There are many criminal and civil court cases held each year. Most of these court cases are settled pretty easily, but there are some special court cases with a lot of controversy surrounding them. One very special court case happens to be the O. J. Simpson court case. He was convicted of murdering his wife and was found innocent of it criminally but he was found guilty of it civilly. This produces many questions as to why this certain situation actually happened so I will explain what caused two different outcomes to happen. O. J. Simpson was accused of killing his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman on June 13, 1994. The dead bodies were found outside Brown’s Bundy Drive condo in the Brentwood area in California. Brown’s body had stab wounds to the head and neck with defensive wounds on her hands. The police collected all the evidence they could at the crime scene and used it to infer that O. J. Simpson was responsible for the murder of the two people. Thus, they decided they had enough evidence to take him to the criminal court.
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The defendant and the prosecutor went on to present their case for or against O. J. Simpson. One of the arguments that the defendant presented was that the LAPD detective, Mark Fuhrman, planted evidence at the crime scene that would make it seem like O. J. Simpson was the one to blame for the murders. The prosecutors had presented the arguments that they had found DNA evidence of O. J. Simpson, found socks with Brown’s blood stains, and they had found African-American hair on Goldman’s shirt. On October 3, 1995 at 10 a.m. the jury finally presented their verdict of not guilty because they thought the evidence didn’t convince them beyond reasonable doubt. They had arrived at the verdict the day before but the judge decided to postpone the
The defendant and the prosecutor went on to present their case for or against O. J. Simpson. One of the arguments that the defendant presented was that the LAPD detective, Mark Fuhrman, planted evidence at the crime scene that would make it seem like O. J. Simpson was the one to blame for the murders. The prosecutors had presented the arguments that they had found DNA evidence of O. J. Simpson, found socks with Brown’s blood stains, and they had found African-American hair on Goldman’s shirt. On October 3, 1995 at 10 a.m. the jury finally presented their verdict of not guilty because they thought the evidence didn’t convince them beyond reasonable doubt. They had arrived at the verdict the day before but the judge decided to postpone the