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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.
O.J. Simpson tries on a leather glove allegedly used in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman during testimony in Simpson's murder trial on June 15, 1995 in Los Angeles, California.
Simpson testified that he paid Galanter $125,000 to make a video montage for the appeal, but no video montage was ever made. [26] Simpson's attempt to secure a new trial centered around his claim that Galanter was incompetent and had a conflict of interest; [27] this argument was rejected by the trial court and Nevada's supreme court. [28]
On Tuesday, October 3, 1995, the verdict in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson was announced and Simpson was acquitted on both counts of murder. [1] Although the nation observed the same evidence presented at trial, a division along racial lines emerged in observers' opinion of the verdict, which the media dubbed the "racial gap". [2]
At 10:07 a.m. on Tuesday, October 3, 1995, Simpson was acquitted on both counts of murder. In one final surprising twist, the jury took only four hours to reach their verdict.
Thirty years ago, O.J. Simpson went on trial for the double murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ronald Goldman. He was famously acquitted.
Simpson’s trial came on the heels of the 1992 acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, which was caught on video and exposed America’s deep trauma over police brutality. For many African Americans in 1995, Simpson’s acquittal represented a rebuke of institutional racism in the justice system.
O. J. Simpson verdict ten years later (PBS Frontline streaming video) The trial transcripts, CNN; OJ Simpson Criminal Trial Uncut Start-to-Finish (1995) CONUS Archive. Philip Vannatter: Evidence Missed (January 31, 1997) on Charlie Rose "O.J. Simpson: The Interview (Video 1996)". IMDb. April 7, 1996