The Reality Of OJ Simpson's Trial

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The reality of OJ Simpson’s Trial Present to Mr. Hyatt
Presented by Aiyana Barnes

O.J. Simpson was convicted of murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. There are three crucial factors with the evidence against him. First, the L.A.P.D. has been proven corrupt and racially biased. Second, the evidence, including blood samples, and the glove from the scene of the crime. Third, the juries from during the trial were all mainly African American, so they began to have a race issue. The Simpson trial demonstrated racial attitudes on issues such as law enforcement that still exists in our country. It may be that, more than anything, that the trial will be remembered because of the racism. But it also had other effects. It created a greater awareness of domestic violence issues and, showed others how not to run a criminal trial, which slowed the trend toward the use of cameras in courtrooms, and created a new type of relevant journalism that still takes place today. ("The Trial of O. J. Simpson." The Trial of O. J. Simpson) Everyone has their own implication of how the verdict should continue if the evidence fits, he is guilty if the evidence does not fit he will be found not guilty! Now not everybody knows who OJ, Orenthal James Simpson, is he is a retired 2 time All American running back for USC who once had nickname "the Juice”, and also went to the NFL to play for the Buffalo Bills, then eventually got traded to the 49ers. The trade did not last that long because he ended up getting hurt “suffered a knee injury and developed arthritis before being traded to the 49ers. . . . His knee was so bad there were times he couldn’t even trot. He often couldn’t practice, and he couldn’t cut on it in a game.”(Rice, Earle. The O.J. Simpson Trial.) A couple of years before Simpson had ended his football career he went into acting and starred in a Hertz commercial, after that his movie career blew up and he kept acting. In 1978 he had made a pop up appearance on Saturday night live and became the second athlete to host a show in that time. Simpson originally had a wife named Marguerite L. Whitley, they were married from 1969-1979. OJ was 19 and Marguerite was 18 when they got married, and he divorced because of all the fame and attention that he was assimilating. (Rice, Earle. The O.J. Simpson Trial.)With this wife he had condoned 3 kids, Aaren who died, she drowned in a pool, when she was 2 years old in 1979, Arnelle and
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Eventually they ended up getting married in 1985 but then divorced again in 1992. “Simpson was actually charged with spousal abuse in 1989, just four years after he married Brown. It was said that he busted down the door to her house and hit her. "We got into an argument which escalated and the police were called.”(Rice, Earle. The O.J. Simpson Trial) However, that situation obviously was not the end of their relationship issues, as they ultimately divorced in 1992. Two years after their divorce, Brown and her friend Ron Goldman were found dead in her Los Angeles …show more content…
Simpson added, their own "black guy" in an effort to balance out the racial dynamics between the prosecution and the defense. "It 's obvious to me Mr. Darden is being used as a tool by the DA 's office because he 's black," says Cochran. (Wormser, Richard. Defending the Accused: Stories from the Courtroom) There had been a study on the factors that may have led the jury in the Simpson trial to the verdict they did. Black and White mock jurors read a transcript of the trial that stated the defendant 's race and celebrity status. Results confirmed a “Black racism” hypothesis, since Black jurors favored Black over White defendants by voting not guilty more often, basically saying they would be more lenient sentences and judging them more positively. In contrast, White jurors did not differentiate between Black and White defendants. The defendant 's celebrity status did not affect verdicts or sentencing but did influence other judgments. These results state that race rather than status more likely influenced with the Simpson

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