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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.
Civil liability has a lower burden of proof than guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. [135] At the civil trial, Dr. Cotton showed that the DNA in Nicole Brown's reference vial was more degraded than her DNA on the sock from Simpson's bedroom, thus proving it could not have come from that vial, as the defense alleged. [100]
On November 8, 2007, Simpson had a preliminary hearing to decide whether he would be tried for the charges. He was held over for trial on all 12 counts. Simpson pleaded not guilty on November 29, with an initial setting for trial in April 2008, although it was soon set for September to give the defense more time for their case.
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.
Attorney Robert Blasier looks over evidence photographs in his Sacramento home office on Oct. 4, 1995, the day after the not guilty verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial. Dick Schmidt/Sacramento Bee ...
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.
On October 3, 1995, at 10:00 a.m., after just four hours of deliberation, the jury found Simpson not guilty on both murder counts. News of the verdict had a disruptive effect in the United States and abroad, as an estimated 100 million people worldwide watched or listened to the verdict announcement. [ 20 ]
October 3, 2008 - Simpson is found guilty on 12 counts, including kidnapping and armed robbery. December 5, 2008 - Simpson is sentenced to up to 33 years in jail but will be eligible for parole ...