#the o.j. simpson trial

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listening to the You're Wrong About podcast's episodes about the O.J. Simpson trial is something that can be so personal

#at this point i am very much considering buying marcia clark's memoir #you're wrong about #you're wrong about podcast #o.j. simpson #the o.j. simpson trial #marcia clark #paula barbieri #kato kaelin #nicole brown #nicole brown simpson #ronald goldman #text #personal #podcast #words #mon-d-i-e-u #frida rambles #fey rambles #frida talks #about me #what is my tag for that again? #recs #my favourite thing about them is how they give such care to the people involved and the context they lived in #history

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Nadra Nittle and Candice Norwood at The 19th:

The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman led to one of the country’s most watched legal cases: The football superstar O.J. Simpson stood accused of killing his ex-wife and Goldman in a trial that sparked widespread debate about the power of celebrity, the inadequacies of the criminal justice system and the significance of his race. Following news of O.J. Simpson’s death on Wednesday from cancer complications, experts revisited how the murders and subsequent trial reshaped discussions of domestic violence — and the ways racial dynamics complicated them.  Some said the country saw a major shift on a subject that had historically been framed as a private matter. “When those murders happened, it really forced folks to take a look at domestic violence, what it really means to families, how dangerous it is,” said Charmine Davis, director of family wellness at the Jenesse Center, a domestic violence prevention and intervention nonprofit in Los Angeles. “It changed the way bills are passed and how politicians, police and the whole system looked at domestic violence.”

Others said the case primarily amplified a harmful reality that continues today in entertainment and beyond. “I don’t think that any inroads have been made in terms of the criminal legal system, because I don’t think it’s possible,” said Myriam Gurba, author of the book “Creep: Accusations and Confessions,” which includes essays about gendered violence. “I know that the criminal legal system does not exist to manufacture justice for battered women. I believe that the purpose of a system is what it does.” The legacy of this case — however inconsistent it may be — advanced national conversations that were rarely visible at such widespread levels.  

Just months after the June 12, 1994, murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The law stands out as the first comprehensive federal legislation designed to stop battery, sexual assault and other forms of violence targeting women. For years, advocates had unsuccessfully pushed to get the law enacted. The awareness Brown Simpson’s murder raised about intimate partner violence helped to get VAWA much-needed backing from lawmakers, supporters of the legislation said. 

More broadly, advocates reported at the time that the number of donations to battered women’s shelters and other women’s organizations rose nationwide. The number of calls to shelters also increased, indicating that more women were comfortable coming forward about their abuse. After her murder, the public learned the extent of the abuse Brown Simpson endured. She stored items in a safe deposit box at a bank: It included three photos of herself with a bruised, swollen face, apology letters from Simpson admitting the abuse, a journal that tracked Simpson’s stalking, and newspaper clips from a night in 1989 when she was hospitalized and the police were called. It appeared to be a trail of evidence laid out in case she was killed. Prosecutors discovered the box six months after Brown Simpson’s murder. 

[...] On October 3, 1995, a Los Angeles jury found him not guilty of murder — a conclusion that outraged Brown Simpson’s supporters due to the evidence pointing at her ex-husband. Fans of Simpson celebrated the verdict. Although he hadn’t played competitive football since 1979 after career highs, including the 1973 Most Valuable Player award as a Buffalo Bill and a 1968 Heisman Trophy as a University of Southern California Trojan, the running back had channeled his fame as an athlete into roles as an actor and sports commentator. This made him relevant to a younger generation. “O.J. Simpson was a character,” said Earl Smith, professor of women and gender studies at the University of Delaware. “He was the first celebrity athlete. Nobody commanded that much attention in terms of getting paid to sell products. Everybody loved him. He had that kind of personality.”

For critics of Simpson and many survivors of gender-based violence, Simpson’s acquittal sent a painful message. Advocates and attorneys have previously said it was clear that some jurors did not understand the connection between domestic violence and Brown Simpson’s murder. Gurba said the outcome of the case and the discussion of the abuse was “instructive” for her as a teenage girl: These taught her that she would not be believed and could also be killed. 

