O. J. Simpson's Exculpatory Evidence In Court

Are Judges Manipulative

Courts have a certain system that one would expect that everyone would adhere to.

Unfortunately, it seems as if judges have their own agenda. Stare decisis is supposed to be

adhered to but judges like to put their own spin on things. Precedents are like word games to

judges. They love to play around with them and change them to their liking. Judges use judiciary

interpretation to manipulate the law by deciding that the precedent is sufficiently different from

the case that they are handling so that the legal principles in the precedent case doesn’t apply to

their case to get the legal outcome that they want. Judges can actually choose which pieces of

evidence can be shown to the jury. There isn’t much
However, there were a lot of

people who said that O.J Simpson was going to be declared guilty and yet he was acquitted. O.J

Simpson was an African American male who was acquitted. That doesn’t happen too often. The

judge allowed exculpatory evidence in Simpson’s case which was the reason for Simpson’s

acquittal. If exculpatory evidence got an African American male acquitted, then Olsen at least

had a chance to get acquitted. By not allowing the evidence the judge took away any chance that

Olsen might have had.

The United States courts put a lot of weight on testimonies and witnesses and yet in a

Brady claim the evidence has to be material. If all the evidence is not presented, then how can

one say that the defendant received a fair trial. Judge Nielsen manipulated the Brady claim to

make sure that the jury didn’t know about Melnikoff allegedly contaminating the equate capsule.

The Brady claim was supposed to prevent prosecutors from suppressing evidence that could