The O.J. Simpson Murder Case: 20 Years Later
O.J. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, left, and her friend Ron Goldman, both of whom were murdered and found dead in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994. Former NFL star O.J. Simpson was arrested in connection to the murder and acquitted of the crime in 1995. The case was referred to by many as "The Trial of the Century."
O.J. Simpson
June 21, 1995: O.J. Simpson holds up his hands before the jury after putting on a new pair of gloves similar to the infamous bloody gloves during his double-murder trial in Los Angeles.
O.J. Simpson
May 13, 2013: O.J. Simpson at an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court, in Las Vegas. Simpson served a nine to 33 year prison sentence after a jury found him guilty in 2008 of leading the gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas. Simpson was granted parole on July 20, 2017, and could be released as early as Oct. 1, 2017.
LAPD Det. Mark Fuhrman
Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Mark Fuhrman, whose alleged racist past sparked outrage and helped acquit O.J. Simpson. Fuhrman, who worked out a plea bargain after being charged with perjury for lying in court about using a racial epithet, was given three years probation and fined $200. He has since written true crime books and hosted talk radio programs.
Fred Goldman
May 20, 2014: Fred Goldman, father of murder victim Ronald Goldman, in his home in Peoria, Ariz. Goldman has not rested since a jury acquitted O.J. Simpson in the murder case 20 years ago. Goldman and the family of Simpson's slain ex-wife took the former football hero to civil court and got a $33.5 million judgment.
Judge Lance Ito
Sept. 29, 1995: Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lance Ito yells in court during the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial in Los Angeles.
Judge Lance Ito
Jan. 16, 2013: Judge Lance Ito sits in his closed courtroom. Ito presided over some 500 trials since the Simpson case made him famous, and is now retired.
Prosecutor Marcia Clark
Sept. 26, 1995: Prosecutor Marcia Clark demonstrates to the jury how the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were committed during her closing arguments in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial in Los Angeles.
Prosecutor Marcia Clark
May 1, 2011: Marcia Clark speaks at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on Sunday May 1, 2011, in Los Angeles. Since the trial, Clark has written a best-selling nonfiction book about her experience and works as a media commentator and columnist on legal issues.
Prosecutor Christopher Darden
Sept. 29, 1995: Prosecutor Christopher Darden points at a chart during his closing arguments as co-prosecutor Marcia Clark looks on in a Los Angeles courtroom during the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial. Darden, the co-prosecutor who was criticized for having Simpson try on the so-called murder gloves, left the district attorney's office following the trial.
Prosecutor Christopher Darden
April 5, 2005: Attorney Christopher Darden, a former prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, left, shakes hands with attorney Carl Douglas, a member of the Simpson defense "Dream Team," at a memorial service for attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. outside the Second Baptist Church in Los Angeles. After the trial, Darden became a defense, wrote a memoir of the trial, and has also published several mystery novels.
Defense Attorney Robert Shapiro
Robert Shapiro, one of Simpson's defense attorneys, speaks with reporters outside court in this June 24, 1994 photo.
Defense Attorney Robert Shapiro
Shapiro (pictured at a Race to Erase MS event in May 2013) achieved a certain celebrity after the Simpson case, and has appeared as himself in films and television. He is the co-founder of online legal documentation service LegalZoom.com.
Kato Kaelin
Witness Brian "Kato" Kaelin testifies under direct examination during the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial at the Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building in this Tuesday, March 21, 1995 photo. In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times written in June 2014, Kaelin says the Simpson trial made him "a celebrity, a pariah, the world's most famous house guest, a traitor, a dummy, a liar, a freeloader and even an assassin's target. Never has a man done so little to be recognized by so many."
Defense Attorney O.J. Simpson
Robert Kardashian, one of O.J. Simpson's defense attorneys, sits in a court in Los Angeles Friday, June 9, 1995. A close friend of Simpson's, Kardashian renewed his legal license to give assistance to the ex-football star's legal defense team. He died of esophageal cancer in September 2003 at the age of 59.
Defense Attorney Alan Dershowitz
Defense attorney Alan Dershowitz accuses the prosecution of juror targeting, hiding witnesses and aiming for a retrial in the O. J. Simpson double-murder trial in Los Angeles, Calif., June 16, 1995.
Defense Attorney Alan Dershowitz
Attorney Alan Dershowitz at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 25, 2012 in New York. Dershowitz is the author of numerous books and articles on criminal and constitutional law.
Defense attorney Barry Scheck
Sept. 15, 1995: Defense attorney Barry Scheck cross examines a prosecution witness. Scheck, the lawyer who introduced the science of DNA to jurors and to the public watching the trial on TV, attacked police methods of evidence collection and demolished the prosecution's forensic evidence case.
Defense attorney Barry Scheck
Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck makes a point during a press conference Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 in Houston. The Innocence Project held the press conference to discuss DNA test results on critical hair evidence in a murder case.
Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey
May 22, 2014: F. Lee Bailey, an attorney for O.J. Simpson in 1994, poses in his office in Yarmouth, Maine. In the background hangs a photo of Bailey, Simpson, and attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. reacting the moment the "not guilty" verdict was announced 20 years ago in Los Angeles. Bailey was a part-time member of the Simpson "Dream Team" but distinguished himself by finding crucial evidence to unmask police detective Mark Fuhrman as a racist.
Lead Attorney Johnnie Cochran
O.J. Simpson lead attorney Johnnie Cochran addresses students at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., Saturday Oct. 28, 1995. He established himself in police brutality and civil rights cases, and received heavy critical and cultural attention for his role as lead attorney for the defense in the O.J. Simpson trial. Cochran died from a brain tumor in March 2005 at the age of 67.