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The O.J Simpson Trial

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The American public has always been fascinated by tragedy. Why? It’s in our human nature, as we tend to gravitate towards looking upon other people’s mistakes or failures as if it were as precious and watchable as someone’s victories. Add in an event so tragic being televised, and you have yourself a hit with everyday U.S citizens. The O.J Simpson Trial was a turning point in not only the American judicial system, but it completely changed the thoughts that there was no more racial division in our country. People suddenly viewed our court system as a broken, failed section of our government due to the outcome of the trial. Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson was born on July 9th, 1947 in San Francisco, California. At his local high school he …show more content…

Both sides gave thorough arguments, Simpson’s team stating there was no way he could have committed the crime with his arthritis and old football injuries (“The Trial”). Some of the evidence brought to the case was a black, bloodied glove found at the scene, which had obviously been used by the murderer. The match to the glove was indeed found outside of Simpson’s residence at the time, but there was controversy of whether or not it had indeed been used by Simpson or the LAPD had planted it there to frame him just because he was a black man. The glove was on of the key points in the trial, one of the prosecutors asked Simpson to try on the glove in front of the jury, but Simpson had a hard time, struggling to put the glove on (“The Trial”). Johnnie Cochran coming up with the famous line, “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” Later, although it turned out there may have been reasons why indeed the glove didn’t fit, because it may have shrunk from the blood it had been soaked in. Over 99 days of the trial, the prosecution alone put 72 witnesses on the stand, including Brown’s family all stating Simpson had a motive to kill her. Another source of evidence brought forward was a match of a blood sample found at the crime scene had belonged to Simpson. The next part of the trial, the defense had brought up family member’s of Simpson’s and his daughter; at this time it had

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