Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jul. 19, 2007
Simpson Trial Continues to Affect Racial Decisions in the Courts
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - A decade after O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges, his impact on race relations is weighing heavily on an upcoming Supreme Court case.
The moment that a mostly black jury acquitted O.J. Simpson in 1996, a leading Simpson trial commentator pithily quipped that blacks would catch heck for that verdict. He didn't spell out exactly how they would pay for the outcome, but the point was that the Simpson verdict so enraged police, prosecutors, judges and many whites that they would throw the book at any black defendant who wound up on a court ...
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