At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson’s “dream team” of lawyers employed creative and controversial methods to convince jurors that Simpson’s guilt had not been proved “beyond a reasonable doubt,” thus surmounting what the prosecution called a “mountain of evidence” implicating him as the murderer.
Orenthal James Simpson—a Heisman Trophy winner, star running back with the Buffalo Bills, and popular television personality—married Nicole Brown in 1985. He reportedly regularly abused his wife and in 1989 pleaded no contest to a charge of spousal battery. In 1992, she left him and filed for divorce. On the night of June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed and slashed to death in the front yard of Mrs. Simpson’s condominium in Brentwood, Los Angeles. By June 17, police had gathered enough evidence to charge O.J. Simpson with the murders.
Simpson had no alibi for the time frame of the murders. Some 40 minutes after the murders were committed, a limousine driver sent to take Simpson to the airport saw a man in dark clothing hurrying up the drive of his Rockingham estate. A few minutes later, Simpson spoke to the driver though the gate phone and let him in. During the previous 25 minutes, the driver had repeatedly called the house and received no answer.
A single leather glove found outside Simpson’s home matched a glove found at the crime scene. In preliminary DNA tests, blood found on the glove was shown to have come from Simpson and the two victims. After his arrest, further DNA tests would confirm this finding. Simpson had a wound on his hand, and his blood was a DNA match to drops found at the Brentwood crime scene. Nicole Brown Simpson’s blood was discovered on a pair of socks found at the Rockingham estate. Simpson had recently purchased a “Stiletto” knife of the type the coroner believed was used by the killer. Shoe prints in the blood at Brentwood matched Simpson’s shoe size and later were shown to match a type of shoe he had owned. Neither the knife nor shoes were found by police.
On June 17, a warrant was put out for Simpson’s arrest, but he refused to surrender. Just before 7 p.m., police located him in a white Ford Bronco being driven by his friend, former teammate Al Cowlings. Cowlings refused to pull over and told police over his cellular phone that Simpson was suicidal and had a gun to his head. Police agreed not to stop the vehicle by force, and a low-speed chase ensued. Los Angeles news helicopters learned of the event unfolding on their freeways, and live television coverage began. As millions watched, the Bronco was escorted across Los Angeles by a phalanx of police cars. Just before 8 p.m., the dramatic journey ended when Cowlings pulled into the Rockingham estate. After an hour of tense negotiation, Simpson emerged from the vehicle and surrendered. In the vehicle was found a travel bag containing, among other things, Simpson’s passport, a disguise kit consisting of a fake moustache and beard, and a revolver. Three days later, Simpson appeared before a judge and pleaded not guilty.
Simpson’s subsequent criminal trial was a sensational media event of unprecedented proportions. It was the longest trial ever held in California, and courtroom television cameras captured the carnival-like atmosphere of the proceedings. The prosecution’s mountain of evidence was systemically called into doubt by Simpson’s team of expensive attorneys, who made the dramatic case that their client was framed by unscrupulous and racist police officers. Citing the questionable character of detective Mark Fuhrman and alleged blunders in the police investigation, defense lawyers painted Simpson as yet another African American victim of the white judicial system. The jurors’ reasonable doubt grew when the defense spent weeks attacking the damning DNA evidence, arguing in overly technical terms that delays and other anomalies in the gathering of evidence called the findings into question. Critics of the trial accused Judge Lance Ito of losing control of his courtroom.
In polls, a majority of African Americans believed Simpson to be innocent of the crime, while white America was confident of his guilt. However, the jury—made up of nine African Americans, two whites, and one Hispanic American—was not so divided; they took just four hours of deliberation to reach the verdict of not guilty on both murder charges. On October 3, 1995, an estimated 140 million Americans listened in on radio or watched on television as the verdict was delivered.
In February 1997, Simpson was found liable for several charges related to the murders in a civil trial and was forced to award $33.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages to the victims’ families. However, with few assets remaining after his long and costly legal battle, he has avoided paying the damages.
