The evidence gathered made it a slam dunk but they underestimated the retardness of the LAPD. The LAPD for decades were run by retards and had lots of felons convicted on shoddy evidence but it wasn't until OJ and his band of merry lawyers that the LAPD was exposed for being run by fools. If the police did their evidence gathering by the book this case would have been closed on day 1. Just a pure fuck up from the start.
He would have been convicted if the police didn't dick around with the evidence and if the prosecution didn't withhold reports.
The one thing that confused me at pre-trial was Clark's refusal to allow the other knife into evidence.
It's a weird thing, though. Robert Blake got off and nobody gave a fuck. OJ gets rich enough to buy some justice and everyone pretends it's the greatest travesty in American history. This case will probably be discussed forever because we're mostly wimps being held hostage by political correctness and will never have a 100% no-holds barred discussion on finances, race, and other demographic issues affect our perception of the justice system.