His son had a rage disorder where if he wasn't on medicine the smallest offense could trigger explosive, totally out of proportion violence. From memory, apparently he wasn't taking the drugs at the time because they zonked him out, Ron and Nicole had slighted him by refusing an invitation or something like that, and his whereabouts were unaccounted for during the murder window.
Not enough evidence to believe his son did do it, but enough to believe he could have. You'd have to also believe OJ would cover for his son, would have to explain the boots and the gloves, and so on. So still 99% OJ did it.
I found this interesting as maybe the first time I saw the media actively cover up information to push their beliefs. They finally showed an interview with his medicated son and said look at this calm normal dude he couldn't possible kill anyone #conspiracytheory and suppressed the true story about his son's problems and whereabouts.
Rage Addiction and Conduct Disorders are pretty standard mental illnesses. They are also ones that the only real cure for is either incredibly difficult struggles to change over years of therapy or being literally lobotomized on meds (this is the option most take).
Unless you want to argue that they are so common among a certain demographic that they cease to be mental illness and are just the norm. Which might be a tree to bark on.
Conduct Disorder is basically used as a generalized diagnosis for children who have an extreme need to act up. Basically just misbehaving to a point where its beyond normal and not entirely related to poor environment, and quickly leading to them committing acts of legitimate violence and crime. Can range from just a little shithead to an outright monster.
In adults its usually called Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which is basically the same thing but a little less openly violent and criminal and usually more passive aggressive and snotty. Probably not relevant in this case, but I don't know the kid specifically in this case.
Also addiction is one of the most cornerstone mental illnesses possible. Because every addiction is either a conditioned response (all mental) that is maladaptive or a chemical issue. Which if we throw out mental illnesses that are chemically based, then bipolar and depression and a lot of others will be thrown out too.
Which again, I'm not opposed to that idea but its a pretty big discussion.
I think I'd heard maybe once before that OJ's son might have committed the murders. Funny enough, if there is enough evidence to reasonably suggest his son did it, then a "Not Guilty" verdict would be legally correct (reasonable doubt. Though he'd certainly still be guilty of other crimes if he had knowledge that his son murdered two people and then covered it up.)
His son had a rage disorder where if he wasn't on medicine the smallest offense could trigger explosive, totally out of proportion violence. From memory, apparently he wasn't taking the drugs at the time because they zonked him out, Ron and Nicole had slighted him by refusing an invitation or something like that, and his whereabouts were unaccounted for during the murder window.
Not enough evidence to believe his son did do it, but enough to believe he could have. You'd have to also believe OJ would cover for his son, would have to explain the boots and the gloves, and so on. So still 99% OJ did it.
I found this interesting as maybe the first time I saw the media actively cover up information to push their beliefs. They finally showed an interview with his medicated son and said look at this calm normal dude he couldn't possible kill anyone #conspiracytheory and suppressed the true story about his son's problems and whereabouts.
Those drugs probably zonked him out because he doesn't have a real mental illness, and is instead a raving lunatic.
Rage Addiction and Conduct Disorders are pretty standard mental illnesses. They are also ones that the only real cure for is either incredibly difficult struggles to change over years of therapy or being literally lobotomized on meds (this is the option most take).
Unless you want to argue that they are so common among a certain demographic that they cease to be mental illness and are just the norm. Which might be a tree to bark on.
I'm not familiar with 'conduct disorders'. But, rage addiction sounds like an addiction to me. So I don't think of that as a mental illness.
Conduct Disorder is basically used as a generalized diagnosis for children who have an extreme need to act up. Basically just misbehaving to a point where its beyond normal and not entirely related to poor environment, and quickly leading to them committing acts of legitimate violence and crime. Can range from just a little shithead to an outright monster.
In adults its usually called Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which is basically the same thing but a little less openly violent and criminal and usually more passive aggressive and snotty. Probably not relevant in this case, but I don't know the kid specifically in this case.
Also addiction is one of the most cornerstone mental illnesses possible. Because every addiction is either a conditioned response (all mental) that is maladaptive or a chemical issue. Which if we throw out mental illnesses that are chemically based, then bipolar and depression and a lot of others will be thrown out too.
Which again, I'm not opposed to that idea but its a pretty big discussion.
I think I'd heard maybe once before that OJ's son might have committed the murders. Funny enough, if there is enough evidence to reasonably suggest his son did it, then a "Not Guilty" verdict would be legally correct (reasonable doubt. Though he'd certainly still be guilty of other crimes if he had knowledge that his son murdered two people and then covered it up.)
OJ would be an accessory after the fact which I think would also be the same murder charge.
If you're an accessory during the crime they you get charged also with murder, but not sure about just covering it up.