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It was the trial of the century.

It was the dawn of reality TV, and the verdict is still divisive.

Now, decades after the O.J. Simpson trial, the people who lived it reflect on why he was acquitted.

Michael Ayala, and this is trial and error.

Why did OJ win?

We, the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant Orenthall James Simpson not guilty of the crime of murder.

None of us knew how big this would be.

My mom goes, okay, girls, we need to go home and get the kids because he's a free man.

Jury number nine is to count two, is this your verdict?

Somewhere deep inside me, I had to have believed that it was guilty because my reaction was shocking.

The last thing he had to see was that son of a bitch walking away.

If it doesn't fit, you must have quit.

I was shocked at the incompetence of the prosecution.

There, how about that, Mr. Pung?

The case felt less like a murder case than it was just a spectacle.

Have you used that word in the past 10 years?

Not that I recall now.

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