At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson
was acquitted October 3, 1995 of the brutal 1994 double murder of
his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson’s “dream team” of lawyers
employed creative and controversial methods to convince
jurors that Simpson’s guilt had not been proved “beyond a
reasonable doubt,” thus surmounting what the prosecution
called a “mountain of evidence” implicating him as the murderer.
