Darden Rejects Assertions That Verdicts Were Based on Race
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MIAMI — In his first public appearance since O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges, prosecutor Christopher A. Darden asked that people reject criticism that the verdict was based on race.
“There was a lot more to that verdict than you know,” Darden told an audience of 750 at the University of Miami Law School. “I am not about to call this a race-based verdict.”
Darden said that bad experiences with police made jurors more willing to acquit.
“I am as disturbed by that verdict as anyone,” he said Saturday. “I’m not sure we could have expected any more from those jurors.”
The jury found Simpson not guilty Oct. 3 in the slayings of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman.
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