beloved footballer OJ Simpson became the most controversial figure in the US practically overnight when he was accused of the Savage murder of his ex-wife and another man what followed was a grueling 11mon long trial that divided the nation it was televised for over a 100 million viewers every day and everyone had their own opinions on whether they thought he was guilty or not the final verdict has been subject to criticism for decades now polls show that most people think that OJ legally got away with murder So today we're going to Deep dive into the murder trial of OJ Simpson and I guess you can formulate your own opinions by the end of this video before we get into the case I just want to thank our sponsor for making this video possible incog incog is a subscription service that allows you to protect all of your personal information from the thousands of companies that buy and sell and collect it online because of my job obviously research searching and talking about True Crime all 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second part of our OJ Simpson Series so if you didn't catch part one that was where we discussed the actual crime the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman we dug into all of the crime scene evidence and how police came to the conclusion that the killer might be Nicole's ex-husband OJ if you haven't seen part one of this series I'll leave it linked up here for you it's important that you watch that one first because I'm not going to be able to go into all of the context in this video so you kind of need to know everything we spoke about in the first one so if you need to pause this video now go and watch part one and then we'll meet up back here to discuss urges trial my disclaimer from part one still stands in part to but just to save my ass legally uh I just want to reiterate that all of the information in this video is publicly available me and my researchers found it and compiled it all into this one video but all opinions are mine and mine alone the sensitive topics covered in this series include but are not limited to domestic abuse and violence racism and racial abuse suicidal ideation police brutality and misogyny if these topics are too intense for you trust me I get it this is a a really heavy case especially this second half so I would recommend that you click out of the video now if you feel like it's too intense for you hopefully I'll get to see you some other time with a different video but with all of that being said let's jump back into the crazy case of OJ Simpson so the last part left off with police finally arresting and capturing OJ and locking him up in police custody until his trial he'd already assembled his dream team of lawyers including Bob Shapiro Robert Kardashian but now at this point a prosecutor had been chosen to fight the other side her name was Mara Clark she'd been working as a lawyer and a prosecutor for 12 years before this and she took her job very very seriously and she treated this case the same as any other case that she'd ever worked on she didn't care for the great OJ Simpson the celebrity didn't feas her she didn't allow for his Fame his money his power his connections to intimidate her she wasn't going to tiptoe around this case just because he was famous she was a very strong woman who fought for what she believed in and in this case she believed that OJ was a murderer she'd studied all of the evidence that they had and she realized very quickly that OJ didn't have an alibi no one could give him an alibi for that night what we do know of OJ's movements that night comes a lot from his uh friend/ housemate K kin said that he was out with OJ around 900 p.m. that night they went out in the car to go and get McDonald's I think they ate it in the car and then they returned home for about 9:40 p.m. the murders are believed to have taken place around 10:00 p.m. and no one saw OJ from 9:40 when they got home until 1100 p.m. that night there's that whole window of time that he is unaccounted for even he hardly knows where he was do you remember that really confusing statement that he gave police in part one about buying flowers for his daughter or going to his girlfriend Paula's house like even he couldn't say where he was anyway the next time K kin saw OJ Simpson it was 11: p.m. that night and he seemed a bit agitated he was hot and sweaty even though it it wasn't that warm out that night and his limo driver even said the same when OJ finally turned up late for his transfer to the airport but we'll get back to that in a second but eventually when he did get there he had four bags to take to the airport with him and the limmo driver was helping him to load them into the car but there was one bag that he was very um tety about he wouldn't let the limo driver touch it he wanted to load it into the car and then when he got out at the other end he wanted to unload that one particular bag he wasn't letting anyone touch it he took all four bags to the airport with him in that limo but police have since spoken with airport staff and looked at records and found that OJ only checked in three bags he took four and only had three so people naturally have speculated what could have happened to that fourth bag before he got on the flight it seems as though it was ditched so what could have been in it hypothetically if OJ was the murderer he probably would have a lot of stuff that he wanted to get rid of you know bloody clothes or murder weapons who knows but anyway back to that limo cuz like I said he was late for it it was actually supposed to pick him up at 20 10 and he didn't get there until 11: so he was busy he was doing something and the limo driver couldn't get hold of him at 20 10 the driver said that when he arrived he like buzzed the intercom tried to call OJ's phone to let him know that he was there but he got no response at all he just couldn't get hold of him so he decided to just kind of wait you know linger outside and hope that OJ would come soon and then eventually at 11: p.m. a very disturbed looking OJ came out carrying all these four bags but around 15 minutes before this like 10:45 is the limo driver is is just standing outside of his vehicle he's just waiting and he Witnesses something strange a man of OJ's stature was messing about kind of near some bushes behind the house and then he snuck in through the front door at 10:45 and this is very interesting because if you remember from part one kto kin was in his room at 10:45 and he heard some banging outside and he didn't know what it was at the time but maybe it could have been Ury and then the next morning that suspicion ious right hand leather glove was found right where all the banging was right where the limo driver had seen that shadowy figure rumaging around the glove that could well have matched the glove from the crime scene was found it's all just so dodgy OJ doesn't seem to have an alibi for that hour of time and people think they saw him acting suspiciously in fact there'd been another witness come through with another dodgy sighting of OJ from in that unaccounted for a window of time a woman had been driving around like in Nicole's area of Brentwood when a white car tried to cut in front of her and she didn't move she wasn't going to let him cut in so the driver started going absolutely mental at her banging on his window beeping his horn screaming move your damn car move it move it the woman remembered thinking she recognized this man but she couldn't quite place it in her head at the time but regardless she noted down the license play of this dangerous driver and what do you know it was OD 's car the white Bronco that had blood on it the next day so now we know that he was out in his car driving around Nicole's area in that unaccounted for window of time interesting but annoyingly this witness and this account that she tells was discredited because she sold her story to a tabloid magazine she had already given this information like in court I think in a preliminary hearing of sorts but because she sold the story before the full trial had ended they just couldn't use it anymore OJ's team tried to say that she made it up and sold it for money and for 15 minutes of fame and so in the end it was practically brushed off as unusable and I mean I'm not a legal professional but I mean she did already give it in core before she sold it it's Noy that she sold it before the trial was over anywhere even though I don't fully understand it like I kind of get it I get it Mara Clark the prosecutor was Furious when she found out