Oj Simpson Research Paper

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Former football star O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder after a sensational 1995 trial, then convicted of armed robbery in a separate incident 13 years later. Nicknamed "The Juice" during his playing years, O.J. Simpson won the Heisman Trophy in 1968 as a running back for USC. Simpson starred professionally for the Buffalo Bills and then the San Francisco 49ers until his retirement in 1979. Handsome and charismatic, Simpson then found work as a sports announcer and sometime actor, and he was a familiar face on television as the spokesman for Hertz rental cars. On 12 June 1994, Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson was found brutally murdered at her home along with an acquaintance, Ronald Goldman. Suspicion immediately fell on O.J. Simpson, and he was arrested a few days later after fleeing his house in a car driven by his friend Al Cowlings. (His capture came after a strange low-speed chase by police on LA freeways, broadcast on live TV from helicopter cameras, with Simpson and Cowlings in a white Ford Bronco.) The resulting murder trial, also televised live, lasted nine months and made household names of peripheral characters like Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin, defense…show more content…
Simpson and Nicole Brown were married in 1985; she filed for divorce 1992... O.J. Simpson played hapless Detective Nordberg in the cop movie spoof The Naked Gun (1988) and two sequels... Simpsons's case has often been compared to that of former Baretta star Robert Blake, who was charged but later cleared in the killing of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley... The O.J. Simpson trial spawned the phrase "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" -- the statement made by Johnny Cochran to the jury after Simpson struggled in court to put on a bloody glove left at the murder scene... A court ruling awarded the rights to If I Did It to the Goldman family, and they published it in 2007 with the title If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer... Simpson's nickname of "The Juice" was a play on the initials

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