When was oj simpson verdict

Now 73, Simpson is living in Las Vegas. He's active on Twitter, posting videos with his thoughts on politics and football. Ron Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, and sister, Kim Goldman, were a constant presence at the criminal trial. Kim Goldman went on to become a victims' advocate.

She's also the executive director of a non-profit which provides youth services in the Santa Clarita Valley area of Southern California. Last year Kim Goldman hosted a podcast called "Confronting: O. Simpson," in which she interviewed key players from the case, including prosecutor Marcia Clark and Simpson house guest Kato Kaelin.

Kim Goldman even talked to two jurors and said she was told the three-and-a-half hour deliberation was allegedly a cover-up. Fred Goldman says it's important to remember the victims of violence who don't get the publicity that his son and Brown Simpson do. I don't want to get my mouth dirty with his name," Fred Goldman said.

What would she look like? She'd be hanging out with the kids, she'd be sending the kids to college. Marcia Clark had been a prosecutor with the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office for over a decade, working on trials including the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer, when she was assigned the Simpson case.

After the acquittal, "I felt like I'd let everyone down," Clark wrote in her memoir, "Without a Doubt. Simpson was in Los Angeles the evening of June 12 but took a late flight that night to Chicago. When he returned to Los Angeles the next day, he was interviewed by police, but not immediately arrested.

On June 17, , prosecutors ordered Simpson to surrender, but instead he fled in a white Ford Bronco with his friend Al Cowlings, leading police on a slow-speed chase that brought Southern California freeways to a standstill and drew in a network television audience of 95 million Americans.

News helicopters hovered overhead, documenting the chase, and Angelinos gathered on the roadways, and in front of their televisions, to watch in real time. In , Simpson's trial transfixed the country. Defense attorneys claimed Simpson was wrongly accused but prosecutors argued that Simpson was a controlling husband who abused Brown Simpson. Prosecutors also pointed to blood from the crime scene found in Simpson's car and home, and the fact that he was unaccounted for for more than an hour on the night of the killings.

During the trial, the prosecution asked Simpson to put on gloves believed to have been worn by the killer, but they didn't appear to fit properly. Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran famously told the jury in his closing argument, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. On Oct. He has always maintained his innocence. In , a civil jury found Simpson liable for wrongful death in the double murder.

In September , Simpson led a group of men into a Las Vegas hotel and casino to steal what he claims was his own sports memorabilia at gunpoint. After the trial, Cochran continued to practice law and appear as a TV commentator. He died of brain cancer in at age Another member of "The Dream Team", the year-old F. Lee Bailey who also famously represented Patty Hearst has fallen from grace since the trial: he was disbarred in both Florida and Massachusetts for his handling of stock owned by a drug-smuggler client.

He also filed for bankruptcy in Even after passing the bar in Maine, where he now resides, he has still been denied a license to practice. Robert Kardashian was one of Simpson's oldest friends—they met as students at USC, and Simpson served as best man at Kardashian's wedding to Kris Houghton who, of course, later became Kris Jenner.

Kardashian was not a practicing lawyer when Simpson's trial began, but he reactivated his practice to join the defense team. He maintained serious doubts about Simpson's innocence, and the two stopped speaking after the trial. Kardashian died of esophageal cancer in at age He went on to teach law at California State University and, similarly to Clark, published a memoir and co-authored several legal thrillers.

In , he started his own practice specializing in criminal defense. He is still practicing law, most notably representing Eric Holder, the man charged with killing hip-hop mogul Nipsey Hussle, but Darden withdrew from the case, saying his family had received death threats.

In August , the year-old Darden announced that he would represent Corey Walker, the alleged killer of rapper Pop Smoke. The four were often photographed together at Los Angeles social events in the late s.

They divorced in After the trial, she shot to fame with her reality series with her family, "Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The defense asks Judge Ito to instruct jury as to reason for Fuhrman's further nonappearance. Judge agrees, but prosecution objects. The question is appealed. Defense refuses to rest their case due to the unresolved question of judge's instruction to jury concerning Fuhrman.

Judge Ito orders prosecution to begin its rebuttal. Detective Vannatter is cross-examined by Shapiro on statements he made to mob informants about why police went to O. Simpson's residence. Both defense and prosecution rest their cases. In a statement to judge waiving his right to testify, Simpson says "I did not, could not, and would not have committed this crime.

Clark and Darden deliver prosecution's closing arguments. Cochran and Scheck deliver defense's closing arguments. Cochran makes controversial statements to the jury comparing Fuhrman to Hitler. After less than four hours, jury announces that it has reached a verdict. Jury finds O. Simpson not guilty of two counts of murder. Opening statements in civil trial in Santa Monica. Jury consists of nine whites, one black, one Hispanic, and one person of mixed Asian and African ancestry.

Simpson testifies before a jury for the first time. He denies killing Goldman or his former wife, but cannot explain the physical evidence against him. Fred Goldman, Ron's father, testifies. Plaintiffs rest.