that this witness sold her store sorry because that would have been so valuable and now it deed untrustworthy she actually made a statement to the court she said because it is our duty as prosecutors to present only the evidence in which we are 110% confident as to its truthfulness and reliability I must now ask you to completely disregard the statements given and the testimony given by Jill Shively in this case but even though she was disappointed to be losing such strong evidence she knew that there was plenty more evidence for her to be able to build a case on for for example OJ had been accused and actually reported by Nicole herself for domestic abuse several times throughout their relationship there were plenty of 911 calls from Nicole herself police had been down to the house he'd even been physically arrested one time for it I mean he was let go and like I said in the first part he was never actually charged for domestic abuse in any capacity there was one case where he ended up pleading no contest to spousal abuse which essentially is him agreeing to take the punishment of what he's being accused of but it's not like a guilty plea he's not admitting guilt he's he's actually maintaining that he's innocent but he said just give me the punishment anyway like I'm not going to bother fighting against it Nicole ended up dropping the case against him in the end as she often did as she did every single time and we talked about this in part one because he really controlled her finances she didn't work he was the one that bought the house you know he had the upper hand and she knew that if she pissed him off he could take everything from her so she didn't she tried not to although it has been rumored that the reason she dropped the charges was actually because her parents persuaded her to allegedly OJ Simpson offered Nicole's father a very lucrative business deal around this time and he needed it he needed the money and so he took it and told his daughter please just make friends with him again get back with him again of course that can't be confirmed but you know that's actually mentioned a lot in this case and then there was a very big incident that happened on New Year's Day of 1989 in fact it was so significant that OJ referenced it in his suicide note a 911 call was made from their home address at about 400 a.m. and there was no talking in this call whatsoever the operator just heard a lot of screaming and and banging as if someone was hitting someone else like a slapping sound the call cut off without anyone speaking but luckily the operator had managed to figure out the location of this call and they sent some officers down to check on everything when police arrived they spotted a blonde woman staggering out from behind a bush she was in just her bra and some dirty sweatpants and I'm sure you guessed it was Nicole Brown she made her way over to the officers screaming he's going to kill me he's going to kill me so the officer asked who's going to kill you OJ OJ who do you mean OJ the foot football player yes OJ Simpson the football player does he have any weapons yeah lots of guns he has lots of guns Nicole herself was badly beaten she had a bust lip all her like forehead and her left eye were black and blue and on her neck was the imprint of someone's hand as if she'd been strangled or restrained police managed to get Nicole into the back of a cop car and calm her down where she could explain it a little bit more she was saying that OJ was threatening to beat her it was a common occurrence he did this all the time in fact she told the police you guys never do anything you never do anything you come out you've been here eight times and you never do anything about him OJ eventually stepped out of the house where police arrested him on suspicion of domestic violence and he was angry as hell he shouted at them you've been here eight times before and now you're going to arrest me for this this is a family matter the next day Nicole was questioned about this whole thing by police and she changed her mind about pressing charges against him after this police did their own internal investigation to see how often these claims were made about OJ since Nicole said she reports it all the time and they never do anything and police were shocked to see that it was true they'd been out to that house at least three times they'd taken at least eight calls this was enough for them to consider OJ Simpson an abuser so he was given a suspended sentence 24 months of Probation and he was ordered to pay 4 $70 in a fine to the state and he was also ordered to pay $500 to a women's domestic violence Refuge shelter another one of the terms of his suspended probation was that he had to attend counseling sessions twice a week to figure out where this violent Behavior was coming from and to stop it and the abuse allegations continued even when the two of them had split up even after they divorced they divorced in early 1992 then over a year and a half later in October of 93 Nicole called the police on OJ once again she said he's OJ Simpson I think you know his record he's going to beat the out of me when police arrived Nicole was recorded like on their body cam footage saying he gets a very animalistic look in him all his veins pop out his eyes are black and just black I mean cold like an animal I mean very very weird and when I see it it just scares me Nicole Brown remained fearful of her husband right up until the day that she died just 5 days before her murder she'd actually confided in women's shelter that she thought that OJ was stalking her that was 5 days before she was brutally slaughtered on her own front lawn she thinks that he is stalking her so there's plenty of evidence from Nicole herself that she feared for her life and for her safety at the hands of OJ Simpson So prosecutor Marsha Clark was collecting all this evidence pulling it all together ready for the trial to begin but one thing she didn't Bank on was OJ's legal team being very hard to work with I mean of course they're on opposite sides but his team was going above and beyond to make things difficult for the prosecution they kept finding new ways to inconvenience Mara and her team it's almost as if they were determined to make proving OJ's guilt as difficult as possible for example remember that hat that was found at the murder scene well there were a couple of hairs inside it probably the murderer hairs I don't know probably so of course Mara orders for a hair sample to be taken from OJ so that they can test his hair against the Hat hair when they received this request for a hair sample his defense said that Mara could have One Singular strand of his hair well a standard hair sample is usually about a hundred hairs they take them from different places you know just so that they've got plenty to be able to test but no OJ's team was saying you can have one no more Mara herself said that she'd never seen a court attempt to restrict that to which Bob Shapiro argued that 100 hairs is unduly invasive so a separate court hearing was held for this issue alone just to settle this debate between the sides and it was ordered that OJ had to give a sample of 10 hairs no more no less 10 hairs and like I said a 100 hairs is standard practice Mara couldn't understand how OJ's team had made it seem so invasive and so unnecessary when it's necessary in every other case his defense didn't stop at the Hat though they had plenty of other methods of inconveniencing the other side they wanted to fight to get a lot of the evidence discounted in this trial on the grounds that the initial search of O's home was actually illegal because they didn't have a search warrant remember the reason police like scaled the wall and went into the house without a warrant was because they'd spotted blood on his car and they feared that someone inside might be injured or dying or God forbid even already dead usually under certain circumstances like that where they think that someone is in danger someone needs help usually it's okay for them to bypass needing a search warrant and just go straight ahead they'd be able to argue in the aftermath that like we thought we needed to be there we thought someone needed serving and that's what they tried to do here they were like come on like this this is a rule that we're allowed to do this if someone could be in danger but OJ's team weren't going to let them get away with it here they said that that all of the evidence that was noted and found in that initial search should be completely discounted because the way that it