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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.
O.J. Simpson, center, listens to the not guilty verdict with his attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie Cochran Jr. Simpson was found not guilty of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and her ...
Simpson, who at the outset of the case declared himself "absolutely 100 percent not guilty," waved at the jurors and mouthed the words "thank you" after the predominately Black panel of 10 women ...
In 2016, Carrie Bess admitted that while she still believes that acquitting Simpson as payback for Rodney King was the correct decision in the atmosphere of the 1990s, she regrets the not guilty verdict following Simpson's arrest in Las Vegas, and labelled Simpson as "stupid" for getting himself into more trouble. [58]
Civil liability has a lower burden of proof than guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. [135] At the civil trial, Dr. Cotton showed that the DNA in Nicole Brown's reference vial was more degraded than her DNA on the sock from Simpson's bedroom, thus proving it could not have come from that vial, as the defense alleged. [100]
OJ Simpson Kypros/Getty Images Five days after the murders, detectives recommended that O.J. be charged with two counts of first-degree murder and an arrest warrant was subsequently issued.
The O.J. Simpson trial and the reactions to his acquittal revealed the trench-like division between white and Black America in a time shortly after the 1992 L.A. Riots
Prior to the Simpson trial, Clark's highest-profile trial occurred in 1991 when she prosecuted Robert John Bardo for the murder of television star Rebecca Schaeffer. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Clark said that the media attention that she received during the trial was "the hell of the trial," calling herself "famous in a way that was kind of terrifying."