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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.
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 ...
The 1995 trial of O.J. Simpson captured the attention of all of America, with more than 150 million watching the verdict. (Vince Bucci/Pool Photo via AP, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The first season of American Crime Story, titled The People v. O. J. Simpson, revolves around the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, as well as the combination of prosecution confidence, defense witnesses, and the Los Angeles Police Department's history with African-American people.
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 ...
In his book Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder, Vincent Bugliosi dismisses the idea that Simpson's defense team was a "Dream Team", stating that Shapiro had never tried a murder case before, Cochran was primarily a civil lawyer who may not have won a single murder case before a jury, Bailey had lost his last big ...
Prosecutor Hank Goldberg published The Prosecution Responds: An O.J. Simpson Trial Prosecutor Reveals what Really Happened (1999) and wrote that the verdict was the result of a "perfect storm" of mistakes by investigators, prosecutors, and the court, all taking place in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, died of cancer at age 76 on Wednesday, his family said. Simpson's murder trial was televised, and became ...