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Martin Sheen Says His New Series ‘OJ Is Innocent’ Will Find Nicole’s Murderer

By Amy Feinstein
Published on: 23:04 PST, Mar 30, 2016

Well, if Charlie Sheen can cure HIV, surely Martin Sheen can find the “real killer” of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, right? Martin Sheen is working on a new docuseries called OJ Is Innocent, with just that motive in mind. Sheen wants to find the real killer and finally prove OJ Simpson innocent… or rather, not guilty of murder. If OJ was innocent, he would not be sitting in prison at this very moment. Sheen wants to change what you think of when people think OJ Simpson.

According to The Inquisitr, the OJ Simpson trial was big enough news once again that there are already two mini-series bringing up the topic yet again. Neither series made Simpson look terribly innocent, but they both ignited the debate once again, and now Sheen is out to prove that someone else killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Martin Sheen not only directed the OJ Simpson is Innocent project, but felt strongly enough to shop it around, and it ended up at the ID Network. Sheen is also the narrator and strongly believes in the project, and supports Simpson in vindicating him and finding the “real killer” of Simpson’s former wife and her friend.

Martin Sheen believes that his Simpson project will present new evidence never seen before. Sheen said he would have also appeared on-screen in the project if a contract with Netflix and Grace & Frankie didn’t preclude him from doing so. Sheen’s documentary is based on a book by William Dear called OJ Simpson is Innocent, and I Can Prove It. Martin Sheen said that his goal was to answer three major questions, the answers to which made Sheen believe in Simpson.

What if there were enough evidence that proved O.J. Simpson did not murder his ex-wife Nicole or Ron Goldman? What if the real killer were still at large? And finally, what if a grand jury convened to reconsider the case based on new evidence?”

Vanity Fair indicates that Martin Sheen has always been a zealot for causes, including anti-war, and now HIV and AIDS causes, due to his son Charlie Sheen’s positive diagnosis. But Sheen’s new cause du jour is OJ Simpson and Sheen’s belief that Simpson did not kill his former wife and her friend.

Sheen says he has hard evidence that even though OJ Simpson is a convicted felon, he did not kill Nicole and Ron. The president of the ID Network, Henry Schleiff, said he too, like many people, believed that for sure, OJ Simpson killed both his former wife and Ron Goldman, but Martin Sheen’s project changed his mind.

“I went into this with a tremendous amount of doubt and cynicism, but this is so amazingly convincing that when you do connect the dots and look at the new evidence, it made me accept the fact that O.J. is innocent.”

Sheen and the author, William Dear, have even higher hopes than changing the hearts and minds of Americans to believing that Simpson is innocent, they are pushing for a new grand jury, and at the very least a possible arrest of the “real killer,” who they say is still walking around a free man or woman. But Sheen said unlike the other current OJ series that just took people back in time (with some serious artistic license), Sheen wants to move the ball forward and have the taint of perceived guilt removed from OJ Simpson… and hopefully put someone else in jail.

It will be interesting to see what type of information Sheen puts together to vindicate OJ Simpson.

What is the chance that this Martin Sheen project OJ Simpson is Innocent, could make you see Simpson differently?

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