O.J. Simpson’s 1994 mug shot from the Los Angeles police department. (Public Domain)
If you thought O.J. Simpson killed his ex-wife, you had to be prepared for intense debates at home or the barbershop back in the day. But a new CNN poll indicates that some African Americans now believe that O.J. did it.
Fifty-three percent of African Americans surveyed say that the charges are true, according to a new poll by CNN/ORC International. That’s a reversal from 1994, when only 24 percent thought the charges were true, but 60 percent believed Simpson was innocent. The former NFL star was later acquitted.
CNN released the findings to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The results were based on land-line and cell phone calls to 1,549 white respondents and 143 black respondents in a two-part survey. Sampling errors were plus or minus 8 percentage points for black respondents.
TRIAL OF THE CENTURY: Prosecutor Christopher Darden tries
to convince the court that all evidence in the death of Nicole
Brown Simpson points to her ex-husband, O.J. Simpson. (CNN video)
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