How Did Oj Simpson Commit Crime

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Introduction How can someone go from being known as the successful, famous football player and actor, to most famously being known as the man who killed his ex-wife along with her male friend on a summer night in 1994? People have their thoughts and opinions on whether the American star, O.J. Simpson, actually committed the well-known double homicide he was accused of thirty years ago. This was a case that had the nation on the edge of their seats, and the result was just as shocking. Whether O.J. Simpson did commit that crime or not is still an ongoing debate in some communities, however, the topic I’d like to discuss is not his innocence, but a more in depth look into why he would do it if he had. Could it be his fame? Mental Disorders - …show more content…

All of this can be seen in The People V. O.J. Simpson: An American Crime Story. The point I am trying to make in this section is that O.J felt that he could get away with it because of who he was and what he had done. He’d been an American Idol, no one was going to actually think he did it, at least that’s what O.J. suspected. He acted cool, calm and collected throughout the whole thing, almost as if he knew nothing was going to happen to him, and why else would he think that if it wasn’t for his position in society? Football Football is a popular, but dangerous sport. It can have lots of affects on the body.and the mind, and O.J. Simpson just so happened to spend a lot of his years playing the sport in which heavy men slam into one another repeatedly. Conveniently, about a year ago, I read a book called Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas, followed by the movie. Based on the true story of the founder of a mental disorder called CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). The founder, Dr. Omalu, had said that Simpson displayed symptoms of the disorder: explosive and impulsive behavior, impaired judgement, criminality and mood

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