In 2007, Simpson ran into legal problems once again when he was arrested for breaking into a Las Vegas hotel room and taking sports memorabilia, which he claimed had been stolen from him, at gunpoint. On October 3, 2008, he was found guilty of 12 charges related to the incident, including armed robbery and kidnapping, and sentenced to 33 years in prison. He was released on parole on October 1, 2017.
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I was working as a travel nurse and was on duty the day of the verdict. Suddenly every black and black wannabe in the building started yelling and whooping with joy that Simpson had got off while the rest of us, the whites and hispanics, stood and listened to them with dismay.
It was that day that I knew that the America that I had grown up in was gone. And that there was going to come a time where what I had seen overseas would come to the neighborhoods here.
It was then that I started preparing.
My experience was similar. The wife and I were in a Goodwill thrift store. An employee piped the verdict over the store’s intercom. The blacks were ecstatic and loud. All others just kind of looked at each other in disbelief.
I remember visiting my mom at the time, and she was following the trial on live tv. I watched for about 2 hours as the limousine chauffeur was giving his testimony, and realized that the jury would never come to a unison guilty verdict. But that the jury would acquit him after a relatively short deliberation (instead of a mistrial b/c of hung jury), I couldn’t imagine in my wildest evil dreams.
To me it was (just) the day that I knew the anglo-saxxon judicial system is FUBARed. Yeah well, took the German judicial system only 25 years longer to implode (after the German Constitutional Court basically declared the “Grundgesetz” [German constitution] void on 2021-04-23.) And the French judiciary isn’t looking so hot either.
And in the end it took me another 15 years to become truly red-pilled.
That was the moment I lost all hope in black Americans. If you cannot put truth and justice above racial solidarity,then the legal system becomes a joke. The female (large and black) foreman of the jury announced shortly after the trial,”we wasnt gonna put another black brotha in jail.”
If he’d killed a black woman, the same jury might have convicted him. Maybe not, but Nicole being white and skinny with long blond hair didn’t make her a sympathetic victim to that jury.
Exactly. Fat, grotesque sheboons hate White beauty, knowing they’ll never be pretty like that.
Harsh statement but a true statement.
I was working at my State job and suddenly Blacks started running up and down the halls hooping and hollering with joy that OJ got off for murdering two Whites. Remember Nicole and all the other Social Injustices that demand Revenge.
“How to have it all and then royally fuck up and ruin your life” by OJ Simpson.
I’d read that book.
I think that is an understatement.
“Without a doubt” A most excellent book written by prosecuting attorney Marcia Clark about the O.J. trial (Rodney King part II).
I was camping and surfing in San Juanico (Scorpion Bay) in Baja Mexico. The couple staying by us in a trailer started screaming and yelling and when the guy came out we asked what was going on and he told us.
Silence.
Then three of us killed two bottles of Patron’.
If they don’t fit…..I don’t give a shit….he’s guilty!
He did it and got away with it. I don’t care. The mud shark got what she deserved. By the same token I don’t care how many nigger drug dealers and pimps kill each other in the hood.
Yup, same here. Her and Goldman were nothing but coke whore party sluts.
No loss.
Jury of his peers. LOL.
Exactly. They made sure there wouldn’t be a chance of conviction from the Brentwood “jury peers.” That’s why they moved it downtown. Of the two scenarios guilty or not guilty, the guilty one HAD to be avoided. They knew they had to get a jury of mud apes to get the fix in…
or else L.A. would have burned just like it did after the Rodney King officers’ trial.
The Blue Cities will burn baby burn and the rats trying to escape the dumps won’t get far. That’ll be Social Justice that Supreme Court Judges (who get millions in annual payments from the CCP for giving University speeches in China) won’t be able to stop. The Chinese got their monies’ worth when the SCOTUS would not hear the case from Texas about voter fraud. The Bidens and the CINC are not the only Traitors to America.