[bluesbassman]

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Once again everyone on this forum but you realizes that my point was that OJ's crime was not premeditated.

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whether it was in fact planned or not, the evidence was overwhelming that it was. I mean, who carries a big knife around? so the evidence was that he had a knife cause he planned to use it.

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For some reason he had a knife in his car. I can't even believe people are saying this. Even Marcia Clarke doesn't think he drove there to kill Nicole.

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This might be true, but from that it doesn't follow it was a crime of passion. Do you see why?

Context is important here. What was OJ doing at Nicole's house (apparently unannounced I believe) in the first place? I don't think he had any business being there, and if he subsequently becomes enraged, for whatever reason upon seeing her, then that situation is NOT legitimately a "crime of passion," regardless of whether he had planned in advance to murder her that evening. Not to mention he also murdered Mr. Goldman.

A crime of passion occurs (for example) when a domestic dispute escalates, or perhaps if a man comes home early to find his wife in bed with another man. In the OJ case, there was no "reasonable" reason for him to be at Nicole's house, nor to become enraged at her or Mr. Goldman, so the "crime of passion" consideration does not apply.

Seems to me 1st degree murder was an entirely appropriate charge in this case, regardless of OJ's supposed original intent.