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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.
The Menendez brothers pleaded not guilty, but Lyle encouraged Simpson to take a plea deal. In Robert Rand’s book The Menendez Murders, Lyle told the author that he offered Simpson some legal advice.
O.J. Simpson has died at the age of 76. Prosecutors argued that Simpson killed Nicole in a jealous fury, and they presented extensive blood, hair and fiber tests linking Simpson to the murders.
The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson played a clip from the 1994 press conference where O.J.’s attorney Robert Kardashian read a note the athlete left behind before his infamous car chase ...
This is the second,” Goldman’s father, Fred, said at a prosecution news conference. “This prosecution team didn’t lose today. I deeply believe this country lost today. Justice was not served.” At a defense team news conference, Cochran insisted the issue of race, which he played heavily in the trial, did not overcome the facts.
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 ...
After his release from prison in 2017, Simpson joined Twitter, and gained a following of 800,000 followers by the time of his death. [ 70 ] After Simpson retired from football, he began playing golf, which was a "constant" in his life before and after the acquittal.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.” The separate murder trials of O.J. Simpson and Erik and Lyle Menendez were two of the biggest cases in ...