was collected violated the law his lawyers tried to say that the police didn't actually think that OJ was hurt or that he was in danger they didn't think his life was at risk they just wanted an excuse to get in there as soon as possible and not need to wait for a search warrant so that they could get finding evidence to pin this murder on him immediately his legal team were very much playing into to the distrust that black people had and still have with the police they were trying to say that OJ Simpson was yet another black victim of the lapd's racist corruption in their opinion OJ was unfairly pinned as a suspect right at the start of the case and from there police were only interested in finding evidence that supports their narrative and they say they have a witness statement to actually support this Theory there was a woman that was walking down Nicole's Street Street on the night of the murder like literally just as police arrived and started to tape up the scene and she walked over to the police and she was just asking what was going on if she could help or anything and they told her not to worry as we've got it wrapped up now I'm sure you could interpret those words in different ways like don't worry we've got the scene secured or there's no danger anymore or like we're on it we're on the case but OJ's lawyers believe that by we've got it wrapped up the policemen we've wrapped up the case like we've already figured out who killer is within less than an hour of the murder taking place they had it wrapped up and had pinned it on OJ Simpson and this was the main like backbone of this whole trial the defense were trying to say that the LAPD had been racist and that's why they've pinned it on OJ but then the prosecution were trying to argue that no like all of this is just standard practice but when you twist it with that lens on it you're making it look bad but like that's not what it was think the collection of hair samples when they said it was unduly invasive to ask for more than one hair when it's it is standard procedure to get like a whole load of hairs to be able to test which by the way just for the record the hairs were a match that was OJ's hat or at least his hairs were found in that hat so but anyway all of that was like pre-trial preliminary hearing preau dates we haven't even got to the actual trial yet can you believe but before we can actually get into the trial I want to tell you about the absolute show that was the jury selection for this case so of course when a jury is selected to be on a c case they should be completely blind to the case that they are walking into they shouldn't have any prior knowledge any prior beliefs or feelings about the case just in case that might like swear how they vote but in cases this famous or inFAMOUS it's pretty hard to find eligible jury members that don't already know who OJ Simpson is is or haven't seen this case in the news or didn't literally tune into the white Bronco Chase it was practically impossible to find like a short list of jurors they ended up finding 900 potentials which I know it sounds a lot but think how many people are in America man they like brought people in from everywhere and over a very long long long process these 900 jurors were slowly whittled down and down and down until they had 12 jurors and 12 alternates each of the 900 potentials were given a questionnaire to fill out before they started the short listing process so then they could see how suitable they would be for the trial if they had any like personal biases or personal experiences that might swear how they vote in the case some of the questions included have you ever asked a celebrity for an autograph have you ever known anyone who had problems leaving an abusive relationship what do you think is the main cause of domestic violence have you ever dated a person of A different race and does playing sports build an individual's character so when when the jurors were originally whittel down from this 900 they got them down to about 300 I think and from that point the judge in this case allowed both of the teams of lawyers on both sides to have the chance to meet each of the candidates ask them questions interview them and you know just assess their appropriateness for the case I feel so this process took quite some time I mean there was 300 of them to ask further questions to it it's quite a process and during this stage OJ's lawyers held a news conference where they said that they were concerned about how the prosecution were choosing their jurors they said it seemed intentional to cause issues for OJ Bob Shapiro claimed that they were trying to get black jurors removed for cause because they are black because they have black Heroes and because OJ Simpson is one of them there's no other reason and holding this news conference did a lot for their overall argument because the very next next day the front page of the LA Times read prosecutors targeting black jurors Simpson team says but despite the media's input on the situation both teams of lawyers were steady making progress questioning the jurors picking them out until suddenly all momentum came to an abrupt halt because one of Nicole Brown's best friends named Fair Resnik had just published a book all about Nicole and her relationship with OJ and how she thinks OJ murdered her every one was talking about this book this was one of the first like inside looks into their relationship that had happened since the murder I guess in it she talked about Nicole and OJ's abusive relationship along with some very unflattering comments about Nicole just sprinkled in like she was a drug fiend she was always at orgies she even said that the two of them had like sexual relations while they were in their respective relationships in an interview about this book fear Resnik said when I I went to see a psychic after Nicole was murdered the woman gave me a message from Nicole the psychic said you will be writing a book Nicole wants you to be faithful to your heart she wants you to call it as you see it whether you believe in psychics or not that's your own call but it seemed that Nicole's advice from Beyond the Grave happened to fit very well with fear resnik's needs at that point in time well her need for money at that point in time she was currently going through a very pricey divorce settlement and her husband was very very rich she was used to a luxury lifestyle but now they were getting divorced she didn't have that income anymore she needed to make her own money and you could imagine that a book deal on this very current very controversial case that everyone is talking about I'm sure that would make a pretty penny wouldn't it and she even used her Fame post trial to end up on shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians real housewives you know the ulterior motives are really ulterior motiving right now the book she published was was called Nicole Brown Simpson the private Diary of a life Interrupted which even the title itself is very exploitative of your very recently deceased bestie the private diary like she's she is saying I'm going to divulge all her secrets and you're going to buy my book but in it fa painted OJ as this insanely jealous ex who openly discussed his thoughts about killing Nicole she even had quotes from OJ himself in there things that he had said to her personally he supposedly said I can't take this fear I can't take this I mean it I'll kill that but even though quotes like this should be very damning in the court case we have that same issue as with the witness earlier she cashed out on it instead of just giving it to the trial and letting that happen I mean you could have made you book afterwards come on girl of course she was now no longer a credible witness in the eyes of the court and so fair couldn't be called up as a witness to be able to give all these quotes over and I mean if those quotes are genuine if OJ really did say that I'm pissed off I'm pissed off at fair for publishing that and getting the money for that rather than getting Justice for her friend but yeah the reason I bring up this book like mid Jerry selection is because that's when she published it she published it before the main trial even started so everything had to be halted for 48 hours because this book was so talked about and the judge said that the book caused the court great concerns about the ability of Mr Simpson to get a fair trial and he also said that he needed to look into the ramifications of this I mean this could have meant that the whole trial was thrown out and