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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.
Lionel "Lion" Cryer was one of the jurors who came out strong for Simpson's innocence during deliberations and afterward. He was especially known in the media as the juror who raised a Black Power salute after the "not guilty" verdict was announced; an act that generated considerable controversy. However, in interviews in the 2010s, Cryer ...
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 ...
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]
A few years before the Simpson trial, Blasier had gotten DNA evidence suppressed in Sacramento’s Peppermill murder case. His client, Paul Mack, was convicted in 1990 of the 1987 rape and murder ...
Simpson, a former Black college and professional football star, was accused of brutally killing his white ex-wife and her friend. The murder was particularly gruesome, with Nicole Simpson nearly ...
Bugliosi sets forth five main reasons why the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office failed to successfully convict O. J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Personally convinced of Simpson's guilt, Bugliosi blames his acquittal on the district attorney, the judge, and especially the prosecuting attorneys ...
As Americans debate police reform, MSNBC's Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on the key differences between two systems of justice in the U.S. and how the famous O.J Simpson case ...