The Simpson case, however, demonstrated another aspect of the urgent need for police reform. Not only did malevolent police practices and inadequate efforts to root out corruption and brutality threaten the safety of suspects, they subverted justice. Put another way, when the public distrus...
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...
Mesereau recalled that a Black man standing nearby turned to him and said, "He did it. He's guilty, but a black man got justice." Mesereau also recalled talking to a white lawyer a few days later who was enraged by the verdict and said that "it had set back race rel...
" Zucker told TMZ in a new interview. "We were not excited about having the franchise given to other people. At the time, I couldn't believe it because we thought we had a great script, and they loved the script from what we heard. I don't have any control over it. I'm not in...
The O.J. Verdict: Shock of the Century Celebrity, Crime / 6 Comments 20 years ago O.J. Simpson went on trial for two grizzly murders, that of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, and 25 year old waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman. After 9 months of riveting twists and turns he was eventually...
“I’m not here,” Judge Glass declared, “to try and cause any retribution or any payback for anything else.” To many Americans, however, the thought of Simpson spending his twilight years in prison felt like just desserts. Simpson would unsuccessfully appeal the verdict. Among other points...