Oj Simpson Research Paper

Did you know that unarmed black men are seven times more likely to die than white men? Racism is as old as human society itself. As long as human beings have been around, people have always seemed to have hated or feared people with a different skin color. Racism is just a part of the human nature. Trayvon Benjamin Martin was just 17 when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, in Sanford, Florida on February 2012. The murder of Trayvon Martin affected many people. The death of Martin was just the first of several deaths where a white person killed a black innocent person. Since the deaths weren’t stopping the #BlackLivesMatter movement began.

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.

The book that I am going to introduce is Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Got Away With Murder, written by Vincent Bugliosi, and was published on June 17, 1996. We all know that Nichole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death and their bodies were discovered on June 12, 1994 early morning. It was said that after a car chase, O.J. was found with $9,000 I cash, his passport, disguise, and a gun. O.J. Simpson who is her ex-husband was acquitted October 3, 1995, for their deaths in a trial that riveted the nation and divided people along racial differences. In 1997, he was ordered to pay a little over $33 million for their deaths. O.J. Simpson is still serving time in prison for things like kidnapping, robbery, burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, and numerous other charges. Mr. Bugliosi sums up five reason why the case was lost. Those five can be labeled as the jury, the change in venue or settings, the judge allowing the defense to play the race card, the stupidity of the prosecution throughout the trial, and lastly the summation of what should really have been done. But in honesty when the media started reporting about this case it was already falling apart.

On May 4th, 1994, the Goldman family sues O.J. A lot of Simpson’s personal items, such as his trophies and cars were seized. On November 6th 1996, the jury was composed of nine Whites, one Black, one Hispanic, and an Asian. A photographer claims to have taken a picture of Simpson in 1993 wearing Bruno Magli shoes, which were the same ones that were worn by the killer of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. O.J completely denied the picture; which led the photographer to release to the jury over 30 pictures of Simpson in the shoes. Also, on November 11th, pathologists thought that the scars and scratches on O.J’s hands may have been caused by the victim’s finger nails when trying to resist being stabbed to death. However, Simpson claimed that he might have gotten the cuts and scars on his wrists by “rassling” with his son. (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/index/nns171.htm)

On June 12, 1994, the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found dead at her home in Brentwood, CA. Orenthal James Simpson, or O.J. Simpson was notified of their deaths and immediately taken into custody for questions. Upon the collection of various pieces of evidence from the crime scene, all avenues pointed to Simpson as the culprit for the double murder. The conclusion of Simpson criminal trial resulted in his acquittal. There were various reasons for this acquittal. The most prominent reasons include accusations of racism, evidence contamination, and the lack of faith in DNA profiling. This paper will discuss the issues that arose with the trial in depth and offer an explanation and solution to resolving issues

The prosecution called 78 witnesses with Allan Park, O.J.’s limo driver, being the best witness they had placing O.J. within the timeline of the murders(Geis & Bienen, 2016). The crime happened sometime after 10 pm before O.J. had left for LAX to travel to Chicago for a business meeting(Geis & Bienen, 2016). Allan Park testified that he was at O.J. Simpson’s house and knocked on his door at 10:25 pm but there was no response(Geis & Bienen, 2016). Mr. Park stated he did not see O.J.’s white Bronco anywhere and assumed he was not home yet(Geis & Bienen, 2016). At 10:56 pm, Mr. Park saw O.J. enter the front of his home(Geis & Bienen, 2016). Mr. Park noticed O.J. was very anxious and was

Due to a lack of evidence, the LAPD wrongly accused Simpson of murdering Brown and Goldman. The glove that was supposedly worn by the killer did not fit Simpson. CBS news team said, “The leather glove seemed too tight for Simpson to put on easily, especially over the latex gloves he wore underneath.”. The black leather glove had to fit Simpson for him to be guilty but it was way to tight and could not

