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I remember OJ Simpson getting off a double-murder because there was a remote possibility that someone (actually several hundred people) orchestrated a conspiracy to plant evidence.
He stabbed two people to death and there was DNA evidence tying him to the crime scene.
You’re thinking of Rodney King. Completely different. Mark Fuhrman committed perjury and tampered with evidence.
Rodney King was the case of a driver who got assaulted by police and brutally beat, it led to rioting across LA because it was captured on video, and King's iconic "Can't we all get along" speech on TV. It was the same general time and place, but not directly connected to the OJ case.
Mark Fuhrman may or may not have been some racist tampering with evidence but it still would have taken enormous resources and a risky gamble to frame OJ for... reasons. OJ was not framed, he got off because they turned the trial into a media circus and the jury didn't understand DNA evidence which was very new and few people had heard of it as an investigation tool. They have tried to leverage Rodney King's beating but that was only one part of the massive fuck-up by prosecution and the legal system.
My memory of events is still pretty fresh but you're welcome to look it all up.
Rodney King was connected; Jurors admitted later that they acquitted OJ as "payback" for Rodney King, even though they thought he was guilty