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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He needs to become a dead nigger.
Something tells me you’d never dream of telling black people this face to face.
After all, why align your actions with your beliefs when you can just posture and run your mouth on this website?
Check todd the SJW.
Sucked some niggercock in college and now they can do no wrong.
Do you worship faggots and pedophiles too ?
Josh Kruger was his name, but now he is called dead.
I was in college at the time and seeing some black people celebrate his acquittal that day was an eye-opener. Since then, I’ve come to learn that black folk are right to be distrustful and skeptical of the police but seeing a murderer walk and be celebrated was unexpected.
Unexpected? Did you not see the people that made up that jury? He was always going to be found not guilty from the start. Members of that jury went to O.J.’s house for a bbq after the verdict to celebrate.
A true jury of his peers would have been middle age white folks from Brentwood. Instead they moved it downtown so the unemployed blacks would fill the ranks of the jury.
The irony is that OJ hated the black community. People who knew him said he wanted to live in a “white world”.
“He’s a piece of shit…so you must acquit.”
Back then the media portrayed his trial as a race issue but even the black women I worked with thought he did it.
It was the police hijinks that swayed me. It was also damning to the credibility of all other arrests and convictions in the LA area.
The bit where the officers stood outside OJ’s home looking at a drop of blood, conversing with the DA while she repeats over and over “If you think it’s enough blood for someone to be in trouble, that is an exemption to the probable cause rule.” We are talking miniscule amounts of blood, and as the police keep trying to point that out to the DA as incongruent to the statement that the amount of blood could mean someone in imminent peril, you could almost hear the DA winking as she repeated the legal standard. Repeated until even cops could understand that the legal requirement is that “they” believe peril is imminent.
So having convinced themselves that life is in peril if they don’t break in and save someone – they do. And sure as they are – that someone is bleeding to death, the first thing they do is go to Kato Kalin’s (sp, remember him?) closet and looked at the bottom of his shoes. Because if you were bleeding to death wouldn’t you go to the closet and hide under the shoes? I felt he should get off right there on 4th amendment issues.
When the police arrested OJ, they drew his blood, took it down to the parking lot and drove to the scene of the crime and then to OJ’s house and then back to HQ and up the elevator to the crime Lab. Nothing to see here, we ALL trust the police, oops, gosh that detective was convicted of lying under oath to convict some poor other schmook. But you can believe him when he says nothing hinky happened THIS TIME!
If that is the standard of law when you know a rich, famous media trial lies ahead, imagine how sloppy the work is on the deplorables.
If you were swayed, you are a fucking idiot. OJ did it. The cops may have been incompetent, they always are, but OJ definitely did it. The evidence is overwhelming.
A strand of DNA is purdy small too. Jebus
That was the beginning of what we have today. When the white people did not stand up then, they knew they would not stand up to Antifa and all the bullshit happening today. If you want to live in a civilized society, you must be willing to fight and die to earn it.
Or you can do nothing while maggots fight for an uncivilized society aided by Elites.
Remember Nicole Simpson …