There has never been much doubt that OJ was guilty. I was in fifth and sixth grade when the trial happened, so I can’t really offer any detailed analysis of all the evidence, but I don’t think you need much more than his statement to Esquire magazine in 1998: “Let’s say I committed this crime… Even if I did this, it would have to have been because I loved her very much, right?”

And while Marsha Clark’s ignorance of racial reality got him off in the criminal trial (she stocked the jury with black women, thinking gender would be more important than race, even though many black women dislike white women like Nicole Brown who steal “their men”), the civil jury found against him, albeit with a lower burden of proof.

But if there’s any doubt left, this story will end it. The man is writing a “hypothetical” book, with the working title “If I Did It.” The book will cover “in gruesome detail the killing of his ex-wife and Goldman; he stipulates that the murder scenes are ‘hypothetical.’”

It wouldn’t shock me so much to see this book on Paladin Press, but what’s nauseating is that he’s getting paid $3.5 million to write it — I can’t find the name of the publisher, but it’s obviously an established company with cash reserves.

Also, Simpson plans to spend the money quickly in order to avoid having to pay more on his civil suit debt, according to the National Enquirer. Class act.

Due to the Fifth Amendment, O.J. cannot be tried twice for the same crime, no matter how much new evidence comes up.

Robert VerBruggen blogs at http://robertsrationale.blogspot.com.