March 19, 2008
Smothered in today’s Judiciary Committee debate on so-called three strikes legislation, was Rep. Mike Lawlor’s brief declaration that the former football legend did indeed commit that grisly 1994 stabbing murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
Lawlor was using the 1995 innocent verdict as proof that occasionally, for better or worse, juries get it wrong.
“It’s just my opinion, but O.J. Simpson, he was guilty,” Lawlor told the committee minutes before it rejected a Republican bill on so-called three-strikes legislation.
“He got off. That happens once in a while.”