If OJ had become one of my law students when I started my law school, he would be a free man today.
In his allocution, OJ couldn’t keep separate Nevada and the State of Nevada. The English common law permits a man to use necessary force to reclaim his own property, so what Simpson did to reclaim, what he thought was his property was lawful. All of Las Vegas is Nevada.
The State of Nevada is the United States, where the English common law is not the law. The law in the State of Nevada is the law made in conformity with the Constitution of the United States.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the first trial courts established in conformity with the Constitution of the United States. In Section 2 of that Act, the United States is divided into thirteen districts. On the date of enactment, September 24, 1789, only eleven States of the original thirteen had ratified “this Constitution,” so the first district was “to be limited and called as follows, to wit: one to consist of that part of the State of Massachusetts which lies easterly of the State of New Hampshire, and to be called Maine District.”
The Maine District and the Kentucky District, when added to the eleven States that had ratified ”this Constitution,” constituted the thirteen districts. Maine and Kentucky were part of the Confederacy known as the United States of America, however, Maine would not be admitted as a State until March 15, 1820. Kentucky became a State much sooner, on June 1, 1792, but on the effective date of the Judiciary Act of 1789 it was just the property of the United States of America.
It is a government secret that all courts administering written law in conformity with the Constitution of the United States are legislative in power and not judicial. Proprietary power is the authority exercised by the judges sitting in these courts.
The State of Nevada is comprised of property belonging to the United States of America, which is almost three quarters of Nevada, but does not include Las Vegas. If Simpson committed a crime in Las Vegas, it would have to be a common law crime and he would have to be charged according to the English common law.
The laws Simpson was alleged to have violated were written laws enacted by the State Legislature of the State of Nevada for the State of Nevada. The judges and legislative representatives in the State of Nevada are elected by voters who must be citizens of the United States. The Simpson jurors must also have been citizens of the United States and domiciled in the State of Nevada.
My students get a lot more instruction on this subject than this post, but even this brief post is substantially more than any attorney admitted to practice by the State Bar of Nevada knows about the subject.
There now appears to be an extremely substantial belief that Simpson did murder two people. A State of California jury found him not guilty of those two crimes. Those murders were not committed in common law California, so he is still subject to common law murder charges there. Real justice remains to be done.
Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera
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