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Nicole Brown Simpson Case Study

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On June 12th, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were found knifed to death outside of her home in the wealthy Los Angeles town of Brentwood. Suspicion quickly focused on Simpson. He had beaten and threatened his former wife in the past. The police reported that they found a blood-covered sock and glove at his house. He had a gash on his hand. He had no verifiable alibi. Simpson, a black man, was in a marriage with a white woman, Nicole Brown Simpson, who he was accused of murdering, and was being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department, which had a reputation for corruption and racism. Simpson, however, was a rich actor and ad pro football player who had barely any connection to the black community. His money …show more content…

Simpson got the best lawyers in the country to defend him. During his opening statement, Johnnie Cochran said that Simpson was home alone during the murders, golfing. The prosecution had tons of evidence, including DNA evidence. Prosecutors said that the DNA matched Simpson's blood to samples from the murder scene. They said they found the victims' blood in his car, and glove and on a sock at his home. The lead detective, a white man named Mark Fuhrman, the man who had found the bloody glove on Simpson's property, had his ethics in question. Defense lawyers said that he may have put the glove there to frame a black man. Simpson was found not guilty on October 3rd, 1995. The trial took over a year, but the jury only deliberated for six …show more content…

He was later charged with perjury for lying during the trial that he had not used the word "nigger" in the last ten years. Evidence collected by LAPD doctor Dennis Fung also came under scrutiny. He said he "missed a few drops of blood on a fence near the bodies" then later claimed he "returned several weeks afterwards to collect them". In fact, the blood that was twenty days old was the freshest samples of all blood collected. Fung also said he had not worn gloves when gathering some of the evidence. Another detective, Detective Phillip Vannatter, later said that he had seen pictures of press leaning on Simpson's car before the evidence was collected. All of these things made it very easy for the defense to combat the evidence and distract the

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Simpson was arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. Simpson said he was innocent and hired Cochran along with Robert Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz, F. Lee Bailey, Barry Scheck, and Robert Kardashian. This group of lawyers was called the “dream team” in what was considered the “trial of the century”. Cochran was the leader during the trial and set up a strong defense for Simpson. He challenged the evidence and pointed out that one of the investigating police officers, Mark Fuhrman, had a history of being racist.

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The neighbor heard Nicole dogs was barking in crying while they were watching television, and they ran out and saw 2 bodies were found lying at the floor and the stairs. O.J Simpson went back home and got ready to leave to Chicago. The F.B.I forensic team came to the crime scene and also went to O.J Simpsons house as he was the primary suspect of the murder. F.B.I forensic manage to find numerous evidence where the strongest evidence were the footprint which on the blood and also the 3 blood DNA matches the DNA found on O.J Simpson gloves and also the fibre that were found in his hat. However the trial took place for a long period and at the end of the trial O.J Simpson was found innocent.

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He was not the only one who had been murdered. O.J.’s ex wife, Nicole Brown-Simpson, was included. Within the crime scene, there were a set of footsteps and a pair of gloves. Someone had seen O.J. Simpsons near Nicole’s house. Found in his vehicle, is blood stains which was similar to Nicole Simpson’s blood.

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Brown-Simpson and Goldman were found dead with several wounds from a gruesome stabbing at Nicole’s condominium in California. After Simpson was detained, the police had found several items in the Bronco including $8,000 in cash, a passport, a family picture, a change of clothes, and a gun. They had also found a fake goatee and mustache so Simpson could hide his identity so no one would try to find him or he would be an unknown alias. Shauna remembers being 1 of the 95 million media viewers watching the white Ford Bronco go at a very low speed on the roads of Interstate 405 in Southern California on national television stations including ABC, MSNBC, and CNN as Cowlings and Simpson were in a low-speed chase against the police. She and her mother, Sherrie Herter, watched the chase on the television go on for an estimated 120 minutes.

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The day after the murder OJ Simpson had fresh cuts on his body (http://law2.umkc.edu/facility/porjects/ftrials/simspon/evidence.html). OJ Simpson acted really weird when the police called him to inform him about Nicole Brown’s death (http://law2.umkc.edu/facility/porjects/ftrials/simspon/evidence.html). Simpson tried and blamed another guy, which was his friend, named Charlie (http://law2.umkc.edu/facility/porjects/ftrials/Simpson/Simpson.htm). Investigators should have found more evidence at the crime scene, because everyone knew that OJ Simpson did kill his wife and her friend, Ronald

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This, coupled with the love for O.J. in the black community, led many people to believe that the athlete was innocent. As the trial brimmed, the public became more restless for news. The case was not just about Nicole Brown and Goldman’s tragic deaths. It was about the racial tensions between black citizens and the police that were employed to protect them. Simpson pleads “Absolutely, 100 percent not guilty” to all charges against him and offers rewards to find the real killers.

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It was because of Simpson's defense team, the jury rendered Simpson as not guilty; there was reasonable doubt in the DNA evidence in the case, and racial afflictions present. Methods, Investigation, and Indictment Simpson was recently divorced from Nicole and had a history of physical abuse and jealousy issues. In the trial Darden told the jurors, "If he couldn't have her, he didn't want anybody else to have her" (Linder, 2000). Simpson was over possessive, and was an extremist. There were numerous incidents that Simpson went to the extreme, in a call Nicole dialed to 911 in Oct. 25 1993, she said “My ex-husband has just broken into my house and he's ranting and raving outside the

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(Linder, “Orenthal J. Simpson”).His central motivation was Jealousy. When His ex dated his rival he became jealous. We find out about this through Linder telling us this in his article. He says OJ’s ex wife dated his rival Marcus Allen, the running back for the Kansas City Chiefs. (Linder, “Nicole Brown Simpson”).

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Simpson was guilty because of the large amount of evidence against him. From the beginning, police were unable to immediately apprehend Simpson because he led them on a low-speed pursuit. When he was finally stopped, police found $8,000 in cash, a loaded handgun, a passport, and a fake goatee and mustache in the vehicle, clearly suggesting that he intended on fleeing the country (Bugliosi). I believe the large amount of DNA evidence matching O.J. Simpson that was found at the scene of the crime was also a clear indication of his guilt. Unfortunately, due to the lack of understanding on the part of the jury as well as the mishandling of the evidence on the part of the prosecution, it was not as powerful as it could have been.

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O.J. Simpson was a famous football player and that was accused of killing his ex-wife nicole brown , also her boyfriend Ron Goldman. They were brutally stabbed to death on June 12, 1994 at the resident of Nicole brown condo in Brentwood. Before the bodies were ever recovered Oj had packed his bags and caught a flight to Chicago, later he received a phone call saying that Nicole Brown was murder. The cops wanted to talk to him and later he had lead the cops on a hot pursuit chase and they apprehended him. OJ Simpson should be held accountable for murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman.

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I think there is more evidence proving his innocence than his guiltiness. The corruption in this case and the racism in the LAPD helped the defense show that there was not enough evidence to prove that OJ was guilty. There are many reasons why I think OJ is innocent, but the piece of evidence that I think is most important is that all of OJ’s blood at the crime scene contained EDTA. EDTA is something that is put in test tubes with blood to prevent blood clots. EDTA is not found naturally in people's blood, which means someone had to have planted OJ’s blood at the scene.

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