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Galanter testified that during the trial he informed Simpson that prosecutors were offering a plea with 2–5 years of prison time. Simpson instructed Galanter to go back to the DA with a counter-offer of one year, which the DA immediately refused; the trial proceeded with no further offers or counters. [48]
Simpson faced a possible life sentence with parole on the kidnapping charge, and mandatory prison time for armed robbery. [191] On December 5, 2008, Simpson was sentenced to a total of 33 years in prison, [ 192 ] with the possibility of parole after nine years, in 2017. [ 193 ]
Orenthal James Simpson, better known as O.J. Simpson, has died. He was 76. The controversial figure, who was accused of double-murder in the mid-1990s but ultimately acquitted in the so-called ...
November 22, 1996-Simpson, for the first time, testifies before a jury and denies the murder of his ex-wife and Goldman. December 20, 1996 - Simpson is awarded custody of his children.
From star athlete to television personality, from accused murderer to prison inmate, O.J. Simpson lived a life in the media spotlight. These Los Angeles Times headlines show the arc of his story.
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 later served nine years in a Nevada prison after being convicted in 2008 on 12 counts of armed robbery and kidnapping two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel.
O.J. Simpson is gone now. But his life and public journey across seven decades touched multiple areas of American life, from sports to the legal arena to culture. The murder case against him in 1994 — and his acquittal in 1995 — had deep implications for how people talk about race and domestic violence.