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I have tried to engage people in a discussion of the original murders over at the TalkLeft Crimes R Us site. After a couple of initial tries, everyone has avoided it. I suspect that the reason is that everyone is convinced of OJ's guilt and don't want to disturb their belief system.

What is your belief in Simpson's guilt based on? Geraldo Rivera's competence as a reporter? Dave Letterman's endless top tens on the subject? Maybe it's Charles Groden's endless rants on cable tv.

Most people had their opinions fixed long before the defense got to present its evidence. There were numerous examples of tampered evidence. Most of America refused to listen. Honestly, how many people here listened to Barry Scheck's summary of the evidence in the case? No one read about it, because the papers headlined about Fred Goldman's endless outrage against Johnnie Cochran that day.

The autopsy evidence makes it impossible that the murders even remotely occurred in the manner that was the prosecution's case. The victims' autopsies are inconsistent with evidence at the murder scene. The fact that the wounds which were proclaimed to have been the murder wounds were in fact ornamental wounds done after the victims were dead means that Simpson would have had a protracted struggle against two people and that he remained at the crime scene for precious minutes after delivering potentially fatal wounds, waiting for them to bleed out and die before he made additional wounds and rearranging the bodies to appear, at least in Nicole Simpson's case, to be an act of rage.

That is, while under an extreme time constraint to catch a limo to the airport Simpson stood around the crime scene with two dying people, waiting for them to bleed to death before delivering ornamental wounds that would make him look more guilty.

But both Cook and Simpson lawyer Ronald Slates said they had no idea what the items were, and Slates argued it was unclear whether Simpson really owned any of them.

Simpson Friend: It Seemed Like a Setup

If the Goldman family has its way, it may soon own the sports memorabilia O.J. Simpson is accused of committing armed robbery to recover for himself. One man charged along with the former football star said Tuesday that the Las Vegas hotel room dispute seemed like a setup.

Walter Alexander, 46, said Simpson may have been tricked because the memorabilia dealer who tipped him off also recorded everything on tape.

"It sounds like a setup to me," Alexander told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. He said Simpson had thought the memorabilia belonged to him after getting a call from the dealer.