OJ Simpson Case

Orenthal James Simpson or "OJ" or "The Juice", was one of the most famous and popular football players in America. After he retired from football in 1979, Simpson worked as a successful movie actor.

In June 1994, millions of people in the U.S. watched him in a car chase with the police on television-but they weren't watching a movie. The police wanted to talk to him about the  suspected murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her boyfriend Ronald Goldman. They were both murdered outside Nicole's apartment on June 12 and the police found some important evidence at the scene of the crime-a glove with blood on it. The police thought the glove was OJ Simpson and he was later arrested and charged with murder.

 The trial of OJ Simpson became one of the longest and most famous trials in American history and was live on television every day. He strongly denied the charges but many people in the U.S believed he was guilty. However, during the trial,the jury saw that the glove found at the crime scene was too small for Simpson and eventually the jury found him innocent. In a later civil trial the jury took six days to decide that he was guilty and he was ordered to pay $33,500,000 in damages.

Simpson has lived in Florida for the last ten years amd he usually spends his days playing golf. He isn't going to make any more movies. He recently wrote a controverdial book about the murders, but whether OJ Simpson is really a murderer or not remains a mystery on this day.

Azarias R.