From a televised car chase to what was described as the "legal blunder of the century", here are the key details around how OJ Simpson's murder trial played out. Former American footballer and actor OJ Simpson, who has died of cancer, will be remembered most for his role at the cen...
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Robert Kardashian, a friend of O.J. Simpson, reads a letter Simpson wrote before disappearing, June 17, 1994 during a news conference in Los Angeles.Mark J. Terrill/AP, FILE Kardashian joined Simpson's legal "Dream Team," sitting with his friend at the defense table during the 1995 ...
Simpson’s televised trial lasted nearly a year and became a national obsession, fraught with issues of racism, police misconduct, celebrity and domestic violence. Represented by a legal “Dream Team” that included Johnnie Cochran Jr. and F. Lee Bailey, he was acquitted by a jury in 1995 ...
During the course of the eight-month criminal trial, Cochran, a longtime crusader for justice in the black community and the flashy leader of Simpson’s “dream team” of attorneys, successfully transformed the case into a referendum on race. With a jury of nine blacks, two whites and one ...
The huge audience drawn by the white Ford Bronco chase was soon dwarfed by the worldwide attention given to his trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman
In what became known as “The Trial of the Century,” he was acquitted in 1995 of the double slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The trial was the focus of gavel-to-gavel TV coverage, with Simpson represented by a legal “Dream Team” that ...
In what became known as “The Trial of the Century,” he was acquitted in 1995 of the double slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The trial was the focus of gavel-to-gavel TV coverage, with Simpson represented by a legal “Dream Team” that ...
Lee Bailey, Robert Shapiro, Barry Scheck and Robert Kardashian to form the core of the so-called “dream team” of lawyers hired to defend athlete/actor O.J. Simpson in his trial for the murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. The “trial of the century,”...
the home now occupied by his own friends and family as they waited out the 11-month murder trial. On Feb. 12, 1995, the jurors of that trial made a field trip to Rockingham. The day before, Simpson's "Dream Team" of lawyers gave the house an extreme image makeover, swapp...