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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’s high-profile team of defense lawyers and his own celebrity factored into why the case had an unprecedented amount of media coverage — so much so, that it caused delays in the trial.
Detective Philip Vannatter testified that Simpson volunteered to give some blood for comparison to the evidence samples. Peratis drew an undocumented amount from Simpson on June 13 at approximately 3:30 pm, sealing it in an envelope, and gave it to Vannatter.
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.
After the civil case, some of Simpson's belongings, including memorabilia from his football days, were taken and auctioned off to help pay the damages he owed. On Oct. 3, 2008, exactly 13 years ...
Fred Goldman, center, and his wife, Patti, leave a courthouse in Santa Monica in 1997 after a jury found football star O.J. Simpson liable in a civil trial involving the slaying of Goldman's son ...
Orenthal James Simpson, et al, Case Number: 07C237890-4. was a criminal case prosecuted in 2007–2008 in the U.S. state of Nevada, primarily involving the former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson. On the night of September 13, 2007, a group of men led by Simpson entered a room in the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas , Nevada.
For many people old enough to remember O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, his 1995 exoneration was a defining moment in their understanding of race, policing and justice. Nearly three decades later ...