decision. 78% of black people polled agreed with the jury s decision while only 42% of white respondents were in agreement. race became the story of this trial. in the break, you said to me that mr. simpson s current incarceration you think is still connected to a set of beliefs about his guilt. no question about it. i covered his road rage trial in the fall of 2001. nobody was there. it was right after 9/11. but he took the stand and i got to know o.j. then. i covered his las vegas robbery kidnapping case in 2008, also got to know him a little bit just talking to him in the halls there. kind of a broken man by then. there is no question that he is being punished now for getting away with murder before, to me. the cops were caught saying when they were searching the hotel room where the memoribilia was, where the robbery kidnapping happened, california couldn t get him but we will. yeah. the fact you say that, that there s this language about what