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O.J. Simpson, Athlete Whose Trial Riveted the Nation, Dies at 76 (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] Thassodar@lemm.ee 104 points 2 months ago

Now he can rest knowing his wife's killer is dead.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Ooooooo that's good

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 42 points 2 months ago

Wish Norm were still around for this. :(

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 months ago

The Juice is out of juice 🤷 What a waste of our collective time and attention that piece of shit was.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 2 months ago

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 28 points 2 months ago

His hell is trying on gloves that don't fit for eternity

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

What a terrible headline.

Fixed it: Murderer whose trial riveted the nation.

[-] UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Person who was charged and put on trial for murder died. It's a legal term. Journalists can get sued for defamation for blatantly calling someone who is not convicted a rapist or murderer. You can safely call OJ an armed robber and kidnapper though.

That's why the talking heads on tv tend to dance around the terminology and say "allegedly" and "accused of"

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

Looks like he got away with it after all

[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Get fucked OJ. Cancer was too good for you.

[-] wildncrazyguy@kbin.social 15 points 2 months ago

I really hope he donated his brain to science. The man went from world famous to villain in a single car chase. It's rare that people fall from grace so far, so quickly. I am not excusing his heinous acts, but I will say it would make a lot more sense, in my mind, if this man's anger and impulsivity was predicated on a TBI.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

For people out of the loop:

One of the first studies to investigate the rates of TBI in offender populations was conducted by Slaughter, Fann, and Ehde (2003) who reported the rate to be 87% in a county jail setting. Schofield et al. (2006) then reported the TBI prevalence in all offender populations to range from 25-87% and, later, Williams et al. (2010) documented the prevalence of TBI in those settings to be 65%. In a more recent study, Ferguson, Pickelsimer, Corrigan, Bogner, and Wald (2012) found that 65% of male inmates, and 72% of female inmates, reported at least one TBI resulting in a change in consciousness. Finally, some of the current authors studied the incidence of TBI in a mental health transition unit at a county jail and found the incidence of TBI among a sample of offenders with a co-morbid mental illness to be 96% (Gafford, McMillan, Gorgens, Dettmer, & Glover, 2015).