like they might have had to start again fear Resnik could have really this up for her friend the judge rightfully worried that these potential jurors could read the book or hear about the book hear quotes from the book hear people talking about it you know like I said so many people were talking about this book but it was really going to affect the trial and it's hard enough I mean these jurors are already ordered not to watch TV they can't read news newspapers they can't interact with any form of media they can't even speak to their own family members without being supervised just in case they tell them something you know and now they can't even step foot in a book shop because fear resnik's bloody book is everywhere bear in mind this trial lasted for 11 months these poor jurors can't do all for 11 months they can't even really leave their isolation we'll talk more about the jury at the end of this video because this case was really really hard for them like it's it was hard for absolutely everyone involved but eventually after a 48 hour pause where the judge evaluated what this book could do to the trial he decided to let the jurry selection continue so now these 900 had been Whitted down to 300 and that had been Whitted down even further so at this stage each set of lawyers the prosecution and the defense were both given 20 vetos essentially where they could say no to any individual juror without having to give much of a reason reason as far as I'm aware this isn't common practice in usual court cases I in my own opinion I think the lawyers had way too much control over this trial I don't think they should be able to pick the jury that they're arguing to cuz obviously they're going to whether consciously or subconsciously they're going to pick an audience that they think their argument is going to resonate with of course and that is what ended up happening the defense was specifically picking out younger less educated lower income black jurors which of course that last about race I mean black Jers would be able to relate to and understand the defense's argument in a way that white Jers just couldn't and I guess the fact of being younger less educated lower income maybe that would make them easier to sway easier to manipulate of these 24 15 were black six were white and three were Hispanic based on their answers to the questionnaires the main 12 jurors had the following characteristics only two of them were college graduates not one of them read a new newspaper regularly five of them said that they or a family member had personally endured a negative experience with law enforcement five of them thought it was acceptable to use force on a family member and nine out of the 12 jurors thought that OJ Simpson was less likely to have murdered his wife because he had excelled at football during this election the prosecution didn't use all 20 of their vetos which I feel could have been a mistake honestly but that is the jury that they're dealing with and one last thing before we get into the trial I promise I'm sorry I promise we will get there in a second but there was a really important little shakeup right before the case went to trial Bob Shapiro OJ's main lawyer the leader of the Dream Team actually suggested that maybe OJ should just take a plea deal maybe he should just plead guilty to manslaughter get a lesser sentence and be done with all of this quicker well OJ did not like that Shapiro was kind of admitting defeat he was admitting that he didn't think that they could win this trial as as is well the rest of the team were not on his side they were not down for that in fact they decided to kick Bob Shapiro off of the top spot since he clearly wasn't on the same wavelength of the rest of the team which was OJ is innocent and we are going to prove that the rest of the team and OJ himself felt like they couldn't trust Shapiro anymore they couldn't trust his confidence in the case as well so he was replaced actually by a black lawyer named Johnny Cochran who was incredibly passionate about racial Injustice and the racism within the police force in fact he was probably a better leader to begin with given the root that they were taken with this case I feel like it might have been a good swap for them hey so finally the trial begins on January 24th 1995 four years before I would be born on that exact same day useless information I know but sometimes I feel like I was destined for a creepy job like this and then things like that happen and I take it as evidence so the trial begins OJ walks in looking very Dapper he was smiling he winked at the at the gallery threw a thumbs up to his supporters he seemed very confident right from day one that this was going to be fine you know he was going to be fine at the beginning of the trial he was asked to repeat his plea that he'd given you know in previous preliminary hearings and he stood up there and he said absolutely 100% not guilty so let's get going shall we we will start with each side's opening statements we'll start with the prosecution they said we will expose to you in this trial the other side of OJ Simpson the side you never met before when you look behind that public face you'll see a different face and the evidence will show that the man you will see will be the face of a batterer a wife beater an abuser a controller the face of Ron and Nicole's murderer and then they briefly ran through the events of the day leading up to the murder they said that OJ had attended his daughter's dance recital where he supposedly greeted everyone except from Nicole apparently he then moved his chair away from her to like in the corner of the auditorium and he sat there facing Nicole and he just stared at her he just sat there staring at her this was a menacing stare a penetrating stare it was an angry stare and it made everyone very uncomfortable and this made the conclusion very simple she left him she was no longer in his control he could not stand to lose her and so he murdered her they mentioned the blood evidence that had been found and that the blood on OJ's matched him and Ron Goldman and before this event Ron and OJ had never met they didn't know each other there was no possible reason why Ron's blood should have been anywhere near his car they weren't friends they weren't even acquaintances and those blood drops at the scene that were found you know alongside the footprints that blood was more than likely OJ Simpsons we'll talk like actual statistics and and numbers and percentages in a little bit but this was just the opening statement where they said we think think that blood is urges and also those footprints that were leading away from the scene they were size 12 men's shoes the exact size that urj Simpson was but anyway the prosecution's opening statement ended with on June 12th 1944 after a violent relationship in which the defendant beat her humiliated her and controlled her after he took her youth her freedom and her self-respect just as she tried to break free orenthal James Simpson took her very life in what amounted to his final and his ultimate Act of control and in that final and terrible act Ronald Goldman an innocent bystander was viciously and senselessly murdered and then OJ's defense came with their opening statement they said detective Mark Ferman will play an integral part in this case for a number of reasons now it's very interesting that the prosecution never once mentioned his name it's like they just want to hide him but they can't hide him he is very much a part of this case we can only ask ourselves why didn't they mention him I think that answer will become very clear to you as the case progresses and he left it there for now on the on the detective firm and stuff and we haven't actually mentioned him by name yet because I don't often mention detectives by name but like his work has been included in this video he was the one that found the blood smear on the car he was the one that that discovered a lot of that initial evidence you know in the in the kind of violating the law search that they did when they didn't have the search warrant and they found the glove and they found the blood on the car all of that was Mark Ferman so when I first read that that opening statement I was quite intrigued as to why the defense wanted to focus on him so much when he was the one that found so much damning evidence in this case but you will see you will in the next part of his opening statement Johnny Cochran tried to reinforce urg's Sports hero Legacy he was a beloved figure in the black community and Nicole was nothing