Less than four months later, the court selected a “diverse” jury that was made up of eight women and four men, eight of which were African American. The trial officially began on January 24 of 1995 when the opening statements were read (“O.J. Simpson Fast Facts”). Throughout the trial, various articles of evidence were displayed and many testimonies were given, but there is one piece that seems to stand out more than the rest. OJ tried on a pair of leather gloves, consisting of one glove that had been found at Simpson’s estate and another that had been discovered at the scene of the crime, on June 15 and expressed to everyone in the courtroom that the gloves did not fit on his hands; the prosecution finished presenting its evidence a few weeks later. After weeks of back and forth arguments in the court, the defense declared rest on September, just two days after emphasizing, “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit,” in regards to the gloves (“O.J. Simpson Fast Facts”). It was all in the jury’s hands

There were lots of facts and evidence against OJ, but he, of course, had the best lawyers and attorneys that money could buy on his side. His lawyers and attorneys turned the murder case into a racial battle that took the spotlight off of what crimes had really been committed. In 1985, OJ and Nicole became married, but their marriage was far from “picture perfect.” OJ wasn’t just unfaithful, he was extremely abusive. Friends and relatives on each side would often notice bruises on Nicole’s body. OJ would even openly say at parties “I’m going to kill her.”

The next process in the Justice system, a Grand Jury indictment, was interrupted. OJ Simpson hired a top notch team of defense and appellate lawyers to defend him in this case and they were able to get the Grand Jury dismissed from this case due to the massive media coverage. They claimed that the jury was prejudiced toward the defendant because of the readily available information about the case. In lieu of the Grand Jury trial a probable cause hearing was conducted. With that, the judge in this hearing felt that enough evidence did exist for a criminal trial and OJ Simpson was arraigned on July 29th 1994. At his arraignment OJ pleaded not guilty, specifically stating that he was “one hundred percent not guilty”.

This would seem pretty compelling to a rookie grand jury, but with 14 of the top defense attorneys that O.J. Came up with, it's not surprising how they came up with a defense. Their defense was that O.J. Cut his hand a week before the murder in New York, which doesn't explain how O.J.'s blood was there. However O.J. Openly admitted that his cut had reopened the night he was at Nicole's, but that was before the official murder.

This report will follow the case of Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson. Born in San Francisco, California, July 9th 1947, Simpson is a retired American football player, actor and broadcaster. On midnight of June 12, 1994, in Los Angeles, California, Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were discovered murdered outside in the Brentwood area, outside of Nicole Brown’s residence. Wounds were found on the hands of Brown’s hands as an attempt of defence, with multiple stab wounds in the neck and head. The first victim, 35-year-old Nicole Brown Simpson, was a Beverly Hills nightclub, waitress, the Daisy, where she met O.J. Simpson. At the time she was 18 whilst Simpson was 30. They began living together when she was 19. Married February 2, 1985, and

I definitely believe that the unprofessional handling of the case created a wedge between the prosecution's story and the jury and led to the acquittal of O.J. Simpson. Many members of the jury that wanted to convict Simpson simply could not because they saw the forensic evidence to be extremely unreliable. Because the proper chain of custody was not followed, the evidence was not effectively processed and its integrity not only deteriorated but was proven to be inaccurate and untrustworthy. The two research questions that I would like to have answered within my research are: How exactly did the evidence on the scene get developed into something that is worth bringing forth in a trial? Secondly, would the prosecutors have won the case if O.J. Simpson was not a celebrity and the entire evidence was not scrutinized simply because more people raised questions than

On June 17, 1994 when police charged Orenthal James Simpson, Brown's ex-husband, and after leading police on a 60 mile low speed chase down the highways of southern Los Angeles in his friend Al Cowling's white Bronco, was arrested and jailed without bail, the story became even more complicated. This was when the police knew this would not be just any murder case. This was OJ Simpson, the famous football player, this would be complicated. Their only hope of conviction was the evidence that would place him as the murderer.

In the summer of 1994, on June 17th, the entire country sat in front of their tv’s and watched as Oj Simpson fled from the police. Simpson, one of the most recognizable personalities in the country” was a retired NFL player and appeared on television regularly on commercials and on shows. He had a very distinguished career, winning the Heisman Trophy in college and being a dominant running back in the NFL winning the MVP and AP Male Athlete of the Year in 1973. Simpson was now being watched by millions of people, as he was being charged for the murders on June 12th of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The country would not