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The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994.
Simpson was acquitted of the criminal charges in 1995 following a high-profile, televised trial, though he was found liable for Brown Simpson and Goldman's deaths following a civil trial in 1997 ...
With no witnesses to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, DNA evidence in the O. J. Simpson murder trial was the key physical proof used by the prosecution to link O. J. Simpson to the crime. Over nine weeks of testimony, 108 exhibits of DNA evidence, including 61 drops of blood, were presented at trial.
Simpson was acquitted of the murders in a criminal trial but later was found financially liable in a civil trial. [3] Although the original release of the book was canceled shortly after it was announced in November 2006, [ 4 ] 400,000 physical copies of the original book were printed, and copies of it had been leaked online by June 2007.
The O.J. Simpson trial was a turning point in cultural history that changed the way media and news are consumed. ... Fourteen years later, Simpson was tried for two counts of murder, with cameras ...
At 10:07 a.m. on Tuesday, October 3, 1995, Simpson was acquitted on both counts of murder. In one final surprising twist, the jury took only four hours to reach their verdict.
The trial began on September 8, 2008, in the court of Nevada District Court Judge Jackie Glass, before an all-white jury, [185] in stark contrast to Simpson's earlier murder trial. [186] Simpson and his co-defendant were found guilty of all charges on October 3. [187] On October 10, Simpson's counsel moved for a new trial (trial de novo) on ...
On Oct. 3, 2008, exactly 13 years after his acquittal in the murder trial, he was convicted by a Las Vegas jury on charges including kidnapping and armed robbery. ... OJ Simpson, football star ...