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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 Simpson trial also coincided with the launch of Court TV in 1991, run by Steven Brill and now known as TruTV. Court TV filmed proceedings and added commentary to bring the average viewer up to ...
O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark revives the forgotten 1950s murder trial of Barbara "Bloody Babs" Graham and discusses decades of evolving true crime coverage.
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 ...
In O.J. Unmasked: The Trial, The Truth and the Media (1996), M.L Rantala writes that the jurors' inability to justify their reasonable doubt about all the DNA evidence reinforced the criticism they did not understand it [143] and that is why media reenactments of the trial, such as The People v. O.J Simpson: American Crime Story and O.J: Made ...
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] On October 10, Simpson's counsel moved for a new trial (trial de novo) on ...
The racial turmoil embedded in the court case was at the center of the 2016 Oscar-winning documentary “OJ: Made in America.” Instead of focusing on the murders and the evidence presented at trial, director Ezra Edelman placed the crimes within the context of the Civil Rights struggle, from which Simpson was largely insulated by the warm ...
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 ...