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 controlling husband who abused Brown Simpson. Prosecutors also pointed to blood from the crime...
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...
OJ Simpson running his own livestream as a fundraiser in 2000.Credit: AFP via Getty Images There were memes during the trial, certainly, even if we didn't call them that. Star witness Kato Kaelin, a Z-list actor who lived in OJ's guest house, was a one-man meme machine. "Ooops, ...
Simpson said he told Mr Galanter that if the suit he wore during his sensational 1990s murder trial was included among the memorabilia he planned to burn it, and Mr Galanter responded: “You’re not going to burn it, you’re going to bring it to me.” Asked by his current attorney,...
Lynch, Michael (1998) `The Discursive Production of Uncertainty: The OJ Simpson "Dream Team" and the Sociology of Knowledge Machine', Social Studies of Science 28(5/6): 829-68.Lynch, M. 1998. ``The Discursive Production of Uncertainty: The OJ Simpson `Dream Team' and the Sociology of ...
'Simpson was quickly named a person of interest in the high-profile crime and, when he failed to turn himself in, police issued a warrant. RELATED: 25 years later: A look back on the OJ Simpson murder trial That led to the infamous low-speed chase, when TV stations broadcast live...
Lawyer and author Jeffrey Toobin gives his take on the Simpson trial in his book, "The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson." Published less than a year after jurors reached their famous verdict, this nonfiction book takes readers through the night of the deaths of Brown Simpson...
O.J. Simpson faces at least four more years in prison after a judge rejected his bid for a new trial in his Las Vegas armed robbery and kidnapping conviction.
Simpson’s defense team brought the issue of race to the forefront, and they argued the LAPD had planting or contaminating evidence the prosecution presented during the trial. “Whoever committed the crimes had bloody clothes, the bloody murder weapon, as well as bloody shoes, no...
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 ...