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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.
On Tuesday, October 3, 1995, the verdict in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson was announced and Simpson was acquitted on both counts of murder. [1] Although the nation observed the same evidence presented at trial, a division along racial lines emerged in observers' opinion of the verdict, which the media dubbed the "racial gap". [2]
O.J. Simpson tries on a leather glove allegedly used in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman during testimony in Simpson's murder trial on June 15, 1995 in Los Angeles, California.
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.
It’s been 30 years since the "trial of the century" — in which O.J. Simpson faced double murder charges for the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ronald Goldman ...
Simpson died of prostate cancer in Las Vegas, his family announced Thursday. He was 76. His death comes just a few months before the 30th anniversary of the 1994 killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. Much like the trial, the public’s reaction to the verdict was largely shaped by race.
Twenty-five years ago, an estimated 140 million people watched or listened in as a Los Angeles jury announced whether the former football star was guilty or innocent of killing his ex-wife, Nicole ...
If I Did It ignited a storm of pre-publication controversy, largely due to the perception that Simpson was trying to profit from the two deaths for which his civil suit verdict had found him liable. Sara Nelson, editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly said: "This is not about being heard. This is about trying to cash in, in a pathetic way, on some ...