but a Trum he actually used her friend fe's book as a reference for all of this talking about their supposed drug fueled orgies and lesbian hookups and to me in my opinion that seems as though they're implying that her death was her own fault for getting herself into some questionable situations and questionable circles maybe that's how she ran into someone that murdered her I don't know very victim blaming another reason that Johnny Cochran believed that OJ couldn't possibly be the Killer is because he apparently had pretty bad arthritis in his wrist Johnny said he couldn't even Shuffle the cards when he played Jin roomy at the Country Club so relatable don't we all do that but his point being that his wrists were so bad that he couldn't possibly savagely murder two people in such a short space of time and then managed to clean it all up drive home pack his cases and and get away with it all in such a short space of time whilst having weak wrists all of that summarizes the opening statements and to be fair that kind of summarizes each Sid's arguments the main trial is where we dig deeper into all those forensic elements you know the blood the the hairs the DNA so let's start with the blood cuz there was a lot of that wasn't there of course it was all over the murder scene it was leading into that back alley it was all over OJ's car and then it was leading into OJ's house and into his foyer that alone makes it sound crazy that there was a literal trail of blood right from the murder scene into O's house well the prosecution had to prove that some of the blood found at the crime scene was actually ojes and remember in their opening statement they said that it was so they tried to then back it up with their proof well I say tried but they backed it up they backed it up in my opinion they backed it up those blood drops alongside the series of footprints all that blood was tested and it was found that it was a one in 6.5 billion chance that it wasn't OJ Simpson's blood and there's only about 7 billion people in the world so if we want to talk percentages that means that 99.57% of the population the whole entire population of the world could be excluded as Nicole and Ron's killer one in 6.5 billion chance that that blood wasn't his just just let that let that ruminate in your brain for a sec OJ's defense were clearly worried about that evidence I mean how do you argue against that how do you disprove that you you can't instead of trying to disprove the prosecution and any of their evidence they they actually just kind of ignored that for the most part and instead they made OJ the victim of this trial he was the victim of a giant conspiracy of racist law enforcement officials they said that the LAPD had fabricated and planted evidence in order to frame him for a crime that he didn't commit the thing was if if OJ was guilty and if he did murder two people the defense's strategy was playing into some very real experiences Decades of racism within the LAPD there are so so many legit examples of this happening for example the Rodney King case that happened just a year prior to this trial actually not to the trial to the to the actual murders of Nicole and Ron if you don't know Rodney King was a victim of police brutality in 1991 he was beaten viciously by police while being arrested for driving under the influence the the whole time he was unarmed he wasn't fighting back someone had videoed this actually it was four officers just beating him he was on the floor he wasn't fighting back in the aftermath that clip went viral well viral for the 1990s you know it was on all the news stations I guess but unbelievably those four officers never saw any consequences for what they did to Rodney King in fact they were acquitted they were acquitted of all of the charges against them just two months after Nicole Ron's murders of course the whole nation that wasn't racist and that could empathize with Rodney King and with the whole black community everyone was so upset so Furious this brought about riots protests and general just hatred and distrust of the police at large but especially the LAPD the LAPD was racist fact but OJ Simpson a black man was also friends with a lot of the LAPD cops also a fact he was friends with the same Star Struck cops that had turned a blind eye to the potential domestic abuse in his and nicol's marriage police had come out to see them about eight times and nothing was ever done are you telling me that that's a coincidence in my opinion then there's a reason that nothing was ever done when she was literally screaming on the phone to the police saying that he's going to kill her if that was any other man doing that to a woman I'm sure that something something would have been done whether things were done well is a different question but he would have at least been arrested there would there would have been something but I guess when police were called out to it maybe they got to the house and realized it was big OJ Simpson MVP NFL player movie star maybe they just turned a blind eye because they liked him who would want to piss off one of the biggest and most loved celebrities in the world probably not the LAPD OJ had a lot of friendships with LAPD cops that's also a fact act something to keep in mind but anyway when this trial began with with this new lens that Johnny Cochran painted their whole side in OJ Simpson became a figure of racist police targeting and brutality overnight he was the current face of victims and if you were to say well no I think OJ is guilty or oh I don't think that's true you would be seen as a racist on June 27th Time Magazine printed a cover titled an American Tragedy using OJ's mug shot of as their main image but the magazine had touched up this picture they' made it noticeably darker the president of the National Association of black journalists said the cover appeared to be a conscious effort to make Simpson look evil and Ma to sway the opinion of the reader to become fixated on his guilt the prosecution maintained that there was not one part of their case that was even remotely related to OJ simpsons's race their argument was based on Cold Hard Evidence facts and a pretty solid motive he had a lengthy history of domestic abuse allegations there was a whole hour of his evening that was unaccounted for people saw him acting suspiciously the blood literally at the crime scene was a 99.5% chance that it was his Nicole even confided in a women's shelter that she thought he was stalking her just 5 days before this murder the prosecution had so much whether it was like physical evidence or circumstantial evidence or quotes or anything they had so much to prove their side that that wasn't related to his race in any way and OJ's team knew how damning all of the evidence against him was and that left them with only one option really to chip away at the believability of the prosecution's case putting plausible deniability in the minds of the audience because as you might know the jury can only convict someone if they are sure Beyond reasonable doubt that they did it if there's even a shadow of a doubt in their minds they're supposed to you know acquit or do I don't know they can't vote guilty anyway so if the defense can successfully cast a Shadow of Doubt in the jury's Minds then they've won this is very similar to the Casey Anthony case if you remember that one her defense team's strategy was pretty much the exact same first OJ's team tried to challenge the timeline of the crime and the aftermath they tried to say that there was no way that he could kill two people people and then get home and then wash up and then appear F his limo all within 1 hour cuz remember weak risks they also argued that the LAPD had collected the blood and other physical evidence in a shoddy Manner and also just illegally they said that without a search warrant it violates the law they weren't willing to accept that accept that evidence anyway because it was collected unfairly in their eyes and finally they argued that at least one police officer made a conscious effort to frame OJ Simpson for this murder and we'll dig further into that in a bit we'll dig really far into that in a bit but that summarizes his defense and they really hoped that all of that could cast a Shadow of Doubt in the minds of the jury and they could have been right they were right OJ was incredibly confident throughout his trial he would spend a lot of it just kind of sitting there looking around doodling he had like a piece of paper and a pen he'd be doodling he'd be chatting to his lawyers in