Oj Simpson Case Study

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On June 12, 1994, a double murder took place at Nicole Brown Simpson’s Brentwood home. O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman, were left dead outside the home with brutal stab wounds. The Los Angeles Police Department questioned O.J. Simpson about the incident. He was acting strange, which caused these authorities to believe that he was guilty of the crime. The LAPD got a warrant for his arrest. To avoid media attention, Robert Shapiro, O.J. Simpson’s attorney, made an agreement with the LAPD for Simpson to turn himself in on June 17. However, Simpson didn’t turn himself in when he was supposed to. When the LAPD went to his home to arrest him, they only found a suicide note from Simpson. Hours later, a motorist reported Simpson’s whereabouts, who was in Al Cowlings’, Simpson’s friends, white bronco. A slow police chase occurred before O.J Simpson was arrested. Despite the outcome of the case, O.J. Simpson is a guilty man. …show more content…
The lawyers that represented O.J Simpson included Robert Shapiro, Johnnie Cochran, Barry Scheck, F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Gerald Uelmen, Carl Douglas, Peter Neufeld, and Robert Kardashian. The prosecutors included Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden, while the judge was Judge Lance Ito. The prosecutors and Denise Brown, Nicole Brown’s sister, depicted Simpson as an abusive husband, while the defense team, described him as a big-hearted and loving man. The defense team constantly brought up racism, and the history of police brutality among African-Americans. On June 15, 1995, prosecutors made Simpson try on a pair of bloody gloves that were collected from the crime scene. They were too small and didn’t fit his

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Oj Simpson Case Study

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Oj Simpson Case Study

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