Introduction People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson On November 9th 1994, Former NFL player, actor and broadcaster Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in which the trail spanned over eleven months and the final verdict of not guilty was declared on October 3rd 1995. On the morning of June 13th 1994, a dogwalker had discovered the brutually murdered bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman outside Nicole’s Beverly Hills home. This case was infamously named “The Trial of the Century” after being described as the most publicised criminal trial in history. Simpson used his wealth and power to compile a “defence …show more content…
Having been stabbed multiple times, Brown had multiple injuries on her head and neck with defensive wounds on her hands. The larynx could be seen through the gaping wound in her neck and her head remained barely attached to the body. Upon traking OJ down to inform him of his former wife’s murder, the crime scene and OJ’s house were searched, yielding a wealth of incriminating evidence. By the time an LAPD detective contacted O.J. Simpson by telephone to inform him that his wife had been “killed,” he was in Chicago on a business engagement (he had taken a red eye flight the night of the murder) and he rushed home. Police already had found several incriminating clues, including blood on the door of his parked Ford Bronco as well as blood drops leading into his mansion. Detective Mark Fuhrman reported finding a bloody glove at the crime scene as well as a matching glove outside O.J.’s home. Testing would later show blood that was consistent with O.J., Nicole and Goldman. The glove also contained African-American limb hairs and hairs consistent with Goldman and Nicole. Shortly after O.J.’s return from Chicago the day after the murders, the police noticed his bandaged hand and began questioning him, photographing the wound, taking samples of his blood and hair, and finally they arrested him for the murder. At this stage, Simpson used his status to assemble a very high profile defence team, also reffered to as the Dream Team which included lawyers Robert Kardashian, Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran and several of the nation’s premier forensic experts to assist in the defence. They included: Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, two New York-based lawyers specializing in DNA; Dr. Michael Baden of New York, regarded as the top pathologist and medical examiner; renowned criminalist Dr. Henry C. Lee of Connecticut; Herb McDonald,