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I have a question for the forum lawyers.
I understand the whole double jeopardy thing so that "technically" OJ can never be prosecuted for murder (inserting the obligatory "if he hypothetically did it" disclaimer). But if OJ walked into a police station right now and confessed, there isn't anything that he could be charged with?
Since he didn't testify, I guess perjury is out. But it would seem that there had to have been some case in the legal annals where someone was accused of murder, acquitted and then revealed to have been guilty and that there would some legal mechanism to address that.
Just curious.
While there may be some lesser crime you could stick on him, by this point the statute of limitations has probably run on most of them. Murder usually doesn't have a statute of limitations, but he was acquitted of murder. It really depends on Californial criminal law, which I don't know.