.

I've always wondered this: if the criminal jury had come back with a guilty verdict in four hours, would people still be outraged that they didn't completely review the evidence? If I blame anyone on the jury, I blame the two jurors who originally thought he was guilty and quickly caved instead of asking tough questions. They are the ones who ignored their oaths, IMO.

I was surprised that Jamie so clearly beat Danny at the range. I am curious what exactly they are setting up because Danny is so dismissive and rude to Erin and Jamie, but they are expected to take it and roll over anytime he wants a favor. Do the writers or actors even notice anymore?

When they gave their DNA samples, they were also photographed. The director said that she had a hard time getting people to talk, but one player who declined to be interviewed asked the filmmaker to talk to his mother (my guess is Tricia Dowd). She then was interested in the parents' perspective. I can understand these men who have good jobs and probably young families of their own not wanting to be back on camera reliving that time in their life. I remember the accusation and then it being dismissed, but I don't remember being very focused on the details to form opinions about it. The film was chilling. Brad Bannon was an amazing attorney!

And yet it would be spun as the liberal media's fault

I thought the point wasn't Sasha=OJ, but was Sasha=representation of how little the legal system punished domestic abusers.