CJ 100 Lecture 18: April 10, 12
29 Apr 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
April 10, 2018
OJ Simpson
• OJ Simpson murder trial
o People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson
o November 2, 1994 (jury sworn) to verdict on October 3, 1995
o OJ Simpson charged with two counts of first degree murder
▪ Premeditation – leather gloves
• Murders
o On June 13th, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found
murdered outside Nicole’s condo (12:10 am)
o OJ and Nicole had divorced 2 years earlier
o Nicole – stabbed multiple times in the head and neck with defensive wounds on
her hands
o Evidence
▪ Bloody socks at the end of OJ Simpson’s bed
▪ Leather gloves outside Nicole’s house
▪ Inconsistencies in his alibi
• History of domestic violence
• BBC – OJ Simpson the untold story
• Key evidence
o History of abuse
o Warrant issues for arrest, OJ goes on the famous car chase, leaves apparent
suicide note, holds gun to his head
o Bronco had blood in it
April 12, 2018
OJ Simpson Cont.
• Key evidence
o Left-handed glove at scene of crime covered in blood (Nicole Brown’s house)
o OJ Simpson’s house: right handed glove covered in blood, blood found on
bronco, socks soaked in Nicole’s blood at foot of OJ’s bed
o OJ traveled to Chicago late that same night, gets called back by police, left hand
is injured/bleeding, inconsistencies in story
• Reasonable doubt?
o How the crime scene was handled
o Mark Fuhrman
▪ Racist
▪ First at OJ’s house
