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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.
Lyle and Erik Menendez were being held on charges of first-degree murder after they had shot and killed their parents in 1989 when Simpson was brought to the same jail after he was accused of ...
A week and a half before his death, Simpson cancelled a scheduled memorabilia signing because he was not feeling well. [214] In his last Twitter video on February 11, he said that while he was "dealing with some issues", he was in good health. [17] In the final days before his death, all of Simpson's children visited him. [215]
Lionel "Lion" Cryer was one of the jurors who came out strong for Simpson's innocence during deliberations and afterward. He was especially known in the media as the juror who raised a Black Power salute after the "not guilty" verdict was announced; an act that generated considerable controversy. However, in interviews in the 2010s, Cryer ...
Simpson was found not guilty, setting off anger and arguments by many who thought he got away with murder to this very day, when 28½ years later — including a nine-year prison stint on a ...
His not-guilty verdict—announced on October 3, 1995, another seminal date in 1990s history—was cheered by many Black Americans, and derided by white ones. ... Even before his explosive murder ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE: If there was ever a murder case perfectly suited for media and public consumption it was the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The Los Angeles court spectacle was dubbed “Trial of the Century.” The trial lasted almost a year and was covered in its entirety by AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch, now retired.
Bugliosi sets forth five main reasons why the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office failed to successfully convict O. J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Personally convinced of Simpson's guilt, Bugliosi blames his acquittal on the district attorney, the judge, and especially the prosecuting attorneys ...