The O. J. Simpson Case

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.

In an attempt to counter the racist claims of the defense, the jury was selected and was mostly African American females (Gaines 2001). The district attorney of Los Angeles believed that an all white jury would be ineffective if Simpson were to be found guilty (Thernstrom & Fetter 1996). This outcome of the jury selection upset the Caucasian population because they felt as though the jury selection gave Simpson the upper hand in the trial regardless of the fact that the jury was majority female. The defense counsel was able to control the jury, in a sense through instilling in their minds that the LAPD was in fact racist. At the trial’s conclusion approximately 83% of blacks believed that Simpson was guilty, whereas only 37% of whites believed that Simpson was guilty (Thernstrom & Fetter 1996). These allegations also pushed the evidence collected from the crime to be discredited as well.

The O.J. Simpson trial was one of the most recognizable cases in American History. It went on for 9 months. At 12:10 am on June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were found murdered right outside of Bundy drive condo in Brentwood. Evidence found in the scene led the Police to suspect that O.J. Simpson was the murderer. Although the prosecution pointed to the evidence of the case Simpson lawyers argued that the police bungle the investigation and planted evidence. An examination of the case is that one of the policemen was racist and planted evidence in the scene to accuse O.J. Simpson of being the murderer.

Although many believe that racism and segregation have declined over the years, The Washington Post notes, in a 2016 analysis, that black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers (Lowery). In the 1930s and 1950s, Tom Robinson, Emmett Till, and the nine Scottsboro boys were sentenced to death after facing an all-white jury for a crime they did not commit. In 1931, nine, young, unemployed, black men were falsely accused of raping two white women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. Their sentence to death after facing an all-white jury sparked rallies and parades, which successfully changed the unfair verdict of their trial. Similarly, a fourteen-year-old boy named Emmett Till was unjustly murdered after allegedly whistling at a white store owner, Carolyn Bryant. A few days later, he was found in a nearby river, and his mother arranged for a public funeral to expose the racial prejudice her son faced in Mississippi. The perpetrators were acquitted of all charges when tried in front of an all white jury. In the Scottsboro incident, the Murder of Emmett Till, and To Kill a Mockingbird, innocent men were victims of the society’s racial prejudice and convicted of crimes they did not commit.

Those who have been convicted of a crime, such as murder for example the OJ Simpson case, are considered being rediscovered. The OJ Simpson case is a case many are well known about from him being a former football all star as well as a Hollywood icon. The trial occurred in 1994 and lasted for almost eight months. The murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman is a case authorities still have no clear cut idea on what actually happened. Many people think

Simpson and this trial would definitely be considered a crisis, a crisis that undercut the beliefs of our society. The public knew that Brown and Simpson didn’t have the best marriage, but I do not think that anyone believed that O.J. was capable of something as horrible as this. After a New Year’s Eve party in their home in 1989, he pleaded no-contest to charges of beating Nicole. Mr. Simpson's spokesman issued a statement that the couple kind of ignored the situation and said, "We got into an argument which escalated and the police were called. Fortunately, neither one of us required any medical treatment” (Janofsky, & Rimer, 1994). However, there was a police report that said that the officers arrived and heard Nicole scream “He’s going to kill me!”. She also had a black eye, bruises and a cut lip (Janofsky & Rimer, 1994). Maybe some people weren’t surprised that Simpson ended up being the only suspect for the murders. Maybe it came to a complete shock to others and this situation destroyed their beliefs of who they thought O.J. Simpson really was. People had many nice things to say about him, but it turns out that you never really truly know someone. Don Ohlmeyer, who was a former Monday Night Football producer spoke highly of him and said that his friends and fans were drawn to him because go his engaging personality and friendliness. He said, “If you had a problem at four o’clock in the morning, he would always be there” (Janofsky & Rimer, 1994). Overall, it is

Both of the men in these cases were African-American men. In Tom Robinson’s case he was very discriminated. Tom was in the midst of racism’s prime. For O.J. Simpson, not only was he not discriminated against, but for a long time he was idolized as a star in the NFL. O.J. Simpson was loved by many for being one of the NFL’s best, and this may have been the difference in his case.

DNA blood evidence, spouse abuse, and found objects on Simpson’s property prove him guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Simpson took away two lives that will never be able to be brought back; this was all due to the fact that race was brought into the case. Murder is murder, it does not change just because someone is defined differently by their skin color, there should be equal punishments to all races and individuals. OJ Simpson might have wrongfully outsmarted the court; however, he was not witty enough to prevent what the future had in store for

The O. J. Simpson double murder case, also titled “People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a trial in which James O.J Simpson, a former National Football League player was convicted at the Los Angeles County Superior Court of two murder offenses on June 12, 1994. He was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, a restaurant waiter at Mezzaluna. The trial spans for a period of eight months. The opening statements were read on January 23, 1995, whereas the verdict, which left Simpson a free man, was declared on October 3, 1995. “The Trial of The Century,” as it is commonly known, has been described as the most publicized trial in history. However, before Simpson could be arrested and prosecuted, they had to go through an investigation process with the implementation of some techniques used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as this essay illustrates.

the effect of the racial nature of the case on the jury and it is quite astounding. Somewhere around 78% of people believed that the racial issues of the time had either determined the verdict or was consider by the jury in the O.J. Simpson case (Greene). This is so unfortunate that people believe that race, even after all of our progress, was a determining factor in declaring Simpson innocent and the media was at the forefront constantly pumping stories about the Simpson case being one of race rather than one of circumstantial evidence. The constant media scrutiny and perversion of case details allowed for the facts and circumstantial evidence to be put

This paper conducts research on Orenthal James ‘O.J.’ Simpson’s 1994 murder trial of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson-Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, in which Simpson was acquitted.This trial is one of the most televised court cases in history. Once a well-rounded guy, Simpson born in San Francisco, had a successful college football career at USC, winning the Heisman Trophy. Simpson then went onto the NFL playing for the Buffalo Bills as a star running back. The O.J. Simpson trial was majorly sensationalized due to the fact that he was one of the first african-american sports figure who 's crime was televised through all channels of media. I am going to discuss how he was considered not guilty in how is defense lawyers were able to get the charges acquitted. In this case money certainly bought Simpson justice but in a few other cases money did not buy people with celebrity status justice.

When people here of the words Martin vs. Zimmerman, all ears become attentive about the case. Even today nearly six years after the trial and it is still one the most controversial, well remembered, and talked about cases to date. It is a case that has unified people to stand up to what they believed in and fight for it. After the incident of February 26, 2012 the defendant was acquitted of all charges against him. Whether it was fair or not is up for debate and based on factors of the case such as age, circumstances of the time of incident and improper representation of a lawyer, the outcome of the case should not have turned out the way it did.

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

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.

It is difficult to believe that O.J. Simpson was once a respected and celebrated professional football player, sports commentator, and actor. However, his image was irrevocably shattered on June 17, 1994 when Simpson was involved in a car chase that lasted about an hour on California's I-405 (O.J. Simpson leads L.A. police on a high-speed chase, 2013). Dubbed the "Crime of the Century," O.J. Simpson's trial was a media circus and was sensationalized for a number of reasons including Simpson's status as a celebrity, the mishandling of evidence, and the issue of race.