The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Simpson was tried and acquitted on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, slashing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. The families of Brown and Goldman filed a lawsuit against Simpson. On February 4, 1997, the jury unanimously found Simpson responsible for both deaths. In 2000, Simpson left California for Florida, one of the few states where personal assets such as homes and pensions cannot be seized.
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The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Simpson was tried and acquitted on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, slashing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. The pursuit, arrest, and trial were among the most widely publicized events in American history. Simpson’s defense team included F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Kardashian, Shawn Holley, Carl E. Douglas, and Gerald Uelmen. After the trial, the families of Brown and Goldman filed a lawsuit against Simpson. On February 4, 1997, the jury unanimously found Simpson responsible for both deaths. The families were awarded compensatory and punitive damages totaling USD 33. 5 million. In 2000, Simpson left California for Florida, one of the few states where personal assets such as homes and pensions cannot be seized to cover liabilities that were incurred in other states. The trial became historically significant because of the reaction to the verdict. A division along racial lines emerged in observers opinion of the verdict, which the media dubbed the “racial gap’”. In 2015, over half of polled black respondents in 2015 stated they believed Simpson was guilty. The case has been described as the \”most publicized\” criminal trial in history. The defense team was also referred to as the ‘Dream Team’ which was initially led by Robert Shapiro and subsequently directed by Johnnie Cochran. Simpson married Brown in 1977, when she was 18 and working as a waitress at the Daisy.
Simpson was married but the two began dating. Simpson filed for divorce in March 1979 and married Brown on February 2, 1985. Their marriage lasted seven years and produced two children, Sydney and Justin. Brown filed for divorcing Simpson on February 25, 1992, citing “textbook abuse” “nuptial differences” Dr. Lenore Walker, the Simpson-Brown marriage was a ‘textbook example of domestic abuse’ According to Brown, Simpson was harassing her eight times after they divorced. She wrote about beating her in public, during sex and in front of friends and family and said they broke up because she was financially dependent on him. She said Simpson was stalking and harassing her and once arrested her for falling off her bike during a fight but she lied and told the emergency room staff that she had fallen off the bike to protect her. Brown wrote that Simpson was ‘stalking and harassing’ her and that she was “stunned’ by his behavior. Simpson’s defense team alleged that the blood sample had allegedly been mishandled by lab scientists and technicians, and there were questionable circumstances that surrounded other court exhibits. The jury was able to convince the jury that there was reasonable doubt concerning the validity of the State’s DNA evidence, which was a relatively new form of evidence in trials at that time. The majority of whites and Latinos felt it was a racially motivated jury nullification by a mostly African-American jury.
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