On the other hand, his wife was fucking everyone and not even making an effort to hide it. Including Goldman.
Yeah, you calmly divorce her. Not kill her and him. But I could see OJ flipping out if the wrong shit got said that night and everyone's been laughing at him for being a cuck. You don't pop the cork off the bottled up rage of an unstoppable physical force. That's a real bad move.
None of that was the defense but I could see temporary insanity. Nobody remembers that stuff anymore but there were some wild, wild shenanigans going on with those people.