Case+Studies

The **O. J. Simpson murder case** has been described as the most publicized [|criminal trial] in history,[|[1]] in which [|O. J. Simpson], former [|American football] star and [|actor], was brought to trial for the murder of his ex-wife [|Nicole Brown Simpson] and her friend [|Ronald Goldman]. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 after a lengthy trial, the longest jury trial in California history.[|[2]] Simpson hired a high-profile defense team led by [|Johnnie Cochran] and [|F. Lee Bailey]. [|Los Angeles County] believed it had a solid prosecution case, but Cochran created in the minds of the jury the belief that there was reasonable doubt about the [|DNA] evidence (then a relatively new type of evidence in trials),[|[3]] including that the blood-sample evidence had allegedly been mishandled by lab scientists and technicians.__ [ __ On the morning of June 12, 1994, neighbors, alerted by a barking dog, found the [|mutilated] bodies of Nicole Simpson and her friend [|Ronald Goldman] in the enclosed front courtyard of her [|condo] on South [|Bundy Drive] in the [|Brentwood] area of Los Angeles.

Here's a link to some more information and a quicktime animation

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