Underlying the virality of the case were the inescapable racial dynamics that shape the U.S. court system and the criminalization of Black men. Simpson being a Black man and Brown Simpson being a White woman evokes associations between Black men and danger to women that have repeated throughout the country’s history. Three years before Simpson’s acquittal, a Los Angeles-area jury found a group of White officers not guilty of assaulting Rodney King, a Black motorist they had been videotaped beating during a police stop. In 1991, a Los Angeles judge gave a Korean-American shopkeeper probation instead of prison time for fatally shooting Black teenager Latasha Harlins in her store. Both of these events intensified the racial tensions that ignited in the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. 

The O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials forced Americans to talk about the specter of domestic violence that led to the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAVA).

#O.J. Simpson Trial #O.J. Simpson #Nicole Brown Simpson #Ron Goldman #Domestic Violence #Domestic Abuse #VAWA #Violence Against Women Act #Violence Against Women

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I haven't really thought about this case in years, but watching this still sends ice down my spine. He was *right. there.* He was so everpresent as a visitor to OJ's house, also, that the cops didn't even notice him. Just that little Kardashian guy, you know, he knows everyone...And that was a fairly slick pass. From OJ, to OJ's secretary, to Robert Kardashian...and then gone, forever.

#O.J. Simpson #murder trials #murder in California #Robert Kardashian #this is what I get for not being fascinated with this idiot family #Vimeo

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O.J. Simpson: A Complex Legacy in the World of Sports and Scandal

Introduction In the annals of American history, few names evoke as much intrigue, controversy, and fascination as that of O.J. Simpson (Orenthal James Simpson). From his electrifying days on the football field to the infamous “trial of the century,” Simpson’s life was a rollercoaster ride of triumphs, tragedies, and legal drama. As an expert, I delve into the multifaceted legacy of this…

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#Football Legend #O.J. Simpson #Scandals #Simpson #Trials and Legal Drama

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O.J. Simpson Trial: Where Are They Now?

This article is reposted from an earlier article I did in the beginning of the year. It was dubbed the Trial of the Century. Although acquitted Simpson always had a dark cloud hanging over his head. Here are the key players and where they are now: Marcia Clark the lead prosecutor of the case resigned from the Los Angeles County district attorneys office . At 72 Clark is now an author, legal…

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#news #O.J. Simpson #trial of the century #Where are they now?

[littleapocalypsekitten]

I cannot emphasise to all you young 'uns out there how absolutely enthralled the entirety of the United States of America was with the O.J. Simpson trial back in the day. Everyone had opinions, even little kids. I remember the news of the Bronco-chase. I remember being in high school and the televised trial going on during my second year algebra class and we had a TV on IN THE CLASSROOM as we were doing our day's worksheets and quizzes! IN SCHOOL! (At least for high schoolers, I don't think this stuff was played for young kids). News of what went on during proceedings was what was forefront on the evening news, for those who had to work / those in classrooms that didn't let us watch it. It was broadcast during the day on at least one mainstream channel, I think all three of the main analog broadcasts and a few of the basic cables. It was everywhere and after it was done... CARTOONS made fun of it! I'm serious! I remember a joke on Animaniacs or Hysteria! (little known show in the Spielburg family of cartoon shows of the '90s) featured Lizzie Borden complaining "I'm the O.J. Simpson of the 19th century! Cue me, in the end, being incredibly confused that someone could be acquitted of murder in the criminal degree, but still held liable in a civil trail for murder.

