JPF Home Page Forums OJ Gets 33 Years - This is Just WRONG in so many ways

Actually as I stated earlier, I have a huge problem with what OJ got this time. He once again got off too easy, as nearly EVERYONE does in our system. People are nearly ALWAYS plead down to next to nothing for judicial expediency. The system has become bloated and lazy. Murders are seen as no big deal. Even child rape, which in my opinion is second only to child murder on the list of most heinous crimes you can commit, regularly results in probation or very short jail terms. Using a gun in any illegal situation should result in a serious penalty. Using it to intimidate others who fear their lives are threatened should certainly result in more than 9 years in prison I think. The problem here is not what OJ got, it's that he got off easy and his cohorts got off even easier. OJ himself was offered barely more than a slap on the wrist, but he obviously thought he could once again get off completely. How anyone, including you John, can feel angry over the fact that after denying a slap on the wrist and being found guilty he got the low end of the sentencing guideline is baffling. Frankly, he got off easy again.

I do agree with you that the poor often don't get the sweetheart deals that the rich get. That's obvious. The rich get away with murder (literally). But that doesn't mean that the guilty don't deserve punishment because some get away with it. The problem is that not ALL the guilty get punished.

If 2 people commit murder and only 1 goes to prison, you should be angry that 1 DIDN'T go to prison, not angry that 1 DID go to prison. The person murdered was someone else's family member. If it was YOUR family member, I doubt you'd be so angry that they went to jail for the murder just because they happened to be poor.

In this case, a rich guy with overwhelming evidence against him who was found guilty once again got the light end of a sentence. That is what you should be angry about.

Brian