fact they'd be chatting at really inappropriate times a lot of 911 calls were played out loud in C you know the ones where Nicole is screaming and crying on the phone to police saying that he's going to kill her and he's going to beat her up in one of these phone calls Nicole was saying OJ OJ the kids OJ the kids are sleeping and as the rest of the Court listened along OJ was just chatting to his lawyers through the whole thing he didn't care he did not care and this also gives off the vibe to the rest of the court that this evidence isn't important you don't need to listen to it Nicole's family believed that OJ is a murderer they believe that he Ked killed Nicole and Ron her sister Denise told the courts that from the very first time she ever met OJ his actions towards her sister were unpleasant and it only got worse as the couple got closer she said that he would humiliate her yell at her physically hurt her call her horrible things it was a very powerful moment for the prosecution side and so following that the defense knew that they needed to come back with a kicker and Jesus Christ did they remember in their opening statement when they were talking all about detective Mark Ferman the fellow that found most of the blood evidence most of the physical evidence they were saying oh it looks like the prosecution want to forget about him looks like they want to sweep him under the rug well now they were about to say exactly why the defense accused detective Mark Ferman of being extremely racist again this relates back to these white cops just wanting to pin this double homicide on a black man so the defense got Mark Ferman up on the stand and they made him swear under Earth that he had not been racist or used any kind of racial slurs in the last 10 years I guess just to prove that he had no ulterior motives in wanting to you know prosecute OJ Simpson and he swore that he hadn't he swore on Earth that he hadn't but the defense had proof that he had a series of TAPS were played for the court from a few years prior Ferman had done an interview with a screenwriter who was writing this piece all about you know police or whatever and she'd interviewed a few different people especially about police brutality and in these tips Mark Ferman said the n-word 40 times 40 4 zero times and that is just insane that the man that found the most physical evidence the most damning physical evidence in this whole case turns out to be a racist it doesn't look good at all does it this could well support the defense's argument that evidence was planted against OJ he was framed he was set up to to take the blame for this crime there were now a lot of people that believed Mark Ferman had planted the blood on his car or planted the glove in his garden because he was the one that found them and he is very racist so not only did all of this really really affect firman's credibility but it also meant that he was guilty of perjury remember he swore on Earth that he had not been racist not used a racial slur in the last 10 years but these tips were mid within the last 10 years they had proof that he had just lied under Earth Johnny Cochran in court actually called him a lying perjuring genocidal racist and compared him to Hitler in his closing argument after this Ferman had to consult with a lawyer of course cuz he'd just kind of gotten himself in you know by swearing on Earth and then it turning out to be a lie he consulted with a lawyer who advised him to just not say anything else just go up there and plead the fifth like use your right to no comment but the tricky thing about that like obviously I get why the lawyer would say that cuz he's just got himself in a load of trouble but the problem with that is that they hadn't finished questioning him actually so the defense brought him back up to the stand to now question him about blood evidence and all that and to every single question mark Ferman exercised his right to silence so for example with such a simple question of did you plant or manufacture any evidence in this case he had no choice but to say I wish to assert my fifth amendment privilege and this of course worked perfectly for the defense he could not and so he did not outright deny planting any evidence crazy crazy crazy moving on next up to the stand was a forensic criminologist now I I don't think he was supposed to be on either side I think he was supposed to be a neutral entity in this case just to present the physical evidence but when you think about it the physical evidence is kind of on the prosecution's side so even though this guy is neutral what he's about to present is going to look good for the prosecution or at least you would hope hey because when this guy went to sit up there on the stand he fumbled he fumbled so hard he let the defense get into his head they managed to make him sound bad at his job even though this was one of the best criminologists in the field at that time that's why he was put on this case I don't know man that defense team seemed very persuasive and very good with words under questioning the criminologist admitted that Nicole's body had been moved by the time he arrived at the scene doesn't look good both bodies were removed before he'd even finished collecting all the evidence from the scene again not good he admitted that it had taken him longer than usual to get to the murder scene longer than a usual case would take him and that he had not collected a mysterious piece of paper that appears in a videotape of the crime scene so we have no idea what that was we don't have that well the police never had that in their possession there was a piece of paper and then there wasn't so even though all of the physical evidence looked bad they made the criminologist that got all of that evidence look bad at his job so it loses a lot of credibility by the end of his cross- examination this criminologist left the stand and walked back to where he was sitting but on his way he was met with handshakes and hugs from the defense from the dream team of lawyers because he' flopped so hard that they essentially saw him as the hero of their side he' fumbled and it made them look good that was supposed to be the one thing that the prosecution had in the bag the the physical evidence the blood the DNA but now all of that was going to be swept under the rug but somehow that is trumped by the fact that the defense managed to trip up the criminologist on some minor things now let's talk about probably the most infamous part of the whole OJ Simpson murder trial the gloves the gloves so remember just for a recap the left glove was found covered in blood at the murder scene and the right glove was found just kind of dropped on the floor outside OJ's house weird so these gloves themselves were extra large leather gloves and OJ is a big fell isn't he so he had to get these like special sized gloves his hands are huge and actually the prosecution believed that they had found the receipt for this exact pair of gloves in Nicole's house so they believed she must have bought them for him as a present at some point and apparently they weren't a very common type of glove I mean they were designer first of all which means half the population probably wouldn't want to buy a very pricey pair of leather gloves they were brown leather as well not black and I mean I know Brown isn't necessarily a rare color but I feel like more people would opt for black rather than brown and of course they were extra large they were extra large he's an extra large man and also with the receipt I mean so the gloves were brought into the courtroom and when the defense looked at them they thought they seemed a lot smaller than they remembered this can happen to leather if it's frozen and refrozen for like evidence purposes test being tested and then like never stretched out again in between there's also the fact that blood can literally shrink leather they were covered in leather and and now they were cleaned up so yeah maybe the leather was tighter than it once was at one point in time but the defense saw these gloves sitting there and they look smaller than they were before and they got the idea that maybe they could get OJ to try these gloves on and they might not fit the courtroom fell silent and for several agonizing moments OJ struggled to get the gloves onto his hands and eventually gave up he could get them pretty much on but with a struggle and they didn't look like they fit right but a lot of people think he was doing this intentionally like he kind of kept his thumb bent outwards from the rest of his