OJ Simpson, what most consider, the people’s favorite. Did he really do it? This case was noted as “The trial of the century”. Did he really do it Is still a question that is so controversial and still leaves people to wonder till this very day. He had one of the best assembled defense team of all time. On June 12, 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were brutally executed with what seemed, by all accounts, to be a solitary edged sharp weapon, later identified as a knife.Nicole Brown Simpson, being the ex of a big name football player, made things even more interesting. So when OJ Simpson became the prime suspect, this case became the only thing anyone was ever talking about. The limelight and fame that surrounded the case did nothing …show more content…
Everything about this case was different. The fact that it was highly profiled and with it being televised. This case left everybody vulnerable, it pointed out all the problems of the criminal justice system. Racially a lot of backlash was going on due to the Rodney King beating by LAPD officers. All through police history in the Unified States and around the globe there have been various occurrences of detailed police ruthlessness and different types of debasement including taking fixes, burglary, sexual aberrance, and some more. In our present time debasement has diminished fundamentally from what it used to be decades back yet at the same time exists. A standout amongst the most broadcasted instances of police mercilessness, if not the most, was the beating of Rodney King. A great deal of people have caught wind of the case and seen the video of the severe beating that occurred in Los Angeles the evening of March 2, 1991. The video appeared to the general population contained officers seeming to beat Mr. Kind while he is on the ground while different officers had Nothing but time to stop the beating but instead stood there in excitement "Watching the beating"₁ and doing nothing to stop it. After an underlying perspective of the recording it is anything but difficult to make a hasty judgment that the beating was basically a demonstration of superfluous police mercilessness and that Mr. King was only a guiltless African-American man being …show more content…
At 10:07 a.m. PDT on October 3, 1995, O. J. Simpson was found not guilty of murder on the both counts of murder. The only testimony looked into was that of limo driver Alan Park, who claimed that he didn't see Simpson's Bronco outside of the Rockingham home when he landed to lift him up. This happening to occur right after the killings happened. The jury touched base at the decision by 3:00 p.m. on October 2, after just four hours of consultation, however Judge Ito put off the announcement. Prior to the decision, President Bill Clinton was advised on safety efforts if revolting happened across the country because of the decision. An expected 100 million individuals overall watched or tuned in to the decision declaration. Long-remove phone call volume declined by 58%, and exchanging volume on the New York Stock Exchange diminished by 41%. Water utilization diminished as individuals abstained from utilizing restrooms. So much work ceased that the decision cost an expected $480 million in lost productivity.The United States Supreme Court got a message on the decision amid oral contentions, with the judges unobtrusively passing the note to each other while tuning in to the lawyer's introduction.In post-trial interviews, a couple of the jurors said that they trusted Simpson likely committed the murders, yet that the arraignment had neglected to
The Casey Anthony trial has been arguably the most controversial case since the trial of O.J. Simpson and has been speculated over ever since the verdict had been given in July of 2011. It was decided by a jury of her peers that Anthony was not guilty of murder, for the death of her daughter Caylee. Many believe that Anthony should have been found guilty however, very little Americans actually comprehend the justice system.
“I think I’ve been a great citizen” -O.J. Simpson. The O.J. Simpson trial was one of the most followed cases in history; its estimated cost for the trial was about nine million (Blohm 64). On the evening of June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered (Piombini). The trial against O.J. began on January 24, 1995 and ended on October 2, 1995 (Blohm 59). Going into the trial, O.J.’s fate had already been sealed due to the fact that nobody wanted to prosecute him because he was a football legend and an actor (Piombini). In both cases, one can see that racial prejudice may prevent a juror of this trial from voting logically and thoughtfully.
The 1995 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, O.J. Simpson was accused of, left all of America speechless and in shock for the whole course of the case. Most people that had followed the case thoroughly still, to this day, wonder who the REAL killer was. The most widely known suspect is her ex-husband, Orenthal James a.k.a. O.J. Simpson, who was put on trial for several years due to the incriminating evidence. Some say O.J. was framed, but there is ample evidence that always led back to him. Past prior offenses led him to be the prime suspect also. All of these key items and the book he then produced, makes him look like the real killer of Nicole Brown Simpson.
O.J Simpson should have been found guilty due to his violent actions on June 12th, 1994. There were many actions or causes that led up to his violent act. The main and most known cause of Simpson’s act was “infidelity”. Simpson’s wife Nicole Simpson had been spending too much time with a man by the name of Ronald Goldman. When O.J became suspicious, he took immediate action.
