The O.J. Simpson murder case seemingly never exits the popular culture, even after his death from cancer in 2024. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 ...
MORE: The OJ Simpson case: Where key players are 25 years after his infamous acquittal OJ Simpson is seen with his legal team during the opening of the double homicide trial on January 5, 1995. Defense attorneys claimed Simpson was wrongly accused but prosecutors argued that Simpson was a con...
OJ Simpson takes his glasses off during his evidentiary hearing testimony. Photograph: Reuters/Jeff Scheid He also repeated a key theme of his defense at the 2008 trial - that when he stormed into a room at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino with five other men in September 2007, he was...
Defense attorneys claimed Simpson had been wrongly accused of the murders, but prosecutors argued that Simpson was a controlling husband who abused Brown Simpson. Prosecutors also presented blood from the crime scene found in Simpson's car and home, and the fact that he went...
DNA evidence was new at the time and the jury struggled to understand it. Simpson’s defense team cast doubt on the case by suggesting the evidence had been tampered with and introducing evidence that two LAPD officers at the scene had racist beliefs. ...
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DNA evidence was new at the time and the jury struggled to understand it. Simpson’s defense team cast doubt on the case by suggesting the evidence had been tampered with and introducing evidence that two LAPD officers at the scene had racist beliefs. ...
Simpson was found liable for deaths in a civil case, and then served nine years in prison on unrelated charges.
Simpson's legal defense in his Las Vegas trial was headed by Yale Galanter, the Miami-based attorney who represented him in the 2001 road rage case. Attorney Gabriel Grasso served with Galanter as co-counsel in Las Vegas. Galanter, who testified during Simpson's five-day habeas corpus hear...
In the Simpson case, the strategy shifted, as the defense decided to elevate Cochran’s role and make the case about race, as it had been when he was pulled over. But did that really happen? It did, although the circumstances were somewhat different. It was actually 1979, ...