#O.J. Simpson #o.j. simpson trial #the 1990s

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Delicately Durable: O.J. Simpson Trial: Drama of a Century

Without the O.J. Simpson trial would we of gotten so-called reality TV that became popular in the late 1990s or so? The O.J. trial was reality TV because it was real and it was happening everyday. Not wannabe celebrities who find themselves on a TV show and act out trying to make a career for themselves as a full-time celebrity if nothing else. And this certainly wasn’t a fictional drama. This…

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#Celebrity Culture #Celebrity News #CNN #Drama of a Century #Hollywood #O.J. Simpson #O.J. Simpson Trial #O.J. Simpson Trial: Drama of a Century #Tabloid News #Trial of a Century #True Crime Stories

[amaditalks]

I know that the majority of Tumblrites are not old enough to remember the way that O.J. Simpson’s murder of his ex-wife and her friend took over the entire national consciousness of the United States, dominating news programming, television programming in general with broadcasts of the events immediately after the crime and then the trial shown live, late night programming with the comedians having a field day and the Tonight Show even featuring a dance troupe meant to look like the judge in the case who’d come out and do performances. There was an expy of one of the lawyers who became a recurring character on Seinfeld. “If the glove don’t fit” jokes were everywhere. The attorneys got rich and famous and it’s responsible for the ascendance of the Kardashians as famous for no good reason. One man’s act of horrible IPV changed all of American culture. We are not the same as we were before that night in Brentwood.

I hope that the Brown and Goldman families feel some sense of relief today. Their pain and loss was buried under the avalanche of focus on the famous killer who took their loved ones’ lives. Their quest for justice through a civil trial after the ridiculous criminal acquittal was treated like a racist vendetta rather than an effort for accountability. Every moment since June 12, 1994 has marginalized them when they should’ve been the focus.

#oj simpson

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F. Lee Bailey

Physique: Husky Build Height: 5’ 6½" (1.69 m)

Francis Lee Bailey Jr. (June 10, 1933 – June 3, 2021), better known to the general public as F. Lee Bailey, was an American criminal defense attorney best known as a member of the “Dream Team” representing former football O.J. Simpson in his 1995 murder trial. Bailey's name first came to nationwide attention for his involvement in the second murder trial of Sam Sheppard, a surgeon accused of murdering his wife. He later served as the attorney in a number of other high-profile cases, such as Albert DeSalvo, a suspect in the "Boston Strangler" murders, heiress Patty Hearst's trial for bank robberies committed during her involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army, and US Army Captain Ernest Medina for the My Lai Massacre. He is considered one of the greatest lawyers of the 20th century.

A stocky badger-like man with a cleft chin, intimidating blue eyes and a widow’s peak that refused to recede with the rest of his hairline. He was one of the best things I got from the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial. He was a riveting courtroom performer and I couldn’t keep my eyes of him back then.

Bailey was married four times. He had two sons from his first marriage and another son from his second marriage. Apparently, late in life, Bailey fell on hard times being broke and working as a consultant above the hair salon of his girlfriend. Well, if he wanted too make money, he could have done porn. What? I know plenty of people who’d buy a DVD or subscription to a porn site if F. Lee was starring in it. Facts.

After a period of ill health, he died under hospice care in Atlanta on June 3, 2021, aged 87.

#F. Lee Bailey

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if he did it

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EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED: DENISE BROWN AT THE FIRST PRELIMINARY HEARING FOR O.J. SIMPSON'S MURDER TRIAL LOOKS LIKE HER SISTER COME TO LIFE, IN THE SAME WAY LAURA PALMER RETURNS FROM AMONG THE DEAD IN THE FORM OF HER COUSIN IN "TWIN PEAKS" AND MADELINE RETURNS IN THE FORM OF HER DOPPELGANGER JUDY IN "VERTIGO".

#denise brown #o.j. simpson #nicole brown simpson #laura palmer #twin peaks #vertigo #kim novak #doppelganger #life and death

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The Simpsons' friends remembered the couple as being so much fun, frequently hosting parties, including annual Easter dinners and Fourth of July bashes where everyone's kids swam and ate and had a blast. They remained very close to Nicole's parents and they and her sisters were usually at all the family-friendly parties, too.

"The truth is, no one really knew her during her marriage," a friend who said she had known Nicole since their early 20s told the LA Times after she was killed. "She was never free to be herself or have friends. She wasn't available for that kind of intimacy." Nicole was also prone to abruptly canceling plans or not showing up when both she and O.J. were expected somewhere, the friend added, recalling that O.J. would regularly claim that his wife was in bed with menstrual cramps.