hand as he was pulling it in that kind of makes your hand the widest it can possibly be doesn't it I mean if you really wanted to squeeze on a glove you would kind of you know but he didn't but regardless of the reasons why this might be he just couldn't seem to get the glove on either way and with that came Johnny Cochran's famous saying if it doesn't fit you must acquit that's one of the most famous parts of the OJ Simpson trial because they were so adamant that these Gloves did not fit him if it doesn't fit you must equip you hear that all the time in relation to the Simpson case in Johnny Cochran's closing statement he encouraged the jury to put an end to what he believed to be a cover up to to what he believed to be corruption he said if you don't stop it then who do you think the the police department is going to stop it do you think the DA's office is going to stop it do you think we can stop it by ourselves it has to be stopped by you and he's saying this to a jury of mostly black citizens that are of course going to feel a certain way about this black man being prosecuted for a crime that has been made out in during this trial to be a racist coverup of course hearing this will spur some feelings and potentially some actions from them in the prosecution's closing statement Mara Clark started out by addressing the whole detective Mark Ferman Fiasco she said did he lie when he testified here in this courtroom saying that he did not use racial epithets in the last 10 years yes is he a racist yes is he the worst LAPD has to offer yes do we wish that this person was never hired by the LAPD yes but the fact that Mark Ferman is a racist and lied about it on the witness stand does not mean that we haven't proven the defendant guilty Beyond a reason able doubt and it would be a tragedy if with such overwhelming evidence ladies and gentlemen as we have presented to you you would find the defendant not guilty in spite of all of that because of the racist attitudes of one police officer now before we close out the trial and get to the verdict I want to talk about a couple of points that weren't actually brought up through this court trial for for different reasons but I think they're very interesting and I want you to hear them before we you know before we get to the final verdict the first being that OJ Simpson literally confessed allegedly allegedly his friend Rosie gria was a former NFL player that's how he met him but Rosie had since retired and become a pastor a very religious figure and when he came to visit OJ when he was arrested and he was in police custody OJ supposedly kind of confessed to him in a bit of a sin confessional and supposedly this was overheard by a prison guard so there were two people that heard this alleged confession but because it was like a religious thing it's supposed to be confidential and therefore couldn't have been used in C now I'm not going to lie I don't fully understand this all I know is that it's been said that OJ has confessed to this Rosie gria and a police officer overheard it but it couldn't be used in court because of the religious boundaries within how it was said I'm not entirely sure honestly legal stuff really really confuses me like no wonder wasn't a lawyer because I'm sat here going why can't we use it like if he said it he said it I don't care who he said it to if he said it we could probably use it and something else that I came across in my research that I personally found super interesting but again it wasn't brought up in court at all it wasn't part of the case but OJ Simpson was actually knife combat trained can you believe just before this whole case he was booked for a TV movie called frogmen and he was like the main star of it he'd like really move moved into acting towards the end of his sporting career cuz at this point what he was like 40 40 something and he was a celebrity and you know how celebrities just get like movie cameos and TV show cameos and stuff he was doing quite a bit of that in the runup to this trial and actually frogmen never aired because it got finished like just before their main star got accused of double homicide so they never released it it was supposed to be like an A Team Combat Action Style movie and like I say OJ was the lead character he was like the leader of a gang and he had a lot of knife fighting scenes so he had to be specially trained in knife combat or specifically like stage knife combat but either way the moves are the same and it turns out that this training was done with the exact same type of knife that was used to kill Ron and Nicole and this type of knife isn't like a majorly common one it's not like a kitchen knife that everyone has it's like a special like combat like dagger type knife one that you can't get like everywhere I don't know just a little interesting thing that I found but that rounds off all of the evidence and by now the jury were absolutely exhausted it had been 11 months of such intense work like hearing all these desperate phone calls from Nicole pleading with OJ to to stop and pleading with the police to help her and there was the Whiplash of like the prosecution bringing up some really valid evidence and then the defense finding a way to just like throw it off like it was a very like shaky trial I imagine it was a lot of hard work a very stressful job and actually at this point a lot of jury members were getting diagnosed with depression and anxiety they were having to go on medication cuz they hadn't seen their families in 11 months through this whole trial they weren't allowed proper contact with their families only supervised contact they were only allowed to watch certain movies they couldn't read the papers they couldn't do anything sorry my cat just jumped up on the desk oh my God and now she's grabbing hold of the microphone girl we'll make you your own channel and actually at this point the jurors cuz they'd only really been able to spend time with each other they were essentially on lockdown from the rest of the world they could only really conversate with each other and because this case was bringing out some deep deep feelings in these people there were a lot of conflicts like they weren't friends these jurors they would have these movie Nights where they were only able to watch like selected films and these movie Nights would often end in big arguments and actually when they would eat all of their meals together by the end of the trial they all started like eating separately from each other they were segregated pretty much by race from their own valtion they didn't want to sit with each other because it seemed that the white Jers were on the prosecution's side or leaning to the prosecution side and the black Jers were definitely on urges side because they saw this as corruption as a racist targeting cover up and they were on his side already one of the jurors had been quoted saying and this is a bit of a confusing quote so forgive me but they said there may be a person that say one of the Caucasians will say I can't vote him not guilty because when I walk out of here I want to walk back into a life or an African American might say I can't say he's guilty because I want to walk out of here all of these jury members feared how they would be treated by their own Community once they leave the perimeters of this trial based on how they voted so a lot of the black jors felt obligated to vote not guilty for this black man that they they believe is being done badly and the white jurors as much as they kind of leaned towards the prosecution they were also kind of feeling the same way that if they were to vote guilty then they would be viewed as racist because of how this case had been made out and everyone truly believed that OJ was a victim then these white Jers would look awful they would look evil so it becomes less about like actually fairly and objectively judging this case and it becomes more about how do I look how will the way that I vote make me look to the rest of the world the defense had successfully done what they set out to do make people vote based on how they would be seen through the lens of racism versus how they truly felt about the evidence in this case so now when the trial ended it was time for the jury to go off and deliberate and go over all the information they'd been given over the last 11 months and then finally come to a verdict of course this deliberation was expected to take a long time potentially weeks because there was so much evidence so much information to go over and and to think about but actually it took 