Sky News' Steve Bennedik recalls how Simpson's trial was covered It was the first few weeks of 1995 when Sky News' live coverage of the OJ Simpson court case got under way. Each evening we showed the trial and invited questions. In those days, the main form of correspondence was by le...
How OJ Simpson's trial unfolded Speaking to Sky News, the Goldman family's lawyer David Cook said: "I review and consider Simpson as what he was: that he was a bad person; he was a murderer; he got out of the acquittal here. "He remains now and in his death as the day that ...
Broadcast TV News Coverage of the O.J. Simpson Murder Case: Racist or Starstruck?Dashiell, Eddith A
O.J. Simpson is gone now. But his life and public journey across seven decades touched multiple areas of American life, from sports to the legal arena to culture. The murder case against him in 1994 — and his acquittal in 1995 — had deep implications f
In June 1994, when the late OJ Simpson was charged with murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her lover Ron Goldman, the World Wide Web was in its infancy. Still, with hindsight, it's easy to realize that modern internet culture was all around us. Not literally, of course. The Net...
Simpson -- from football Hall of Famer to movie star to double murder suspect -- has captivated the country for decades. June 12, 2024, marks 30 years since the brutal murders of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and waiter Ron Goldman, 25. The two were brutally stabbed to...
Marcia Clark had been a prosecutor with the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office for over a decade, working on trials including the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer, when she was assigned the Simpson case. After the acquittal, "I felt like I'd let everyone down," Clark wrote in her ...
Acquitted at a criminal trial, Simpson was found liable by jurors in a 1997 wrongful death lawsuit. The public is now likely to get a closer look Simpson's finances, and the families are likely to have a better shot at collecting — if there's anything to collect. ...
released from police custody. However, Diddy was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. He went to trial in 2001, which lasted two months. Diddy was acquitted after enlisting the help of former O.J. Simpson defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran, who proved Diddy's lack of involvement in the ...
The effect on the jury was inescapable. Whatever one thinks about Simpson’s guilt or innocence in the double murder, it’s easy to understand why jurors in the case would have questions — even doubts — about a case investigated by officers whose colleagues had beaten Rodney K...