Requesting film and television information about Simpson’s murder of his wife

The incident:

In the middle of the night on June 12, 1994, in a luxury residential area in west Los Angeles, a puppy kept barking, which attracted the attention of the neighbors. Home attention. Two bloody bodies were found in front of a house. The deceased woman was later confirmed to be Nico Brown Simpson, and behind her was the waiter Goldman of the restaurant. Both of them had marks all over their bodies and were cut to death by sharp weapons. The time of death was around 10pm.

At dusk on the night of the incident, Nico and his children went to the restaurant where Goldman was for dinner. After leaving, he called to say that he had left behind a pair of sunglasses. After finding them, Goldman told his colleagues to return them to Nige after get off work.

In the early morning after the incident, four police detectives came to the residence of the deceased’s ex-husband, the famous black football star Simpson, and found his white Franco model car stained with blood outside the door, and also found blood stains on the driveway. Bloodstains. After ringing the bell and getting no response, the detectives climbed over the wall and one of them, Forman, found a blood-stained glove and other evidence in the back garden.

The main witness in the case was Kitu, a friend who was staying in the guest room at the time. He testified that there was an earthquake-like sound outside the guest room wall. In addition, a driver who was booked by phone to take Simpson to the airport said: He went to Simpson's house around 10 o'clock and rang the doorbell but no one responded. When it was close to 11 o'clock, he found a tall black man (similar to Simpson) running back to the house from the street in a hurry. After ringing the doorbell again, Simpson responded, came out, said he was asleep, and took a car to the airport to go to Chicago.

Arrest

In the early morning after the incident, Simpson was notified by the police of his ex-wife’s death in a Chicago hotel and rushed back to California early in the morning. After returning, Simpson was interviewed by the police alone for an hour over the strong objections of his lawyer. At that time, the police found Simpson injured. He explained that he was too excited to receive the news of his ex-wife's death and broke the mirror. After several days of investigation, the police decided to arrest Simpson as the main suspect.

On June 17, when Simpson's lawyer was preparing to accompany Simpson back to the police station, he discovered that Simpson, who had been resting upstairs, was missing. Subsequently, viewers across the country saw unforgettable footage on television: a team of helicopters in the sky, patrol cars on the ground were fully dispatched, and Simpson's white car was finally found within a few hours. Dozens of police cars launched a car chase on Los Angeles roads. Simpson was eventually arrested.

Trial

In January 1995, the Simpson case was presided over by Japanese judge Itou. During the nine-month interrogation process, there were boring blood test evidence that was difficult for ordinary people to understand, and there were also unexpected developments. The whole case was very dramatic.

The main police witness in the case and the home search evidence was Detective Foreman, who was accused by defense attorneys of being a racial slur. When answering questions in court, he claimed that he had not used the discriminatory word nigger in the past few decades, but later the defense lawyer unexpectedly found a video tape that proved that he had used the word black person dozens of times in a short period of time. Words for sub-black people. This severely undermined the credibility of Forman's testimony. The defense lawyer further alleged that in addition to him, someone else in the police department deliberately framed Simpson and fabricated evidence for the sake of racial prejudice.

During the trial, the prosecutor suddenly asked to wear gloves in the courtroom. As a result, Simpson was unable to wear gloves in full view of the public. Apparently the gloves were too small. Although the prosecution lawyers found photos of Simpson wearing similar gloves, and experts testified that the gloves shrank after being stained with blood, the defense lawyers also asked experts to confirm that they would not shrink in this way.

Finally, the prosecution lawyer pointed out that Simpson had violently abused his wife for many years (with a record of calling the police), and the blood stains and blood-stained gloves were irrefutable evidence, and urged the jury not to let Simpson go free. The defense lawyer vigorously attacked the loopholes in the prosecution's evidence, especially the defendant's inability to wear bloody gloves. At the same time, he attacked the witness as a racist to undermine the credibility of the evidence. He emphasized that the prosecution did not have enough evidence and asked the jury to rule not guilty. crime.

With everyone in shock, the jury of ten blacks, one white, and one Hispanic found Simpson not guilty of both counts of murder after deliberating for less than four hours. Simpson was eventually released as a free man.