"She was the type of person who would not say to me what her problems were," added Maria Bauer, who told the Times she often heard the couple loudly fighting in Simpson's home office. "She wouldn't talk."

In 1988, Nicole turned up driving a new Ferrari, which she would say was O.J.'s version of an "I'm sorry."

The word on O.J. and Nicole's marriage and the almost seven years that they lived together beforehand was that it was explosive, that they looked blissfully happy at times but would also have intense fights. Seemingly everyone they knew socially was well aware of the volatility. Only in hindsight, after Nicole was killed, did it click into place.

Friends of Nicole would say that she fought back with words when she could. "He'd cheat. She'd find out. She'd get angry. She'd confront him," one told the Times. "She's a strong girl and she'd confront him. And they would fight."

Mark Fuhrman, the LAPD detective who played a pivotal role in O.J.'s defense strategy at the murder trial, wrote in a 1989 memo (during an internal look at how many times Nicole had called the cops on O.J.) that he responded to a call at the Rockingham house in the fall/winter of 1985. He arrived to find a woman crying and a Mercedes-Benz with the windshield smashed in; she told Fuhrman that Simpson had smashed it with a bat.

Denise Brown testified that, while out to dinner one night with her sister and brother-in-law in 1987, "O.J. grabbed Nicole's crotch and said, 'This is where babies come from and this belongs to me.' And Nicole just sort of wrote it off as if it was nothing, like - you know, like she was used to that kind of treatment and he was like - I thought it was really humiliating, if you ask me."

Also on the stand, Denise recalled telling O.J. sometime in the mid-80's that he was taking Nicole for granted, after which he flew into a rage.

"He ran upstairs, got clothes, started flying down the stairs and grabbed Nicole, told her to get out of his house, wanted us all out of his house, picked her up, threw her against the wall, picked her up, threw her out of the house," Denise said tearfully. "She ended up on her - she ended up falling. She ended up on her elbows and on her butt...we were all sitting there screaming and crying, and then he grabbed me and threw me out of the house."

Nicole would go home to her parents occasionally after such blowups, but O.J. would always call and emotionally apologize, and she would go back.

Nicole confided in friend Kris Jenner that O.J. was cheating and that he would get physically rough during fights, but that "she never came out and said, 'I'm being abused by O.J.' I wished I would have asked her for specifics. But I didn't want to cross a line if she didn't want to talk about something, which would become one of my biggest regrets. All she told me was, 'I want to leave him and I do not know how. I don't know if I can stay. He's really hard to live with.'"

A close-up photo of her bruised face was found after her death in a safety-deposit box.

"She said she wanted to show me some things and talk about what was in her safe," Kris said. "And so now unfortunately it all makes sense that that's probably what she wanted to reveal to me that next day, which broke my heart because I will always feel horrible that I didn't pay enough attention."

"I only attended junior college for a very short time, because [Simpson] wanted me to be available to travel with him whenever his career required him to go to a new location, even if it was for a short period of time," Nicole would later state in an affidavit petitioning for spousal and child support during their 1992 divorce proceedings. "I have no other college education, and I hold no degrees...I am not currently employed and spend my time caring for my two young children."

When Nicole filed for divorce, O.J. was by then dating model Paula Barbieri. O.J. and Nicole settled their divorce in 1992 with O.J. agreeing to pay Nicole a lump sum of $433,750, plus $10,000 a month in child support. Nicole also retained the deed on a rental property in San Francisco. All told, Nicole relished being a full-time mom. She even reconnected with her friends.

"She became Nicole Brown, her own person," Cora Fischman, a friend and neighbor from Rockingham, told the LA Times. "She started all over again."

A call, played in court less than two years later, was 13 1/2 minutes long. Simpson could be heard vaguely in the background, but at one point came through clearly, when Nicole told him the kids were sleeping. He said, "You didn't give a s*** about the kids when you were sucking his d**k in the living room. They were here. Didn't care about the kids then."

Nicole told the dispatcher her ex was referring to something that happened "a long time ago." (Simpson had seen her through the front window having a sexual encounter with a boyfriend in 1992).

