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Oj SimpsonTyler Kurutz
“What Happened”O June 12, 1994
O One man comes through the back door of the Simpson’s home
O Goes to the front to find Nicole Simpson and brutally slashing her, nearly severing her neck from her shoulders
O Then struggled with and repeatedly, about 30 times, stab Ronald Goldman
O Goldman was returning sunglasses
“What Happened”O OJ Simpson was aboard AA flight
#668 to Chicago at this point O He took off from LA at 11:45 taken to
airport by limo driver Allan Park O However the Limo left the Simpson
estate on Rockingham drive late (about a half hour late)
At the HotelO When Simpson arrived in Chicago he
received a call from the policeO When they told him about the
murder of his wife, he did not ask who what how or why O Later told that he smashed glass in
grief which would explain the cut on his hand
Beginnings of the Trials
O Robert Shapiro-Simpson’s Attorney and the arresting officer, agreed to have Simpson turn himself in by June 17 at 10 am
O Didn’t showO Found what was believed to be a
suicide note at his house O At 6:20 someone saw Simpson in his
bronco with his friend AC Cowlings
O Simpson’s run ended in his own driveway
O Found in AC Cowlings car: O $8,750 in cashO a false beard and mustache O a loaded gun O and a passport
O Trial is taken to Downtown district instead of Santa Barbara district where it happened (big mistake for the prosecution)
PleadO “Absolutely one hundred percent not
guilty, Your Honor."
The Gloves O Prosecutor, Christopher Darden, called for Oj to
try on the gloves in front of everyoneO As he tried them on he said things like “They
don’t fit. See?” O Then Simpson’s attorney Johnnie Cochran said
the famous line, “If it don’t fit, you must acquit.”
O http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2YbY9eYmdM&feature=related
O http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=jRth45yU_2Q – 4:20
Decision O After 3 hours deliberating about the
case that had produced 150 witnesses over 133 days and had cost $15 million to tryO They acquitted Orenthal James
Simpson at 10 am on October 3, 1995O http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in
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