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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.
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 ...
With no witnesses to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, DNA evidence in the O. J. Simpson murder trial was the key physical proof used by the prosecution to link O. J. Simpson to the crime. Over nine weeks of testimony, 108 exhibits of DNA evidence, including 61 drops of blood, were presented at trial.
Though Brown Simpson’s ex-husband was accused of killing both her and Goldman, he was acquitted of all charges in 1995. He was, however, later found liable for their deaths in a 1997 civil trial.
In Simpson's hypothetical scenario, he has an unwilling accomplice named "Charlie" (a generic name put forth by Fenjves and given to O.J.'s 'friend') who urges him to not engage with Nicole, whom Simpson plans to "scare the shit out of". [10] Simpson ignores Charlie's advice and continues to Nicole's condo, where he finds and confronts Ron Goldman.
After Simpson died Wednesday at 76, the AP is making available Deutsch's story from Oct. 3, 1995, the day he was acquitted. ____ SIMPSON ACQUITTED, FREED, VOWS TO HUNT DOWN KILLERS. O.J. Simpson went home a free man Tuesday, spared by an unpredictable jury to pick up a life of privilege instead of a life in prison.
It was the trial that captivated a nation. After O.J. Simpson — who died of prostate cancer on Wednesday, April 10 — was arrested and charged with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and ...