"It probably had no real impact other than it publicized and gave great exposure to the processing of a criminal trial, the role of credibility, the significance of venues in the process and highlighting the differences in burden of proof between criminal and civil cases and the...
A guilty verdict at civil court In 1997, a civil jury found Simpson liable for wrongful death in the double murder. Simpson was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to the Brown and Goldman families. A Las Vegas arrest In September 2007, Simpson led a group of men into a Las Vegas...
Simpson’s double-murder trial, Aug. 25, 1995, in Los Angeles. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (AP Photo...
A criminal court jury found him not guilty of murder in 1995, but a separate civil trial jury found him liable in 1997 for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to family members of Brown and Goldman. FILE: O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, a...
After a trial that lasted less than a month, Simpson was found guilty of all charges on Oct. 3, 2008 – 13 years to the day after he was acquitted in his Los Angeles double murder trial. O.J. Simpson stands during sentencing at the Clark County Regional Justice Center, Dec. 5, ...
However, he would later be brought to civil court, where he was found liable for the deaths and ordered to pay millions of dollars to the families.Simpson had other legal issues following the trial, including imprisonment in 2008 after being found guilty of stealing sports memorabilia at ...
Within a year, Kardashian was publicly voicing his “doubt” about his friend’s innocence, while the Goldman and Brown families filed a wrongful-death suit in civil court. With new evidence, and a lesser burden of proof than in criminal trials, Simpson was found guilty, and ...
During the robbery trial, Simpson contends, Galanter "vigorously discouraged" him not to testify, and never told him that prosecutors were willing to let him plead guilty to charges that would have gotten him a minimum of two years in prison. ...
Robert Shapiro Eventually Shared What Simpson Whispered To Him At The End Of His Trial Just after the jury pronounced him not guilty, Simpson leaned over to his lawyer Robert Shapiro and whisperedsomethingin his ear. During a2016 interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly, Shapiro said Simpson told ...
against Simpson – the former for battery, and the latter for battery and wrongful death. Unlike the criminal trial, no cameras were allowed in court during the civil trial, which lasted just over three months and ended in February 1997 with the jury unanimously finding Sim...