[andyfox]

When, exactly, did he go back to his car to get the knife? I assume you're arguing that he pulled up, and, seeing Goldman with Nicole, he took the knife out of the car. To what end? The fact is he went to the house with a knife. Memory fails me, but I believe the "ear-witness" said he heard a "white voice" say "hey" or "what's going on here?" or something to that effect; again, memory fails, but I believe the case being made was that he attacked Nicole first and that Ron happened upon them.

The only way this would qualify as a crime of passion is if he pulled up and saw them embracing or whatever and went into a rage. But that would likely only be acceptable if he killed them with his bare hands. That he just happened to have the knife with him wouldn't fly.

I doubt what you're saying about the attorneys very much. My dad was in charge of the Beverly Hills Bar Association for a long time and I did a lot of arbitration work that put me and him in close contact with many of the bigwig attorneys in town here. I can tell you that they simply wanted to get him off. They didn't think he was being charged with the wrong crime and that therefore it would have been an injustice.

I also don't believe you're right on the prosecutors willingness to accept a plea bargain. Too high profile a case. Any reasonable look at the prosecution in the case shows that they prosecutors were completely incompetent and thought they would get a slam dunk conviction. They messed up on the venue, on the jury selection, on the judge, on not introducing OJ's attempt to escape, on Furman's use of the n-word, on the woman who saw OJ driving his car home and gave the story to one of the gossip rags, on letting OJ try on the shrunken glove, etc., etc. The cops' interview with OJ when they first brought him in was laughable, you could surely have done a better job knowing nothing specific about police interrogation techniques; heck, I could have done better.

How could the cops have taken a chance planting evidence at OJ's house when they didn't even know if he was in town that particular week?

Remember that the prosecution was shocked when the jury came back as quickly as it did. They thought they were going to win the case and the shock was that they knew that a jury wasn't going to convict OJ of 1st degree murder in an hour. The prosecution was simply out to lunch.