4 hours 4 hours there's a lot of cases where it takes at least a couple of days and there's like a quarter of the information that there was in this case I think that says a lot in itself that they all got into this room and they only had a 4-Hour conversation to consolidate the last 11 months of their lives so 4 hours later when the jury walked back into that courtroom over 150 million people were watching live as they gave their verdict we the jury and the Abed entitled action find the defendant or orthal James Simpson not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal cult section 187 a a felony upon Nicole Brown Simpson a human being as charged in count one of the information you can see the relief in everyone's faces like OJ can't physically stop his smile from peeking through all his lawyers are hugging him and congratulating him but did you notice Rob Kardashian's face when the verdict was read out he seemed almost disappointed he wasn't smiling he wasn't celebrating straight away and it's been said that Rob Kardashian started to change his mind halfway through the trial or halfway through working with OJ Simpson he changed his mind and thought that maybe he shouldn't be fighting to get this man off of these murder charges some people believe that Kardashian might have thought right from the beginning like deep down that OJ was guilty but he agreed to be part of his legal team anyway for career purposes I mean of course this was the trial of the century it was really going to put all those lawyers on the map if they could get OJ Simpson off of this case they would be the lawyers of La it was said that Chris Jenner his wife at the time was really unhappy with him being on OJ's legal team because they were friends with OJ and Nicole as a couple before they divorced they would go out with them all the time Chris was super close with Nicole Rob was super close with OJ and Chris was really upset with Rob for defending OJ so it's thought that maybe when that verdict was read out I mean all of this is alleged and conspiracy and whatever just what people think could have been happening but they think that when that verdict was read out Rob Kardashian wasn't very proud of himself and wasn't very proud of what he just fought for on the day of the verdict OJ's son read out a statement that was written by his dad it said I am relieved that this part of the incredible nightmare that occurred on June 12th 1994 is over with my obligation is to my young children who will be raised the way that Nicole and I always planned my second obligation is to my family and to those friends who never wavered their support and when things have settled I will pursue as my Prime girl in life the killer or Killers who slaughtered Nicole and Mr Goldman they're out there somewhere whatever it takes to identify them and bring them in I will provide it somehow I only hope that someday despite every prejudicial thing that has been said about me publicly both in and out of the courtroom people will come to understand and believe that I would not could not and did not kill anyone so OJ Simpson is legally not the murderer and no one else has ever been found or charged or convicted or even really looked into as Nicole and Ron's murderer that's just it now so technically to this day the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman remain unsolved oh another BuzzFeed unsolved moment hey there were very mixed reactions All Over America all over the world to this verdict but still despite his freedom and despite his official uh non-guilty verdict he was dropped from his personal agent and the talent agency that he'd been with for 20 years I guess no one wants to represent someone that a lot of people still believe to be a murderer maybe allegedly he also lost a lot of friends after this trial I mean Paul's sure that over half the country was outraged by this verdict over half the country strongly disagreed with the findings they believe that OJ legally got away with murder sure he'd gotten off of his murder charges but half the nation hated him OJ Fell From Grace in a way that very few celebrities have after the trial so after everything was fully settled Ron Goldman's father actually filed a civil lawsuit against OJ Simpson this time for the wrongful deaths of Ron and Nicole so not necessarily saying that OJ is a murderer because he's found you know legally not guilty of that but in 1997 OJ Simpson was found liable for Nicole and Ron's deaths now what does that mean you're not a murderer but you are liable for their deaths He was ordered to pay $33 million to the families of the victims or you know the the wrongful deaths that he was liable for He was ordered to pay 33 million but he has only ever paid less than half a million and you would think that this case would end there you would think that after such a close call OJ would probably want to stay out of trouble and stay out of jail for the rest of his life but actually it seems it kind of went the other way he feels Invincible now like he can do anything and get away with anything and he'll he'll always be fine he's OJ Simpson in 2008 14 years after the murders OJ Simpson was convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery along with three other men OJ stormed into a Vegas hotel and casino and stole a load of sports memorabilia from Traders they went in there with their guns r and at gunpoint they pulled these two Traders like into another room I think actually into one of the hotel rooms and they kidnapped them like held them their hostage until they offered up the memorabilia that OJ wanted now I believe the reason that all of this happened was because it was like his memorabilia it was like I don't know for sure but I think it was like you know like OJ simpsons's Jersey and d and he was kind of using the excuse of well it's mine anyway and I want it back but I guess you didn't have to go in there and kidnap them at gunpoint to be able to get it OJ and those three other men were all caught by police and they were all convicted they were all taken to trial and sentenced to 33 years in prison but did he serve all of that well absolutely not don't be silly he was released less than 5 years later in 2013 and OJ Simpson has been a free man ever since in the aftermath of all of this case and I mean the murder case not the kid napping and lambed robbery in the aftermath of his murder trial of the century OJ decided it would be a good idea to write a book about the whole thing the book was called if I did it and it's a hypothetical like account of how OJ Simpson would have murdered Ron and Nicole if he was the killer which is so like every detail in that book is exactly what the prosecution was saying happened on the night of the murders like down to how he changed clothes and you know like where he parked the car in the alley to be able to get away like everything was so spoton it's so frustrating it's almost like a confessional but you know legally he's not the murderer but everything seems down to a tea what the murderer actually did to Nicole and Ron so that's that's interesting they're suspicious but don't worry too much because Ron Goldman's Family actually ended up suing and getting the rights to this book and they republished it with a new cover which is amazing it's still called if I did it but they've kind of hidden the if inside one of the letters so when you straight up look at this cover it just looks like it says I did it that is so clever I love that so much 10% of the profits of this book do go to relieving OJ's like debt his bankruptcy he went bankrupt from you know having to pay so much money for that uh wrongful death lawsuit and the Goldman family had to agree to that 10% in order to be able to get the rights to the book so whatever but the rest of the prophets are split between two Charities both of them are no longer active but the first one was the Nicole Brown charitable Foundation that was a domestic violence charity that um supported victims in crisis like in the immediate aftermath of them fleeing their abusive partner and things like that it sheltered women it overall just educated people on domestic violence and the other charity was the Ron Goldman foundation for justice and they supported just kind of any victims of any crimes that were done wrongly too and now they're left suffering it was just help for any victims because neither of those Charities are still running as far as I'm aware we will leave some other kind of domestic violence charity 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