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The Trial Of OJ Simpson

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A Great Trash Novel Come to Life June 12th, 1994, bodies of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman were found stabbed to death. The bodies were in the front yard of Nicole's condo 875 South Bundy Drive in Brentwood. OJ Simpson, famous football star, Nicole's ex-husband was on his way to Chicago when the bodies were found. OJ was notified the next morning with little reaction, stating he would be on the next flight back to Los Angeles. Returning home, people piled in front of his home. Minutes later, he was handcuffed and taken in for questioning then released. A few days later, he was issued with an arrest warrant for somehow being tied with the murders, opening the most extreme case of the century. The OJ Simpson trial led to a huge public following …show more content…

He was a much known football player. Before the NFL he was voted player of the decade by ABC sports (Carra). Later on, OJ played for the Buffalo Bills and the 49ers ("OJ Simpson Fast Facts"). He became the first player in the NFL to rush 2000 yards in a full season. In 1985 OJ was inducted to the Pro Hall of Fame ("OJ Simpson Fast Facts"). According to them, Simpson led the league in rushing in 1972, 10973, 1975, and 1976, and received NFL player of the year. In 1985, the same year he was inducted to the Hall of Fame was the same year he married Nicole Brown (Carra). OJ met Nicole when she was only 18 years old (Tobin). They …show more content…

Jury selection began and it took up to six months. Jury was 12 people, 10 women, 2 men, 9 black, 2 white, and one hispanic (Tobin). Opening statements took place January 24 the following year (Key Dates). The court room had full 24-hour video coverage of the trial. As millions watched on tv as Christopher Darden led off the prosecution's opening statement by portraying Simpson as an abusive husband and a jealous lover of Nicole. He told jurors "If he couldn’t have her didn’t want anybody else to have her." Marcia Clark stated the facts proving Simpson's guilt that they established during the trial (Linder 7). Marcia Clark was the chief prosecutor (Goldberg). Johnnie Cochran was Simpson's lead attorney, who said the opening statement for the defense. He stated a timeline of events that didn't add up also that it was no way that OJ couldn't have pulled off a double murder with the arthritis that he has. Cochran's statement backfired, because Darden asked Simpon's physician if Simpson could have committed the murders and his answer was "yes."

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However, another trial took place and this moment of time the shoe print that were found on the blood spatter DNA matches and O.J Simpsons were found guilty. The evidence found and had DNA on it was the blood spatter, blood on the socks, hair found on the hat and also blood that were in the vehicle that was being drove by O.J

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Simpson Married a woman named Marguerite L. Whitley on june 24, 1967. They had three children together Arnelle, jason, and Aaren. Daughter who was born in 1977, drowned in the family pool a month before her second birthday. Almost a year later O.J. Simpson and his wife Marguerite divorced in 1979 while he was still married to his first wife. Then he met waitress Nicole Brown, then just a teenager, then the two got married in 1985 exactly the same year he was elected to the NFL hall of fame.

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The OJ Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player OJ Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman. He was found not guilty even though there were numerous counts of evidence that showed that OJ was the one who killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. OJ Simpson should have been guilty of murdering Nicole because there was DNA evidence, he had dreams of killing Nicole Simpson, and jealousy could have been the motive that led him to kill Nicole. There was blood found at the crime scene that traced back to OJ’s DNA. Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor of the murder case, revealed that a blood drop found near the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman has been linked to OJ Simpson through RFLP testing - the highest level of DNA examination, commonly known as a genetic fingerprint.

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After graduating Brady passed up the chance to play professional baseball and instead went to college to play football at University of Michigan. He made the school's football team but Brady did not spend much time on the field in his first two college seasons. In his junior year he had to fight to stay on the field with Freshman QB Brian Griese and as the starting quarterback Brady had mild success leading several unlikely comebacks to finally win the job and in his final season he lead his team to a win in the Orange Bowl in 2000. Brady was overlooked by teams despite his performance in the Orange bowl but he was finally drafted by the New England Patriots In the 6th Round at pick 199. Tom served as a backup quarterback and played in only one game in his first season.

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Whitley on June 24 in 1967, with whom he had three children. The first was called Arenell, he had him in 1968, the second, Jason, and he had him two years after having the first one, i.e. in 1970. And finally, he had Aaren Lashone. However, Simpson went through a period of bitterness because the small child got drowned a month before her second birthday, and when Simpson was on his fifth month of divorce with his spouse. Thanks to an athletic scholarship that Simpson won, he became a selected runner at the University of Southern California in 1967 to 1968 where he played as a Running back.

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From college, he was drafted to the Chicago Bears where he further established himself as one of the greatest running backs from

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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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The trial began in 2006, evidence upon evidence was brought in to support the 27 counts of murder. The defense brought into question the legitimacy of

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OJ Simpson was a very achieved person player until he made one big mistake. The trial of OJ Simpson was a long stressful process to prove a star innocent or guilty of murder. This took Place in the state of California on October 3, 1995. OJ was tried for a murder crime of his ex-wife and another man. In the end OJ turned out to be not guilty of this crime.

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A small kid from Santa Barbara, California by the name of Randall Cunningham wanted to play football. Randall Cunningham played the position as a Quarterback and played 16 seasons for National Football League. Not only did Randall play the position as quarterback he also played as a punter. Randall Cunningham played for the Eagles before being drafted to the Vikings. Randall Cunningham was known for throwing the farthest footballs in college but his best throwing pass was when he made an epic play in the second quarter of the game by throwing a pass to Fred Barnett.

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His second record was not broken until 1973 by O.J. Simpson. He set another NFL record on November 24, 1957, by rushing for 237 yards in a single game. Four years later, on November 19, 1961, he equaled that total amount of rush yards. By the end of his career, Brown had scored 126 touchdowns and gained a record 12,312 yards in 2,369 rushing attempts, an amazing average of 5.22 yards. His rushing record was not broken until 1984 by Walter Payton, who played for the Chicago Bears.

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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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room for an individual bias which did exist in the start of the movie for each juror had his own perception which got evened out eventually. Many at times though, a juror’s decision is highly biased and not decided on the basis of facts but on the reports put forth by the media or the propositions not matter how unfair made by the counsels. The Simpson’s trial too was a sensational media event of unprecedented proportions, with courtroom television cameras captured the carnival-like atmosphere of the proceedings. The prosecution had presented a ‘mountain of evidence ‘which was systemically cast upon by shadows of doubt by Simpson’s team of expensive attorneys, who made the case overtly dramatic and proclaimed that their client was framed by unscrupulous and racist police

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Simpson suffered from two types of arthritis at the time of the murder being rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. Along with this he suffered from injuries from his football career and close to the time of the murder he had been suffering from severe sweats late at night as stated by his doctor Robert Huizenga(Trial). Overall, his ailments would have severely limited if not eliminated any potential for OJ Simpson to have murdered both Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman with nothing but a small cut on his hand. Outside of the small cut, OJ had no injuries on his body. Both the limo driver that took OJ to the airport and an airport employee whose friend got OJ’s autograph following the murder said that they saw nothing, although the limo driver later stated that he would not have noticed it if it was there(Trial).

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