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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.
Did O.J. Simpson and Erik Menendez really know each other? Were they really together in jail? Here's the true story of their connection.
WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - O.J. Simpson, the American football star and actor who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife but was found responsible for her ...
The trial began on September 8, 2008, in the court of Nevada District Court Judge Jackie Glass, before an all-white jury, [185] in stark contrast to Simpson's earlier murder trial. [186] Simpson and his co-defendant were found guilty of all charges on October 3. [187]
O.J. was found guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery in 2007 in Las Vegas. He served nine years in a Nevada prison before being granted an early release in July 2017.
Prison nurse Thano Peratis testified he drew an undocumented amount of blood from Simpson. When the defense asked him to estimate how much he drew, he stated approximately 8 mL. [12] Records from the testing labs show that only 6.5 mL of blood could be accounted for, and the defense claimed that 1.5 mL was missing. [13]
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 ...