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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