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Perhaps the defining moment of the trial came on a Thursday in June, when the prosecution committed what a defence lawyer would later describe as the "greatest legal blunder of the 20th century". Image:OJ Simpson grasps a marker while wearing the leather gloves prosecutors say he wore on ...
Simpson and Brown were wed in 1985, a union that produced two children. However, the marriage was marred by accusations of Simpson's physical abuse of his wife. Simpson was arrested in 1989 for beating her as he reportedly threatened to kill her. He pleaded no contest t...
Prosecutors also pointed to blood from the crime scene found in Simpson's car and home, and the fact that he was unaccounted for for more than an hour on the night of the killings. During the trial, the prosecution asked Simpson to put on gloves believed to have been worn by the ...
"Now, I don't think he killed them and I don't think the prosecution proved their case and I think the police officers lied and cheated to convict someone whom they thought was guilty of murder," Douglas says. But the lawyer says he doesn't argue with people ...
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In January of 1995, Simpson's trial began, airing on television to millions of viewers. Throughout its twists and turns it made celebrities of lawyers such as Marcia Clark (for the prosecution) and Johnnie Cochran (for the defense) and Judge Lance Ito, and became the buzz of late-night ...
One week later, they decided Simpson should pay $25 million in punitive damages to both victim’s families. “The jury decision of last Tuesday was the only decision important to us, to find the killer of my son and Nicole,”after the order was handed down. “The money is not an issue...
Alan Dershowitz, another of Simpson's lawyers at the time, said the defence was "a nightmare team" and that he did not want the former NFL star to take the stand. OJ: 'It was a nightmare team' "Ultimately it was the glove" that persuaded Simpson not to speak at the trial, Mr Ders...