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The O.J. Simpson Trial
The beginning of what has been referred to as “The Trial of the Century” took place near the front gate of Nicole Brown Simpson’s condominium on Bundy Drive, in the prestigious Brentwood area of Los Angeles, California. The criminal trial of former college and NFL football star, sports commentator, and actor Orenthal James Simpson for the murders of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, a friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, became the most publicized case in United States history. It was the longest trial ever held in California, costing over $20,000,000 to fight and defend, running up 50,000 pages of trial transcript in the process. ... (Famous Trials-O.J. Simpson. ... com/~walraven/simpson. ... In the beginning it was a grisly double murder, but shortly after it became a criminal trial that dominated America’s interest and attention, as the law tried its hardest to convict a man who became perhaps the most famous criminal defendant in American history. ... Sydney Simpson, O.J.’s daughter, had a dance recital at Paul Revere Junior High School which the couple of O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson attended separately. Simpson arrived at approximately six-o-clock p. ... Shortly after ten-o-clock that evening a single male came through the back entrance of Nicole Brown Simpsons condominium on Bundy Drive, in the prestigious Brentwood area of Los Angeles. ... The ill-fated investigation of the Brown-Simpson and Goldman murders began. (The O.J.Trial. ... 2003)
O. J. Simpson, meanwhile, was aboard American Airlines flight #668 to Chicago. Simpson had taken off from Los Angeles at 11:45 after receiving a ride to the airport in a limousine driven by Allan Park, an employee of the Town and Country Limousine Company. The limousine had left the Simpson estate on Rockingham Avenue about half an hour late, after Park called to report at 10:25 that no one answered his ring at the door. Park observed a man he assumed to be Simpson enter his house at 10:56. Police called Simpson early Monday morning at the OHare Plaza Hotel in Chicago, where Simpson had planned to attend a convention of the Hertz rental car company. When informed that his wife had been killed, Simpson asked no questions, he just violently smashed a glass in grief, badly cutting his left hand. Simpson boarded the next flight to Los Angeles, arriving home about noon to find a full-scale police investigation underway. ... O.J.Trial. ... 2003)
Los Angeles police questioned Simpson for about a half hour that day. They asked Simpson a number of questions about the deep cut on his right hand. Simpson initially claimed not to know the source of the cut. ... Under an agreement worked out with Simpsons attorney, Robert Shapiro, Simpson was to turn himself in at police headquarters by 10:00 on the morning of June 17, the day following Nicoles funeral.
Approximate Word count = 2474
Approximate Pages = 9.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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