A couple who were her next-door neighbors on Gretna Green also testified that they would sometimes see O.J. standing outside her house, looking at it from the sidewalk.

On the morning of June 13, 1994, the children, Sydney and Justin, who were then 8 and 5, were ushered out of the house through a back door by police with no idea what had happened. Sydney called the house phone from the police station, leaving a message asking her mom why she and Justin were there. "Mommy, please call me back. I want to know what happened last night...Please answer, Mommy!"

Nicole's funeral would be two days later.

Meanwhile, O.J. bombed a lie detector test.

During the his murder trial, Italian shoemaker Bruno Magli got some free publicity when a bloody print at the murder scene was matched to a size-12 Bruno Magli Lorenzo boot.

O.J. denied owning a pair and said later in a deposition for the civil trial that he'd never wear "those ugly ass shoes," but photos were dug up much later showing him wearing the brand on two separate occasions.

For the murder trial, defense attorney Carl Douglas told Dateline that his team switched up some of the decor in O.J.'s Rockingham Avenue home before the jury toured it to make it seem as if the tarnished football hero, who famously stated, "I'm not black, I'm O.J." was more in touch with his cultural roots than he really was. Out went a half-naked picture of girlfriend Paula Barbieri, and in came African art.

While Marcia Clark, a part of the L.A. County District Attorney's Office's special trials unit since 1989, was trying to prosecute O.J. for murder, she was also constantly put on the defensive. Her style was criticized, so she got a new hairdo and was criticized for that. Her ex-husband sued her for primary custody of their two sons during the trial, alleging she was working too much to properly take care of them. The National Enquirer published old topless photos of her taken on a vacation with her then-husband. Even a potential juror, a woman, when asked if there was anything she might hold against the prosecution, told Clark, "I think your skirts are too short, how about that?"

She was dismissed. But not before Judge Ito cracked, "I was wondering when someone was going to mention that."

But the families of the victims she was trying to get justice for had the utmost confidence in her heading into the trial.

"She seems always to be concerned with our family, how we're doing, and at the same time there's never a doubt in my mind she's working 25 hours a day, 10 days a week, on this case," Fred Goldman, Ron's father, told the New York Times. "On a scale from 1 to 100, she easily gets 110."

#nicole simpson #oj simpson #article #domestic violence

[soberscientistlife]

I don't I'll cry any time soon. He is in a very bad place for killing his wife and lying about it.

[elviramac22-blog]

O.J. Simpson: Dead at 76

The controversial former football player O.J. Simpson died today at the age of 76. Simpson was acquitted in the trial of the century for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldberg. Back in 1995 the trial of the century took hold of the nation. Although Simpson was acquitted of the murders he lost the civil trial against him. The court awarded Ronald Goldman’s family 33..5 million in…

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#blog #blogger #cancer #Died #news #O.J. Simpson #trial of the century

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He’s already announced he will be fundraising off the mugshot.

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O.J. SIMPSON

1947-2024

Orenthal James 'O.J.' Simpson was an alumni of the University of Southern California and winner of the Heisman Trophy. He was a former NFL running back for the Buffalo Bills (1969-77) and the San Francisco 49'ers (1977-78). Simpson parlayed his success on the gridiron into a career as an announcer and actor. As such, he appeared as himself on "Here's Lucy" in "The Big Game" (S6;E2) on September 17, 1973. In the episode, he speaks at Harry's Chamber of Commerce luncheon and passes on a couple of free passes to a sold out game. At first, Harry sells the tickets for a nifty profit, but then has to buy them back when he discovers that Simpson's wife will be there. When she cancels, Simpson gives Harry her tickets, which he tries to scalp outside the stadium.

Simpson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. Once a popular figure with the  public, he is known today for his trial and acquittal for the brutal murders of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with the felonies of armed robbery and kidnapping. He was convicted and sentenced to 33 years imprisonment, but granted parole on July 20, 2017.  He died of cancer at age 76.

#OJ Simpson #O.J. Simpson #Lucille Ball #Here's Lucy #Football #TV