Friday, October 3, 2008
On This Day In History: O.J. Simpson Was Aquitted
(Although now, 13 Years later, he is on trial again for another crime.....)
At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson's "dream team" of lawyers employed creative and controversial methods to convince jurors that Simpson's guilt had not been proved "beyond a reasonable doubt," thus surmounting what the prosecution called a "mountain of evidence" implicating him as the murderer.
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History,
Law,
O.J. SImpson
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