During the time that O.J was on trial for the murders of Nicole and Ronald, everyone who was following the hearing had a deep sense of fear and pity. They were fearing that the man they once adored and aspired to be like was actually capable of committing such an inconspicuous crime. Also, due to the accusations of the murder, the viewers were also feeling in the sense of pity, in both sadness and disappointment. The acts that O.J Simpson was accused of caused the audience to feel disappointed in his actions, as well as sadness towards his family. The accusations developed about O.J left people who didn’t even personally know him in tears. People were so sad about his downfall. The accusation led to the fact that O.J left his family with no mother and technically no father, as he’d be spending time in prison. Furthermore, since he was found not guilty, there was a large part of the audience that felt a sense of release and emotion, and some felt bad that he was ever accused of this, but rather he just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Due to the fact that O.J and Nicole were separated for a couple years before she died, Nicole had made new friendships, and there was no proof that someone new that she met could have caused this crime and tried to frame Simpson, due to his past accused abuse
Simpson had a great defense team, that some called the “Dream Team,” gave Marcia Clark a run for her money. Marcia Clark is the main prosecutor. Primarily, the case was led by Robert Shapiro, one member of the “Dream Team”. Throughout the case, aspiring lawyer Johnnie Cochran, did not make as many irrational decisions as Shapiro did. Prosecutor, Marcia Clark and District Attorney, Chris Darden were trying to prove Simpson guilty. A majority of America hated Marcia Clark because they thought Simpson was
After a lengthy two hundred and fifty-two-day trial “not guilty” were the words that left the world in shock. O.J Simpson was your typical golden boy. He had it all, the nice car, the football career, and his kids. Unfortunately, this all came to an end when two bodies came to be spotted deceased in Nicole Browns front yard and was a gruesome sight. O. J’s ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman both found with brutal stab marks. Unfortunately, all his glory days now brought to an end, he went from playing on the field to begging for his freedom when becoming the main suspect of their murders. Since this trial has not only altered the way Americans viewed celebrities, but it also racially divided society,
When the trial was happening, I had no idea who he was until the trial started. I had my Dad tell me all the details of who he was, and everything else I learned was from watching television. I was young, but I still knew that racism was awful. I looked upon the television to Simpson sitting in the trial and just thought, "Oh, okay." I know it 's hard to believe, but I wasn 't brought up to believe race had anything to do with whether people judged based on race, but this case was a 101 course in proving I was oblivious to the real world. However, what I did hear based on pure evidence was that this guy totally did it. There was too much evidence that proved he was involved, and the only reasonable doubt that was brought into the case was purely based on race.
The New York Times bestseller book titled Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case examines the O.J. Simpson criminal trial of the mid-1990s. The author, Alan M. Dershowitz, relates the Simpson case to the broad functions and perspectives of the American criminal justice system as a whole. A Harvard law school teacher at the time and one of the most renowned legal minds in the country, Dershowitz served as one of O.J. Simpson’s twelve defense lawyers during the trial. Dershowitz utilizes the Simpson case to illustrate how today’s criminal justice system operates and relates it to the misperceptions of the public. Many outside spectators of the case firmly believed that Simpson committed the crimes for which he was charged for. Therefore, much of the public was simply dumbfounded when Simpson was acquitted. Dershowitz attempts to explain why the jury acquitted Simpson by examining the entire American criminal justice system as a whole.
The people directly involved with this case are Judge Lance Ito, the prosecution lawyers, Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden, the defense lawyers, Johnnie Cochran, Robert Shapiro and Robert Blasier , the jury and the defendant, O.J. Simpson. The families of the victims have also been present in the courtroom, as well as other spectators and news media. This case has heard one hundred and twenty witnesses over a nine month period.
This incident would have produced nothing more than another report for resisting arrest had a bystander, George Holliday, not videotaped the altercation. Holliday then released the footage to the media. LAPD Officers Lawrence Powell, Stacey Koon, Timothy Wind and Theodore Brisino were indicted and charged with assaulting King. Superior Court Judge Stanley Weisberg ordered a change of venue to suburban Simi Valley, which is a predominantly white suburb of Los Angeles. All officers were subsequently acquitted by a jury comprised of 10 whites, one Hispanic and one Asian, and the African American community responded in a manner far worse than the Watts Riots of 1965. ?While the King beating was tragic, it was just the trigger that released the rage of a community in economic strife and a police department in serious dec...
The one good thing that I believe comes from this case is that it educated America on the mistakes being made by a law enforcement entity. The attitudes portrayed by these officers are terrible and, regretfully, most likely common. What it did was wake us up by showing us how biased criminal investigations can be and that bigotry has no place in the criminal justice system.
O.J. Simpson had a normal life just like Hester Prynne. But in both of these cases, a sudden turn of events changed their lives completely. O.J. Simpson was a professional football star who was convicted of a double murder in 1994. His case was publicly televised from the start to the end. Both Prynne and O.J. Simpson cases were publicly shamed; they were treated negatively and ostracized by society.
Simpson murder trial, there are a couple of things that piqued my interests. One was the notorious car chase down the Los Angeles freeway in a white Ford Bronco driven by AL Cowlings with O.J. Simpson hiding in the back. Robert Shapiro was supposed to surrender his client to the Los Angeles Police Department, but instead it is my opinion that O. J. Simpson lawyers and friends came up with a plan to get publicity and supporters. The second was the most crucial point of the trial is when O.J. Simpson squeeze his hand into the leather glove that was linked to the killings. This led to the famous argument by Johnnie Cochran “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” As the years passed by many untold stories are revealed. A recent new documentary states that “Simpson had stop talking his arthritis medicine two weeks” in advance so his hands would be swollen to persuade the jury of his innocents.
Fairchild, H. & Cowan, G (1997). Journal of Social Issues. The O.J. Simpson Trial: Challenges to Science and Society.