He was found not guilty because of backlash to historically unfair trials for blacks. A benchmark case for jury verdicts to avoid riots and sooth white guilt.
I doubt the family of a child abuser and wife beater are in a rush to sue. Cause if they did the truth about those two will come out in full including their criminal records and what they did to people.
I bet civil lawyers were calling them from day one and already have a strategy. The victim's pasts won't be allowed because it has no bearing on a civil trial. He caused their deaths. He admits that. It should be an interesting case to watch.
O. J. Simpson was acquitted for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in a criminal trial; And then ... O. J. Simpson was found liable for their deaths in the subsequent Civil trial