Celebrities and Crime by Newton Michael.; French John L
Author:Newton, Michael.; French, John L. [Newton, Michael.; French, John L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-07-25T00:13:45+00:00
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And so they did, on October 3, 1995. Despite the state’s “mountain of evidence,” the jurors found Simpson not guilty.
That verdict was highly controversial—a reaction mirrored in 80-plus books and thousands of articles published about the case since 1995.
Simpson welcomed the verdict—but he still had other trials to face.
JustiCe at last?
While Simpson was cleared of criminal charges, relatives of Nicole and Ron Goldman filed a civil lawsuit charging him with wrongful death of their loved ones. That trial began on October 23, 1996, with some important differences.
First, civil trials do not require proof “beyond a reasonable doubt,” merely a “preponderance of the evidence.” Second, a majority of jurors in the second trial were affluent Caucasians, while most of the juror’s in Simpson’s criminal case were African Americans. Both of these factors led to a different type of trial.
On February 4, 1997, the new jury found Simpson responsible for killing both victims. They could not send him to jail, but they ordered him to pay the Brown and Goldman families $33.5
million.
Simpson’s lawyer told the court his client was penniless, unable to pay the judgment. In fact, Simpson receives $4 million yearly from a pension fund created during his football career, but that money was deemed untouchable.
After the civil trial, Simpson moved with his two youngest children to a $1.5 million home in Florida. There, he told reporters, “It will be a cold day in hell before I pay a penny.”
He never has.
alternate tHeories
During and after Simpson’s murder trial, various theories were offered naming alternate suspects. They include n A hitman. This story claims that a professional assassin, hired by drug dealers whom Brown and her friends had failed to pay for cocaine, killed Brown and Goldman. Nicole’s best friend was an
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