Trial of the Century : The People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson

Opening

The case of the state of California versus O .J . Simpson was probably one of the major cases of the 1990s . Even today there is still a disagreement as to whether OJ Simpson was guilty or innocent . Many believe O .J . Simpson was guilty , but because he had the money and the influence , got away with murder . OJ Simpson was a famous football player in the NFL league , and actor . OJ Simpson was married to Nicole Brown Simpson , and was accused of murdering her and her friend Ronald Goldman but was

acquitted after a lengthy criminal trial . The murder of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman happened on June 12 , 1994 . The leader of the murder investigation was a veteran LAPD detective named Tom Lane . Tom Lane had helped solve the Tate /LaBianca murders and the 1981 massacre of the Wonderland gang . OJ Simpson on the other hand , had what the media called his dream team ' consisting of high pro lawyers including F . Lee Bailey , Berry Scheck , Robert Shapiro , Robert Kardashian , Alan Dershowitz , and Johnnie Cochran . Simpson 's defense suggested that he was a victim of police brought in sloppy internal procedures that contaminated the DNA evidence . OJ Simpson 's defense cost 4 million US dollars . In all , 150 witnesses gave testimony during the trial , which allows a period of eight months long . One primary piece of evidence that the prosecution presented was a tape Nicole Brown Simpson had made on January 1 , 1989 when she 'd called 911 and expressed fear that her husband . O .J . Simpson would physically harm her , O .J . Simpson could be heard yelling at her in the background . The prosecution also used DNA fingerprinting , blood and shoe print analysis , and other forms of what was considered , new technology . Although OJ Simpson may have gotten off in 1995 , his recent criminal activity in 2008 has landed him a cruel sentence

Analysis

When conducting analysis of both the prosecution and the defense

the grand jury did not convict OJ Simpson of murder , but rather released him . OJ Simpson 's defense played an audiotape in which Fuhrman , a member of the prosecution , was repeatedly using the word nigger ' which was considered to express his own racism . The tape itself had been made nearly 10 years before by a young North Carolina screenwriter named Laura McKinney . McKinney interviewed Fuhrman in 1986 for a story she was developing on female police officers , the Fuhrman tapes became one of the cornerstones of the defense 's case that Fuhrman 's testimony lacked credibility . OJ 's defense attorney Johnnie Cochran , persuaded the assistant prosecutor Christopher Darden and asked Simpson to put on a leather glove that was found at the scene of the crime . Earlier , the prosecution had decided against asking O .J . Simpson to try on the gloves , because they felt the glove had been soaked in blood , mingled during scientific investigation , and frozen and unfrozen several times . The fact that the glove was too tight for Simpson to put on...