OJ's Not Ok

In 1995, OJ Simpson, an ex--NFL football star, was arrested and trialed over the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The 133 days of televised courtroom testimony turned countless viewers into Simpson trial junkies. During his infamous police chase, ninety-five million television viewers tuned in to witness live footage. Even foreign leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Boris Yeltsin eagerly gossiped about the trial. When Yeltsin stepped off his plane to meet President Clinton, the first question he asked was, "Do you think O. J. did it?" When, at 10 A.M. PST on October 3, Judge Ito's clerk read the jury's verdict of "Not Guilty," 91% of all persons viewing television were glued to the unfolding scene in the Los Angeles courtroom.
Shortly before midnight on June 12, 1994, Simpson's former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were found stabbed to death outside Brown's Bundy Drive Brentwood-area condominium in Los Angeles, California with the Simpson children sleeping in an upstairs bedroom. The Simpsons had been divorced since 1992. Evidence found and collected at the scene led police to believe that O. J. Simpson might have been the murderer.

Simpson's lawyers convinced the Los Angeles Police Department to allow Simpson to turn himself in at 11 a.m. on June 17 even though the double murder charge meant no bail and a possible death penalty verdict if convicted. Double homicide is a capital offense in California. In the end, the prosecution elected not to ask for the death penalty and sought a life sentence.
The mid-day revelation of the not guilty verdict appeared to shock the prosecutorial team, and likewise shocked many in America (even one of Simpson's lawyers feared at first that the quick verdict might mean conviction.)
Some who opposed the verdict blamed the jurors, who acquitted despite being presented with what they were convinced was overwhelming evidence of Simpson's guilt (especially the DNA evidence). In post-trial interviews with the jurors, a few said that they believed Simpson probably committed the murder, but that the prosecution bungled the case. Those that did mention the DNA evidence showed what critics purport to be a lack of understanding of it. Critics of the verdict therefore allege incompetence from both the prosecutors and the jury. Only two of the jurors had received a college education. Prosecutors claimed to have heard a few of them saying things like "Well, lots of people have the same blood type," not understanding that DNA is very different from blood type.

Source: Wikipedia.com

Could the not guilty verdict be due to the fact that OJ was an American celebrity, or just the honest opinions of the jury?